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Top of Month - Jul 2016

1. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
   (11 Jul 2016 | 2381 points | Comments)

2. Why I’m Suing the US Government
   (21 Jul 2016 | 1855 points | Comments)

3. Master Plan, Part Deux
   (21 Jul 2016 | 1851 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
   (26 Jul 2016 | 1624 points | Comments)

5. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
   (11 Jul 2016 | 1126 points | Comments)

6. LastPass autofill exploit
   (27 Jul 2016 | 1008 points | Comments)

7. Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
   (6 Jul 2016 | 929 points | Comments)

8. We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
   (29 Jul 2016 | 910 points | Comments)

9. A practical security guide for web developers
   (21 Jul 2016 | 894 points | Comments)

10. Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
    (20 Jul 2016 | 862 points | Comments)

11. Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
    (11 Jul 2016 | 780 points | Comments)

12. I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
    (21 Jul 2016 | 779 points | Comments)

13. Create React Apps with No Configuration
    (22 Jul 2016 | 777 points | Comments)

14. Shipping Rust code in Firefox
    (12 Jul 2016 | 748 points | Comments)

15. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
    (26 Jul 2016 | 731 points | Comments)

16. Don't add your 2 cents
    (25 Jul 2016 | 719 points | Comments)

17. The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
    (13 Jul 2016 | 704 points | Comments)

18. Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
    (7 Jul 2016 | 652 points | Comments)

19. Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg
    (15 Jul 2016 | 639 points | Comments)

20. Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules
    (1 Jul 2016 | 636 points | Comments)

21. Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol
    (8 Jul 2016 | 633 points | Comments)

22. HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal
    (15 Jul 2016 | 630 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
    (29 Jul 2016 | 630 points | Comments)

24. Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon
    (14 Jul 2016 | 627 points | Comments)

25. When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)
    (20 Jul 2016 | 626 points | Comments)

26. Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production
    (29 Jul 2016 | 599 points | Comments)

27. Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel
    (30 Jul 2016 | 595 points | Comments)

28. Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1
    (7 Jul 2016 | 590 points | Comments)

29. Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
    (30 Jul 2016 | 586 points | Comments)

30. Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
    (14 Jul 2016 | 582 points | Comments)

31. PostgreSQL Exercises
    (2 Jul 2016 | 576 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
    (1 Jul 2016 | 566 points | Comments)

33. See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services
    (6 Jul 2016 | 559 points | Comments)

34. Rudolf Kálmán Has Died
    (6 Jul 2016 | 549 points | Comments)

35. Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console
    (14 Jul 2016 | 542 points | Comments)

36. Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
    (4 Jul 2016 | 537 points | Comments)

37. Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
    (10 Jul 2016 | 535 points | Comments)

38. A Single Div
    (14 Jul 2016 | 535 points | Comments)

39. Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer
    (14 Jul 2016 | 534 points | Comments)

40. Servo Nightly Builds Available
    (1 Jul 2016 | 522 points | Comments)

41. Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
    (15 Jul 2016 | 521 points | Comments)

42. Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team
    (9 Jul 2016 | 513 points | Comments)

43. The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline
    (26 Jul 2016 | 511 points | Comments)

44. Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#
    (5 Jul 2016 | 509 points | Comments)

45. Gimp 2.9.4 Released
    (14 Jul 2016 | 504 points | Comments)

46. Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6
    (26 Jul 2016 | 503 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Why don't companies hire programmers for fewer hours per day?
    (25 Jul 2016 | 498 points | Comments)

48. CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS
    (5 Jul 2016 | 493 points | Comments)

49. Google collects metadata from Android phones
    (1 Jul 2016 | 490 points | Comments)

50. Vim GIFs
    (19 Jul 2016 | 489 points | Comments)

51. The End of Gmane?
    (28 Jul 2016 | 489 points | Comments)

52. Wire open-sourced
    (23 Jul 2016 | 488 points | Comments)

53. After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable
    (29 Jul 2016 | 485 points | Comments)

54. Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
    (12 Jul 2016 | 484 points | Comments)

55. Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
    (21 Jul 2016 | 481 points | Comments)

56. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery
    (27 Jul 2016 | 481 points | Comments)

57. Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design
    (19 Jul 2016 | 478 points | Comments)

58. Serverless Architectures
    (18 Jul 2016 | 477 points | Comments)

59. Professional Software Development
    (12 Jul 2016 | 474 points | Comments)

60. Scipy Lecture Notes – Learn numerics, science, and data with Python
    (28 Jul 2016 | 473 points | Comments)

61. No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
    (4 Jul 2016 | 471 points | Comments)

62. Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
    (4 Jul 2016 | 469 points | Comments)

63. How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox
    (2 Jul 2016 | 468 points | Comments)

64. Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS
    (18 Jul 2016 | 468 points | Comments)

65. BSD vs. Linux (2005)
    (5 Jul 2016 | 457 points | Comments)

66. Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us
    (6 Jul 2016 | 456 points | Comments)

67. Coup attempt underway in Turkey
    (15 Jul 2016 | 453 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server
    (27 Jul 2016 | 450 points | Comments)

69. How we're scammed into eating phony food
    (11 Jul 2016 | 439 points | Comments)

70. Sandstorm – An open source operating system for personal and private clouds
    (15 Jul 2016 | 434 points | Comments)

71. “I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA”
    (18 Jul 2016 | 434 points | Comments)

72. Habits of highly mathematical people
    (29 Jul 2016 | 429 points | Comments)

73. Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?
    (2 Jul 2016 | 427 points | Comments)

74. JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook
    (15 Jul 2016 | 426 points | Comments)

75. Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon
    (24 Jul 2016 | 426 points | Comments)

76. The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation
    (24 Jul 2016 | 426 points | Comments)

77. “Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB” [video]
    (15 Jul 2016 | 425 points | Comments)

78. How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server
    (21 Jul 2016 | 423 points | Comments)

79. Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever
    (22 Jul 2016 | 422 points | Comments)

80. Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than $1B
    (7 Jul 2016 | 421 points | Comments)

81. U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years
    (8 Jul 2016 | 418 points | Comments)

82. With Launch of AU Passport, Africa Is Now Borderless
    (24 Jul 2016 | 416 points | Comments)

83. Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys
    (27 Jul 2016 | 413 points | Comments)

84. DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo
    (1 Jul 2016 | 412 points | Comments)

85. Photographer Suing Getty Images for $1B
    (28 Jul 2016 | 408 points | Comments)

86. A Course in Machine Learning
    (13 Jul 2016 | 402 points | Comments)

87. fMRI software bugs could upend years of research
    (4 Jul 2016 | 400 points | Comments)

88. Go’s march to low-latency GC
    (6 Jul 2016 | 400 points | Comments)

89. Nintendo Developer Portal
    (13 Jul 2016 | 399 points | Comments)

90. John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)
    (19 Jul 2016 | 395 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?
    (10 Jul 2016 | 390 points | Comments)

92. Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
    (21 Jul 2016 | 389 points | Comments)

93. Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
    (14 Jul 2016 | 388 points | Comments)

94. Corrode: C to Rust translator written in Haskell
    (8 Jul 2016 | 387 points | Comments)

95. The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation
    (24 Jul 2016 | 386 points | Comments)

96. Atlassian Acquires StatusPage
    (14 Jul 2016 | 384 points | Comments)

97. How I Could Steal Money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft
    (17 Jul 2016 | 384 points | Comments)

98. HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales
    (6 Jul 2016 | 383 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
    (4 Jul 2016 | 382 points | Comments)

100. Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
     (27 Jul 2016 | 382 points | Comments)