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Top of Month - Oct 2016
  1. Be Kind
    (14 Oct 2016 | 2475 points | Comments)

  2. Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
    (13 Oct 2016 | 1764 points | Comments)

  3. Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
    (11 Oct 2016 | 1714 points | Comments)

  4. RethinkDB is shutting down
    (6 Oct 2016 | 1674 points | Comments)

  5. DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
    (21 Oct 2016 | 1563 points | Comments)

  6. All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
    (20 Oct 2016 | 1493 points | Comments)

  7. Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
    (11 Oct 2016 | 1362 points | Comments)

  8. I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.
    (4 Oct 2016 | 1361 points | Comments)

  9. Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
    (4 Oct 2016 | 1346 points | Comments)

  10. Shame on Y Combinator
    (18 Oct 2016 | 1280 points | Comments)

  11. Google Noto Fonts
    (6 Oct 2016 | 1217 points | Comments)

  12. Why you should never use Upwork
    (23 Oct 2016 | 1175 points | Comments)

  13. The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”
    (10 Oct 2016 | 1149 points | Comments)

  14. Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
    (13 Oct 2016 | 1081 points | Comments)

  15. Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
    (19 Oct 2016 | 1071 points | Comments)

  16. Eve: Programming designed for humans
    (28 Oct 2016 | 1070 points | Comments)

  17. Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
    (5 Oct 2016 | 1036 points | Comments)

  18. Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
    (24 Oct 2016 | 1036 points | Comments)

  19. Programming books you might want to consider reading
    (16 Oct 2016 | 1019 points | Comments)

  20. Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
    (25 Oct 2016 | 955 points | Comments)

  21. Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?
    (15 Oct 2016 | 950 points | Comments)

  22. Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]
    (20 Oct 2016 | 942 points | Comments)

  23. Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
    (12 Oct 2016 | 911 points | Comments)

  24. MacBook Pro
    (27 Oct 2016 | 861 points | Comments)

  25. Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
    (4 Oct 2016 | 848 points | Comments)

  26. Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw
    (20 Oct 2016 | 846 points | Comments)

  27. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
    (4 Oct 2016 | 826 points | Comments)

  28. Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years
    (26 Oct 2016 | 822 points | Comments)

  29. Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down
    (10 Oct 2016 | 819 points | Comments)

  30. Taking PHP Seriously
    (13 Oct 2016 | 819 points | Comments)

  31. Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3
    (29 Oct 2016 | 814 points | Comments)

  32. Paper Planes
    (3 Oct 2016 | 792 points | Comments)

  33. Windows 93 (2014)
    (12 Oct 2016 | 790 points | Comments)

  34. Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
    (17 Oct 2016 | 782 points | Comments)

  35. WebAssembly Browser Preview
    (31 Oct 2016 | 759 points | Comments)

  36. Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick
    (28 Oct 2016 | 745 points | Comments)

  37. HN comments are underrated
    (23 Oct 2016 | 733 points | Comments)

  38. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan
    (13 Oct 2016 | 731 points | Comments)

  39. Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
    (12 Oct 2016 | 727 points | Comments)

  40. Git from the inside out
    (27 Oct 2016 | 722 points | Comments)

  41. Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
    (3 Oct 2016 | 712 points | Comments)

  42. Minoca OS: A new open source operating system
    (31 Oct 2016 | 711 points | Comments)

  43. A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
    (9 Oct 2016 | 710 points | Comments)

  44. Cognitive bias cheat sheet
    (27 Oct 2016 | 684 points | Comments)

  45. White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers
    (26 Oct 2016 | 667 points | Comments)

  46. Not OK, Google
    (5 Oct 2016 | 651 points | Comments)

  47. Buttery Smooth Emacs
    (30 Oct 2016 | 651 points | Comments)

  48. You might not need JavaScript
    (12 Oct 2016 | 649 points | Comments)

  49. Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
    (4 Oct 2016 | 640 points | Comments)

  50. Why we chose Vue.js
    (21 Oct 2016 | 637 points | Comments)

  51. Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
    (22 Oct 2016 | 637 points | Comments)

