The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2014

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I'm Leaving Mojang notch.net · UnfalseDesign · 15 Sep 2014

1.3k pts 418 comments

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Standard Markdown standardmarkdown.com · hglaser · 3 Sep 2014

1.2k pts 366 comments

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ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit isro.gov.in · skbohra123 · 24 Sep 2014

1k pts 154 comments

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TXT Record XSS who.is · ryanskidmore · 18 Sep 2014

998 pts 228 comments

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I was asked to crack a program in a job interview erenyagdiran.github.io · m00dy · 17 Sep 2014

997 pts 302 comments

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Reddit blog.samaltman.com · gatsby · 30 Sep 2014

988 pts 394 comments

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Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft mojang.com · jordanmessina · 15 Sep 2014

941 pts 515 comments

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CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash seclists.org · vault_ · 24 Sep 2014

905 pts 416 comments

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My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB) lists.gnu.org · nazri1 · 11 Sep 2014

826 pts 263 comments

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Bézier Clock jackf.net · frigaardj · 10 Sep 2014

810 pts 69 comments

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Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM wired.com · suprgeek · 12 Sep 2014

784 pts 237 comments

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New Requests for Startups ycombinator.com · comatose_kid · 12 Sep 2014

716 pts 391 comments

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Universal SSL blog.cloudflare.com · benjojo12 · 29 Sep 2014

712 pts 240 comments

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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day righto.com · omnibrain · 28 Sep 2014

653 pts 103 comments

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The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times nautil.us · aatish · 29 Sep 2014

639 pts 107 comments

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Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works a16z.com · taylorbuley · 5 Sep 2014

633 pts 260 comments

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A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal hodinkee.com · panic · 10 Sep 2014

610 pts 464 comments

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I Had a Stroke at 33 buzzfeed.com · Thevet · 21 Sep 2014

603 pts 151 comments

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U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google Encryption of Mobile Data bloomberg.com · coreymgilmore · 30 Sep 2014

601 pts 333 comments

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Minix 3.3.0 minix3.org · knz42 · 16 Sep 2014

600 pts 172 comments

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How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014 startupclass.samaltman.com · atomroflbomber · 16 Sep 2014

594 pts 139 comments

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Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch jiggity.com · strict9 · 12 Sep 2014

583 pts 222 comments

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The Road to Rust 1.0 blog.rust-lang.org · steveklabnik · 15 Sep 2014

570 pts 238 comments

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CVE-2014-7169: Bash Fix Incomplete, Still Exploitable seclists.org · caust1c · 25 Sep 2014

557 pts 210 comments

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Commander Keen source code released github.com · vs2 · 16 Sep 2014

545 pts 138 comments

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Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041) community.rapid7.com · mike-cardwell · 15 Sep 2014

543 pts 224 comments

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Failing the startup game at Unbabel esoteric-code.blogspot.com · andreasgonewild · 2 Sep 2014

536 pts 235 comments

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Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] startupclass.samaltman.com · declan · 23 Sep 2014

520 pts 185 comments

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Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug troyhunt.com · sjcsjc · 25 Sep 2014

517 pts 287 comments

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Announcing Keyless SSL blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 18 Sep 2014

509 pts 184 comments

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The Apple Watch apple.com · benigeri · 9 Sep 2014

501 pts 836 comments

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Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain newscientist.com · shahmeern · 11 Sep 2014

496 pts 179 comments

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Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts googleblog.blogspot.com · Anon84 · 10 Sep 2014

487 pts 207 comments

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KaTeX: Math typesetting for the web khan.github.io · xymostech · 15 Sep 2014

481 pts 98 comments

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Twitpic is shutting down blog.twitpic.com · uptown · 4 Sep 2014

477 pts 153 comments

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Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows github.com · ProfDreamer · 19 Sep 2014

471 pts 92 comments

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With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce vox.com · anigbrowl · 9 Sep 2014

467 pts 212 comments

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Gravity Simulator nowykurier.com · evanb · 8 Sep 2014

467 pts 131 comments

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JSON Web Tokens jwt.io · adamnemecek · 8 Sep 2014

467 pts 74 comments

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The Unexotic Underclass miter.mit.edu · spitfire · 3 Sep 2014

461 pts 305 comments

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John Carmack on Inlined Code number-none.com · m0nastic · 26 Sep 2014

456 pts 260 comments

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Stripe and Apple Pay stripe.com · Peroni · 9 Sep 2014

447 pts 97 comments

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All About Circuits allaboutcircuits.com · MichaelAO · 8 Sep 2014

447 pts 42 comments

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How Hong Kong Protesters Are Connecting, Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks npr.org · evo_9 · 29 Sep 2014

445 pts 113 comments

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Gravit – Open-source design tool hub.gravit.io · jarek-foksa · 13 Sep 2014

437 pts 73 comments

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What I use instead of Google services gabrielweinberg.com · lnmx · 2 Sep 2014

424 pts 293 comments

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Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1 konklone.com · mathias · 8 Sep 2014

423 pts 131 comments

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Apple event overshadows unflattering news at Snapchat, Tinder fortune.com · wmt · 10 Sep 2014

420 pts 101 comments

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MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code wired.com · msantos · 22 Sep 2014

416 pts 123 comments

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Postgres full text search is good enough blog.lostpropertyhq.com · chdir · 29 Sep 2014

416 pts 95 comments

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Navdy navdy.com · esolyt · 13 Sep 2014

415 pts 209 comments

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Exploding Offers Suck blog.ycombinator.com · lalwanivikas · 8 Sep 2014

414 pts 169 comments

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Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance newscientist.com · bensedat · 17 Sep 2014

412 pts 180 comments

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What Coke Contains (2013) medium.com · fmela · 19 Sep 2014

410 pts 178 comments

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CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US cnbc.com · rodrigocoelho · 30 Sep 2014

409 pts 292 comments

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Apple’s “warrant canary” disappears gigaom.com · panarky · 18 Sep 2014

406 pts 93 comments

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Mosh: A replacement for SSH mosh.mit.edu · jayfk · 1 Sep 2014

402 pts 122 comments

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CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome razvancaliman.com · jonphillips06 · 3 Sep 2014

401 pts 33 comments

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Batsh – A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch batsh.org · kolev · 1 Sep 2014

400 pts 124 comments

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Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto moderncrypto.org · timmclean · 5 Sep 2014

398 pts 137 comments