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2016 Archive
1981.
CA Comodo used broken OCR and issued certificates to the wrong people (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
336 points by longwave on Oct 21, 2016 | 180 comments
1982.
Ten years on LinkedIn (evertpot.com)
336 points by causality on Mar 7, 2016 | 165 comments
1983.
Checked C (research.microsoft.com)
336 points by zmanian on Jun 14, 2016 | 156 comments
1984.
“We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the 2.6 release” (discourse.mozilla-community.org)
336 points by elnino10 on Feb 4, 2016 | 152 comments
1985.
New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis (scientificamerican.com)
336 points by jseip on Aug 11, 2016 | 130 comments
1986.
ASCII Art Weather (wttr.in)
336 points by hjc89 on Apr 14, 2016 | 103 comments
1987.
YC Tech Stacks (themacro.com)
336 points by bootload on Aug 15, 2016 | 99 comments
1988.
Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online (hyperallergic.com)
336 points by jetskindo on Feb 20, 2016 | 84 comments
1989.
Nintendo releases original Zelda design docs (nintendo.co.uk)
336 points by jlturner on Dec 28, 2016 | 45 comments
1990.
Reddit is still in turmoil (techcrunch.com)
335 points by minimaxir on Jul 21, 2016 | 499 comments
1991.
Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin (nytimes.com)
335 points by okket on Aug 13, 2016 | 251 comments
1992.
Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes (thewirecutter.com)
335 points by Osiris30 on May 13, 2016 | 228 comments
1993.
Michael Dell Bought His Company Too Cheaply (bloomberg.com)
335 points by kgwgk on Jun 1, 2016 | 164 comments
1994.
Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software (arstechnica.co.uk)
335 points by empressplay on Mar 2, 2016 | 161 comments
1995.
Pokemon Go – Permissions Update (support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com)
335 points by nate_martin on Jul 12, 2016 | 106 comments
1996.
What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners (blockgeeks.com)
335 points by Ameerrosic on Nov 2, 2016 | 0 comments
1997.
Jeremy Guillory's Counter-Complaint against Cruise Automation (drive.google.com)
334 points by finkin1 on Apr 15, 2016 | 338 comments
1998.
Salary transparency at Stack Overflow (blog.stackoverflow.com)
334 points by ocoster on Jul 27, 2016 | 282 comments
1999.
Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with (mest.io)
334 points by robbizorg on Nov 9, 2016 | 223 comments
2000.
A bite of Python (access.redhat.com)
334 points by ashitlerferad on Sep 8, 2016 | 162 comments
2001.
Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you shouldn't buy until it's fixed (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
334 points by edward on Apr 13, 2016 | 154 comments
2002.
Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format (lucumr.pocoo.org)
334 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 31, 2016 | 150 comments
2003.
Making SQL Server run on Linux (blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
334 points by kogir on Dec 18, 2016 | 140 comments
2004.
Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies (locusmag.com)
334 points by Uhhrrr on Mar 4, 2016 | 134 comments
2005.
Ask HN: Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?
334 points by sammyjiang on Dec 3, 2016 | 128 comments
2006.
Release of IPython 5.0 (blog.jupyter.org)
334 points by trymas on Jul 8, 2016 | 103 comments
2007.
Show HN: GPU text rendering with vector textures (wdobbie.com)
334 points by wjd on Jan 1, 2016 | 87 comments
2008.
Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT (trigger-happy.eu)
334 points by vmorgulis on Nov 13, 2016 | 79 comments
2009.
Stargate Physics 101: A comedy about the importance of software testing (archiveofourown.org)
334 points by gwern on Mar 16, 2016 | 67 comments
2010.
Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC (blog.timesunion.com)
333 points by Spooky23 on Oct 21, 2016 | 493 comments