The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2014

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Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me” plus.google.com · jamesbritt · 19 Jan 2014

1.6k pts 301 comments

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Light Table is now open source chris-granger.com · endianswap · 8 Jan 2014

1.3k pts 431 comments

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Quick tip for developers who use OS X gargarplex · 13 Jan 2014

1.1k pts 395 comments

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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username medium.com · micahgoulart · 29 Jan 2014

1k pts 386 comments

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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize theguardian.com · ahjones · 29 Jan 2014

1k pts 191 comments

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You might not need jQuery youmightnotneedjquery.com · sfeng · 30 Jan 2014

994 pts 349 comments

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Gmail was down google.com · d1egoaz · 24 Jan 2014

971 pts 457 comments

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Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850 inessential.com · zdw · 21 Jan 2014

917 pts 246 comments

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OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on marc.info · openbsddesktop · 16 Jan 2014

825 pts 407 comments

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Confessions of an ex-TSA agent politico.com · dsr12 · 31 Jan 2014

819 pts 192 comments

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Debunking Princeton facebook.com · friggeri · 23 Jan 2014

812 pts 145 comments

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Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower nytimes.com · Anechoic · 2 Jan 2014

804 pts 157 comments

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How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages pando.com · uptown · 23 Jan 2014

797 pts 470 comments

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Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement haufler.org · shaufler · 19 Jan 2014

775 pts 199 comments

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Fired? Speak No Evil nytimes.com · uptown · 3 Jan 2014

726 pts 355 comments

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Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again kimonify.kimonolabs.com · pranade · 15 Jan 2014

717 pts 230 comments

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Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still cannot help me bandyt.site44.com · barhum · 3 Jan 2014

700 pts 192 comments

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What Hard Drive Should I Buy? blog.backblaze.com · nuriaion · 21 Jan 2014

688 pts 266 comments

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Google to Acquire Nest investor.google.com · coloneltcb · 13 Jan 2014

684 pts 568 comments

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An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow davidsegal · 10 Jan 2014

681 pts 101 comments

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Building an open source Nest blog.spark.io · simonbarker87 · 17 Jan 2014

662 pts 250 comments

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Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator mondrian.io · artursapek · 24 Jan 2014

644 pts 92 comments

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Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics) googleblog.blogspot.com · dboyd · 17 Jan 2014

638 pts 177 comments

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Female Founders paulgraham.com · ssclafani · 10 Jan 2014

620 pts 595 comments

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1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256.. wolframalpha.com · rsiqueira · 29 Jan 2014

617 pts 96 comments

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Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential lists.w3.org · duncan_bayne · 14 Jan 2014

597 pts 406 comments

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Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides github.com · jot · 10 Jan 2014

597 pts 158 comments

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A member of our community is missing, help find him blog.izs.me · mcgwiz · 13 Jan 2014

594 pts 65 comments

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For the Love of Money nytimes.com · _ntka · 19 Jan 2014

576 pts 274 comments

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Square thinks I don’t exist kevinchen.co · kevinchen · 28 Jan 2014

567 pts 252 comments

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Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only bropages.org · _yfoe · 25 Jan 2014

556 pts 831 comments

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Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers github.com · nilsjuenemann · 1 Jan 2014

552 pts 136 comments

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Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA schneier.com · edwintorok · 16 Jan 2014

537 pts 140 comments

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King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard? junkyardsam.com · bpierre · 24 Jan 2014

533 pts 217 comments

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The email line that's client repellent letsworkshop.com · robwilliams88 · 31 Jan 2014

532 pts 93 comments

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The Magic of strace chadfowler.com · chadfowler · 31 Jan 2014

531 pts 99 comments

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The Rise and Rise of Television Torture interpretthis.org · aychedee · 7 Jan 2014

524 pts 285 comments

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How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love wired.com · daw___ · 22 Jan 2014

506 pts 183 comments

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Revolution in Kiev zyalt.livejournal.com · eigenvector · 26 Jan 2014

496 pts 364 comments

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Why I'm Betting On Julia evanmiller.org · mistermcgruff · 23 Jan 2014

493 pts 252 comments

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If you move your mouse continually the query may not fail. Do not stop moving support.microsoft.com · shawndumas · 4 Jan 2014

493 pts 163 comments

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2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor annualletter.gatesfoundation.org · pyduan · 21 Jan 2014

490 pts 307 comments

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“Vacations are for the weak” sethbannon.com · sethbannon · 2 Jan 2014

486 pts 356 comments

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Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division reuters.com · rpledge · 29 Jan 2014

478 pts 253 comments

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How Radians Work in 30 Seconds lh5.googleusercontent.com · _pius · 19 Jan 2014

474 pts 100 comments

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Software in 2014 tbray.org · AndrewDucker · 9 Jan 2014

471 pts 256 comments

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US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by patent troll inc.com · dded · 14 Jan 2014

468 pts 86 comments

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The Day We Fight Back thedaywefightback.org · sinak · 10 Jan 2014

460 pts 184 comments

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Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant jasonkincaid.net · ssclafani · 4 Jan 2014

451 pts 246 comments

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4K is for programmers tiamat.tsotech.com · bhauer · 10 Jan 2014

449 pts 335 comments

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Academic Torrents academictorrents.com · yinghang · 30 Jan 2014

448 pts 63 comments

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Python code to solve xkcd 1313 by Peter Norvig nbviewer.ipython.org · weslly · 7 Jan 2014

447 pts 72 comments

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We spent a week making Trello boards load fast blog.fogcreek.com · mwsherman · 22 Jan 2014

445 pts 94 comments

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The new Photosynth photosynth.net · ot · 7 Jan 2014

445 pts 91 comments

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Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down washingtonpost.com · zt · 17 Jan 2014

439 pts 125 comments

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Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows nytimes.com · philipn · 7 Jan 2014

429 pts 88 comments

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US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests bbc.co.uk · majc2 · 27 Jan 2014

411 pts 308 comments

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The Great Firewall of Yale 162.209.96.128 · shaufler · 14 Jan 2014

409 pts 126 comments

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Blackphone blackphone.ch · jorrizza · 15 Jan 2014

408 pts 204 comments

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Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move lists.gnu.org · __david__ · 2 Jan 2014

401 pts 302 comments