The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2014

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Tim Cook Speaks Up businessweek.com · replicatorblog · 30 Oct 2014

3.1k pts 974 comments

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Hacker News API blog.ycombinator.com · kevin · 7 Oct 2014

1.7k pts 298 comments

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Google Inbox googleblog.blogspot.com · jmdenis · 22 Oct 2014

1.1k pts 451 comments

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Cursors cursors.io · alloyed · 19 Oct 2014

1k pts 236 comments

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The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' keybase.io · jashkenas · 8 Oct 2014

1k pts 230 comments

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GitHub Student Developer Pack education.github.com · dctrwatson · 7 Oct 2014

1k pts 207 comments

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Nexus 6 google.com · myko · 15 Oct 2014

1k pts 684 comments

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Firebase is Joining Google firebase.com · vladstoick · 21 Oct 2014

879 pts 227 comments

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Microsoft Band microsoft.com · N0RMAN · 30 Oct 2014

858 pts 514 comments

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Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record nytimes.com · specialp · 24 Oct 2014

816 pts 236 comments

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I’m Terrified of My New TV brennancenter.org · pastycrinkles · 31 Oct 2014

739 pts 336 comments

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Trouble at the Koolaid Point seriouspony.com · mpweiher · 8 Oct 2014

723 pts 266 comments

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Yahoo Hacked webcache.googleusercontent.com · doctorshady · 6 Oct 2014

722 pts 236 comments

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Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video] youtube.com · adamnemecek · 5 Oct 2014

719 pts 126 comments

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Rolling Shutters jasmcole.com · hazz · 12 Oct 2014

708 pts 41 comments

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Before the Startup paulgraham.com · bhaumik · 2 Oct 2014

703 pts 163 comments

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Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance robert.ocallahan.org · francois2 · 28 Oct 2014

651 pts 333 comments

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#define CTO blog.gregbrockman.com · craigkerstiens · 27 Oct 2014

650 pts 107 comments

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Plastc Card plastc.com · cktsai · 7 Oct 2014

648 pts 346 comments

20

Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds medium.com · libovness · 9 Oct 2014

635 pts 177 comments

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Sprout sprout.hp.com · perone · 29 Oct 2014

617 pts 162 comments

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Simple CPU simplecpu.com · michael_fine · 19 Oct 2014

617 pts 62 comments

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iMac with Retina 5K display apple.com · davidbarker · 16 Oct 2014

615 pts 415 comments

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"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this" plus.google.com · basil · 6 Oct 2014

605 pts 465 comments

25

My Day Interviewing for the Service Economy Startup from Hell thebillfold.com · TarpitCarnivore · 21 Oct 2014

604 pts 274 comments

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Why Inequality Matters gatesnotes.com · mhb · 16 Oct 2014

603 pts 451 comments

27

Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn timeshighereducation.co.uk · superfx · 1 Oct 2014

599 pts 521 comments

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SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight nbcnews.com · llamataboot · 31 Oct 2014

598 pts 300 comments

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SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17 permalink.gmane.org · anon1385 · 7 Oct 2014

579 pts 164 comments

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The Great Robocoin Rip-off: How We Lost $25,000 Buying a Robocoin ATM docs.google.com · metalab · 15 Oct 2014

575 pts 128 comments

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Meteor hits 1.0 meteor.com · debergalis · 28 Oct 2014

573 pts 241 comments

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My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google docs.google.com · ismavis · 13 Oct 2014

573 pts 119 comments

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What Does an Idle CPU Do? duartes.org · brunorsini · 29 Oct 2014

563 pts 55 comments

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Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details aviationweek.com · geophile · 15 Oct 2014

560 pts 352 comments

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Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database code.facebook.com · jamesgpearce · 29 Oct 2014

533 pts 140 comments

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Redis cluster, no longer vaporware antirez.com · untothebreach · 9 Oct 2014

522 pts 49 comments

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Final – A credit card built for the 21st century getfinal.com · arfrank · 8 Oct 2014

517 pts 358 comments

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Humble Mozilla Bundle humblebundle.com · Osmose · 14 Oct 2014

517 pts 117 comments

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Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant bbc.com · pierre-renaux · 21 Oct 2014

510 pts 74 comments

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Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff nasa.gov · politician · 28 Oct 2014

504 pts 247 comments

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Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security eff.org · sinak · 8 Oct 2014

504 pts 166 comments

42

OS X 10.10 – Source Code opensource.apple.com · beltex · 31 Oct 2014

495 pts 144 comments

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China collecting Apple iCloud data en.greatfire.org · tchalla · 20 Oct 2014

491 pts 118 comments

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FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises ftc.gov · tshtf · 28 Oct 2014

489 pts 203 comments

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Nexus 9 google.com · agumonkey · 15 Oct 2014

478 pts 158 comments

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Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac lapwinglabs.com · matthewmueller · 2 Oct 2014

474 pts 253 comments

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Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders washingtonpost.com · tshtf · 7 Oct 2014

470 pts 129 comments

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The NSA and Me firstlook.org · evo_9 · 2 Oct 2014

463 pts 101 comments

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Move Fast and Break Nothing zachholman.com · bpierre · 8 Oct 2014

459 pts 83 comments

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How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math nautil.us · nautilus · 2 Oct 2014

458 pts 144 comments

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“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby yukinishijima.net · yuki2448 · 23 Oct 2014

455 pts 181 comments

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1984 v. Brave New World lettersofnote.com · moritzfelipe · 23 Oct 2014

449 pts 195 comments

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FFS SSL wingolog.org · jashkenas · 17 Oct 2014

447 pts 152 comments

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Become Estonia’s e-resident e-estonia.com · jkaljundi · 6 Oct 2014

447 pts 122 comments

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Marriott Hotels fined $600,000 by FCC for jamming Wi-Fi hotspots [pdf] transition.fcc.gov · jxf · 3 Oct 2014

446 pts 184 comments

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Docker and Microsoft partner to drive adoption of distributed applications blog.docker.com · julien421 · 15 Oct 2014

445 pts 263 comments

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Making sure crypto remains insecure [pdf] cr.yp.to · zorked · 19 Oct 2014

439 pts 171 comments

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Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App techcrunch.com · ajacksified · 16 Oct 2014

439 pts 171 comments

59

I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011) zef.me · lordbusiness · 21 Oct 2014

436 pts 255 comments

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Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool taiga.io · eposner · 1 Oct 2014

436 pts 134 comments