The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2013
We track 750 stories from September 2013, averaging 215 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 22 stories. Together they drew 77,235 comments, 103 per story on average.
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Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?
wenxun · 27 Sep 2013
1.1k pts
461 comments
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Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
ccc.de · biafra · 22 Sep 2013
980 pts
446 comments
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I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
theawl.com · mwill · 19 Sep 2013
935 pts
378 comments
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N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
nytimes.com · ebildsten · 5 Sep 2013
923 pts
388 comments
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Nokia acquired by Microsoft
blogs.technet.com · jasonpbecker · 3 Sep 2013
865 pts
553 comments
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My Friends and I Bought an Island
tynan.com · intenex · 16 Sep 2013
832 pts
387 comments
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Steam Controller
store.steampowered.com · cocoflunchy · 27 Sep 2013
783 pts
361 comments
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I
feynmanlectures.caltech.edu · trevyn · 13 Sep 2013
776 pts
112 comments
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The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in
rigsomelight.com · brucehauman · 9 Sep 2013
747 pts
310 comments
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Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
kitkat.com · alexlitov · 3 Sep 2013
741 pts
189 comments
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Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
beelinereader.com · gnicholas · 5 Sep 2013
739 pts
262 comments
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To my daughter's high school programming teacher
usenix.org · Anechoic · 10 Sep 2013
726 pts
578 comments
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Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big
chrisstucchio.com · gcoleman · 17 Sep 2013
711 pts
227 comments
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How to Advertise on a Porn Website
blog.eat24hours.com · dohertyjf · 10 Sep 2013
687 pts
114 comments
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NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
theguardian.com · dombili · 11 Sep 2013
673 pts
172 comments
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
wired.com · floodcow · 13 Sep 2013
671 pts
262 comments
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New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
schneier.com · chopin · 13 Sep 2013
656 pts
139 comments
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First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature
popularmechanics.com · zdean · 12 Sep 2013
641 pts
183 comments
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Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free
konklone.com · rodrigocoelho · 25 Sep 2013
622 pts
251 comments
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Tessel: The end of web development as we know it
slideshare.net · Frijol · 30 Sep 2013
611 pts
406 comments
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Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being
plus.google.com · spankalee · 18 Sep 2013
579 pts
385 comments
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Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap
theguardian.com · ValentineC · 14 Sep 2013
575 pts
194 comments
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NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover – I am setting them free
michaeleisen.org · rflrob · 26 Sep 2013
569 pts
121 comments
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JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE
jetbrains.com · ternaryoperator · 24 Sep 2013
568 pts
211 comments
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0 A.D., an Open-Source Strategy Game
indiegogo.com · dgellow · 6 Sep 2013
547 pts
101 comments
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PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds
mailpile.is · capgre · 5 Sep 2013
528 pts
351 comments
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Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched
blog.stackoverflow.com · df07 · 16 Sep 2013
519 pts
177 comments
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Android is for startups
blog.audobox.com · willwhitney · 4 Sep 2013
514 pts
299 comments
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Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep emails private
rally.org · rebelidealist · 30 Sep 2013
505 pts
118 comments
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Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world
blogs.computerworld.com · brennannovak · 13 Sep 2013
503 pts
299 comments
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The shittiest project I ever worked on
blog.plover.com · m0nastic · 25 Sep 2013
501 pts
181 comments
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The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
theguardian.com · trauco · 5 Sep 2013
482 pts
105 comments
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Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier
spin.atomicobject.com · micahalles · 10 Sep 2013
480 pts
253 comments
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Programming is a Terrible Job
pastebin.com · ibadeyes · 30 Sep 2013
479 pts
285 comments
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YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too
ycombinator.com · pg · 6 Sep 2013
454 pts
109 comments
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Google is defragging Android
arstechnica.com · abraham · 2 Sep 2013
452 pts
215 comments
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A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
bentobox.io · jonhmchan · 20 Sep 2013
450 pts
191 comments
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NSA Codebreaking: I Am The Other
popehat.com · thecoffman · 6 Sep 2013
450 pts
114 comments
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Free HTML Starter Templates for Bootstrap
startbootstrap.com · jalan · 29 Sep 2013
448 pts
80 comments
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Twitter Files For IPO
allthingsd.com · coloneltcb · 12 Sep 2013
447 pts
223 comments
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Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
marioluigi · 23 Sep 2013
444 pts
430 comments
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GitHub announces 3D File Diffs
github.com · adefa · 17 Sep 2013
438 pts
114 comments
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How not to check the validity of an email address
dellsystem.me · limelight · 4 Sep 2013
437 pts
235 comments
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English has been my pain for 15 years
antirez.com · derefr · 2 Sep 2013
433 pts
300 comments
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Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85
bbc.co.uk · T-zex · 19 Sep 2013
433 pts
63 comments
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9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction
dev.citysdk.waag.org · pjvds · 1 Sep 2013
429 pts
73 comments
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The Worst Programming Environment in the World?
github.com · jloughry · 1 Sep 2013
421 pts
177 comments
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Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers
fastcolabs.com · lowglow · 26 Sep 2013
415 pts
349 comments
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