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2016 Archive
2011.
Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)
333 points by zeveb on Mar 3, 2016 | 408 comments
2012.
Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax (reuters.com)
333 points by cocotino on Jun 30, 2016 | 350 comments
2013.
Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles (wsj.com)
333 points by Doubleguitars on Sep 24, 2016 | 318 comments
2014.
Hyper 1.0.0 (github.com)
333 points by montogeek on Dec 12, 2016 | 210 comments
2015.
Ruin My Search History (ruinmysearchhistory.com)
333 points by gadtfly on Jun 9, 2016 | 199 comments
2016.
We Only Hire the Best (m.signalvnoise.com)
333 points by braythwayt on May 23, 2016 | 198 comments
2017.
Goldman Sachs Finally Admits It Defrauded Investors During the Financial Crisis (fortune.com)
333 points by adamnemecek on Apr 12, 2016 | 190 comments
2018.
The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10 (github.com)
333 points by eDameXxX on Aug 5, 2016 | 163 comments
2019.
Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now (incoming.shopify.com)
333 points by MichaelApproved on Nov 25, 2016 | 108 comments
2020.
Show HN: 2D field of view demo (jsfiddle.net)
333 points by legends2k on Jun 7, 2016 | 76 comments
2021.
The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth (eager.io)
333 points by zackbloom on Jul 18, 2016 | 71 comments
2022.
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub (paulgraham.com)
332 points by _pius on Apr 12, 2016 | 356 comments
2023.
FBI director: Cover up your webcam (thehill.com)
332 points by grej on Sep 15, 2016 | 289 comments
2024.
2017 Rust Roadmap (github.com)
332 points by muizelaar on Oct 22, 2016 | 197 comments
2025.
The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix (maltheborch.com)
332 points by mborch on Mar 1, 2016 | 155 comments
2026.
Over $700k selling a premium mobile game (reddit.com)
332 points by cdvonstinkpot on Apr 17, 2016 | 138 comments
2027.
What happens when you try to publish a failure to replicate in 2015/2016 (xeniaschmalz.blogspot.com)
332 points by brianchu on Jun 29, 2016 | 137 comments
2028.
A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015) (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
332 points by hoffmannesque on Mar 8, 2016 | 97 comments
2029.
Employee #1: Dropbox (themacro.com)
332 points by craigcannon on Sep 19, 2016 | 93 comments
2030.
LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip (lowrisc.org)
332 points by hkt on Dec 8, 2016 | 92 comments
2031.
Chart.js 2.0 Released (chartjs.org)
332 points by etimberg on Apr 25, 2016 | 78 comments
2032.
The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages (canonical.org)
332 points by akkartik on Dec 31, 2016 | 49 comments
2033.
Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
331 points by mod50ack on May 14, 2016 | 868 comments
2034.
Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Terrorists Do (theguardian.com)
331 points by plg on Mar 15, 2016 | 423 comments
2035.
We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io)
331 points by HaseebQ on Jun 29, 2016 | 351 comments
2036.
The Imposter's Handbook (impostershandbook.com)
331 points by isp on Aug 24, 2016 | 227 comments
2037.
Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest (nytimes.com)
331 points by hvo on Apr 1, 2016 | 177 comments
2038.
Google launches voice typing in Google Docs (googledocs.blogspot.com)
331 points by nandaja on Feb 25, 2016 | 130 comments
2039.
RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software (sagemath.blogspot.com)
331 points by williamstein on Oct 7, 2016 | 120 comments
2040.
Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses (eff.org)
331 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 12, 2016 | 116 comments