The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2013
We track 828 stories from July 2013, averaging 219 points each. nytimes.com was the most linked source, with 22 stories. Together they drew 82,983 comments, 100 per story on average.
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XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
theguardian.com · sinak · 31 Jul 2013
1.7k pts
612 comments
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I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
blog.jenniferdewalt.com · jenniferDewalt · 24 Jul 2013
1.5k pts
344 comments
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3
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
salon.com · gabemart · 7 Jul 2013
1.3k pts
408 comments
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4
Do Things that Don't Scale
paulgraham.com · allang · 14 Jul 2013
1.3k pts
207 comments
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7
Victory Lap for Ask Patents
joelonsoftware.com · jaydles · 22 Jul 2013
1.1k pts
151 comments
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9
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
wikileaks.org · mvbrasil · 1 Jul 2013
954 pts
483 comments
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10
Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online
kfor.com · nolanbrown23 · 9 Jul 2013
868 pts
226 comments
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11
Restore the Fourth
restorethefourth.net · sethbannon · 4 Jul 2013
772 pts
173 comments
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12
Forgotten Employee (2002)
sites.google.com · bgar · 23 Jul 2013
747 pts
291 comments
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13
The Drone that Killed my Grandson
nytimes.com · dr_ · 18 Jul 2013
708 pts
357 comments
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14
Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat
seriouspony.com · _pius · 29 Jul 2013
682 pts
203 comments
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15
Obama Promises Disappear from Web
sunlightfoundation.com · 1337biz · 26 Jul 2013
657 pts
162 comments
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16
I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume
qz.com · Lisa2000 · 12 Jul 2013
643 pts
376 comments
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19
The Future of Programming
worrydream.com · rpearl · 30 Jul 2013
614 pts
341 comments
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20
Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize
popularmechanics.com · comatose_kid · 11 Jul 2013
601 pts
95 comments
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22
A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95
thisiscolossal.com · tvladeck · 24 Jul 2013
596 pts
136 comments
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23
Feds, We Need Some Time Apart
defcon.org · rosser · 11 Jul 2013
587 pts
250 comments
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25
Tell-all telephone – Six months of phone metadata visualized
zeit.de · danielhunt · 1 Jul 2013
568 pts
72 comments
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26
Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks
linuxlock.blogspot.sg · reactor · 20 Jul 2013
564 pts
138 comments
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27
Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use
goodui.org · florian95 · 5 Jul 2013
555 pts
146 comments
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Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
rt.com · Libertatea · 3 Jul 2013
537 pts
378 comments
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29
How Google is Killing Organic Search
blog.tutorspree.com · akharris · 1 Jul 2013
535 pts
209 comments
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30
Cello: Higher level programming in C
libcello.org · mntmn · 15 Jul 2013
535 pts
157 comments
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32
Never Trust Facebook
wellpreparedmind.wordpress.com · mikecane · 1 Jul 2013
533 pts
190 comments
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33
The slippery slope
90percentofeverything.com · justinph · 23 Jul 2013
520 pts
135 comments
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35
Use "Amazon 1 Button" Chrome extension to sniff all HTTPS websites
blog.kotowicz.net · jamzed · 12 Jul 2013
516 pts
58 comments
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36
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
nytimes.com · rdp · 3 Jul 2013
497 pts
237 comments
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37
Why I cancelled my TechEd talks
goodenoughsoftware.net · ohjeez · 24 Jul 2013
495 pts
178 comments
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38
Linus on "acting professionally"
marc.info · blacktulip · 16 Jul 2013
488 pts
485 comments
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39
Ask HN: I'm quadriplegic – can you help me with my security?
escapologybb · 16 Jul 2013
486 pts
168 comments
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42
EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
eff.org · grey-area · 16 Jul 2013
486 pts
36 comments
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43
Releases – a workflow for shipping software to end users
github.com · remi · 2 Jul 2013
485 pts
78 comments
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44
Should I use a carousel?
shouldiuseacarousel.com · skinofstars · 10 Jul 2013
483 pts
155 comments
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45
Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home
beneaththewaves.net · freejoe76 · 1 Jul 2013
483 pts
112 comments
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46
Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans
defundthensa.com · sinak · 23 Jul 2013
482 pts
220 comments
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48
Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours
alexstechthoughts.com · Ataub24 · 10 Jul 2013
477 pts
239 comments
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49
Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case
news.cnet.com · falk · 16 Jul 2013
477 pts
86 comments
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50
Practical Typography
practicaltypography.com · dchest · 24 Jul 2013
472 pts
159 comments
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52
How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
guardian.co.uk · shakes · 11 Jul 2013
470 pts
156 comments
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53
Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy
edu.mkrecny.com · mkrecny · 26 Jul 2013
466 pts
258 comments
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54
Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud
code.google.com · JanLaussmann · 17 Jul 2013
464 pts
162 comments
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55
Final Term - Terminal Emulator
finalterm.org · selectnull · 8 Jul 2013
461 pts
166 comments
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56
Why mobile web apps are slow
sealedabstract.com · jacobparker · 9 Jul 2013
458 pts
147 comments
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57
"Nothing like this will be built again"
antipope.org · ajdecon · 8 Jul 2013
452 pts
95 comments
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Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney
washingtonpost.com · eplanit · 2 Jul 2013
448 pts
118 comments
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59
"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23
bugzilla.mozilla.org · joallard · 1 Jul 2013
445 pts
365 comments
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Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google
blog.samwhited.com · SamWhited · 12 Jul 2013
442 pts
300 comments
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