The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2013

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Gitmo Is Killing Me nytimes.com · bcn · 15 Apr 2013

1.3k pts 521 comments

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Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM branded3.com · kemayo · 30 Apr 2013

1.2k pts 409 comments

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Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript codepen.io · NathanKP · 23 Apr 2013

1k pts 153 comments

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If the Earth were 100 pixels wide distancetomars.com · oseibonsu · 3 Apr 2013

996 pts 208 comments

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Here is today hereistoday.com · spindritf · 28 Apr 2013

899 pts 112 comments

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Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line wcvb.com · recoiledsnake · 15 Apr 2013

872 pts 586 comments

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Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer suntimes.com · tptacek · 4 Apr 2013

841 pts 167 comments

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BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public torrentfreak.com · ninthfrank07 · 23 Apr 2013

770 pts 283 comments

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Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked slashdot.org · DiabloD3 · 15 Apr 2013

753 pts 404 comments

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Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project blog.chromium.org · cramforce · 3 Apr 2013

729 pts 304 comments

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Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime nytimes.com · praptak · 8 Apr 2013

717 pts 437 comments

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Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal thejh.net · dave1010uk · 7 Apr 2013

689 pts 258 comments

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You know, Google, the web already had this feature blog.vrypan.net · vrypan · 11 Apr 2013

667 pts 429 comments

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What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video] boingboing.net · morphics · 19 Apr 2013

656 pts 109 comments

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Why Rackspace Is Suing The Most Notorious Patent Troll In America rackspace.com · grimey27 · 4 Apr 2013

622 pts 101 comments

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You are not Steve Jobs medium.com · OafTobark · 19 Apr 2013

616 pts 298 comments

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Helios helios.io · olivercameron · 2 Apr 2013

586 pts 66 comments

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"Asswipe," replied Yahoo's server. That's when I knew I had it ridiculousfish.com · peteretep · 18 Apr 2013

573 pts 104 comments

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French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article blog.wikimedia.fr · GabrielF00 · 6 Apr 2013

570 pts 189 comments

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I Knew a Programmer Who Went Completely Insane startingdotneprogramming.blogspot.com · null_ptr · 19 Apr 2013

559 pts 321 comments

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The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On theatlantic.com · duck · 16 Apr 2013

553 pts 213 comments

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Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy greenheartgames.com · ropiku · 29 Apr 2013

551 pts 384 comments

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What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon? basedheisenberg.tumblr.com · caffeinewriter · 17 Apr 2013

546 pts 285 comments

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Disney Shuts Down LucasArts kotaku.com · Lightning · 3 Apr 2013

544 pts 239 comments

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Light Table 0.4 released chris-granger.com · cf · 30 Apr 2013

544 pts 189 comments

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Twitter Should Shut Me Down edu.mkrecny.com · mkrecny · 25 Apr 2013

541 pts 206 comments

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Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project speckyboy.com · speckyboy · 18 Apr 2013

535 pts 103 comments

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I knew exactly how she felt trishkhoo.com · joshguthrie · 26 Apr 2013

521 pts 285 comments

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What a stupid idea dcurt.is · nate · 30 Apr 2013

517 pts 220 comments

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Facebook buys Parse techcrunch.com · uptown · 25 Apr 2013

511 pts 268 comments

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News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier m.guardiannews.com · mycodebreaks · 15 Apr 2013

511 pts 236 comments

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Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet money.cnn.com · cpeterso · 8 Apr 2013

504 pts 144 comments

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Wish I was here by Zach Braff kickstarter.com · taytus · 24 Apr 2013

483 pts 205 comments

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My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me trondblog.tumblr.com · sverrejoh · 29 Apr 2013

475 pts 233 comments

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Disney have stolen my artwork katiewoodger.tumblr.com · spideyunlimited · 8 Apr 2013

475 pts 188 comments

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Hoodie: very fast web app development hood.ie · bpierre · 8 Apr 2013

474 pts 151 comments

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Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation hummingbirdnotation.com · pie · 10 Apr 2013

472 pts 276 comments

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JQuery 2.0 Released blog.jquery.com · Encosia · 18 Apr 2013

472 pts 216 comments

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How I coded in 1985 blog.jgc.org · jgrahamc · 29 Apr 2013

470 pts 118 comments

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Comcast injecting JS gist.github.com · brokentone · 2 Apr 2013

461 pts 273 comments

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Google Street View Hyperlapses [video] thisiscolossal.com · cmsj · 11 Apr 2013

461 pts 67 comments

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Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin? pg · 14 Apr 2013

457 pts 294 comments

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Very Short Reply Expected blog.vrypan.net · vrypan · 21 Apr 2013

456 pts 226 comments

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How can we get Google Support? fabpot · 10 Apr 2013

446 pts 217 comments

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We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators evernote.com · pgrote · 2 Apr 2013

444 pts 222 comments

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“Right click and save as” needs to go away svarden.se · cfj · 23 Apr 2013

444 pts 185 comments

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The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away rockpapershotgun.com · Vekz · 23 Apr 2013

443 pts 107 comments

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A Personal Statement from Iain Banks littlebrown.co.uk · AndrewDucker · 3 Apr 2013

442 pts 346 comments

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The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas medium.com · drx · 30 Apr 2013

442 pts 135 comments

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Abolish The Patent, Vanquish The Troll rackspace.com · grimey27 · 12 Apr 2013

442 pts 131 comments

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How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craigslist petapixel.com · missy · 6 Apr 2013

441 pts 164 comments

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Tesla Unveils New Finance Product teslamotors.com · antr · 2 Apr 2013

438 pts 256 comments

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Linux on an 8-bit micro dmitry.gr · sigkill · 20 Apr 2013

436 pts 74 comments

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We used to sleep twice each night delanceyplace.com · anigbrowl · 13 Apr 2013

417 pts 107 comments

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The next generation of Instapaper marco.org · paulbz · 25 Apr 2013

416 pts 117 comments

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How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK arstechnica.com · ben336 · 8 Apr 2013

405 pts 169 comments

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Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata) emergency.mit.net · weisser · 19 Apr 2013

402 pts 276 comments

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Avoiding Burnout andrewdumont.me · jennita · 30 Apr 2013

401 pts 105 comments

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Stop working so hard medium.com · jpadilla_ · 3 Apr 2013

399 pts 163 comments

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Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games techcrunch.com · npongratz · 14 Apr 2013

399 pts 120 comments