The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2013

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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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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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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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Here's how I deal with users who steal pud.com · pud · 28 Oct 2013

774 pts 211 comments

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Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript copy.sh · g3 · 17 Oct 2013

765 pts 190 comments

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Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate? seanmcdirmid · 23 Oct 2013

763 pts 530 comments

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Square Cash square.com · rjsamson · 16 Oct 2013

710 pts 281 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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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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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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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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What I've been up to for the past year pud.com · pud · 9 Oct 2013

616 pts 171 comments

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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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Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer heeris.id.au · libovness · 28 Oct 2013

607 pts 204 comments

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f.lux has been updated to a new version justgetflux.com · dailo10 · 16 Oct 2013

597 pts 261 comments

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Model S Fire teslamotors.com · shakes · 4 Oct 2013

594 pts 238 comments

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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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Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords blog.dustinkirkland.com · jcastro · 1 Oct 2013

587 pts 255 comments

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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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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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LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity bishopfox.com · shenoybr · 24 Oct 2013

565 pts 155 comments

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C-- cminusminus.org · msvan · 27 Oct 2013

553 pts 72 comments

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Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone github.com · seer · 23 Oct 2013

547 pts 247 comments

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Nest introduces their Smoke Detector nest.com · zdean · 8 Oct 2013

539 pts 401 comments

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Does life end after 35? kzhu.net · hakkasan · 30 Oct 2013

530 pts 220 comments

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April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox" news.ycombinator.com · epa · 28 Oct 2013

518 pts 178 comments

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W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards boingboing.net · zombio · 3 Oct 2013

512 pts 310 comments

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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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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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NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders theguardian.com · qubitsam · 24 Oct 2013

501 pts 223 comments

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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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LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS engineering.linkedin.com · martinkl · 23 Oct 2013

485 pts 306 comments

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Ghost Launches to The Public blog.ghost.org · jallardice · 14 Oct 2013

475 pts 261 comments

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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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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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Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab bbc.co.uk · olegp · 7 Oct 2013

467 pts 214 comments

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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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A list of free programming books github.com · vhf · 11 Oct 2013

455 pts 64 comments

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The myth of NASA's expensive space pens kottke.org · jwdunne · 10 Oct 2013

452 pts 133 comments

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Nexus 5 play.google.com · sonier · 31 Oct 2013

450 pts 385 comments

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Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling arstechnica.com · drob · 24 Oct 2013

448 pts 62 comments

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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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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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Why we revert to original titles pg · 18 Oct 2013

438 pts 220 comments

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Introducing government.github.com github.com · _pius · 15 Oct 2013

431 pts 78 comments

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Interactive Resume rleonardi.com · m4tthumphrey · 18 Oct 2013

424 pts 198 comments

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Center of the universe orangecoast.com · pudakai · 3 Oct 2013

424 pts 115 comments

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Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked lavabit.com · _ouxp · 8 Oct 2013

420 pts 304 comments

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See Your Folks seeyourfolks.com · Anon84 · 16 Oct 2013

419 pts 191 comments

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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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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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Why Microsoft Word must die antipope.org · r721 · 12 Oct 2013

413 pts 372 comments

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Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps? arstechnica.com · mercurial · 31 Oct 2013

407 pts 246 comments

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Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement facebook.com · p4bl0 · 3 Oct 2013

405 pts 125 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013) whoishiring · 1 Oct 2013

399 pts 561 comments

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OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review arstechnica.com · cwe · 22 Oct 2013

398 pts 215 comments

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What I learned from getting my side project acquired ianww.com · typpo · 9 Oct 2013

396 pts 54 comments

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My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done itsboring · 26 Oct 2013

395 pts 349 comments