The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2014

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Today is The Day We Fight Back thedaywefightback.org · brokenparser · 11 Feb 2014

2.1k pts 258 comments

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Facebook Fraud [video] youtube.com · fanfantm · 10 Feb 2014

1.7k pts 393 comments

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Atom atom.io · hswolff · 26 Feb 2014

1.5k pts 641 comments

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How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help medium.com · kf · 13 Feb 2014

1.2k pts 789 comments

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Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs techcrunch.com · vassvdm · 19 Feb 2014

1.1k pts 802 comments

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GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide theguardian.com · callum85 · 27 Feb 2014

1.1k pts 304 comments

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Mystery signal from a helicopter windytan.com · schappim · 1 Feb 2014

1.1k pts 78 comments

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Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear hemingwayapp.com · jmngomes · 12 Feb 2014

1k pts 327 comments

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Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO microsoft.com · fredwu · 4 Feb 2014

1k pts 564 comments

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How I hacked Github again homakov.blogspot.com · zhuzhuor · 7 Feb 2014

911 pts 190 comments

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Neovim github.com · tarruda · 21 Feb 2014

879 pts 362 comments

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US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview benswann.com · spenvo · 2 Feb 2014

869 pts 229 comments

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How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry baekdal.com · seivan · 1 Feb 2014

829 pts 524 comments

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Project Tango google.com · psbp · 20 Feb 2014

815 pts 339 comments

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Sam Altman for President blog.ycombinator.com · TheMakeA · 21 Feb 2014

790 pts 153 comments

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Girls and Software linuxjournal.com · forgottenpass · 9 Feb 2014

765 pts 414 comments

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Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help richardlynch.blogspot.com · janeto · 10 Feb 2014

717 pts 306 comments

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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This zachholman.com · bado · 25 Feb 2014

710 pts 394 comments

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GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter github.com · almightygod · 26 Feb 2014

706 pts 249 comments

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Google permanently bans popular application from Play for not using IAP plus.google.com · chrisacky · 3 Feb 2014

693 pts 264 comments

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Moon typesetinthefuture.com · edj · 14 Feb 2014

689 pts 90 comments

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Put.io put.io · tlongren · 4 Feb 2014

688 pts 319 comments

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Depixelizing Pixel Art research.microsoft.com · epsylon · 26 Feb 2014

637 pts 159 comments

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Curse Of The Gifted (2000) vanadac.com · luu · 11 Feb 2014

632 pts 356 comments

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A birthday present from Broadcom raspberrypi.org · 1ris · 28 Feb 2014

625 pts 161 comments

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AI blog.samaltman.com · rdl · 19 Feb 2014

616 pts 311 comments

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AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started wblinks.com · richadams · 3 Feb 2014

606 pts 149 comments

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Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training spritzinc.com · azov · 25 Feb 2014

593 pts 213 comments

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MtGox.com is offline mtgox.com · cjbarber · 25 Feb 2014

587 pts 521 comments

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Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web wired.co.uk · amirmc · 6 Feb 2014

585 pts 200 comments

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Why I Did Not Go To Jail bhorowitz.com · bfe · 6 Feb 2014

580 pts 182 comments

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Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix? davesblog.com · ceterumnet · 5 Feb 2014

560 pts 226 comments

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3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect mymodernmet.com · bpierre · 16 Feb 2014

546 pts 105 comments

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One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen lauren.vortex.com · seven · 23 Feb 2014

534 pts 91 comments

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It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map stevecoast.com · ZeroGravitas · 3 Feb 2014

525 pts 248 comments

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Losing graciously markshuttleworth.com · ash · 14 Feb 2014

513 pts 202 comments

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NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent blog.erratasec.com · julespitt · 7 Feb 2014

497 pts 160 comments

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Flappy Space Program corpsmoderne.itch.io · ski · 14 Feb 2014

495 pts 112 comments

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Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty en.community.dell.com · mikecane · 9 Feb 2014

490 pts 218 comments

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Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App blog.textit.in · nicpottier · 20 Feb 2014

489 pts 234 comments

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Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam online.wsj.com · dctoedt · 23 Feb 2014

487 pts 337 comments

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The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS whispersystems.org · dmix · 24 Feb 2014

478 pts 200 comments

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We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It blog.gedrap.me · gedrap · 27 Feb 2014

473 pts 299 comments

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Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government ccc.de · bachback · 3 Feb 2014

473 pts 40 comments

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Show HN: thedaywefightback.js github.com · thomasfromcdnjs · 5 Feb 2014

472 pts 135 comments

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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released elasticsearch.org · dakrone · 12 Feb 2014

471 pts 136 comments

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A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour jeffarchibald.ca · thearchvolta · 15 Feb 2014

468 pts 313 comments

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WebGL Water madebyevan.com · morphics · 19 Feb 2014

467 pts 131 comments

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Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor fastcolabs.com · marban · 20 Feb 2014

462 pts 236 comments

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The Weight of Rain style.org · ams1 · 8 Feb 2014

458 pts 28 comments

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Don't End The Week With Nothing training.kalzumeus.com · austengary · 4 Feb 2014

456 pts 101 comments

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The Book of Graham leveragedsellout.com · allworknoplay · 12 Feb 2014

455 pts 116 comments

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The Engineer Crunch blog.samaltman.com · clarkm · 18 Feb 2014

452 pts 426 comments

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The Egg (2009) galactanet.com · mickgiles · 8 Feb 2014

450 pts 153 comments

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Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen deepdotweb.com · nikcub · 13 Feb 2014

449 pts 531 comments

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The future of Fiber fiber.google.com · lawdawg · 19 Feb 2014

449 pts 282 comments

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Comcast Acquiring Time Warner Cable In All Stock Deal Worth $45.2 Billion online.wsj.com · ssclafani · 13 Feb 2014

435 pts 316 comments

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Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit reddit.com · justplay · 10 Feb 2014

434 pts 111 comments

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Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature google.com · thejerz · 9 Feb 2014

430 pts 155 comments

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After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him newyorker.com · danso · 4 Feb 2014

428 pts 139 comments