The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2013

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SteamOS store.steampowered.com · kmfrk · 23 Sep 2013

1.4k pts 513 comments

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Google Web Designer google.com · jaysonlane · 30 Sep 2013

1.1k pts 442 comments

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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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World aem1k.com · bpierre · 15 Sep 2013

918 pts 96 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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Fucking Sue Me (2011) pud.com · dsr12 · 11 Sep 2013

663 pts 194 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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How a Car Engine Works jacoboneal.com · dfield · 5 Sep 2013

571 pts 170 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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How to Raise Money paulgraham.com · oBeLx · 17 Sep 2013

538 pts 116 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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SteamMachines store.steampowered.com · cheald · 25 Sep 2013

514 pts 287 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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Left with Nothing washingtonpost.com · aviziva · 8 Sep 2013

460 pts 280 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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Postgresql 9.3 Released postgresql.org · ergo14 · 9 Sep 2013

437 pts 138 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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Kindle MatchBook amazon.com · _pius · 3 Sep 2013

422 pts 181 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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Spy Files 3 wikileaks.org · frank_boyd · 21 Sep 2013

419 pts 24 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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Dropbox opening my docs? wncinfosec.com · johns · 12 Sep 2013

410 pts 125 comments