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January 2016 Archive
1.
Request For Research: Basic Income (blog.ycombinator.com)
1876 points by mattkrisiloff on Jan 27, 2016 | 1121 comments
2.
Dear GitHub (github.com)
1678 points by msvan on Jan 14, 2016 | 463 comments
3.
David Bowie Has Died (hollywoodreporter.com)
1484 points by hccampos on Jan 11, 2016 | 301 comments
4.
Amazon's customer service backdoor (medium.com)
1447 points by grapehut on Jan 24, 2016 | 356 comments
5.
Marvin Minsky dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
1259 points by joelg on Jan 25, 2016 | 178 comments
6.
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion (bbc.co.uk)
1207 points by xianshou on Jan 27, 2016 | 394 comments
7.
Facebook is closing Parse (blog.parse.com)
1202 points by theunquietone on Jan 28, 2016 | 500 comments
8.
How to C in 2016 (matt.sh)
1145 points by fcambus on Jan 8, 2016 | 581 comments
9.
Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL (theregister.co.uk)
1144 points by janvdberg on Jan 5, 2016 | 99 comments
10.
The Website Obesity Crisis (idlewords.com)
1122 points by jmduke on Jan 1, 2016 | 367 comments
11.
Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments (ramiro.org)
1043 points by gkst on Jan 18, 2016 | 181 comments
12.
TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands (code.google.com)
1030 points by tptacek on Jan 11, 2016 | 229 comments
13.
Netflix Is Now Available Around the World (media.netflix.com)
1015 points by devhxinc on Jan 6, 2016 | 497 comments
14.
Life is Short (paulgraham.com)
970 points by janvdberg on Jan 16, 2016 | 451 comments
15.
The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment (medium.com)
961 points by tptacek on Jan 14, 2016 | 408 comments
16.
Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab (about.gitlab.com)
924 points by levlaz on Jan 18, 2016 | 318 comments
17.
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto (caltech.edu)
883 points by cyanbane on Jan 20, 2016 | 150 comments
18.
The Refragmentation (paulgraham.com)
852 points by urs on Jan 2, 2016 | 444 comments
19.
Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity (desktopneo.com)
798 points by ziburski on Jan 19, 2016 | 314 comments
20.
Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
778 points by logic on Jan 20, 2016 | 185 comments
21.
Voxel.css (voxelcss.com)
771 points by notdarkyet on Jan 27, 2016 | 103 comments
22.
ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open (blogs.windows.com)
758 points by bevacqua on Jan 13, 2016 | 310 comments
23.
T-Shirts Unravelled (threadbase.com)
756 points by janzer on Jan 23, 2016 | 155 comments
24.
Get HTTPS for free (gethttpsforfree.com)
731 points by somecoder on Jan 30, 2016 | 159 comments
25.
Three Years as a One-Man Startup (medium.com)
718 points by steveridout on Jan 5, 2016 | 218 comments
26.
People Call Me Aaron (medium.com)
701 points by marsvoltaire on Jan 11, 2016 | 105 comments
27.
Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant (robindoherty.com)
697 points by synesso on Jan 6, 2016 | 316 comments
28.
Magic+ (getmagicnow.com)
687 points by calvin_c on Jan 5, 2016 | 462 comments
29.
Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show (dnainfo.com)
683 points by danso on Jan 28, 2016 | 343 comments
30.
Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup (brave.com)
667 points by Seldaek on Jan 20, 2016 | 549 comments