top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-02-01

Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/alphabet-becomes-the-most-valuable-company-in-the-world

10 years ago

720 upvotes – 419 comments

Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode

http://betanews.com/2016/01/30/stop-using-microsoft-edges-inprivate-mode-if-you-value-your-privacy/

10 years ago

686 upvotes – 213 comments

Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

https://drewdevault.com/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack.html

10 years ago

612 upvotes – 380 comments

15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

https://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2016/15-years-of-VLC

10 years ago

585 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012044

10 years ago

455 upvotes – 787 comments

Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

http://happenapps.com/#quiver

10 years ago

421 upvotes – 254 comments

How we use Slack in our family

http://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/02/my-family-uses-slack/

10 years ago

383 upvotes – 115 comments

Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units

http://www.reuters.com/article/yahoo-redundancies-idUSKCN0VA33R

10 years ago

351 upvotes – 301 comments

Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009956

10 years ago

349 upvotes – 535 comments

Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime”

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/01/4

10 years ago

321 upvotes – 191 comments

Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/

10 years ago

281 upvotes – 111 comments

Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf

https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

10 years ago

★ 49.1k Ruby MIT
264 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library

http://kushagragour.in/lab/hint/

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 62 comments

GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

https://github.com/blog/2100-github-pages-now-faster-and-simpler-with-jekyll-3-0

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 115 comments

Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client

http://shout-irc.com/

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: An algorithm to automatically turn photos of food into faces

http://aaronrandall.com/blog/megabite/

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 28 comments

Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center

http://www.projectnatick.com/

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 156 comments

In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub

http://custodians.online/

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 25 comments

Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (2003)

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/?page=4

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 68 comments

How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 27 comments
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