The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2012

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Bret Victor: Learnable Programming worrydream.com · siavosh · 26 Sep 2012

1.1k pts 183 comments

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Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de · martius · 19 Sep 2012

844 pts 86 comments

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The Amazing iOS 6 Maps theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com · Maakuth · 20 Sep 2012

837 pts 371 comments

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Good riddance, PayPal elliotjaystocks.com · hugofloss · 6 Sep 2012

713 pts 261 comments

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Black Swan Farming paulgraham.com · siavosh · 9 Sep 2012

703 pts 303 comments

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Meeting A Troll traynorseye.com · Liu · 24 Sep 2012

673 pts 201 comments

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Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B? wenxun · 30 Sep 2012

660 pts 174 comments

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Everything's broken and nobody's upset hanselman.com · axefrog · 17 Sep 2012

658 pts 401 comments

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AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/Types pastebin.com · robbiet480 · 4 Sep 2012

648 pts 268 comments

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A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps apple.com · j4mie · 28 Sep 2012

620 pts 486 comments

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PayPal CEO writes personal response ndy.gd · Peteris · 8 Sep 2012

619 pts 159 comments

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Startup = Growth paulgraham.com · moeffju · 22 Sep 2012

586 pts 206 comments

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Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs github.com · old_sound · 14 Sep 2012

576 pts 106 comments

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RIP Vile Rat, EVE Online Diplomat, IRL State Dept Rep Killed In Benghazi themittani.com · HistoryInAction · 12 Sep 2012

539 pts 261 comments

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Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this aboutmybrowser.com · ashastry · 10 Sep 2012

521 pts 175 comments

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A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC bellard.org · fanfantm · 3 Sep 2012

502 pts 128 comments

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Depression lies wilwheaton.net · bane · 12 Sep 2012

496 pts 229 comments

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Sh.py amoffat.github.com · daenz · 17 Sep 2012

493 pts 64 comments

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Tomorrow Theme github.com · pstadler · 4 Sep 2012

483 pts 131 comments

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The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain en.wikipedia.org · wr1472 · 22 Sep 2012

483 pts 96 comments

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Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona identity.mozilla.com · callahad · 27 Sep 2012

474 pts 187 comments

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Russia in color, a century ago archive.boston.com · Xcelerate · 8 Sep 2012

469 pts 187 comments

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Tesla reveals Supercharger network, Free Fill Ups engadget.com · dave1619 · 25 Sep 2012

457 pts 269 comments

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There is something magical about Firefox OS rawkes.com · robhawkes · 13 Sep 2012

445 pts 258 comments

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StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames codeofhonor.com · phenylene · 27 Sep 2012

435 pts 87 comments

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Kickstarter is Not a Store kickstarter.com · benackles · 20 Sep 2012

428 pts 170 comments

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Introducing the Command Bar github.com · dko · 17 Sep 2012

419 pts 98 comments

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Xkcd: Click and Drag xkcd.com · nrkn · 19 Sep 2012

418 pts 89 comments

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Jetstrap for Bootstrap jetstrap.com · yesimahuman · 25 Sep 2012

412 pts 149 comments

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Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter blog.getbootstrap.com · pearkes · 28 Sep 2012

412 pts 86 comments

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Subtle Patterns subtlepatterns.com · benologist · 26 Sep 2012

408 pts 49 comments

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Live air traffic of the world flightradar24.com · vibrunazo · 2 Sep 2012

404 pts 76 comments

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Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5 thenextweb.com · countessa · 13 Sep 2012

398 pts 252 comments

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How we keep GitHub fast github.com · janerik · 5 Sep 2012

398 pts 120 comments

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AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents blog.stackoverflow.com · alexlmiller · 20 Sep 2012

397 pts 78 comments

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Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers nature.com · shashashasha · 10 Sep 2012

394 pts 89 comments

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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012) whoishiring · 1 Sep 2012

393 pts 299 comments

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Does everyone hate MongoDB? blog.serverdensity.com · dmytton · 25 Sep 2012

393 pts 155 comments

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GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down godaddy.com · davewasmer · 10 Sep 2012

392 pts 288 comments

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Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day everythingsysadmin.com · BCM43 · 5 Sep 2012

392 pts 103 comments

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Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design news.cnet.com · cooldeal · 21 Sep 2012

388 pts 243 comments

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Android can be beautiful androidniceties.tumblr.com · mephju · 17 Sep 2012

384 pts 157 comments

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Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots ownedcore.com · mike_esspe · 11 Sep 2012

380 pts 93 comments

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The Lost Chapter aarongreenspan.com · jond3k · 19 Sep 2012

375 pts 236 comments

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Neat thoughtbot.com · Gertig · 5 Sep 2012

375 pts 36 comments

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NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface jpl.nasa.gov · Sodaware · 27 Sep 2012

373 pts 81 comments

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Pdf.js: PDF Reader in JavaScript mozilla.github.com · pykello · 14 Sep 2012

371 pts 90 comments

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Xiki: A shell console with GUI features. xiki.org · rkrkrk21 · 12 Sep 2012

366 pts 118 comments

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A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post slidetocode.com · steeleduncan · 7 Sep 2012

365 pts 268 comments

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Stripe in Canada stripe.com · boucher · 19 Sep 2012

361 pts 81 comments

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Tough times on the road to Starcraft codeofhonor.com · phenylene · 7 Sep 2012

360 pts 68 comments

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Turn your 404s into lost children alerts notfound.org · jonny_eh · 25 Sep 2012

357 pts 163 comments

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Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways npr.org · missechokit · 17 Sep 2012

353 pts 66 comments

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CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability ceronman.com · dcu · 17 Sep 2012

349 pts 218 comments

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Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap bootsnipp.com · madh · 14 Sep 2012

348 pts 67 comments

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Python 3.3.0 released python.org · cx01 · 29 Sep 2012

346 pts 110 comments

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Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn falkvinge.net · pwg · 9 Sep 2012

344 pts 319 comments

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Samsung flew bloggers to Berlin, then threatened to leave them there thenextweb.com · rounak · 2 Sep 2012

337 pts 116 comments

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Myspace previews complete redesign new.myspace.com · michael_fine · 24 Sep 2012

333 pts 264 comments

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Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta) blogs.valvesoftware.com · phenylene · 27 Sep 2012

328 pts 147 comments