  52. Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
    (26 Oct 2016 | 627 points | Comments)

  53. Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline
    (16 Oct 2016 | 621 points | Comments)

  54. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
    (3 Oct 2016 | 620 points | Comments)

  55. Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
    (25 Oct 2016 | 618 points | Comments)

  56. Hack the Kernel – Learn about operating systems online
    (23 Oct 2016 | 611 points | Comments)

  57. Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos
    (21 Oct 2016 | 606 points | Comments)

  58. The terrorist inside my husband's brain
    (1 Oct 2016 | 600 points | Comments)

  59. Microsoft Surface Studio
    (26 Oct 2016 | 599 points | Comments)

  60. Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras
    (4 Oct 2016 | 597 points | Comments)

  61. IRC v3
    (9 Oct 2016 | 595 points | Comments)

  62. Elementary OS
    (30 Oct 2016 | 594 points | Comments)

  63. Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure
    (20 Oct 2016 | 593 points | Comments)

  64. Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement
    (26 Oct 2016 | 572 points | Comments)

  65. There's no easy way to say this
    (4 Oct 2016 | 570 points | Comments)

  66. A Javascript journey with only six characters
    (8 Oct 2016 | 567 points | Comments)

  67. The No More Ransom Project
    (30 Oct 2016 | 561 points | Comments)

  68. Deep-Fried Data
    (2 Oct 2016 | 560 points | Comments)

  69. Parsing JSON is a Minefield
    (26 Oct 2016 | 559 points | Comments)

  70. Disney Open Source
    (17 Oct 2016 | 558 points | Comments)

  71. Happiness is a Boring Stack
    (25 Oct 2016 | 558 points | Comments)

  72. Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson
    (1 Oct 2016 | 553 points | Comments)

  73. Introducing Initialized Capital
    (24 Oct 2016 | 548 points | Comments)

  74. The State of JavaScript – Survey results
    (3 Oct 2016 | 546 points | Comments)

  75. Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater
    (7 Oct 2016 | 543 points | Comments)

  76. Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos
    (8 Oct 2016 | 540 points | Comments)

  77. FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data
    (27 Oct 2016 | 540 points | Comments)

  78. Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic
    (17 Oct 2016 | 533 points | Comments)

  79. How the Web Became Unreadable
    (19 Oct 2016 | 532 points | Comments)

  80. Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?
    (28 Oct 2016 | 530 points | Comments)

  81. PayPal 2FA Bypass
    (23 Oct 2016 | 525 points | Comments)

  82. Brain training exercises might just make you better at brain training exercises
    (7 Oct 2016 | 523 points | Comments)

  83. CHIP Pro
    (12 Oct 2016 | 521 points | Comments)

  84. Powerwall 2 and Integrated Solar
    (29 Oct 2016 | 520 points | Comments)

  85. Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
    (28 Oct 2016 | 519 points | Comments)

  86. New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
    (28 Oct 2016 | 519 points | Comments)

  87. Server APIs Project
    (25 Oct 2016 | 518 points | Comments)

  88. SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
    (16 Oct 2016 | 517 points | Comments)

  89. Gitless: a version control system
    (2 Oct 2016 | 516 points | Comments)

  90. Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
    (27 Oct 2016 | 516 points | Comments)

  91. IP Spoofing
    (7 Oct 2016 | 513 points | Comments)

  92. Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
    (21 Oct 2016 | 513 points | Comments)

  93. How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
    (4 Oct 2016 | 499 points | Comments)

  94. It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android
    (13 Oct 2016 | 495 points | Comments)

  95. A Man Who Stood Up To Facebook
    (13 Oct 2016 | 495 points | Comments)

  96. A Quantum Leap for the Web
    (27 Oct 2016 | 495 points | Comments)

  97. Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?
    (16 Oct 2016 | 494 points | Comments)

  98. The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork
    (23 Oct 2016 | 494 points | Comments)

  99. Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
    (26 Oct 2016 | 494 points | Comments)

  100. Daydream – Google VR
    (4 Oct 2016 | 493 points | Comments)