The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2014
We track 751 stories from October 2014, averaging 223 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 39 stories. Together they drew 70,023 comments, 93 per story on average.
1
Tim Cook Speaks Up
businessweek.com · replicatorblog · 30 Oct 2014
3.1k pts
974 comments
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5
The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'
keybase.io · jashkenas · 8 Oct 2014
1k pts
230 comments
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6
GitHub Student Developer Pack
education.github.com · dctrwatson · 7 Oct 2014
1k pts
207 comments
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8
Firebase is Joining Google
firebase.com · vladstoick · 21 Oct 2014
879 pts
227 comments
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10
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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11
I’m Terrified of My New TV
brennancenter.org · pastycrinkles · 31 Oct 2014
739 pts
336 comments
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12
Trouble at the Koolaid Point
seriouspony.com · mpweiher · 8 Oct 2014
723 pts
266 comments
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13
Yahoo Hacked
webcache.googleusercontent.com · doctorshady · 6 Oct 2014
722 pts
236 comments
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14
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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17
Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
robert.ocallahan.org · francois2 · 28 Oct 2014
651 pts
333 comments
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18
#define CTO
blog.gregbrockman.com · craigkerstiens · 27 Oct 2014
650 pts
107 comments
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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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23
iMac with Retina 5K display
apple.com · davidbarker · 16 Oct 2014
615 pts
415 comments
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24
"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
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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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27
Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
timeshighereducation.co.uk · superfx · 1 Oct 2014
599 pts
521 comments
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28
SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight
nbcnews.com · llamataboot · 31 Oct 2014
598 pts
300 comments
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29
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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30
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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32
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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33
What Does an Idle CPU Do?
duartes.org · brunorsini · 29 Oct 2014
563 pts
55 comments
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34
Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details
aviationweek.com · geophile · 15 Oct 2014
560 pts
352 comments
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35
Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database
code.facebook.com · jamesgpearce · 29 Oct 2014
533 pts
140 comments
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36
Redis cluster, no longer vaporware
antirez.com · untothebreach · 9 Oct 2014
522 pts
49 comments
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37
Final – A credit card built for the 21st century
getfinal.com · arfrank · 8 Oct 2014
517 pts
358 comments
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39
Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
bbc.com · pierre-renaux · 21 Oct 2014
510 pts
74 comments
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40
Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
nasa.gov · politician · 28 Oct 2014
504 pts
247 comments
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41
Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
eff.org · sinak · 8 Oct 2014
504 pts
166 comments
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42
OS X 10.10 – Source Code
opensource.apple.com · beltex · 31 Oct 2014
495 pts
144 comments
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43
China collecting Apple iCloud data
en.greatfire.org · tchalla · 20 Oct 2014
491 pts
118 comments
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44
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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46
Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac
lapwinglabs.com · matthewmueller · 2 Oct 2014
474 pts
253 comments
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47
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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49
Move Fast and Break Nothing
zachholman.com · bpierre · 8 Oct 2014
459 pts
83 comments
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50
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
nautil.us · nautilus · 2 Oct 2014
458 pts
144 comments
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51
“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
yukinishijima.net · yuki2448 · 23 Oct 2014
455 pts
181 comments
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52
1984 v. Brave New World
lettersofnote.com · moritzfelipe · 23 Oct 2014
449 pts
195 comments
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54
Become Estonia’s e-resident
e-estonia.com · jkaljundi · 6 Oct 2014
447 pts
122 comments
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55
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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56
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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57
Making sure crypto remains insecure [pdf]
cr.yp.to · zorked · 19 Oct 2014
439 pts
171 comments
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58
Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App
techcrunch.com · ajacksified · 16 Oct 2014
439 pts
171 comments
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59
I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)
zef.me · lordbusiness · 21 Oct 2014
436 pts
255 comments
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60
Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool
taiga.io · eposner · 1 Oct 2014
436 pts
134 comments
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