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Top of Month - Jan 2017

1. Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
   (9 Jan 2017 | 1857 points | Comments)

2. Welcome, ACLU
   (31 Jan 2017 | 1558 points | Comments)

3. Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
   (17 Jan 2017 | 1503 points | Comments)

4. Grumpy: Go running Python
   (4 Jan 2017 | 1411 points | Comments)

5. What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn
   (18 Jan 2017 | 1382 points | Comments)

6. WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
   (13 Jan 2017 | 1332 points | Comments)

7. LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
   (31 Jan 2017 | 1275 points | Comments)

8. Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
   (18 Jan 2017 | 1183 points | Comments)

9. Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
   (6 Jan 2017 | 1170 points | Comments)

10. Time to Take a Stand
    (28 Jan 2017 | 1131 points | Comments)

11. There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
    (13 Jan 2017 | 1018 points | Comments)

12. VR
    (13 Jan 2017 | 1008 points | Comments)

13. First they came for the Iranians
    (26 Jan 2017 | 1000 points | Comments)

14. I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
    (22 Jan 2017 | 951 points | Comments)

15. RethinkDB Postmortem
    (17 Jan 2017 | 948 points | Comments)

16. Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
    (22 Jan 2017 | 947 points | Comments)

17. Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data
    (15 Jan 2017 | 937 points | Comments)

18. I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial
    (14 Jan 2017 | 899 points | Comments)

19. Wine 2.0 released
    (24 Jan 2017 | 896 points | Comments)

20. Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
    (19 Jan 2017 | 880 points | Comments)

21. Welcome Chris Lattner
    (10 Jan 2017 | 879 points | Comments)

22. Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy
    (26 Jan 2017 | 873 points | Comments)

23. Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
    (26 Jan 2017 | 859 points | Comments)

24. Container Tabs
    (21 Jan 2017 | 843 points | Comments)

25. George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
    (25 Jan 2017 | 830 points | Comments)

26. Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
    (24 Jan 2017 | 811 points | Comments)

27. NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction
    (19 Jan 2017 | 808 points | Comments)

28. Integrating GTA V into Universe
    (11 Jan 2017 | 805 points | Comments)

29. Browser auto-fill phishing
    (5 Jan 2017 | 802 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
    (5 Jan 2017 | 800 points | Comments)

31. Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise
    (25 Jan 2017 | 756 points | Comments)

32. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
    (8 Jan 2017 | 753 points | Comments)

33. Affordable Care
    (13 Jan 2017 | 720 points | Comments)

34. Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0
    (19 Jan 2017 | 720 points | Comments)

35. Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.
    (23 Jan 2017 | 720 points | Comments)

36. Ian's Shoelace Site
    (14 Jan 2017 | 695 points | Comments)

37. The moving sofa problem
    (1 Jan 2017 | 690 points | Comments)

38. Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO
    (29 Jan 2017 | 685 points | Comments)

39. When You Are Depressed, Make Something
    (10 Jan 2017 | 684 points | Comments)

40. How to leak to the press
    (27 Jan 2017 | 680 points | Comments)

41. Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign
    (31 Jan 2017 | 675 points | Comments)

42. Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy
    (17 Jan 2017 | 673 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
    (15 Jan 2017 | 670 points | Comments)

44. The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack
    (11 Jan 2017 | 667 points | Comments)

45. Announcing Pipenv
    (23 Jan 2017 | 664 points | Comments)

46. Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order
    (29 Jan 2017 | 664 points | Comments)

47. Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)
    (20 Jan 2017 | 655 points | Comments)

48. The Problem with AMP
    (17 Jan 2017 | 641 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development?
    (18 Jan 2017 | 639 points | Comments)

50. Mastering Bash and Terminal
    (14 Jan 2017 | 638 points | Comments)

51. TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow
    (4 Jan 2017 | 631 points | Comments)

52. LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance
    (5 Jan 2017 | 630 points | Comments)

53. Lavabit Reloaded
    (20 Jan 2017 | 626 points | Comments)

54. A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France
    (16 Jan 2017 | 625 points | Comments)

55. Box Breathing
    (28 Jan 2017 | 625 points | Comments)

56. SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch
    (14 Jan 2017 | 621 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
    (2 Jan 2017 | 612 points | Comments)

58. What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017
    (1 Jan 2017 | 602 points | Comments)

59. Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
    (28 Jan 2017 | 599 points | Comments)

60. Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists
    (25 Jan 2017 | 596 points | Comments)

61. I've removed all ad network code from my blog
    (5 Jan 2017 | 591 points | Comments)

62. Ticketmaster is a horrible company
    (3 Jan 2017 | 589 points | Comments)

63. Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
    (13 Jan 2017 | 589 points | Comments)

64. Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience
    (9 Jan 2017 | 577 points | Comments)

65. Why Many Cities Have No Money
    (10 Jan 2017 | 576 points | Comments)

66. Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered
    (23 Jan 2017 | 568 points | Comments)

67. The Line of Death
    (14 Jan 2017 | 566 points | Comments)

68. I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
    (10 Jan 2017 | 559 points | Comments)

69. Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver
    (19 Jan 2017 | 554 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
    (30 Jan 2017 | 551 points | Comments)

71. Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS
    (31 Jan 2017 | 550 points | Comments)

72. Twitter discloses national security letters
    (27 Jan 2017 | 549 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
    (3 Jan 2017 | 546 points | Comments)

74. From OS X to Ubuntu
    (9 Jan 2017 | 544 points | Comments)

75. Stealing passwords from McDonald's users
    (16 Jan 2017 | 544 points | Comments)

76. How much does employee turnover really cost?
    (17 Jan 2017 | 541 points | Comments)

77. Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless
    (15 Jan 2017 | 540 points | Comments)

78. Site Reliability Engineering
    (27 Jan 2017 | 540 points | Comments)

79. Things Every Hacker Once Knew
    (27 Jan 2017 | 539 points | Comments)

80. The Risk of Discovery
    (12 Jan 2017 | 537 points | Comments)

81. New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $130K/yr
    (31 Jan 2017 | 537 points | Comments)

82. Linux Performance
    (27 Jan 2017 | 536 points | Comments)

83. Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K
    (12 Jan 2017 | 533 points | Comments)

84. Flickr – A Year Without a Byte
    (12 Jan 2017 | 527 points | Comments)

85. The lost letters of the English alphabet
    (16 Jan 2017 | 526 points | Comments)

86. Announcing Tokio 0.1
    (11 Jan 2017 | 525 points | Comments)

87. Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)
    (17 Jan 2017 | 515 points | Comments)

88. Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions
    (29 Jan 2017 | 514 points | Comments)

89. Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container
    (3 Jan 2017 | 511 points | Comments)

90. How to start a startup without ruining your life
    (31 Jan 2017 | 511 points | Comments)

91. The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator
    (27 Jan 2017 | 503 points | Comments)

92. A Prettier JavaScript Formatter
    (10 Jan 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

93. Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players
    (4 Jan 2017 | 495 points | Comments)

94. Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M
    (23 Jan 2017 | 494 points | Comments)

95. A Tourist’s Guide to the LLVM Source Code
    (6 Jan 2017 | 489 points | Comments)

96. Comparing Elixir and Go
    (27 Jan 2017 | 489 points | Comments)

97. Renewing Medium’s focus
    (4 Jan 2017 | 482 points | Comments)

98. Update on the Swift Project Lead
    (10 Jan 2017 | 482 points | Comments)

99. Rust vs. Go
    (18 Jan 2017 | 481 points | Comments)

100. U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
     (18 Jan 2017 | 479 points | Comments)