The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2014
We track 758 stories from November 2014, averaging 221 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 27 stories. Together they drew 67,322 comments, 89 per story on average.
1
Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
news.microsoft.com · ethomson · 12 Nov 2014
2.4k pts
894 comments
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2
Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
eff.org · mariusz79 · 18 Nov 2014
2k pts
461 comments
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3
Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec
scribd.com · kvargs · 13 Nov 2014
1.3k pts
558 comments
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4
WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation
freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com · swills · 17 Nov 2014
1.2k pts
204 comments
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5
President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet
whitehouse.gov · jordanmessina · 10 Nov 2014
1.2k pts
433 comments
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7
Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
news.sciencemag.org · philip1209 · 24 Nov 2014
1.1k pts
147 comments
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8
Firefox Developer Edition
developer.mozilla.org · tazer · 10 Nov 2014
979 pts
295 comments
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9
Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77
npr.org · vonmoltke · 3 Nov 2014
963 pts
109 comments
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12
God's Lonely Programmer
motherboard.vice.com · eli · 25 Nov 2014
883 pts
320 comments
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14
Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript
code.prod.facebook.com · davemo · 18 Nov 2014
818 pts
276 comments
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15
The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing
medium.com · daddy_drank · 6 Nov 2014
799 pts
90 comments
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16
Node.js in Flame Graphs
techblog.netflix.com · stoey · 19 Nov 2014
778 pts
240 comments
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18
Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon
gnome.org · PaulSec · 11 Nov 2014
722 pts
208 comments
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20
Go is moving to GitHub
groups.google.com · davecheney · 14 Nov 2014
686 pts
236 comments
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22
Rosetta comet landing – live stream
rosetta.esa.int · fla · 12 Nov 2014
629 pts
102 comments
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23
The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
blog.mozilla.org · flardinois · 3 Nov 2014
618 pts
197 comments
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25
Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists
buzzfeed.com · uptown · 18 Nov 2014
588 pts
342 comments
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26
Sometimes, it’s just time to go home
benmilne.com · johns · 7 Nov 2014
564 pts
163 comments
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27
Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
medium.com · jgrodziski · 20 Nov 2014
551 pts
111 comments
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28
Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]
vimeo.com · Thevet · 30 Nov 2014
543 pts
121 comments
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29
Principles of Rich Web Applications
rauchg.com · rafaelc · 4 Nov 2014
534 pts
148 comments
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31
JS1k demo: “Highway at Night”
js1k.com · practicalswift · 23 Nov 2014
525 pts
98 comments
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32
Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
eff.org · jrochkind1 · 8 Nov 2014
517 pts
164 comments
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34
On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs
libcom.org · KhalilK · 5 Nov 2014
506 pts
381 comments
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35
Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
whispersystems.org · charlieok · 18 Nov 2014
506 pts
147 comments
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36
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
features.jsomers.net · jsomers · 5 Nov 2014
501 pts
115 comments
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38
The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy
toddwschneider.com · lil_tee · 6 Nov 2014
485 pts
150 comments
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39
SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31
techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 6 Nov 2014
474 pts
65 comments
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40
How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence
alex-buono.com · shakes · 26 Nov 2014
470 pts
56 comments
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41
Urbit: a personal cloud computer
doc.urbit.org · aberatiu · 8 Nov 2014
460 pts
265 comments
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42
Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks
karpathy.github.io · bernatfp · 3 Nov 2014
450 pts
34 comments
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44
Pulling JPEGs out of thin air
lcamtuf.blogspot.com · atulagarwal · 7 Nov 2014
444 pts
83 comments
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45
The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]
thekidshouldseethis.com · ColinWright · 4 Nov 2014
443 pts
118 comments
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46
The Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Company
justinkan.com · sinak · 10 Nov 2014
442 pts
54 comments
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48
3D.City – Game built with three.js and sea3d
lo-th.github.io · huskyr · 28 Nov 2014
434 pts
81 comments
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49
New Search Strategy for Firefox
blog.mozilla.org · Osmose · 19 Nov 2014
430 pts
344 comments
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51
Show HN: Meet me, I'll buy you coffee
letstalkover.coffee · milesokeefe · 11 Nov 2014
427 pts
199 comments
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52
Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon
lav.io · saaaam · 18 Nov 2014
424 pts
96 comments
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53
What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals
nytimes.com · rooster8 · 12 Nov 2014
420 pts
202 comments
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54
Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier
prooffreaderplus.blogspot.com · signa11 · 27 Nov 2014
418 pts
169 comments
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55
How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management
lizthedeveloper.com · koopajah · 22 Nov 2014
414 pts
153 comments
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56
The Art of Not Working at Work
theatlantic.com · jamessun · 4 Nov 2014
414 pts
125 comments
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57
What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders
blog.ycombinator.com · katm · 24 Nov 2014
412 pts
277 comments
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