The Best Hacker News Posts of 2013
We track 8,978 stories from 2013, averaging 220 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 228 stories. Together they drew 904,168 comments, 101 per story on average.
1
Don't Fly During Ramadan
varnull.adityamukerjee.net · chimeracoder · 22 Aug 2013
2.7k pts
962 comments
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Aaron Swartz commits suicide
tech.mit.edu · bfaviero · 12 Jan 2013
2.1k pts
546 comments
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4
Google Reader shutting down
googleblog.blogspot.com · knurdle · 13 Mar 2013
2k pts
695 comments
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5
A Most Peculiar Test Drive
teslamotors.com · reneherse · 14 Feb 2013
1.9k pts
578 comments
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Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
rapgenius.com · tomlemon · 13 Feb 2013
1.8k pts
423 comments
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8
Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
bjk5.com · df07 · 6 Mar 2013
1.7k pts
191 comments
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XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
theguardian.com · sinak · 31 Jul 2013
1.7k pts
612 comments
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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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11
I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
blog.jenniferdewalt.com · jenniferDewalt · 24 Jul 2013
1.5k pts
344 comments
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12
Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
theguardian.com · m1 · 18 Aug 2013
1.5k pts
449 comments
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13
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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16
Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5
bombermine.com · cygnus · 27 Feb 2013
1.4k pts
201 comments
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18
Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling
hacks.mozilla.org · rnyman · 4 Feb 2013
1.4k pts
69 comments
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20
Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling
blog.chromium.org · robin_reala · 4 Feb 2013
1.4k pts
178 comments
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23
Started a stupid company. Failed.
themanthatfell · 27 Nov 2013
1.3k pts
407 comments
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25
What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
harthur.wordpress.com · luigi · 24 Jan 2013
1.3k pts
781 comments
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27
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
salon.com · gabemart · 7 Jul 2013
1.3k pts
408 comments
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29
Do Things that Don't Scale
paulgraham.com · allang · 14 Jul 2013
1.3k pts
207 comments
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30
NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor
blog.sfgate.com · gridscomputing · 10 Jun 2013
1.3k pts
327 comments
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31
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
guardian.co.uk · grey-area · 9 Jun 2013
1.3k pts
293 comments
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32
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
microsoft.com · tomorgan · 23 Aug 2013
1.2k pts
763 comments
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33
Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans
eff.org · FlemishBeeCycle · 6 Jun 2013
1.2k pts
444 comments
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34
Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM
branded3.com · kemayo · 30 Apr 2013
1.2k pts
409 comments
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35
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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39
South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies
bbc.co.uk · antr · 5 Dec 2013
1.1k pts
341 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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44
Diamonds Are Bullshit
blog.priceonomics.com · danielpal · 19 Mar 2013
1.1k pts
734 comments
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45
Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP
JaneLovesDotNet · 10 Jan 2013
1.1k pts
377 comments
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46
Victory Lap for Ask Patents
joelonsoftware.com · jaydles · 22 Jul 2013
1.1k pts
151 comments
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48
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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49
Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows
istartedsomething.com · longzheng · 15 Jan 2013
1.1k pts
455 comments
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50
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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52
Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
codepen.io · NathanKP · 23 Apr 2013
1k pts
153 comments
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53
The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
osnews.com · thomholwerda · 12 Nov 2013
1k pts
261 comments
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54
I will not do a tech interview
medium.com · ikeellis · 21 Aug 2013
1k pts
542 comments
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55
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
amandablumwords.wordpress.com · hexis · 21 Mar 2013
1k pts
367 comments
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56
What is Happening in Istanbul?
defnesumanblogs.com · bencevans · 2 Jun 2013
1k pts
485 comments
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57
US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
washingtonpost.com · donohoe · 6 Jun 2013
997 pts
385 comments
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58
If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
distancetomars.com · oseibonsu · 3 Apr 2013
996 pts
208 comments
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59
John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
oculusvr.com · salgernon · 7 Aug 2013
993 pts
204 comments
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