The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2013
We track 728 stories from October 2013, averaging 214 points each. arstechnica.com was the most linked source, with 18 stories. Together they drew 77,295 comments, 106 per story on average.
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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
washingtonpost.com · nqureshi · 30 Oct 2013
1.6k pts
592 comments
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FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
reuters.com · RockyMcNuts · 2 Oct 2013
1.1k pts
577 comments
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3
Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
bugzilla.mozilla.org · chris_wot · 4 Oct 2013
904 pts
357 comments
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4
Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
countaleph.wordpress.com · brryant · 21 Oct 2013
872 pts
342 comments
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5
Here's how I deal with users who steal
pud.com · pud · 28 Oct 2013
774 pts
211 comments
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6
Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
copy.sh · g3 · 17 Oct 2013
765 pts
190 comments
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Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
pbs.org · selmnoo · 23 Oct 2013
692 pts
400 comments
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10
Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
online.wsj.com · codelion · 14 Oct 2013
690 pts
184 comments
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Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity
theguardian.com · brkcmd · 4 Oct 2013
654 pts
176 comments
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12
Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
reuters.com · selmnoo · 5 Oct 2013
638 pts
566 comments
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13
After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
blog.jenniferdewalt.com · jenniferDewalt · 3 Oct 2013
624 pts
371 comments
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14
What I've been up to for the past year
pud.com · pud · 9 Oct 2013
616 pts
171 comments
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15
How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
pythonsweetness.tumblr.com · _wmd · 22 Oct 2013
613 pts
236 comments
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16
Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer
heeris.id.au · libovness · 28 Oct 2013
607 pts
204 comments
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17
f.lux has been updated to a new version
justgetflux.com · dailo10 · 16 Oct 2013
597 pts
261 comments
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19
Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show
wired.com · inglesp · 2 Oct 2013
592 pts
250 comments
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20
Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
blog.dustinkirkland.com · jcastro · 1 Oct 2013
587 pts
255 comments
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21
The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones
idiallo.com · firefoxd · 24 Oct 2013
566 pts
396 comments
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22
Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit
silentcircle.wordpress.com · cylo · 30 Oct 2013
565 pts
209 comments
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23
LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity
bishopfox.com · shenoybr · 24 Oct 2013
565 pts
155 comments
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25
Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
github.com · seer · 23 Oct 2013
547 pts
247 comments
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26
Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
nest.com · zdean · 8 Oct 2013
539 pts
401 comments
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28
April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox"
news.ycombinator.com · epa · 28 Oct 2013
518 pts
178 comments
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29
W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
boingboing.net · zombio · 3 Oct 2013
512 pts
310 comments
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30
How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
benguild.com · benguild · 21 Oct 2013
512 pts
139 comments
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31
Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
sideproject · 3 Oct 2013
507 pts
92 comments
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32
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders
theguardian.com · qubitsam · 24 Oct 2013
501 pts
223 comments
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33
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
rollingstone.com · coloneltcb · 27 Oct 2013
498 pts
109 comments
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34
LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
engineering.linkedin.com · martinkl · 23 Oct 2013
485 pts
306 comments
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35
Ghost Launches to The Public
blog.ghost.org · jallardice · 14 Oct 2013
475 pts
261 comments
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36
Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation
slate.com · kumarski · 2 Oct 2013
472 pts
276 comments
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37
Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
groups.google.com · codebeaker · 6 Oct 2013
472 pts
240 comments
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38
Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab
bbc.co.uk · olegp · 7 Oct 2013
467 pts
214 comments
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39
Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in a Year
groovehq.com · joshdance · 17 Oct 2013
458 pts
57 comments
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41
The myth of NASA's expensive space pens
kottke.org · jwdunne · 10 Oct 2013
452 pts
133 comments
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43
Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling
arstechnica.com · drob · 24 Oct 2013
448 pts
62 comments
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44
It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
pandodaily.com · _pius · 31 Oct 2013
443 pts
310 comments
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45
Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
blog.mozilla.org · AndrewDucker · 1 Oct 2013
440 pts
193 comments
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47
Introducing government.github.com
github.com · _pius · 15 Oct 2013
431 pts
78 comments
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52
Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free
blogs.barrons.com · jdmitch · 22 Oct 2013
414 pts
351 comments
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53
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
arstechnica.com · coloneltcb · 21 Oct 2013
414 pts
225 comments
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55
Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
arstechnica.com · mercurial · 31 Oct 2013
407 pts
246 comments
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56
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement
facebook.com · p4bl0 · 3 Oct 2013
405 pts
125 comments
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58
OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
arstechnica.com · cwe · 22 Oct 2013
398 pts
215 comments
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59
What I learned from getting my side project acquired
ianww.com · typpo · 9 Oct 2013
396 pts
54 comments
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60
My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
itsboring · 26 Oct 2013
395 pts
349 comments
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