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2016 Archive
61.
Marvin Minsky dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
1259 points by joelg on Jan 25, 2016 | 178 comments
62.
Introducing the Keybase filesystem (keybase.io)
1252 points by rdl on Feb 4, 2016 | 462 comments
63.
Amazon Go (amazon.com)
1247 points by mangoman on Dec 5, 2016 | 982 comments
64.
Philae Found (esa.int)
1238 points by de_dave on Sep 5, 2016 | 125 comments
65.
My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT (blog.pinboard.in)
1236 points by firloop on Mar 28, 2016 | 208 comments
66.
Why we lost Uber as a user (postgresql.org)
1234 points by areski on Aug 1, 2016 | 285 comments
67.
H.264 is Magic (sidbala.com)
1228 points by LASR on Nov 4, 2016 | 219 comments
68.
Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm (github.com)
1226 points by ExUtumno on Sep 30, 2016 | 122 comments
69.
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux (azure.microsoft.com)
1217 points by platz on Aug 18, 2016 | 760 comments
70.
Google Noto Fonts (google.com)
1217 points by bpierre on Oct 6, 2016 | 304 comments
71.
A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires (mattermark.com)
1214 points by nickfrost on Nov 9, 2016 | 499 comments
72.
Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
1213 points by boren_ave11 on Mar 18, 2016 | 690 comments
73.
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion (bbc.co.uk)
1207 points by xianshou on Jan 27, 2016 | 394 comments
74.
EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020 (futurism.com)
1205 points by emartinelli on Sep 6, 2016 | 132 comments
75.
Facebook is closing Parse (blog.parse.com)
1202 points by theunquietone on Jan 28, 2016 | 500 comments
76.
Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay (nytimes.com)
1195 points by OhHeyItsE on Aug 2, 2016 | 760 comments
77.
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star (eso.org)
1187 points by Thorondor on Aug 24, 2016 | 427 comments
78.
How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (unicodepowersymbol.com)
1181 points by adamnemecek on Jun 23, 2016 | 413 comments
79.
Why you should never use Upwork (medium.com)
1175 points by shadlovesgrowth on Oct 23, 2016 | 264 comments
80.
All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020 (english.eu2016.nl)
1167 points by whazor on May 27, 2016 | 133 comments
81.
Building Jarvis (facebook.com)
1164 points by tosh on Dec 19, 2016 | 251 comments
82.
“I have toyota corola” (daniel.haxx.se)
1155 points by robin_reala on Nov 14, 2016 | 350 comments
83.
The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored” (99percentinvisible.org)
1149 points by misnamed on Oct 10, 2016 | 590 comments
84.
How to C in 2016 (matt.sh)
1145 points by fcambus on Jan 8, 2016 | 581 comments
85.
Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL (theregister.co.uk)
1144 points by janvdberg on Jan 5, 2016 | 99 comments
86.
Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS (amazonlightsail.com)
1142 points by polmolea on Nov 30, 2016 | 614 comments
87.
Announcing new tools, forums, and features (github.com)
1142 points by joshmanders on Sep 14, 2016 | 269 comments
88.
Kite – Programming Copilot (kite.com)
1138 points by wodow on Apr 14, 2016 | 232 comments
89.
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (mobile.nytimes.com)
1131 points by shill on Nov 20, 2016 | 548 comments
90.
Microsoft Acquires Xamarin (weblogs.asp.net)
1126 points by legomaster on Feb 24, 2016 | 383 comments