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The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2016

We track 915 stories from February 2016, averaging 240 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 52 stories. Together they drew 102,855 comments, 112 per story on average.

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A Message to Our Customers apple.com · epaga · 17 Feb 2016

5.8k pts 967 comments

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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right nytimes.com · intull · 11 Feb 2016

2k pts 483 comments

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Stripe Atlas stripe.com · hepha1979 · 24 Feb 2016

1.7k pts 390 comments

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Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake defaultnamehere.tumblr.com · adamch · 19 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 189 comments

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Apple’s declining software quality sudophilosophical.com · pljns · 4 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 705 comments

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Introducing the Keybase filesystem keybase.io · rdl · 4 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 462 comments

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Microsoft Acquires Xamarin weblogs.asp.net · legomaster · 24 Feb 2016

1.1k pts 383 comments

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LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value businessinsider.com · danso · 5 Feb 2016

1k pts 635 comments

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Vulkan is Here khronos.org · ekianjo · 16 Feb 2016

903 pts 201 comments

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Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case bloomberg.com · sbuk · 25 Feb 2016

888 pts 240 comments

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3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time mojoptix.com · edward · 13 Feb 2016

839 pts 92 comments

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Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client nickforall.nl · cujanovic · 24 Feb 2016

827 pts 462 comments

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Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year github.com · jbranchaud · 9 Feb 2016

819 pts 150 comments

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GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart businessinsider.com · easyd · 6 Feb 2016

808 pts 973 comments

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Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Force Apple's Hand [pdf] blogs.reuters.com · coloneltcb · 29 Feb 2016

797 pts 188 comments

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GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter github.com · joshmanders · 12 Feb 2016

763 pts 332 comments

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Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science sci-hub.io · kasbah · 13 Feb 2016

760 pts 217 comments

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AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep brain.fm · jasbrainfm · 21 Feb 2016

744 pts 301 comments

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Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World techcrunch.com · pearlsteinj · 1 Feb 2016

720 pts 419 comments

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Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud news.spotify.com · dmichel · 23 Feb 2016

715 pts 381 comments

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No More Deceptive Download Buttons googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com · r721 · 4 Feb 2016

706 pts 253 comments

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Too many people have peed in the pool stephenfry.com · ctz · 15 Feb 2016

694 pts 511 comments

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Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode betanews.com · fgeorgy · 1 Feb 2016

686 pts 213 comments

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Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone techdirt.com · bgentry · 17 Feb 2016

685 pts 348 comments

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India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content blog.savetheinternet.in · scorpion032 · 8 Feb 2016

684 pts 216 comments

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I no longer understand my PhD dissertation medium.com · refrigerator · 14 Feb 2016

682 pts 271 comments

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Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale raspberrypi.org · MarcScott · 29 Feb 2016

677 pts 304 comments

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What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team nytimes.com · aarghh · 25 Feb 2016

667 pts 263 comments

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We Need a Better PC blog.dcpos.ch · dcposch · 17 Feb 2016

659 pts 686 comments

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Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS air.mozilla.org · bpierre · 25 Feb 2016

646 pts 222 comments

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Choose GitLab for your next open source project b.agilob.net · ra7 · 12 Feb 2016

645 pts 280 comments

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Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case twitter.com · Karunamon · 20 Feb 2016

643 pts 209 comments

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Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software latimes.com · molecule · 8 Feb 2016

641 pts 585 comments

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How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls elaineou.com · elaineo · 19 Feb 2016

640 pts 232 comments

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Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones nytimes.com · jstreebin · 24 Feb 2016

636 pts 304 comments

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iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta iterm2.com · rickhanlonii · 18 Feb 2016

622 pts 242 comments

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Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack nytimes.com · rquantz · 24 Feb 2016

620 pts 401 comments

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SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses factmag.com · neokya · 11 Feb 2016

620 pts 339 comments

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Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform hisham.hm · hisham_hm · 11 Feb 2016

613 pts 153 comments

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Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects drewdevault.com · ipozgaj · 1 Feb 2016

612 pts 380 comments

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GitLab 8.5 released about.gitlab.com · doubleg · 22 Feb 2016

603 pts 241 comments

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Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads howtogeek.com · tasoeur · 24 Feb 2016

599 pts 358 comments

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Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology newstatesman.com · noir-york · 29 Feb 2016

599 pts 191 comments

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MentalHealthError: an exception occurred kennethreitz.org · cool-RR · 27 Feb 2016

593 pts 186 comments

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Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React facebook.github.io · tilt · 22 Feb 2016

592 pts 112 comments

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No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office business-standard.com · joshsharp · 23 Feb 2016

590 pts 181 comments

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15 years of VLC and VideoLAN jbkempf.com · bpierre · 1 Feb 2016

585 pts 149 comments

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Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO buzzfeed.com · philip1209 · 9 Feb 2016

581 pts 232 comments

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My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” buzzfeed.com · jseliger · 10 Feb 2016

577 pts 347 comments

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Go 1.6 is Released blog.golang.org · geetarista · 17 Feb 2016

562 pts 354 comments

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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend programmingisterrible.com · AndrewDucker · 13 Feb 2016

559 pts 133 comments

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Umberto Eco has died bbc.com · kawera · 20 Feb 2016

546 pts 126 comments

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Answers to your questions about Apple and security apple.com · mrexroad · 22 Feb 2016

545 pts 365 comments

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The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up sazzy.co.uk · acconrad · 24 Feb 2016

540 pts 332 comments

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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience bjoern.brembs.net · ingve · 25 Feb 2016

525 pts 157 comments

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German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens dw.com · temp · 23 Feb 2016

520 pts 185 comments

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Issue and Pull Request templates github.com · joshmanders · 17 Feb 2016

520 pts 135 comments

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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi apps.fcc.gov · merah · 26 Feb 2016

518 pts 213 comments

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Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it github.com · colund · 6 Feb 2016

515 pts 94 comments

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Atlas, the Next Generation [video] youtube.com · bpierre · 24 Feb 2016

509 pts 175 comments

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