The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2013

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Don't Fly During Ramadan varnull.adityamukerjee.net · chimeracoder · 22 Aug 2013

2.7k pts 962 comments

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Hyperloop spacex.com · spikels · 12 Aug 2013

2.7k pts 954 comments

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Lavabit abruptly shuts down lavabit.com · cstuder · 8 Aug 2013

1.8k pts 640 comments

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Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation theguardian.com · m1 · 18 Aug 2013

1.5k pts 449 comments

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Forced Exposure groklaw.net · nikai · 20 Aug 2013

1.4k pts 414 comments

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months microsoft.com · tomorgan · 23 Aug 2013

1.2k pts 763 comments

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Skeuocard kenkeiter.com · gooddelta · 1 Aug 2013

1.1k pts 196 comments

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I will not do a tech interview medium.com · ikeellis · 21 Aug 2013

1k pts 542 comments

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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO oculusvr.com · salgernon · 7 Aug 2013

993 pts 204 comments

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Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus hankboughtabus.com · frans · 23 Aug 2013

944 pts 197 comments

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New Zealand bans some software patents zdnet.com · gcforky · 28 Aug 2013

902 pts 221 comments

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He got 1%, we can't hire him codingjohnson.com · gringofyx · 28 Aug 2013

835 pts 576 comments

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Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested teslamotors.com · turing · 20 Aug 2013

814 pts 301 comments

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Defeated orenhazi.com · ohazi · 26 Aug 2013

759 pts 438 comments

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“People simply empty out” lettersofnote.com · tantaman · 15 Aug 2013

723 pts 463 comments

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Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping theguardian.com · tehmaco · 20 Aug 2013

706 pts 233 comments

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David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face theguardian.com · r0h1n · 19 Aug 2013

681 pts 152 comments

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Grasshopper 100m Lateral Divert Test spacex.com · ash · 14 Aug 2013

663 pts 148 comments

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We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012) stackoverflow.com · ambuj · 1 Aug 2013

661 pts 236 comments

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Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years washingtonpost.com · antr · 21 Aug 2013

640 pts 471 comments

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Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic wired.com · ghosh · 2 Aug 2013

634 pts 92 comments

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Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you coding2learn.org · mikeevans · 9 Aug 2013

625 pts 422 comments

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Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement tirania.org · matthewn · 15 Aug 2013

621 pts 274 comments

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Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos washingtonpost.com · Volscio · 5 Aug 2013

606 pts 230 comments

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NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars ricostacruz.com · ianstormtaylor · 20 Aug 2013

597 pts 140 comments

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Why I Changed My Mind On Weed edition.cnn.com · tptacek · 8 Aug 2013

591 pts 363 comments

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Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead qz.com · antr · 16 Aug 2013

581 pts 481 comments

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Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents dkriesel.com · sxp · 4 Aug 2013

570 pts 112 comments

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U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans chicagotribune.com · wikiburner · 5 Aug 2013

565 pts 260 comments

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Startup lessons defmacro.org · coffeemug · 14 Aug 2013

551 pts 163 comments

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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009) moserware.com · dhotson · 29 Aug 2013

549 pts 37 comments

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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs strikemag.org · gu · 19 Aug 2013

546 pts 349 comments

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Stack mugiyamamoto.com · usaphp · 17 Aug 2013

529 pts 88 comments

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Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport rt.com · message · 1 Aug 2013

527 pts 492 comments

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CSS Absolute Centering codepen.io · nvk · 10 Aug 2013

526 pts 221 comments

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Mailpile: Let’s take email back mailpile.is · threedaymonk · 3 Aug 2013

520 pts 232 comments

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Happy 20th birthday Debian bits.debian.org · fcambus · 16 Aug 2013

520 pts 88 comments

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Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my medium.com · steveklabnik · 1 Aug 2013

514 pts 273 comments

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Hyperloop Alpha [pdf] spacex.com · soupboy · 12 Aug 2013

513 pts 193 comments

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The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery crispymtn.com · jtreitz · 12 Aug 2013

512 pts 99 comments

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Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies theguardian.com · weu · 9 Aug 2013

509 pts 166 comments

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Founders' Accents paulgraham.com · shrikant · 30 Aug 2013

508 pts 348 comments

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Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream” varnull.adityamukerjee.net · chimeracoder · 29 Aug 2013

505 pts 226 comments

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How to Convince Investors paulgraham.com · johns · 7 Aug 2013

489 pts 113 comments

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Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall spritesmods.com · pd0wm · 2 Aug 2013

472 pts 89 comments

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We Need To Talk, Google f-secure.com · Sami_Lehtinen · 21 Aug 2013

470 pts 234 comments

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Bootstrap 3 released blog.getbootstrap.com · trumbitta2 · 19 Aug 2013

469 pts 124 comments

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Taken newyorker.com · zt · 5 Aug 2013

468 pts 223 comments

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What happens when you use a standing desk for two years arshadchowdhury.com · arshadgc · 27 Aug 2013

467 pts 285 comments

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Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second techcrunch.com · Osiris · 1 Aug 2013

460 pts 253 comments

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Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line jeroenjanssens.com · jeroenjanssens · 17 Aug 2013

457 pts 144 comments

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Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users delyan.me · ZoFreX · 1 Aug 2013

447 pts 155 comments

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“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products” groups.google.com · anuaitt · 5 Aug 2013

437 pts 190 comments

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This coupon code is a slap in the face justinjackson.ca · mijustin · 13 Aug 2013

431 pts 245 comments

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UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives pressfreedomfoundation.org · spurgu · 20 Aug 2013

429 pts 135 comments

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Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds theatlanticwire.com · pg · 1 Aug 2013

428 pts 215 comments

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The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden washingtonpost.com · Libertatea · 10 Aug 2013

427 pts 235 comments

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NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds washingtonpost.com · glhaynes · 16 Aug 2013

416 pts 86 comments

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Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues minyanville.com · nickkyit · 7 Aug 2013

413 pts 179 comments

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Bradley Manning's Post-Sentencing Statement holdenweb.blogspot.com · llambda · 21 Aug 2013

412 pts 184 comments