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Top of Month - Apr 2017

1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
   (4 Apr 2017 | 1735 points | Comments)

2. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
   (11 Apr 2017 | 1519 points | Comments)

3. What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
   (21 Apr 2017 | 1494 points | Comments)

4. We’re dropping Google Ads
   (12 Apr 2017 | 1477 points | Comments)

5. Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
   (24 Apr 2017 | 1401 points | Comments)

6. Build Your Own Text Editor
   (5 Apr 2017 | 1275 points | Comments)

7. Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
   (29 Apr 2017 | 1264 points | Comments)

8. How We Built r/Place
   (13 Apr 2017 | 1152 points | Comments)

9. Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
   (18 Apr 2017 | 1124 points | Comments)

10. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
    (14 Apr 2017 | 1117 points | Comments)

11. Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
    (20 Apr 2017 | 1080 points | Comments)

12. USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
    (18 Apr 2017 | 1044 points | Comments)

13. How SSH got port number 22
    (23 Apr 2017 | 1034 points | Comments)

14. An off-grid social network
    (6 Apr 2017 | 1031 points | Comments)

15. IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe
    (11 Apr 2017 | 1000 points | Comments)

16. Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
    (1 Apr 2017 | 959 points | Comments)

17. The Mac Pro Lives
    (4 Apr 2017 | 877 points | Comments)

18. PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
    (13 Apr 2017 | 854 points | Comments)

19. Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
    (18 Apr 2017 | 851 points | Comments)

20. Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
    (29 Apr 2017 | 850 points | Comments)

21. Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
    (11 Apr 2017 | 847 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
    (19 Apr 2017 | 847 points | Comments)

23. Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
    (3 Apr 2017 | 846 points | Comments)

24. Bob Taylor Has Died
    (14 Apr 2017 | 841 points | Comments)

25. The Boring Company [video]
    (28 Apr 2017 | 836 points | Comments)

26. Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
    (12 Apr 2017 | 834 points | Comments)

27. Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account
    (6 Apr 2017 | 831 points | Comments)

28. Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
    (19 Apr 2017 | 824 points | Comments)

29. I’m a freelance copywriter
    (1 Apr 2017 | 788 points | Comments)

30. Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app
    (25 Apr 2017 | 787 points | Comments)

31. A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
    (6 Apr 2017 | 786 points | Comments)

32. A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
    (18 Apr 2017 | 773 points | Comments)

33. Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
    (3 Apr 2017 | 769 points | Comments)

34. Semantic UI
    (10 Apr 2017 | 768 points | Comments)

35. Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
    (19 Apr 2017 | 764 points | Comments)

36. If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
    (29 Apr 2017 | 762 points | Comments)

37. Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
    (5 Apr 2017 | 756 points | Comments)

38. Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
    (11 Apr 2017 | 732 points | Comments)

39. New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary
    (7 Apr 2017 | 718 points | Comments)

40. Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
    (26 Apr 2017 | 715 points | Comments)

41. Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job
    (25 Apr 2017 | 693 points | Comments)

42. India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
    (26 Apr 2017 | 687 points | Comments)

43. Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
    (3 Apr 2017 | 680 points | Comments)

44. Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons
    (8 Apr 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

45. Robert M. Pirsig has died
    (24 Apr 2017 | 655 points | Comments)

46. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
    (6 Apr 2017 | 640 points | Comments)

47. iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
    (4 Apr 2017 | 638 points | Comments)

48. Color Night Vision (2016) [video]
    (7 Apr 2017 | 625 points | Comments)

49. System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
    (20 Apr 2017 | 617 points | Comments)

50. Stupid security things
    (28 Apr 2017 | 609 points | Comments)

51. Unsupervised sentiment neuron
    (6 Apr 2017 | 603 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
    (5 Apr 2017 | 602 points | Comments)

53. Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters
    (4 Apr 2017 | 597 points | Comments)

54. Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
    (24 Apr 2017 | 597 points | Comments)

55. Jupyter Notebook 5.0
    (4 Apr 2017 | 588 points | Comments)

56. Introducing Increment
    (13 Apr 2017 | 574 points | Comments)

57. How to Become Well-Connected
    (25 Apr 2017 | 573 points | Comments)

58. CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
    (19 Apr 2017 | 572 points | Comments)

59. A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components
    (20 Apr 2017 | 571 points | Comments)

60. Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
    (1 Apr 2017 | 568 points | Comments)

61. Machine learning without centralized training data
    (6 Apr 2017 | 568 points | Comments)

62. Why Use Postgres?
    (30 Apr 2017 | 568 points | Comments)

63. The reference D compiler is now open source
    (7 Apr 2017 | 566 points | Comments)

64. The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
    (9 Apr 2017 | 563 points | Comments)

65. Just Say No
    (28 Apr 2017 | 563 points | Comments)

66. How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
    (29 Apr 2017 | 562 points | Comments)

67. Uber CEO Plays with Fire
    (23 Apr 2017 | 559 points | Comments)

68. For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power
    (22 Apr 2017 | 558 points | Comments)

69. Rust 1.17
    (27 Apr 2017 | 551 points | Comments)

70. Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse
    (3 Apr 2017 | 549 points | Comments)

71. Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter
    (13 Apr 2017 | 547 points | Comments)

72. Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
    (20 Apr 2017 | 544 points | Comments)

73. United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
    (13 Apr 2017 | 538 points | Comments)

74. Remove United from your flight results
    (13 Apr 2017 | 535 points | Comments)

75. Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
    (21 Apr 2017 | 534 points | Comments)

76. New Features Coming in PostgreSQL 10
    (8 Apr 2017 | 517 points | Comments)

77. How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)
    (16 Apr 2017 | 517 points | Comments)

78. What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them?
    (13 Apr 2017 | 514 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
    (3 Apr 2017 | 513 points | Comments)

80. Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file on an employee’s personal device
    (5 Apr 2017 | 512 points | Comments)

81. Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
    (6 Apr 2017 | 509 points | Comments)

82. Me and SVG
    (20 Apr 2017 | 507 points | Comments)

83. Why Momentum Works
    (4 Apr 2017 | 503 points | Comments)

84. Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards
    (11 Apr 2017 | 499 points | Comments)

85. Saturn moon 'able to support life'
    (13 Apr 2017 | 491 points | Comments)

86. Introducing Token
    (21 Apr 2017 | 488 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?
    (25 Apr 2017 | 486 points | Comments)

88. Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
    (24 Apr 2017 | 484 points | Comments)

89. A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
    (10 Apr 2017 | 479 points | Comments)

90. Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
    (14 Apr 2017 | 477 points | Comments)

91. The Guardian Pulls Out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News
    (23 Apr 2017 | 474 points | Comments)

92. A critique of trends in tech
    (27 Apr 2017 | 473 points | Comments)

93. Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
    (25 Apr 2017 | 471 points | Comments)

94. McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)
    (20 Apr 2017 | 470 points | Comments)

95. Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)
    (27 Apr 2017 | 470 points | Comments)

96. Lego Macintosh Classic with e‑paper display
    (7 Apr 2017 | 468 points | Comments)

97. Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
    (26 Apr 2017 | 468 points | Comments)

98. Deis to Join Microsoft
    (10 Apr 2017 | 464 points | Comments)

99. Survivorship Bias
    (21 Apr 2017 | 464 points | Comments)

100. WikiTribune – Evidence-based journalism
     (25 Apr 2017 | 462 points | Comments)