The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2014

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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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Show HN: Show HN news.ycombinator.com · dang · 3 Jul 2014

1.3k pts 166 comments

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Count to ten when a plane goes down johncbeck.tumblr.com · UltraMagnus · 21 Jul 2014

1.1k pts 273 comments

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Show HN: Markov chains explained visually setosa.io · vicapow · 29 Jul 2014

1.1k pts 92 comments

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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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Stellar stripe.com · gdb · 31 Jul 2014

943 pts 454 comments

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Game about squares gameaboutsquares.com · golergka · 27 Jul 2014

910 pts 194 comments

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Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support yuvadam · 8 Jul 2014

875 pts 127 comments

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Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router eff.org · Blahah · 20 Jul 2014

850 pts 138 comments

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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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Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective stripe.com · gdb · 21 Jul 2014

813 pts 244 comments

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Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s kristopolous.github.io · dlsym · 3 Jul 2014

803 pts 109 comments

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Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC pangoly.com · ejjpi · 15 Jul 2014

778 pts 213 comments

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Verizon's accidental mea culpa blog.level3.com · shimshim · 17 Jul 2014

776 pts 307 comments

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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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Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi hotelwifitest.com · gozmike · 24 Jul 2014

671 pts 237 comments

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The Lowdown on Lidar docs.google.com · timdierks · 31 Jul 2014

667 pts 271 comments

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Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs? thy_inquisitor · 6 Jul 2014

662 pts 261 comments

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Mistakes You Should Never Make sethbannon.com · sethbannon · 24 Jul 2014

646 pts 328 comments

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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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Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition eloquentjavascript.net · ingve · 30 Jul 2014

632 pts 107 comments

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Introducing Raspberry Pi B+ raspberrypi.org · benn_88 · 14 Jul 2014

605 pts 218 comments

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Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice interviewing.io · leeny · 2 Jul 2014

604 pts 215 comments

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Terraform hashicorp.com · pandemicsyn · 28 Jul 2014

600 pts 110 comments

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Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M blogs.wsj.com · moritzplassnig · 24 Jul 2014

590 pts 162 comments

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Google Noto Fonts google.com · oneplusone · 16 Jul 2014

589 pts 132 comments

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ITerm2 2.0 iterm2.com · gnachman · 15 Jul 2014

584 pts 230 comments

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What Problems to Solve genius.cat-v.org · kamaal · 14 Jul 2014

574 pts 45 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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Introduction to A* redblobgames.com · phenylene · 20 Jul 2014

509 pts 28 comments

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The New Haskell Homepage new-www.haskell.org · markthethomas · 8 Jul 2014

506 pts 243 comments

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A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity mobile.nytimes.com · zeeshanm · 8 Jul 2014

505 pts 210 comments

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Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013) helloerik.com · analogj · 16 Jul 2014

503 pts 83 comments

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Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues techcrunch.com · testrun · 15 Jul 2014

501 pts 339 comments

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Net neutrality blog.samaltman.com · austenallred · 14 Jul 2014

497 pts 252 comments

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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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Pinboard Turns Five blog.pinboard.in · thisisblurry · 10 Jul 2014

491 pts 116 comments

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JSON Resume – a JSON-based open source standard for resumes jsonresume.org · krrishd · 7 Jul 2014

490 pts 210 comments

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StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers highscalability.com · quicksilver03 · 21 Jul 2014

479 pts 275 comments

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Math Intuition Cheatsheet betterexplained.com · jgrodziski · 24 Jul 2014

478 pts 64 comments

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The Developer's Dystopian Future the-pastry-box-project.net · bjxrn · 6 Jul 2014

475 pts 201 comments

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Amazon Zocalo aws.amazon.com · lowbloodsugar · 10 Jul 2014

469 pts 217 comments

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A Server Naming Scheme mnx.io · mstolisov · 9 Jul 2014

465 pts 199 comments

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Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month eff.org · scrollaway · 31 Jul 2014

462 pts 110 comments

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I've been tracking everything about myself aprilzero.com · ericnakagawa · 12 Jul 2014

461 pts 157 comments

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NPR One npr.org · antr · 28 Jul 2014

446 pts 177 comments

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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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Making of Aprilzero aprilzero.com · vpj · 16 Jul 2014

445 pts 78 comments

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Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts sysadmincasts.com · WestCoastJustin · 9 Jul 2014

443 pts 80 comments

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NSA targets the privacy-conscious daserste.ndr.de · freejack · 3 Jul 2014

434 pts 176 comments

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The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi blog.sesse.net · tshepang · 23 Jul 2014

432 pts 266 comments

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New Y Combinator Website blog.ycombinator.com · kevin · 1 Jul 2014

432 pts 133 comments

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Amazon Cognito aws.amazon.com · moonlighter · 11 Jul 2014

425 pts 157 comments

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Apple Confirms “Back Doors”, Downplays Their Severity zdziarski.com · gulbrandr · 23 Jul 2014

422 pts 104 comments

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Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case wikileaks.org · abritishguy · 29 Jul 2014

420 pts 132 comments

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Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone whispersystems.org · david_shaw · 29 Jul 2014

410 pts 194 comments

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Google+ now lets you use any name you want plus.google.com · srathi · 15 Jul 2014

407 pts 250 comments

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Moving Atom to React blog.atom.io · _pius · 2 Jul 2014

407 pts 136 comments

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NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work wired.co.uk · jchesters · 31 Jul 2014

406 pts 198 comments

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Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js breach.cc · spolu · 10 Jul 2014

405 pts 169 comments