The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2014

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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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Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft theverge.com · coloneltcb · 26 Aug 2014

1.2k pts 391 comments

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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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Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft imgur.com · jonbaer · 20 Aug 2014

831 pts 109 comments

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fork() can fail rachelbythebay.com · dantiberian · 20 Aug 2014

760 pts 313 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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Edward Snowden: The Untold Story wired.com · promocha · 13 Aug 2014

717 pts 223 comments

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X to close medium.com · viclou · 13 Aug 2014

704 pts 195 comments

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MathBox 2 acko.net · teamonkey · 14 Aug 2014

657 pts 88 comments

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Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK 90percentofeverything.com · robin_reala · 26 Aug 2014

653 pts 260 comments

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A Single Div a.singlediv.com · brbcoding · 26 Aug 2014

649 pts 140 comments

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Hextris hextris.github.io · kome · 17 Aug 2014

589 pts 92 comments

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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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Polaroid Cube polaroid.com · dskhatri · 11 Aug 2014

575 pts 181 comments

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Extracting audio from visual information newsoffice.mit.edu · r0h1n · 4 Aug 2014

573 pts 127 comments

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They're Made out of Meat terrybisson.com · ColinWright · 8 Aug 2014

558 pts 170 comments

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Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp bellingcat.com · mmayberry · 22 Aug 2014

547 pts 106 comments

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The Road Ahead anandtech.com · bhauer · 30 Aug 2014

537 pts 60 comments

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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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Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications github.com · ayberkt · 24 Aug 2014

486 pts 74 comments

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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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Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official techcrunch.com · lalwanivikas · 25 Aug 2014

475 pts 249 comments

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Project Euler Returns projecteuler.net · garycomtois · 15 Aug 2014

471 pts 100 comments

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Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone vox.com · dctoedt · 28 Aug 2014

470 pts 161 comments

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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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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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Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI yahooeng.tumblr.com · traviskuhl · 29 Aug 2014

450 pts 223 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014) whoishiring · 1 Aug 2014

449 pts 584 comments

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Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone limetext.org · pykello · 19 Aug 2014

442 pts 244 comments

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Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app wired.com · bpierre · 26 Aug 2014

438 pts 149 comments

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Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess chesscademy.com · lumens · 8 Aug 2014

438 pts 116 comments

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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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Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet theatlantic.com · plg · 14 Aug 2014

435 pts 198 comments

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Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years tylertringas.com · TTringas · 11 Aug 2014

434 pts 58 comments

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Announcing UberPool blog.uber.com · jefftchan · 5 Aug 2014

430 pts 155 comments

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We have C++14 isocpp.org · ingve · 18 Aug 2014

426 pts 342 comments

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Why Racket? Why Lisp? practicaltypography.com · Tomte · 21 Aug 2014

418 pts 280 comments

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What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python? jvns.ca · jvns · 12 Aug 2014

408 pts 120 comments

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OpenStreetMap Then and Now mvexel.github.io · sashazykov · 11 Aug 2014

406 pts 106 comments

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The Matasano Crypto Challenges cryptopals.com · sweis · 12 Aug 2014

404 pts 71 comments

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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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Justin.tv has shut down justin.tv · abstractbill · 5 Aug 2014

396 pts 137 comments

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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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Open Source Email Templates sendwithus.com · bvanvugt · 8 Aug 2014

390 pts 60 comments

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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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Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll medium.com · teachingaway · 12 Aug 2014

385 pts 81 comments

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The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit gq.com · randomwalker · 21 Aug 2014

383 pts 86 comments

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Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop guac-dev.org · tux1968 · 12 Aug 2014

383 pts 78 comments

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P5.js: Processing for today’s web p5js.org · bpierre · 6 Aug 2014

381 pts 93 comments

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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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What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL wozniak.ca · numo16 · 4 Aug 2014

372 pts 234 comments

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Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II twitch.tv · cyberfart · 20 Aug 2014

372 pts 69 comments

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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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Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean pbase.com · 3rd3 · 25 Aug 2014

366 pts 115 comments

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The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World blog.cloudflare.com · FredericJ · 26 Aug 2014

366 pts 101 comments

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Pulling the Curtain on Airport Security [pdf] xs-sniper.com · vesche · 24 Aug 2014

363 pts 166 comments

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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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Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment blog.mozilla.org · khc · 8 Aug 2014

355 pts 179 comments

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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