The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2013

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Amazon Prime Air amazon.com · wyclif · 2 Dec 2013

1.4k pts 588 comments

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Explain Shell explainshell.com · auton1 · 2 Dec 2013

1.4k pts 171 comments

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What I Didn't Say paulgraham.com · twampss · 30 Dec 2013

1.3k pts 567 comments

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South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies bbc.co.uk · antr · 5 Dec 2013

1.1k pts 341 comments

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Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review ietf.org · tptacek · 20 Dec 2013

1.1k pts 140 comments

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I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on theguardian.com · nsns · 29 Dec 2013

910 pts 475 comments

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Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer reuters.com · bbatsell · 20 Dec 2013

899 pts 320 comments

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I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System theatlantic.com · ilamont · 17 Dec 2013

834 pts 472 comments

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Google Acquires Boston Dynamics nytimes.com · dshankar · 14 Dec 2013

799 pts 291 comments

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NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules theguardian.com · ferrellw · 16 Dec 2013

748 pts 231 comments

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Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa redditgifts.com · rb2e · 19 Dec 2013

745 pts 226 comments

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An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options blog.alexmaccaw.com · olivercameron · 10 Dec 2013

738 pts 154 comments

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I found Prezi's source code blog.shubh.am · psychboo · 3 Dec 2013

712 pts 255 comments

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My Roommate's a Genius farhadg.com · FarhadG · 3 Dec 2013

697 pts 174 comments

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Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished m.washingtonpost.com · uptown · 24 Dec 2013

687 pts 201 comments

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What the Fluck bbc.co.uk · dredmorbius · 6 Dec 2013

685 pts 159 comments

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Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk · cryptoz · 12 Dec 2013

663 pts 322 comments

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Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins mgrunin · 18 Dec 2013

658 pts 475 comments

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Reform Government Surveillance reformgovernmentsurveillance.com · raldi · 9 Dec 2013

657 pts 212 comments

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Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data gmailblog.blogspot.com · uptown · 5 Dec 2013

628 pts 169 comments

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Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers arstechnica.com · shawndumas · 12 Dec 2013

601 pts 311 comments

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Valve joins the Linux Foundation thenextweb.com · kwestro · 4 Dec 2013

593 pts 290 comments

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NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show washingtonpost.com · 001sky · 4 Dec 2013

588 pts 290 comments

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OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again sivers.org · revorad · 9 Dec 2013

578 pts 63 comments

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A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack blog.moertel.com · acqq · 16 Dec 2013

571 pts 143 comments

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Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing bbc.co.uk · louthy · 24 Dec 2013

569 pts 154 comments

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About Python 3 alexgaynor.net · jnoller · 30 Dec 2013

564 pts 345 comments

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The Future of JavaScript MVCs swannodette.github.io · swannodette · 19 Dec 2013

564 pts 156 comments

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The microhydro plant ludens.cl · makmonty · 12 Dec 2013

557 pts 116 comments

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We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality wired.com · joseflavio · 29 Dec 2013

554 pts 262 comments

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Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke rollingstone.com · phaer · 23 Dec 2013

539 pts 253 comments

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Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it gist.github.com · dmix · 23 Dec 2013

539 pts 127 comments

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Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer open.bufferapp.com · jliechti1 · 19 Dec 2013

527 pts 337 comments

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Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport nzherald.co.nz · _mgr · 12 Dec 2013

526 pts 254 comments

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How the Bitcoin protocol actually works michaelnielsen.org · zootar · 6 Dec 2013

524 pts 55 comments

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Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes blog.ycombinator.com · katm · 6 Dec 2013

517 pts 111 comments

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Data Structure Visualizations cs.usfca.edu · n008 · 18 Dec 2013

514 pts 35 comments

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Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes searchengineland.com · tomlemon · 25 Dec 2013

502 pts 283 comments

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How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google nenadseo.com · jmarbach · 28 Dec 2013

494 pts 155 comments

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Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach haveibeenpwned.com · mountaineer · 4 Dec 2013

491 pts 283 comments

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Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles bestmedicareprice.com · neilsharma · 6 Dec 2013

488 pts 222 comments

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News is bad for you theguardian.com · vvsanil · 12 Dec 2013

486 pts 232 comments

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A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers thoughtcrime.org · mjn · 19 Dec 2013

486 pts 131 comments

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The Criminalization of Everyday Life tomdispatch.com · mankypro · 10 Dec 2013

482 pts 337 comments

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Geneva drive en.wikipedia.org · Arjuna · 17 Dec 2013

481 pts 71 comments

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If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet theatlantic.com · gabriel34 · 16 Dec 2013

480 pts 354 comments

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Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis theguardian.com · wslh · 11 Dec 2013

480 pts 312 comments

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The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People daedtech.com · edandersen · 26 Dec 2013

466 pts 124 comments

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Tell HN: How we bootstrapped to the #1 rated mattress on Amazon.com johmas · 13 Dec 2013

462 pts 271 comments

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Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list ritholtz.com · marojejian · 9 Dec 2013

447 pts 134 comments

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Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless domain chrishateswriting.com · moot · 2 Dec 2013

444 pts 131 comments

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Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire antipope.org · jagermo · 18 Dec 2013

436 pts 402 comments

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Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice theguardian.com · Mizza · 22 Dec 2013

427 pts 231 comments

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Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013 theguardian.com · r0h1n · 9 Dec 2013

427 pts 89 comments

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Robinhood: $0 commission stock brokerage robinhood.io · stevenj · 14 Dec 2013

426 pts 152 comments

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Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry boredbanker.com · tdeangelis · 4 Dec 2013

422 pts 156 comments

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We Need to Talk About TED bratton.info · TimSAstro · 17 Dec 2013

415 pts 184 comments

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Multiprocess Firefox billmccloskey.wordpress.com · evilpie · 5 Dec 2013

415 pts 124 comments

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Why was this secret? sivers.org · mkuhn · 11 Dec 2013

411 pts 209 comments

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Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone tydligapp.com · Istof · 15 Dec 2013

411 pts 147 comments