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Top of Month - Apr 2016

1. A Protocol for Dying
   (22 Apr 2016 | 1610 points | Comments)

2. Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
   (3 Apr 2016 | 1373 points | Comments)

3. My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
   (6 Apr 2016 | 1296 points | Comments)

4. Kite – Programming Copilot
   (14 Apr 2016 | 1138 points | Comments)

5. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
   (29 Apr 2016 | 1085 points | Comments)

6. WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
   (5 Apr 2016 | 1055 points | Comments)

7. YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
   (8 Apr 2016 | 989 points | Comments)

8. Visual Studio Code 1.0
   (14 Apr 2016 | 966 points | Comments)

9. Leaving Beta, New Sponsors
   (12 Apr 2016 | 896 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund
    (6 Apr 2016 | 867 points | Comments)

11. How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script
    (21 Apr 2016 | 865 points | Comments)

12. The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
    (22 Apr 2016 | 857 points | Comments)

13. Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser
    (12 Apr 2016 | 855 points | Comments)

14. Being a Developer After 40
    (26 Apr 2016 | 854 points | Comments)

15. Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet
    (21 Apr 2016 | 847 points | Comments)

16. SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
    (8 Apr 2016 | 845 points | Comments)

17. Infinit announces Project Dropboxe
    (29 Apr 2016 | 830 points | Comments)

18. BYOT: Bring your own team
    (25 Apr 2016 | 826 points | Comments)

19. Save Netflix
    (4 Apr 2016 | 813 points | Comments)

20. GitLab Pages
    (5 Apr 2016 | 812 points | Comments)

21. Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11
    (13 Apr 2016 | 799 points | Comments)

22. US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses
    (3 Apr 2016 | 773 points | Comments)

23. Dropbox Project Infinite
    (26 Apr 2016 | 743 points | Comments)

24. Introducing MIR
    (27 Apr 2016 | 736 points | Comments)

25. Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
    (5 Apr 2016 | 735 points | Comments)

26. Node.js v6.0 Released
    (26 Apr 2016 | 728 points | Comments)

27. Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe
    (25 Apr 2016 | 726 points | Comments)

28. Freedom and security issues on x86 platforms
    (4 Apr 2016 | 713 points | Comments)

29. Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
    (16 Apr 2016 | 703 points | Comments)

30. Squash your commits
    (1 Apr 2016 | 702 points | Comments)

31. React v15.0
    (7 Apr 2016 | 695 points | Comments)

32. Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS
    (12 Apr 2016 | 695 points | Comments)

33. Congratulations You’ve Been Fired
    (9 Apr 2016 | 679 points | Comments)

34. Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
    (4 Apr 2016 | 664 points | Comments)

35. Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
    (20 Apr 2016 | 655 points | Comments)

36. I decided to make a graphics card for my Amiga 2000
    (16 Apr 2016 | 651 points | Comments)

37. Vim 8.0 is coming
    (13 Apr 2016 | 649 points | Comments)

38. Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
    (19 Apr 2016 | 637 points | Comments)

39. Android Studio 2.0 Released
    (7 Apr 2016 | 629 points | Comments)

40. Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon
    (18 Apr 2016 | 627 points | Comments)

41. The Trouble with CloudFlare
    (1 Apr 2016 | 620 points | Comments)

42. Remote code execution, git, and OS X
    (18 Apr 2016 | 616 points | Comments)

43. Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads'
    (8 Apr 2016 | 606 points | Comments)

44. Solar is now cheaper than some coal, says India energy minister
    (19 Apr 2016 | 605 points | Comments)

45. Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
    (7 Apr 2016 | 603 points | Comments)

46. How an Army of Ocean Farmers Are Starting an Economic Revolution
    (2 Apr 2016 | 585 points | Comments)

47. The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
    (9 Apr 2016 | 581 points | Comments)

48. Xamarin Open-Sourced
    (27 Apr 2016 | 581 points | Comments)

49. Cruise
    (13 Apr 2016 | 580 points | Comments)

50. Show HN: What every browser knows about you
    (1 Apr 2016 | 553 points | Comments)

51. 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
    (6 Apr 2016 | 545 points | Comments)

