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Top of Month - Jul 2017
  1. Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
    (12 Jul 2017 | 1664 points | Comments)

  2. Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration
    (10 Jul 2017 | 1404 points | Comments)

  3. Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
    (16 Jul 2017 | 1277 points | Comments)

  4. Battle for the Internet
    (12 Jul 2017 | 1275 points | Comments)

  5. “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
    (25 Jul 2017 | 1213 points | Comments)

  6. Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets
    (5 Jul 2017 | 1074 points | Comments)

  7. How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community
    (24 Jul 2017 | 1014 points | Comments)

  8. 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
    (10 Jul 2017 | 1011 points | Comments)

  9. The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
    (21 Jul 2017 | 984 points | Comments)

  10. 153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
    (19 Jul 2017 | 943 points | Comments)

  11. I'm not a Woman in Tech
    (5 Jul 2017 | 876 points | Comments)

  12. 18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
    (24 Jul 2017 | 874 points | Comments)

  13. Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
    (6 Jul 2017 | 857 points | Comments)

  14. What Is Ethereum?
    (8 Jul 2017 | 837 points | Comments)

  15. Seeing AI for iOS
    (14 Jul 2017 | 835 points | Comments)

  16. How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users
    (11 Jul 2017 | 802 points | Comments)

  17. The Limitations of Deep Learning
    (17 Jul 2017 | 794 points | Comments)

  18. Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem
    (30 Jul 2017 | 772 points | Comments)

  19. How to make a friend fast
    (9 Jul 2017 | 765 points | Comments)

  20. It is as if you were doing work
    (5 Jul 2017 | 752 points | Comments)

  21. Toward Go 2
    (13 Jul 2017 | 746 points | Comments)

  22. The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
    (12 Jul 2017 | 738 points | Comments)

  23. Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
    (2 Jul 2017 | 729 points | Comments)

  24. Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game
    (11 Jul 2017 | 723 points | Comments)

  25. Deep Learning for Coders – Launching Deep Learning Part 2
    (30 Jul 2017 | 716 points | Comments)

  26. Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub
    (5 Jul 2017 | 711 points | Comments)

  27. Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less
    (17 Jul 2017 | 708 points | Comments)

  28. Mental health is still an issue in the workplace
    (6 Jul 2017 | 659 points | Comments)

  29. Reverse-engineering the Starbucks ordering API
    (12 Jul 2017 | 658 points | Comments)

  30. Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest
    (31 Jul 2017 | 655 points | Comments)

  31. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
    (3 Jul 2017 | 635 points | Comments)

  32. Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed
    (27 Jul 2017 | 632 points | Comments)

  33. Defending a website with Zip bombs
    (6 Jul 2017 | 631 points | Comments)

  34. Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)
    (5 Jul 2017 | 620 points | Comments)

  35. Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman and Iranian to win Fields Medal, has died
    (15 Jul 2017 | 614 points | Comments)

  36. Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016)
    (23 Jul 2017 | 612 points | Comments)

  37. Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers
    (19 Jul 2017 | 611 points | Comments)

  38. The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
    (18 Jul 2017 | 609 points | Comments)

  39. Things I wish someone had told me before I started angel investing
    (16 Jul 2017 | 602 points | Comments)

  40. ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification
    (11 Jul 2017 | 600 points | Comments)

  41. Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About
    (24 Jul 2017 | 594 points | Comments)

  42. Redis 4.0
    (14 Jul 2017 | 588 points | Comments)

  43. I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors
    (3 Jul 2017 | 587 points | Comments)

  44. How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
    (25 Jul 2017 | 577 points | Comments)

  45. Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs
    (25 Jul 2017 | 574 points | Comments)

  46. Why Should I Start a Startup?
    (19 Jul 2017 | 569 points | Comments)

  47. Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think
    (11 Jul 2017 | 565 points | Comments)

  48. Show HN: TensorFire
    (31 Jul 2017 | 564 points | Comments)

  49. Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler?
    (20 Jul 2017 | 563 points | Comments)

  50. Petition to open source Flash
    (26 Jul 2017 | 560 points | Comments)

  51. Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others
    (9 Jul 2017 | 555 points | Comments)

