The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2014
We track 656 stories from August 2014, averaging 202 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 23 stories. Together they drew 52,970 comments, 81 per story on average.
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First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
research.microsoft.com · davidst · 10 Aug 2014
1.5k pts
172 comments
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2
Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
theverge.com · coloneltcb · 26 Aug 2014
1.2k pts
391 comments
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3
Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
glasswire.com · greenwalls · 25 Aug 2014
1k pts
331 comments
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4
Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft
imgur.com · jonbaer · 20 Aug 2014
831 pts
109 comments
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Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online
feynmanlectures.caltech.edu · silenteh · 23 Aug 2014
749 pts
93 comments
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7
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
wired.com · promocha · 13 Aug 2014
717 pts
223 comments
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10
Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK
90percentofeverything.com · robin_reala · 26 Aug 2014
653 pts
260 comments
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13
Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
gifyoutube.com · RoryGlyphic · 16 Aug 2014
577 pts
181 comments
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15
Extracting audio from visual information
newsoffice.mit.edu · r0h1n · 4 Aug 2014
573 pts
127 comments
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16
They're Made out of Meat
terrybisson.com · ColinWright · 8 Aug 2014
558 pts
170 comments
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17
Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp
bellingcat.com · mmayberry · 22 Aug 2014
547 pts
106 comments
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19
How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids
blog.codestarter.org · mojombo · 6 Aug 2014
492 pts
215 comments
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20
Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
github.com · ayberkt · 24 Aug 2014
486 pts
74 comments
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21
Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
businessweek.com · benblodgett · 26 Aug 2014
479 pts
143 comments
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22
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
techcrunch.com · lalwanivikas · 25 Aug 2014
475 pts
249 comments
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23
Project Euler Returns
projecteuler.net · garycomtois · 15 Aug 2014
471 pts
100 comments
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24
Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
vox.com · dctoedt · 28 Aug 2014
470 pts
161 comments
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25
US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet
theguardian.com · primelens · 30 Aug 2014
460 pts
154 comments
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26
Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win
rememberwinapp.com · entangld · 13 Aug 2014
455 pts
97 comments
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27
Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI
yahooeng.tumblr.com · traviskuhl · 29 Aug 2014
450 pts
223 comments
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29
Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
limetext.org · pykello · 19 Aug 2014
442 pts
244 comments
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30
Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app
wired.com · bpierre · 26 Aug 2014
438 pts
149 comments
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31
Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess
chesscademy.com · lumens · 8 Aug 2014
438 pts
116 comments
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32
US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding
eff.org · philfreo · 5 Aug 2014
437 pts
71 comments
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33
Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
theatlantic.com · plg · 14 Aug 2014
435 pts
198 comments
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34
Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years
tylertringas.com · TTringas · 11 Aug 2014
434 pts
58 comments
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37
Why Racket? Why Lisp?
practicaltypography.com · Tomte · 21 Aug 2014
418 pts
280 comments
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38
What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
jvns.ca · jvns · 12 Aug 2014
408 pts
120 comments
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39
OpenStreetMap Then and Now
mvexel.github.io · sashazykov · 11 Aug 2014
406 pts
106 comments
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40
The Matasano Crypto Challenges
cryptopals.com · sweis · 12 Aug 2014
404 pts
71 comments
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41
Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published
netzpolitik.org · srslack · 6 Aug 2014
402 pts
102 comments
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43
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
robert.ocallahan.org · walterbell · 16 Aug 2014
390 pts
309 comments
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44
Open Source Email Templates
sendwithus.com · bvanvugt · 8 Aug 2014
390 pts
60 comments
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45
Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government
windowsitpro.com · xamlhacker · 30 Aug 2014
385 pts
117 comments
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46
Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
medium.com · teachingaway · 12 Aug 2014
385 pts
81 comments
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47
The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
gq.com · randomwalker · 21 Aug 2014
383 pts
86 comments
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48
Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
guac-dev.org · tux1968 · 12 Aug 2014
383 pts
78 comments
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49
P5.js: Processing for today’s web
p5js.org · bpierre · 6 Aug 2014
381 pts
93 comments
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50
Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
techcrunch.com · gwintrob · 14 Aug 2014
380 pts
192 comments
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51
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
wozniak.ca · numo16 · 4 Aug 2014
372 pts
234 comments
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52
Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II
twitch.tv · cyberfart · 20 Aug 2014
372 pts
69 comments
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53
Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
guybrushT · 8 Aug 2014
368 pts
281 comments
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54
Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean
pbase.com · 3rd3 · 25 Aug 2014
366 pts
115 comments
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55
The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
blog.cloudflare.com · FredericJ · 26 Aug 2014
366 pts
101 comments
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56
Pulling the Curtain on Airport Security [pdf]
xs-sniper.com · vesche · 24 Aug 2014
363 pts
166 comments
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57
The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
firstlook.org · aburan28 · 25 Aug 2014
356 pts
88 comments
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58
Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
blog.mozilla.org · khc · 8 Aug 2014
355 pts
179 comments
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59
Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
medium.com · ryanwhitney · 28 Aug 2014
355 pts
168 comments
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Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber
eff.org · jswt001 · 1 Aug 2014
355 pts
51 comments
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