52. The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy
    (11 Apr 2016 | 542 points | Comments)

53. Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
    (28 Apr 2016 | 542 points | Comments)

54. Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule
    (16 Apr 2016 | 528 points | Comments)

55. Arduino in the size of a AA battery
    (20 Apr 2016 | 528 points | Comments)

56. Internet hyperlinks do not infringe copyright, EU court advised
    (7 Apr 2016 | 523 points | Comments)

57. Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science
    (5 Apr 2016 | 513 points | Comments)

58. Who Was Ramanujan?
    (28 Apr 2016 | 508 points | Comments)

59. Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments
    (27 Apr 2016 | 507 points | Comments)

60. Design better databases
    (7 Apr 2016 | 506 points | Comments)

61. Half Your Brain Stands Guard When Sleeping in a New Place
    (25 Apr 2016 | 501 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: Describe your first enterprise sale
    (17 Apr 2016 | 496 points | Comments)

63. Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
    (15 Apr 2016 | 495 points | Comments)

64. A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away
    (12 Apr 2016 | 492 points | Comments)

65. Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
    (20 Apr 2016 | 491 points | Comments)

66. Do not talk about pricing
    (25 Apr 2016 | 489 points | Comments)

67. Git Tips
    (20 Apr 2016 | 487 points | Comments)

68. The TSA Randomizer App Cost $336k
    (3 Apr 2016 | 486 points | Comments)

69. SpaceX plans to debut Red Dragon with 2018 Mars mission
    (27 Apr 2016 | 486 points | Comments)

70. Calculus Learning Guide
    (12 Apr 2016 | 472 points | Comments)

71. Mosh: the mobile shell
    (26 Apr 2016 | 469 points | Comments)

72. The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores [pdf]
    (15 Apr 2016 | 467 points | Comments)

73. Have Software Developers Given Up?
    (26 Apr 2016 | 460 points | Comments)

74. Introducing React Storybook
    (2 Apr 2016 | 459 points | Comments)

75. Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational cannabis
    (20 Apr 2016 | 458 points | Comments)

76. Lavabit code open sourced
    (30 Apr 2016 | 458 points | Comments)

77. Chez Scheme is now free
    (26 Apr 2016 | 453 points | Comments)

78. You probably don't need a JavaScript framework
    (30 Apr 2016 | 452 points | Comments)

79. Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak
    (5 Apr 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

80. Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders
    (8 Apr 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

81. Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor
    (11 Apr 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

82. CV of Failures [pdf]
    (27 Apr 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

83. Google.com partially dangerous
    (19 Apr 2016 | 450 points | Comments)

84. WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites
    (8 Apr 2016 | 447 points | Comments)

85. Brutalist Websites
    (18 Apr 2016 | 447 points | Comments)

86. The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
    (26 Apr 2016 | 447 points | Comments)

87. Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
    (21 Apr 2016 | 437 points | Comments)

88. Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster
    (20 Apr 2016 | 435 points | Comments)

89. Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors
    (18 Apr 2016 | 432 points | Comments)

90. Uncanny Valley
    (25 Apr 2016 | 431 points | Comments)

91. Velocipedia
    (12 Apr 2016 | 430 points | Comments)

92. Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam
    (16 Apr 2016 | 429 points | Comments)

93. Google's Nest is disabling some of its customers' old smart-home devices
    (4 Apr 2016 | 428 points | Comments)

94. What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity
    (19 Apr 2016 | 428 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
    (1 Apr 2016 | 427 points | Comments)

96. Why Erlang Matters
    (7 Apr 2016 | 423 points | Comments)

97. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
    (7 Apr 2016 | 420 points | Comments)

98. DeepMind moves to TensorFlow
    (29 Apr 2016 | 420 points | Comments)

99. The Sugar Conspiracy
    (7 Apr 2016 | 413 points | Comments)

100. Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor
     (18 Apr 2016 | 413 points | Comments)