The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2014

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Drop Dropbox drop-dropbox.com · PhilipA · 10 Apr 2014

2k pts 1k comments

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The Heartbleed Bug heartbleed.com · tptacek · 7 Apr 2014

1.8k pts 528 comments

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Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler roslyn.codeplex.com · keithwarren · 3 Apr 2014

1.4k pts 446 comments

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How we got read access on Google’s production servers blog.detectify.com · detectify · 11 Apr 2014

1.2k pts 192 comments

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Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image projectnaptha.com · antimatter15 · 22 Apr 2014

1.1k pts 134 comments

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Write Code Every Day ejohn.org · slig · 10 Apr 2014

1k pts 216 comments

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“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished gameprogrammingpatterns.com · rockybox · 23 Apr 2014

988 pts 74 comments

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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO blog.mozilla.org · platz · 3 Apr 2014

982 pts 1.2k comments

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The Absurdity of LinkedIn blog.42floors.com · darrennix · 30 Apr 2014

803 pts 336 comments

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What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap kalzumeus.com · tnorthcutt · 3 Apr 2014

801 pts 311 comments

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Results of the GitHub Investigation github.com · danielsju6 · 21 Apr 2014

739 pts 479 comments

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SF’s Housing Crisis Explained techcrunch.com · minimaxir · 15 Apr 2014

683 pts 465 comments

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Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app googleresearch.blogspot.com · cleverjake · 16 Apr 2014

644 pts 239 comments

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Learn C and build your own Lisp buildyourownlisp.com · p4bl0 · 4 Apr 2014

641 pts 145 comments

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The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] destroyallsoftware.com · gary_bernhardt · 17 Apr 2014

635 pts 227 comments

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The New Deal blog.ycombinator.com · sama · 22 Apr 2014

625 pts 178 comments

17

Amazon Dash fresh.amazon.com · sheri · 4 Apr 2014

621 pts 250 comments

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Follow up to the investigation results github.com · dctrwatson · 28 Apr 2014

620 pts 330 comments

19

Firefox 29 firefox.com · epaga · 29 Apr 2014

603 pts 503 comments

20

The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more blog.linode.com · qmr · 17 Apr 2014

584 pts 275 comments

21

New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier vipukirves.fi · sinned · 18 Apr 2014

579 pts 155 comments

22

Stripe Open-Source Retreat stripe.com · gdb · 24 Apr 2014

572 pts 84 comments

23

Stock Photos That Don’t Suck medium.com · Redsprows · 19 Apr 2014

568 pts 67 comments

24

CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked twitter.com · jmduke · 12 Apr 2014

562 pts 142 comments

25

Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain math.stackexchange.com · aaronbrethorst · 6 Apr 2014

560 pts 78 comments

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Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation xkcd.com · MattBearman · 11 Apr 2014

558 pts 75 comments

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Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source alex.nisnevich.com · alnis · 7 Apr 2014

555 pts 235 comments

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Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87 nytimes.com · antr · 17 Apr 2014

548 pts 160 comments

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European Parliament passes net neutrality law gigaom.com · xmpir · 3 Apr 2014

541 pts 143 comments

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Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO techcrunch.com · hashx · 10 Apr 2014

526 pts 350 comments

31

Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server github.com · ColinWright · 14 Apr 2014

524 pts 94 comments

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Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding brikis98.blogspot.com · niels · 10 Apr 2014

523 pts 199 comments

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Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu · sfk · 10 Apr 2014

523 pts 173 comments

34

Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue comicneue.com · calibwam · 7 Apr 2014

521 pts 157 comments

35

Employee Equity blog.samaltman.com · dko · 18 Apr 2014

510 pts 333 comments

36

0^0 askamathematician.com · hansy · 2 Apr 2014

506 pts 248 comments

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"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable" article.gmane.org · anon1385 · 9 Apr 2014

497 pts 236 comments

38

The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet. hoodoof · 1 Apr 2014

490 pts 170 comments

39

SSH Kung Fu blog.tjll.net · stasel · 28 Apr 2014

487 pts 130 comments

40

Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money jamespanderson.tumblr.com · ry0ohki · 4 Apr 2014

477 pts 168 comments

41

Better bash in 15 minutes robertmuth.blogspot.com · wsxiaoys · 16 Apr 2014

475 pts 151 comments

42

TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns techcrunch.com · acjohnson55 · 16 Apr 2014

473 pts 182 comments

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You have ruined JavaScript codeofrob.com · PhilipA · 23 Apr 2014

459 pts 228 comments

44

The Guardian and Washington Post win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service pulitzer.org · danso · 14 Apr 2014

455 pts 41 comments

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Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login newsroom.fb.com · adidash · 30 Apr 2014

454 pts 205 comments

46

No Exit wired.com · rohin · 25 Apr 2014

445 pts 171 comments

47

SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station forbes.com · lelf · 20 Apr 2014

445 pts 71 comments

48

Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown gitbook.io · AaronO · 3 Apr 2014

442 pts 78 comments

49

Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel arjunsreedharan.org · slashdotaccount · 14 Apr 2014

435 pts 100 comments

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F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane nytimes.com · tysone · 23 Apr 2014

434 pts 275 comments

51

Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services getpostman.com · caiobegotti · 20 Apr 2014

429 pts 140 comments

52

Will you drown? game.notch.net · jebblue · 26 Apr 2014

428 pts 138 comments

53

Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog antirez.com · antirez · 1 Apr 2014

428 pts 66 comments

54

Google AdSense leak? pastebin.com · rmujica · 29 Apr 2014

425 pts 162 comments

55

They say “nothing will change” medium.com · jonsuh · 16 Apr 2014

423 pts 116 comments

56

Coinbase user emails and full names leaked pastebin.com · cbcbcb · 1 Apr 2014

419 pts 282 comments

57

Rails 4.1.0 released weblog.rubyonrails.org · chancancode · 8 Apr 2014

417 pts 95 comments

58

A Motion-Sensing Keyboard research.microsoft.com · nivla · 29 Apr 2014

406 pts 135 comments

59

Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects gamemechanicexplorer.com · davidbarker · 21 Apr 2014

404 pts 42 comments

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Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave cantlookaway · 13 Apr 2014

403 pts 274 comments