The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2013

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A Most Peculiar Test Drive teslamotors.com · reneherse · 14 Feb 2013

1.9k pts 578 comments

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Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails rapgenius.com · tomlemon · 13 Feb 2013

1.8k pts 423 comments

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Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 bombermine.com · cygnus · 27 Feb 2013

1.4k pts 201 comments

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Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling hacks.mozilla.org · rnyman · 4 Feb 2013

1.4k pts 69 comments

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Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling blog.chromium.org · robin_reala · 4 Feb 2013

1.4k pts 178 comments

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Why HN was down pg · 18 Feb 2013

1k pts 287 comments

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Opera moves to WebKit my.opera.com · bdash · 13 Feb 2013

938 pts 282 comments

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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora hanselman.com · johns · 14 Feb 2013

902 pts 261 comments

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Meteorite crash in Russia rt.com · SuccintWork · 15 Feb 2013

862 pts 295 comments

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We Found Our Son in the Subway opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com · mccolin · 28 Feb 2013

839 pts 175 comments

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No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app tommorris.org · k33l0r · 4 Feb 2013

799 pts 218 comments

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The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173 network-tools.com · fpp · 9 Feb 2013

770 pts 78 comments

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Google Glass google.com · robin_reala · 20 Feb 2013

763 pts 574 comments

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Packets of Death blog.krisk.org · quentusrex · 6 Feb 2013

734 pts 113 comments

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Civilized Discourse Construction Kit codinghorror.com · sosuke · 5 Feb 2013

727 pts 270 comments

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Learn Git Branching pcottle.github.com · redDragon · 16 Feb 2013

717 pts 137 comments

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I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored log.nadim.cc · joshfraser · 9 Feb 2013

701 pts 341 comments

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Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks 37signals.com · mapleoin · 22 Feb 2013

648 pts 442 comments

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Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO jottit.com · robbiet480 · 28 Feb 2013

646 pts 186 comments

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Employees leave managers, not companies alaisterlow.com · kirkus · 6 Feb 2013

625 pts 257 comments

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How I Fired Myself edu.mkrecny.com · mkrecny · 27 Feb 2013

620 pts 411 comments

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Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters robohub.org · eguizzo · 21 Feb 2013

619 pts 133 comments

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Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor cmx.io · dr_win · 12 Feb 2013

586 pts 109 comments

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I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA reddit.com · taylorbuley · 11 Feb 2013

579 pts 146 comments

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Elon Musk calls NYT review of the Tesla Model S ‘fake,’ citing vehicle log data thenextweb.com · sethbannon · 11 Feb 2013

568 pts 485 comments

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Python trademark at risk in Europe pyfound.blogspot.ca · arcatek · 14 Feb 2013

547 pts 163 comments

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Ruby 2.0.0 Released ruby-lang.org · haven · 24 Feb 2013

546 pts 285 comments

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Ubuntu on tablets ubuntu.com · jrgifford · 19 Feb 2013

528 pts 259 comments

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DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political tarensk.tumblr.com · rrbrambley · 26 Feb 2013

520 pts 148 comments

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Why was my email leaked? forums.dropbox.com · chmars · 28 Feb 2013

513 pts 257 comments

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Code.org – Dedicated to growing computer programming education code.org · sethbannon · 26 Feb 2013

509 pts 181 comments

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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition sharjeel · 17 Feb 2013

494 pts 159 comments

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The best programmers are the quickest to Google blog.framebase.io · vu0tran · 25 Feb 2013

486 pts 197 comments

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Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby docs.topazruby.com · jnoller · 6 Feb 2013

481 pts 182 comments

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The Chromebook Pixel chrome.blogspot.com · mikeevans · 21 Feb 2013

475 pts 487 comments

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I made $200K and PayPal locked my account blasten · 9 Feb 2013

474 pts 270 comments

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Hello. I'm a compiler stackoverflow.com · andremedeiros · 19 Feb 2013

472 pts 154 comments

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Introducing Boxen github.com · jakebellacera · 15 Feb 2013

470 pts 125 comments

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Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X openradar.appspot.com · 67726e · 2 Feb 2013

469 pts 186 comments

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Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Legal Teens' cultofmac.com · rdl · 26 Feb 2013

464 pts 385 comments

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Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011) blog.smartbear.com · Baustin · 8 Feb 2013

463 pts 155 comments

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Death in Singapore ft.com · Lightning · 16 Feb 2013

459 pts 233 comments

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The Truth about a Failing Startup pastebin.com · throwawayrandom · 21 Feb 2013

458 pts 156 comments

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Ten predictions (2004) sites.google.com · S4M · 15 Feb 2013

457 pts 309 comments

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jQuery.payment stripe.com · Lightning · 7 Feb 2013

449 pts 69 comments

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HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning ycombinator.com · pg · 20 Feb 2013

445 pts 114 comments

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It's all who you know? sivers.org · duck · 11 Feb 2013

442 pts 103 comments

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I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out andresmax.com · xs_kid · 4 Feb 2013

441 pts 270 comments

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Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code techcrunch.com · aashaykumar92 · 26 Feb 2013

441 pts 223 comments

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HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks feross.org · feross · 28 Feb 2013

440 pts 184 comments

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The MS Surface Pro penny-arcade.com · kposehn · 25 Feb 2013

440 pts 155 comments

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If you ever feel alone in this... bubs.co · dariusmonsef · 23 Feb 2013

439 pts 92 comments

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Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs thenextweb.com · Lightning · 26 Feb 2013

437 pts 105 comments

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Sony Pirates KDE Artwork blogs.kde.org · k-i-m · 21 Feb 2013

434 pts 160 comments

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"River" detection in text dsp.stackexchange.com · cpleppert · 23 Feb 2013

434 pts 91 comments

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Django 1.5 released djangoproject.com · Lightning · 26 Feb 2013

427 pts 170 comments

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YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim val.markovic.io · syncontrol · 5 Feb 2013

427 pts 114 comments

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Speaking up sazzy.co.uk · petercooper · 4 Feb 2013

426 pts 307 comments

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Use long flags when scripting thechangelog.com · adamstac · 4 Feb 2013

423 pts 124 comments

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Firefox introduces PDF viewer blog.mozilla.org · riledhel · 20 Feb 2013

421 pts 194 comments