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Top of Month - Sep 2016

1. Pardon Snowden
   (14 Sep 2016 | 2553 points | Comments)

2. Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
   (27 Sep 2016 | 2123 points | Comments)

3. Philae Found
   (5 Sep 2016 | 1238 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
   (30 Sep 2016 | 1226 points | Comments)

5. EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020
   (6 Sep 2016 | 1205 points | Comments)

6. Announcing new tools, forums, and features
   (14 Sep 2016 | 1142 points | Comments)

7. Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
   (15 Sep 2016 | 1106 points | Comments)

8. Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
   (21 Sep 2016 | 1054 points | Comments)

9. How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
   (9 Sep 2016 | 1037 points | Comments)

10. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
    (1 Sep 2016 | 986 points | Comments)

11. You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
    (7 Sep 2016 | 957 points | Comments)

12. Homebrew 1.0.0
    (21 Sep 2016 | 904 points | Comments)

13. Show HN: Primitive Pictures
    (20 Sep 2016 | 894 points | Comments)

14. Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
    (1 Sep 2016 | 853 points | Comments)

15. I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas
    (9 Sep 2016 | 850 points | Comments)

16. Angular 2 Final Released
    (15 Sep 2016 | 838 points | Comments)

17. I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
    (17 Sep 2016 | 833 points | Comments)

18. An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight
    (3 Sep 2016 | 832 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
    (12 Sep 2016 | 822 points | Comments)

20. How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
    (12 Sep 2016 | 816 points | Comments)

21. Investing for Geeks
    (16 Sep 2016 | 797 points | Comments)

22. How to steal a developer's local database
    (1 Sep 2016 | 770 points | Comments)

23. Music theory for nerds
    (19 Sep 2016 | 766 points | Comments)

24. iPhone 7
    (7 Sep 2016 | 756 points | Comments)

25. Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
    (23 Sep 2016 | 740 points | Comments)

26. Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them
    (9 Sep 2016 | 713 points | Comments)

27. How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead
    (3 Sep 2016 | 694 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?
    (14 Sep 2016 | 692 points | Comments)

29. UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
    (25 Sep 2016 | 688 points | Comments)

30. In defence of Douglas Crockford
    (4 Sep 2016 | 683 points | Comments)

31. What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
    (20 Sep 2016 | 680 points | Comments)

32. Vim 8.0 released
    (12 Sep 2016 | 661 points | Comments)

33. “Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”
    (8 Sep 2016 | 660 points | Comments)

34. Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
    (23 Sep 2016 | 658 points | Comments)

35. Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany
    (27 Sep 2016 | 658 points | Comments)

36. Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects
    (1 Sep 2016 | 651 points | Comments)

37. Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
    (27 Sep 2016 | 628 points | Comments)

38. WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
    (8 Sep 2016 | 627 points | Comments)

39. I am a fast webpage
    (7 Sep 2016 | 621 points | Comments)

40. WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
    (26 Sep 2016 | 608 points | Comments)

41. Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source
    (18 Sep 2016 | 588 points | Comments)

42. Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity
    (9 Sep 2016 | 579 points | Comments)

43. GitLab Master Plan
    (13 Sep 2016 | 573 points | Comments)

44. Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
    (28 Sep 2016 | 573 points | Comments)

45. Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
    (6 Sep 2016 | 572 points | Comments)

46. Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
    (24 Sep 2016 | 568 points | Comments)

47. Mozilla Thimble
    (18 Sep 2016 | 565 points | Comments)

48. What every coder should know about gamma
    (21 Sep 2016 | 560 points | Comments)

49. The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
    (7 Sep 2016 | 556 points | Comments)

50. Announcing TypeScript 2.0
    (22 Sep 2016 | 553 points | Comments)

51. PostgreSQL 9.6 Released
    (29 Sep 2016 | 553 points | Comments)

52. For 25 years, Carl Malamud has been fighting to make public information public
    (12 Sep 2016 | 552 points | Comments)

53. Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff
    (26 Sep 2016 | 547 points | Comments)

54. Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid
    (16 Sep 2016 | 540 points | Comments)

55. Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
    (15 Sep 2016 | 538 points | Comments)

56. What typing ^D does on Unix (2009)
    (6 Sep 2016 | 536 points | Comments)

57. Cap’n Proto
    (10 Sep 2016 | 535 points | Comments)

58. The MIT License, Line by Line
    (22 Sep 2016 | 531 points | Comments)

59. 90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs Are Paid for Luck
    (30 Sep 2016 | 524 points | Comments)

60. Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client
    (5 Sep 2016 | 523 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
    (1 Sep 2016 | 521 points | Comments)

62. YC Changes
    (13 Sep 2016 | 516 points | Comments)

63. Microsoft Pix
    (12 Sep 2016 | 514 points | Comments)

64. An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
    (22 Sep 2016 | 510 points | Comments)

65. Why are Adults so busy?
    (14 Sep 2016 | 508 points | Comments)

66. It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen
    (22 Sep 2016 | 506 points | Comments)

67. Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
    (19 Sep 2016 | 505 points | Comments)

68. What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
    (28 Sep 2016 | 502 points | Comments)

69. Advancing in the Bash Shell
    (13 Sep 2016 | 501 points | Comments)

70. Introducing the Firefox debugger.html
    (14 Sep 2016 | 500 points | Comments)

71. I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password
    (5 Sep 2016 | 498 points | Comments)

72. When you change the world and no one notices
    (6 Sep 2016 | 491 points | Comments)

73. Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
    (7 Sep 2016 | 490 points | Comments)

74. How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
    (10 Sep 2016 | 490 points | Comments)

75. To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right
    (12 Sep 2016 | 489 points | Comments)

76. Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates
    (9 Sep 2016 | 488 points | Comments)

77. ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
    (6 Sep 2016 | 487 points | Comments)

78. How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame
    (9 Sep 2016 | 487 points | Comments)

79. Logo Pizza: Hot and ready logos for sale
    (13 Sep 2016 | 485 points | Comments)

80. I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa
    (19 Sep 2016 | 485 points | Comments)

81. Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
    (26 Sep 2016 | 484 points | Comments)

82. How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University – Part 3
    (5 Sep 2016 | 480 points | Comments)

83. Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
    (29 Sep 2016 | 480 points | Comments)

84. Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
    (23 Sep 2016 | 477 points | Comments)

85. Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags
    (17 Sep 2016 | 473 points | Comments)

86. Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month
    (25 Sep 2016 | 470 points | Comments)

87. Old Geek
    (15 Sep 2016 | 462 points | Comments)

88. House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server
    (20 Sep 2016 | 458 points | Comments)

89. The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM
    (8 Sep 2016 | 457 points | Comments)

90. Two years spent spamming spammers back
    (25 Sep 2016 | 457 points | Comments)

91. Open Sourcing a Deep Learning Solution for Detecting NSFW Images
    (30 Sep 2016 | 453 points | Comments)

92. How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job
    (8 Sep 2016 | 446 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?
    (22 Sep 2016 | 446 points | Comments)

94. A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
    (12 Sep 2016 | 445 points | Comments)

95. Upgrade your SSH keys
    (23 Sep 2016 | 444 points | Comments)

96. Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
    (13 Sep 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

97. Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app
    (21 Sep 2016 | 440 points | Comments)

98. A global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
    (2 Sep 2016 | 438 points | Comments)

99. HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Working in Its Printers
    (18 Sep 2016 | 438 points | Comments)

100. The GitHub Load Balancer
     (22 Sep 2016 | 438 points | Comments)