The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2014
We track 749 stories from July 2014, averaging 218 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 32 stories. Together they drew 66,856 comments, 89 per story on average.
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Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
newyorker.com · mattmight · 17 Jul 2014
1.5k pts
109 comments
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3
Count to ten when a plane goes down
johncbeck.tumblr.com · UltraMagnus · 21 Jul 2014
1.1k pts
273 comments
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4
Show HN: Markov chains explained visually
setosa.io · vicapow · 29 Jul 2014
1.1k pts
92 comments
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5
Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
github.com · timmorgan · 25 Jul 2014
1k pts
304 comments
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7
Game about squares
gameaboutsquares.com · golergka · 27 Jul 2014
910 pts
194 comments
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8
Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support
yuvadam · 8 Jul 2014
875 pts
127 comments
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9
Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
eff.org · Blahah · 20 Jul 2014
850 pts
138 comments
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10
Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC
blog.ycombinator.com · nRike · 14 Jul 2014
841 pts
120 comments
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12
Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s
kristopolous.github.io · dlsym · 3 Jul 2014
803 pts
109 comments
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13
Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
pangoly.com · ejjpi · 15 Jul 2014
778 pts
213 comments
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14
Verizon's accidental mea culpa
blog.level3.com · shimshim · 17 Jul 2014
776 pts
307 comments
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15
Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities
cacm.acm.org · pbui · 7 Jul 2014
743 pts
359 comments
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16
Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi
hotelwifitest.com · gozmike · 24 Jul 2014
671 pts
237 comments
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19
Mistakes You Should Never Make
sethbannon.com · sethbannon · 24 Jul 2014
646 pts
328 comments
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20
Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in
nomadlist.io · pieterhg · 30 Jul 2014
639 pts
298 comments
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21
Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition
eloquentjavascript.net · ingve · 30 Jul 2014
632 pts
107 comments
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22
Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
raspberrypi.org · benn_88 · 14 Jul 2014
605 pts
218 comments
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23
Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice
interviewing.io · leeny · 2 Jul 2014
604 pts
215 comments
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25
Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
blogs.wsj.com · moritzplassnig · 24 Jul 2014
590 pts
162 comments
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SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage
spacex.com · cryptoz · 22 Jul 2014
561 pts
189 comments
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31
The New Haskell Homepage
new-www.haskell.org · markthethomas · 8 Jul 2014
506 pts
243 comments
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32
A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity
mobile.nytimes.com · zeeshanm · 8 Jul 2014
505 pts
210 comments
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33
Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
helloerik.com · analogj · 16 Jul 2014
503 pts
83 comments
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34
Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues
techcrunch.com · testrun · 15 Jul 2014
501 pts
339 comments
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36
What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter
polygon.com · wglb · 16 Jul 2014
496 pts
247 comments
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37
Pinboard Turns Five
blog.pinboard.in · thisisblurry · 10 Jul 2014
491 pts
116 comments
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38
JSON Resume – a JSON-based open source standard for resumes
jsonresume.org · krrishd · 7 Jul 2014
490 pts
210 comments
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39
StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers
highscalability.com · quicksilver03 · 21 Jul 2014
479 pts
275 comments
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40
Math Intuition Cheatsheet
betterexplained.com · jgrodziski · 24 Jul 2014
478 pts
64 comments
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41
The Developer's Dystopian Future
the-pastry-box-project.net · bjxrn · 6 Jul 2014
475 pts
201 comments
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44
Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month
eff.org · scrollaway · 31 Jul 2014
462 pts
110 comments
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45
I've been tracking everything about myself
aprilzero.com · ericnakagawa · 12 Jul 2014
461 pts
157 comments
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47
Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
github.com · LaSombra · 3 Jul 2014
446 pts
151 comments
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49
Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts
sysadmincasts.com · WestCoastJustin · 9 Jul 2014
443 pts
80 comments
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50
NSA targets the privacy-conscious
daserste.ndr.de · freejack · 3 Jul 2014
434 pts
176 comments
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51
The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi
blog.sesse.net · tshepang · 23 Jul 2014
432 pts
266 comments
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52
New Y Combinator Website
blog.ycombinator.com · kevin · 1 Jul 2014
432 pts
133 comments
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54
Apple Confirms “Back Doors”, Downplays Their Severity
zdziarski.com · gulbrandr · 23 Jul 2014
422 pts
104 comments
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55
Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case
wikileaks.org · abritishguy · 29 Jul 2014
420 pts
132 comments
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56
Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone
whispersystems.org · david_shaw · 29 Jul 2014
410 pts
194 comments
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57
Google+ now lets you use any name you want
plus.google.com · srathi · 15 Jul 2014
407 pts
250 comments
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59
NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work
wired.co.uk · jchesters · 31 Jul 2014
406 pts
198 comments
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60
Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js
breach.cc · spolu · 10 Jul 2014
405 pts
169 comments
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