  52. I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program
    (7 Jul 2017 | 550 points | Comments)

  53. Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno
    (14 Jul 2017 | 545 points | Comments)

  54. Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch
    (27 Jul 2017 | 545 points | Comments)

  55. Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs
    (13 Jul 2017 | 542 points | Comments)

  56. Machine Learning Crash Course: The Bias-Variance Dilemma
    (17 Jul 2017 | 540 points | Comments)

  57. Computational Linear Algebra
    (23 Jul 2017 | 537 points | Comments)

  58. Kindness is Underrated (2014)
    (16 Jul 2017 | 536 points | Comments)

  59. Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping
    (20 Jul 2017 | 534 points | Comments)

  60. Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit
    (18 Jul 2017 | 529 points | Comments)

  61. Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy
    (19 Jul 2017 | 523 points | Comments)

  62. Gitter is open source
    (4 Jul 2017 | 522 points | Comments)

  63. Alibaba Cloud
    (14 Jul 2017 | 520 points | Comments)

  64. A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum
    (21 Jul 2017 | 520 points | Comments)

  65. Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?
    (6 Jul 2017 | 518 points | Comments)

  66. Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
    (7 Jul 2017 | 503 points | Comments)

  67. NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
    (1 Jul 2017 | 501 points | Comments)

  68. Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
    (17 Jul 2017 | 501 points | Comments)

  69. It's been 191 days since Google Drive worked for me
    (9 Jul 2017 | 500 points | Comments)

  70. New Skype Update Is Horrible
    (3 Jul 2017 | 499 points | Comments)

  71. Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness”
    (3 Jul 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

  72. How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests
    (1 Jul 2017 | 494 points | Comments)

  73. Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency  Without Your Landlord Noticing
    (21 Jul 2017 | 491 points | Comments)

  74. Ravens OL John Urschel, 26, retires abruptly, two days after CTE study
    (27 Jul 2017 | 487 points | Comments)

  75. Apple Machine Learning Journal
    (19 Jul 2017 | 485 points | Comments)

  76. Google relaunches Glass for businesses
    (18 Jul 2017 | 484 points | Comments)

  77. Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
    (30 Jul 2017 | 482 points | Comments)

  78. SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
    (11 Jul 2017 | 481 points | Comments)

  79. Elixir 1.5 released
    (25 Jul 2017 | 479 points | Comments)

  80. Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat
    (24 Jul 2017 | 475 points | Comments)

  81. Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime (YC W08), has died
    (10 Jul 2017 | 468 points | Comments)

  82. How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
    (27 Jul 2017 | 468 points | Comments)

  83. Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st
    (13 Jul 2017 | 467 points | Comments)

  84. Still locked out of my AWS account
    (7 Jul 2017 | 463 points | Comments)

  85. SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
    (6 Jul 2017 | 462 points | Comments)

  86. Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
    (27 Jul 2017 | 462 points | Comments)

  87. BTC-e and its founder charged in 21-count indictment over hack of Mt. Gox
    (27 Jul 2017 | 458 points | Comments)

  88. Cybersecurity Humble Book Bundle
    (17 Jul 2017 | 455 points | Comments)

  89. Mastering Programming (2016)
    (7 Jul 2017 | 452 points | Comments)

  90. Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
    (7 Jul 2017 | 449 points | Comments)

  91. Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later
    (31 Jul 2017 | 449 points | Comments)

  92. Master Card, Cisco, and Scotiabank Join the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
    (18 Jul 2017 | 448 points | Comments)

  93. The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact
    (23 Jul 2017 | 447 points | Comments)

  94. Sandsifter: find undocumented instructions and bugs on x86 CPU
    (28 Jul 2017 | 447 points | Comments)

  95. How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes
    (10 Jul 2017 | 444 points | Comments)

  96. MS Paint is here to stay
    (25 Jul 2017 | 444 points | Comments)

  97. SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities
    (25 Jul 2017 | 444 points | Comments)

  98. First Human Embryos Edited in U.S
    (26 Jul 2017 | 444 points | Comments)

  99. Invisible unicorns: Big companies that started with little or no money
    (14 Jul 2017 | 442 points | Comments)

  100. 80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life
    (20 Jul 2017 | 442 points | Comments)