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Top of Month - Dec 2016

1. Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
   (5 Dec 2016 | 1630 points | Comments)

2. Amazon Go
   (5 Dec 2016 | 1247 points | Comments)

3. Building Jarvis
   (19 Dec 2016 | 1164 points | Comments)

4. Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine
   (21 Dec 2016 | 1107 points | Comments)

5. Developers’ side projects
   (9 Dec 2016 | 1052 points | Comments)

6. Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
   (14 Dec 2016 | 1046 points | Comments)

7. OpenAI Universe
   (5 Dec 2016 | 1021 points | Comments)

8. Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
   (15 Dec 2016 | 1009 points | Comments)

9. Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website
   (7 Dec 2016 | 929 points | Comments)

10. How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
    (1 Dec 2016 | 921 points | Comments)

11. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
    (2 Dec 2016 | 919 points | Comments)

12. 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience
    (8 Dec 2016 | 911 points | Comments)

13. Things You Notice When You Quit the News
    (11 Dec 2016 | 891 points | Comments)

14. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
    (22 Dec 2016 | 883 points | Comments)

15. Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
    (6 Dec 2016 | 861 points | Comments)

16. Bose Hearphones
    (9 Dec 2016 | 830 points | Comments)

17. Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
    (2 Dec 2016 | 812 points | Comments)

18. John Glenn has died
    (8 Dec 2016 | 797 points | Comments)

19. I am not a self-made man
    (9 Dec 2016 | 785 points | Comments)

20. Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
    (13 Dec 2016 | 785 points | Comments)

21. World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
    (15 Dec 2016 | 785 points | Comments)

22. HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
    (26 Dec 2016 | 780 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?
    (11 Dec 2016 | 779 points | Comments)

24. German research institutions boycott Elsevier
    (15 Dec 2016 | 764 points | Comments)

25. I'm giving up on PGP
    (6 Dec 2016 | 745 points | Comments)

26. Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch 
    (19 Dec 2016 | 735 points | Comments)

27. Htop explained
    (2 Dec 2016 | 716 points | Comments)

28. Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
    (28 Dec 2016 | 692 points | Comments)

29. Practical Deep Learning for Coders
    (20 Dec 2016 | 683 points | Comments)

30. Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
    (1 Dec 2016 | 669 points | Comments)

31. This AI Boom Will Also Bust
    (3 Dec 2016 | 662 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
    (9 Dec 2016 | 658 points | Comments)

33. AngelList acquires Product Hunt
    (1 Dec 2016 | 656 points | Comments)

34. New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation
    (14 Dec 2016 | 642 points | Comments)

35. Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]
    (6 Dec 2016 | 639 points | Comments)

36. LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
    (23 Dec 2016 | 639 points | Comments)

37. Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
    (8 Dec 2016 | 632 points | Comments)

38. Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor
    (13 Dec 2016 | 631 points | Comments)

39. To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
    (22 Dec 2016 | 618 points | Comments)

40. Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income
    (17 Dec 2016 | 610 points | Comments)

41. Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly
    (15 Dec 2016 | 602 points | Comments)

42. Talks that changed the way I think about programming
    (8 Dec 2016 | 593 points | Comments)

43. How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
    (17 Dec 2016 | 586 points | Comments)

44. Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire
    (7 Dec 2016 | 576 points | Comments)

45. Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
    (14 Dec 2016 | 571 points | Comments)

46. It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
    (6 Dec 2016 | 568 points | Comments)

47. Why does calloc exist?
    (5 Dec 2016 | 553 points | Comments)

48. Why time management is ruining our lives
    (22 Dec 2016 | 552 points | Comments)

49. Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013)
    (8 Dec 2016 | 550 points | Comments)

50. My Favorite Books of 2016
    (5 Dec 2016 | 546 points | Comments)

51. My Pixel has a manufacturing defect
    (10 Dec 2016 | 544 points | Comments)

52. GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016
    (15 Dec 2016 | 540 points | Comments)

53. What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
    (12 Dec 2016 | 536 points | Comments)

54. Pebble's next step
    (7 Dec 2016 | 529 points | Comments)

55. Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
    (13 Dec 2016 | 527 points | Comments)

56. Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier
    (12 Dec 2016 | 525 points | Comments)

57. 1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856
    (8 Dec 2016 | 522 points | Comments)

58. Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)
    (24 Dec 2016 | 516 points | Comments)

59. VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim
    (12 Dec 2016 | 515 points | Comments)

60. The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
    (6 Dec 2016 | 512 points | Comments)

61. Blue Ocean
    (20 Dec 2016 | 509 points | Comments)

62. Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
    (23 Dec 2016 | 507 points | Comments)

63. Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts
    (9 Dec 2016 | 506 points | Comments)

64. Announcing TypeScript 2.1
    (7 Dec 2016 | 503 points | Comments)

65. On Getting Older in Tech
    (9 Dec 2016 | 499 points | Comments)

66. Update on Multi-Process Firefox
    (21 Dec 2016 | 498 points | Comments)

67. The little book about OS development
    (26 Dec 2016 | 497 points | Comments)

68. YC's Winter Reading List
    (12 Dec 2016 | 494 points | Comments)

69. Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor
    (18 Dec 2016 | 493 points | Comments)

70. One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers
    (14 Dec 2016 | 489 points | Comments)

71. The Idea of Lisp
    (16 Dec 2016 | 488 points | Comments)

72. Rust is mostly safety
    (29 Dec 2016 | 487 points | Comments)

73. Run Unix processes inside your browser
    (11 Dec 2016 | 484 points | Comments)

74. Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z
    (12 Dec 2016 | 484 points | Comments)

75. Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust
    (23 Dec 2016 | 484 points | Comments)

76. China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
    (30 Dec 2016 | 481 points | Comments)

77. Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure
    (1 Dec 2016 | 478 points | Comments)

78. Show HN: Hire an Oldster
    (16 Dec 2016 | 475 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
    (1 Dec 2016 | 458 points | Comments)

80. Starting a real business
    (14 Dec 2016 | 458 points | Comments)

81. Technical report on DNC hack [pdf]
    (29 Dec 2016 | 456 points | Comments)

82. Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
    (1 Dec 2016 | 455 points | Comments)

83. I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud
    (2 Dec 2016 | 453 points | Comments)

84. UDP vs TCP
    (28 Dec 2016 | 453 points | Comments)

85. Skip Lists Done Right
    (19 Dec 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

86. Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
    (9 Dec 2016 | 450 points | Comments)

87. The Talk
    (15 Dec 2016 | 448 points | Comments)

88. Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil
    (20 Dec 2016 | 447 points | Comments)

89. Linux kernel maintainer says no to AMDGPU patch
    (9 Dec 2016 | 446 points | Comments)

90. Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
    (29 Dec 2016 | 445 points | Comments)

91. Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms
    (2 Dec 2016 | 439 points | Comments)

92. Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
    (7 Dec 2016 | 438 points | Comments)

93. Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
    (29 Dec 2016 | 438 points | Comments)

94. CHVote: Open-source e-voting system from Switzerland
    (14 Dec 2016 | 437 points | Comments)

95. Google Web Designer (2013)
    (16 Dec 2016 | 437 points | Comments)

96. Apple to Start Publishing AI Research
    (6 Dec 2016 | 434 points | Comments)

97. Modern garbage collection
    (20 Dec 2016 | 434 points | Comments)

98. Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience
    (23 Dec 2016 | 434 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?
    (18 Dec 2016 | 433 points | Comments)

100. So you want to expose Go on the Internet
     (19 Dec 2016 | 433 points | Comments)