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2016 Archive
2791.
Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox (bugs.debian.org)
282 points by leo2urlevan on Feb 17, 2016 | 149 comments
2792.
Confessions of an Instagram Influencer (bloomberg.com)
282 points by kevinbluer on Dec 2, 2016 | 131 comments
2793.
RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web (searchengineland.com)
282 points by adamcarson on Mar 9, 2016 | 125 comments
2794.
YouTube's road to HTTPS (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)
282 points by seanwatson on Aug 1, 2016 | 93 comments
2795.
How Snowden's Disclosures Made All Our Data Safer (pardonsnowden.org)
282 points by zerognowl on Oct 24, 2016 | 85 comments
2796.
If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data (bishopfox.com)
282 points by cgtyoder on Apr 8, 2016 | 81 comments
2797.
Apple Pay on the Web (stripe.com)
282 points by sinak on Jun 13, 2016 | 81 comments
2798.
Breaking homegrown crypto (kivikakk.ee)
282 points by tdurden on Mar 12, 2016 | 18 comments
2799.
An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges (reuters.com)
281 points by okket on May 25, 2016 | 318 comments
2800.
ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04 (blog.dustinkirkland.com)
281 points by doener on Feb 18, 2016 | 278 comments
2801.
AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse (github.com)
281 points by deletia on Dec 20, 2016 | 276 comments
2802.
Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49 (amazon.com)
281 points by silveira on Feb 22, 2016 | 232 comments
2803.
Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car (techcrunch.com)
281 points by doener on Dec 13, 2016 | 223 comments
2804.
ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech (bbc.com)
281 points by mbgaxyz on Jul 19, 2016 | 218 comments
2805.
The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016 (talks.golang.org)
281 points by signa11 on Feb 3, 2016 | 216 comments
2806.
Simple Ways of Reducing the Cognitive Load in Code (chrismm.com)
281 points by christianmm on Jun 28, 2016 | 195 comments
2807.
KDE Project releases KDE 1 (heliocastro.info)
281 points by oever on Oct 14, 2016 | 157 comments
2808.
Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans (washington.edu)
281 points by awqrre on Nov 30, 2016 | 156 comments
2809.
Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins (pnas.org)
281 points by gwern on Jul 12, 2016 | 133 comments
2810.
Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser (justsecurity.org)
281 points by throwaway2016a on May 2, 2016 | 120 comments
2811.
On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted (kennethreitz.org)
281 points by kenneth_reitz on Aug 10, 2016 | 117 comments
2812.
Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers (addons.mozilla.org)
281 points by throwaway2048 on Feb 1, 2016 | 111 comments
2813.
The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA (nytimes.com)
281 points by hackuser on Mar 31, 2016 | 101 comments
2814.
GoQt (github.com)
281 points by T-A on Jan 24, 2016 | 100 comments
2815.
Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels (theregister.co.uk)
281 points by tbrock on May 11, 2016 | 78 comments
2816.
Git 2.11 has been released (github.com)
281 points by stablemap on Nov 29, 2016 | 65 comments
2817.
Lossless compression with Brotli (blogs.dropbox.com)
281 points by nuriaion on Jun 29, 2016 | 63 comments
2818.
A Wait-Free Stack (arxiv.org)
281 points by EvgeniyZh on Jul 17, 2016 | 63 comments
2819.
Google has started a video series on machine learning and I can understand it (youtube.com)
281 points by iamkeyur on Apr 16, 2016 | 35 comments
2820.
No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems (theatlantic.com)
280 points by behoove on Dec 4, 2016 | 425 comments