The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2013

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A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used jsfiddle.net · ondras · 13 Nov 2013

1.4k pts 259 comments

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Coin onlycoin.com · xuki · 14 Nov 2013

1.4k pts 690 comments

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Started a stupid company. Failed. themanthatfell · 27 Nov 2013

1.3k pts 407 comments

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Sprite Lamp spritelamp.com · cocoflunchy · 8 Nov 2013

1.3k pts 126 comments

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Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" plus.google.com · cdvonstinkpot · 6 Nov 2013

1.2k pts 396 comments

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The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone osnews.com · thomholwerda · 12 Nov 2013

1k pts 261 comments

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Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 winamp.com · bulibuta · 20 Nov 2013

957 pts 500 comments

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What 4chan thinks of HN rbt.asia · spiznnx · 17 Nov 2013

942 pts 248 comments

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How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties righto.com · jseip · 26 Nov 2013

920 pts 190 comments

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Pencil fiftythree.com · xuki · 19 Nov 2013

882 pts 366 comments

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What It's Like to Fail priceonomics.com · ryan_j_naughton · 18 Nov 2013

834 pts 317 comments

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Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google arstechnica.com · phenylene · 1 Nov 2013

785 pts 528 comments

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Dear Googles: Stop asking plus.google.com · davidgerard · 16 Nov 2013

751 pts 253 comments

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Jolla jolla.com · Geee · 27 Nov 2013

734 pts 250 comments

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Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It phoboslab.org · danmaz74 · 2 Nov 2013

730 pts 252 comments

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Web GL Ocean Simulation david.li · clukic · 26 Nov 2013

695 pts 134 comments

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Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles grantslatton.com · gamegoblin · 28 Nov 2013

683 pts 260 comments

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Basic Data Structures and Algorithms in the Linux Kernel cstheory.stackexchange.com · jackhammer2022 · 23 Nov 2013

682 pts 59 comments

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High Frequency Dating robrhinehart.com · Seldaek · 21 Nov 2013

678 pts 182 comments

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A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what? aclu.org · subsystem · 16 Nov 2013

656 pts 488 comments

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Dear Spike Lee juanluisgarcia.com · sakai · 27 Nov 2013

652 pts 158 comments

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Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement wikileaks.org · shill · 13 Nov 2013

650 pts 192 comments

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Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer blockchain.info · a3voices · 22 Nov 2013

638 pts 453 comments

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Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me plus.google.com · davidgerard · 16 Nov 2013

630 pts 183 comments

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We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals weworkremotely.com · narfz · 5 Nov 2013

599 pts 254 comments

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL aws.amazon.com · teoruiz · 14 Nov 2013

593 pts 239 comments

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Id Software founder John Carmack resigns polygon.com · footpath · 22 Nov 2013

590 pts 99 comments

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I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb needwant.com · j0ncc · 1 Nov 2013

583 pts 373 comments

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Fix Ubuntu fixubuntu.com · panarky · 8 Nov 2013

581 pts 299 comments

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Why You Should Never Use MongoDB sarahmei.com · hyperpape · 11 Nov 2013

568 pts 337 comments

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This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan pri.org · selmnoo · 19 Nov 2013

557 pts 271 comments

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End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now nytimes.com · jedwhite · 26 Nov 2013

552 pts 168 comments

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Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million arstechnica.com · lukeholder · 26 Nov 2013

550 pts 280 comments

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Code Firefox codefirefox.com · robin_reala · 18 Nov 2013

540 pts 84 comments

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Software patent reform just died in the House washingtonpost.com · alecco · 20 Nov 2013

525 pts 225 comments

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Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years youtube.com · rl12345 · 8 Nov 2013

520 pts 259 comments

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How Money Moves Around The Banking System gendal.wordpress.com · BitcoinNews_io · 25 Nov 2013

518 pts 61 comments

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My deadly disease was just a 23andme bug mntmn.com · mntmn · 25 Nov 2013

516 pts 318 comments

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Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits gigaom.com · japaget · 14 Nov 2013

500 pts 147 comments

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Why GNU grep is fast (2010) lists.freebsd.org · kurren · 28 Nov 2013

495 pts 129 comments

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Moving forward on improving HTTP's security lists.w3.org · iand · 13 Nov 2013

489 pts 237 comments

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Microsoft does away with stack ranking zdnet.com · cnahr · 12 Nov 2013

489 pts 157 comments

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Amazon WorkSpaces aws.amazon.com · jamesjyu · 13 Nov 2013

484 pts 270 comments

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Nonplussed techcrunch.com · pearjuice · 10 Nov 2013

477 pts 236 comments

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Deleting my Google+ profile support.google.com · buro9 · 17 Nov 2013

470 pts 89 comments

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Walmart Node.js Memory Leak joyent.com · btmills · 23 Nov 2013

466 pts 75 comments

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TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms eff.org · jim-greer · 14 Nov 2013

463 pts 71 comments

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Machine learning is easier than it looks insideintercom.io · jasonwatkinspdx · 20 Nov 2013

459 pts 167 comments

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FixYT fixyt.com · turbo_pax · 15 Nov 2013

458 pts 114 comments

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Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe andrewhillman · 9 Nov 2013

453 pts 133 comments

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Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions blog.docker.io · zrail · 26 Nov 2013

435 pts 128 comments

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Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion fide.com · jordanmessina · 22 Nov 2013

430 pts 253 comments

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Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity fastcompany.com · jtoeman · 21 Nov 2013

426 pts 239 comments

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Why Class? hadihariri.com · hhariri · 24 Nov 2013

426 pts 174 comments

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Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job marco.org · ambirex · 26 Nov 2013

423 pts 295 comments

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HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS codepen.io · golergka · 22 Nov 2013

418 pts 119 comments

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My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love twicsy.tumblr.com · dumbfounder · 1 Nov 2013

413 pts 163 comments

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Google's Decline Really Bugs Me blackhole12.blogspot.com · blackhole · 17 Nov 2013

411 pts 277 comments

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Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt theguardian.com · sdfjkl · 12 Nov 2013

409 pts 267 comments

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Winning at Candy Crush stavros.io · sokratisp · 15 Nov 2013

409 pts 144 comments