The Best Hacker News Posts of 2013

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Don't Fly During Ramadan varnull.adityamukerjee.net · chimeracoder · 22 Aug 2013

2.7k pts 962 comments

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Hyperloop spacex.com · spikels · 12 Aug 2013

2.7k pts 954 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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Google Reader shutting down googleblog.blogspot.com · knurdle · 13 Mar 2013

2k pts 695 comments

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A Most Peculiar Test Drive teslamotors.com · reneherse · 14 Feb 2013

1.9k pts 578 comments

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Lavabit abruptly shuts down lavabit.com · cstuder · 8 Aug 2013

1.8k pts 640 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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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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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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Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation theguardian.com · m1 · 18 Aug 2013

1.5k pts 449 comments

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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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SteamOS store.steampowered.com · kmfrk · 23 Sep 2013

1.4k pts 513 comments

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

1.4k pts 588 comments

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Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 bombermine.com · cygnus · 27 Feb 2013

1.4k pts 201 comments

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Forced Exposure groklaw.net · nikai · 20 Aug 2013

1.4k pts 414 comments

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Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling hacks.mozilla.org · rnyman · 4 Feb 2013

1.4k pts 69 comments

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Coin onlycoin.com · xuki · 14 Nov 2013

1.4k pts 690 comments

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Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling blog.chromium.org · robin_reala · 4 Feb 2013

1.4k pts 178 comments

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Explain Shell explainshell.com · auton1 · 2 Dec 2013

1.4k pts 171 comments

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This is a web page justinjackson.ca · mijustin · 20 Jun 2013

1.4k pts 420 comments

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

1.3k pts 407 comments

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Gitmo Is Killing Me nytimes.com · bcn · 15 Apr 2013

1.3k pts 521 comments

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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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Sprite Lamp spritelamp.com · cocoflunchy · 8 Nov 2013

1.3k pts 126 comments

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

1.3k pts 567 comments

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Do Things that Don't Scale paulgraham.com · allang · 14 Jul 2013

1.3k pts 207 comments

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NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor blog.sfgate.com · gridscomputing · 10 Jun 2013

1.3k pts 327 comments

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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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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months microsoft.com · tomorgan · 23 Aug 2013

1.2k pts 763 comments

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Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans eff.org · FlemishBeeCycle · 6 Jun 2013

1.2k pts 444 comments

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Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM branded3.com · kemayo · 30 Apr 2013

1.2k pts 409 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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Prosecutor as bully lessig.tumblr.com · guan · 12 Jan 2013

1.2k pts 260 comments

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Ubuntu Edge indiegogo.com · ergo14 · 22 Jul 2013

1.2k pts 378 comments

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Doug Engelbart has died ietf.org · sbarre · 3 Jul 2013

1.2k pts 94 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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Google Web Designer google.com · jaysonlane · 30 Sep 2013

1.1k pts 442 comments

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The PyCon Incident pastebin.com · afraidofadria · 20 Mar 2013

1.1k pts 986 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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Project Loon google.com · sabalaba · 15 Jun 2013

1.1k pts 286 comments

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Diamonds Are Bullshit blog.priceonomics.com · danielpal · 19 Mar 2013

1.1k pts 734 comments

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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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Victory Lap for Ask Patents joelonsoftware.com · jaydles · 22 Jul 2013

1.1k pts 151 comments

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Skeuocard kenkeiter.com · gooddelta · 1 Aug 2013

1.1k pts 196 comments

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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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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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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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Why HN was down pg · 18 Feb 2013

1k pts 287 comments

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Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript codepen.io · NathanKP · 23 Apr 2013

1k pts 153 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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I will not do a tech interview medium.com · ikeellis · 21 Aug 2013

1k pts 542 comments

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Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost amandablumwords.wordpress.com · hexis · 21 Mar 2013

1k pts 367 comments

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What is Happening in Istanbul? defnesumanblogs.com · bencevans · 2 Jun 2013

1k pts 485 comments

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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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If the Earth were 100 pixels wide distancetomars.com · oseibonsu · 3 Apr 2013

996 pts 208 comments

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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO oculusvr.com · salgernon · 7 Aug 2013

993 pts 204 comments

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Quine Relay github.com · codeulike · 15 Jul 2013

983 pts 177 comments