The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2014

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Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform news.microsoft.com · ethomson · 12 Nov 2014

2.4k pts 894 comments

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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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Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec scribd.com · kvargs · 13 Nov 2014

1.3k pts 558 comments

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WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com · swills · 17 Nov 2014

1.2k pts 204 comments

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President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet whitehouse.gov · jordanmessina · 10 Nov 2014

1.2k pts 433 comments

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Philae has landed bbc.com · talltofu · 12 Nov 2014

1.2k pts 299 comments

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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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Firefox Developer Edition developer.mozilla.org · tazer · 10 Nov 2014

979 pts 295 comments

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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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Amazon Echo amazon.com · danielsamuels · 6 Nov 2014

924 pts 716 comments

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Unicode Text Converter panix.com · sysk · 19 Nov 2014

908 pts 229 comments

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God's Lonely Programmer motherboard.vice.com · eli · 25 Nov 2014

883 pts 320 comments

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Doing Business in Japan kalzumeus.com · waffle_ss · 7 Nov 2014

818 pts 305 comments

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Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript code.prod.facebook.com · davemo · 18 Nov 2014

818 pts 276 comments

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The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing medium.com · daddy_drank · 6 Nov 2014

799 pts 90 comments

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Node.js in Flame Graphs techblog.netflix.com · stoey · 19 Nov 2014

778 pts 240 comments

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Reverse OCR reverseocr.tumblr.com · mrtbld · 5 Nov 2014

745 pts 89 comments

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Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon gnome.org · PaulSec · 11 Nov 2014

722 pts 208 comments

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The Other Side of Diversity medium.com · rouma7 · 4 Nov 2014

704 pts 447 comments

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Go is moving to GitHub groups.google.com · davecheney · 14 Nov 2014

686 pts 236 comments

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Please remove mitsuhiko/* github.com · art2 · 1 Nov 2014

634 pts 433 comments

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Rosetta comet landing – live stream rosetta.esa.int · fla · 12 Nov 2014

629 pts 102 comments

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The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming blog.mozilla.org · flardinois · 3 Nov 2014

618 pts 197 comments

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Youtube-dl rg3.github.io · pmoriarty · 23 Nov 2014

597 pts 169 comments

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Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists buzzfeed.com · uptown · 18 Nov 2014

588 pts 342 comments

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Sometimes, it’s just time to go home benmilne.com · johns · 7 Nov 2014

564 pts 163 comments

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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2 medium.com · jgrodziski · 20 Nov 2014

551 pts 111 comments

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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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Principles of Rich Web Applications rauchg.com · rafaelc · 4 Nov 2014

534 pts 148 comments

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AWS Lambda aws.amazon.com · cpenner461 · 13 Nov 2014

526 pts 158 comments

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JS1k demo: “Highway at Night” js1k.com · practicalswift · 23 Nov 2014

525 pts 98 comments

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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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C4 – C in 4 functions github.com · petercooper · 4 Nov 2014

517 pts 138 comments

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On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs libcom.org · KhalilK · 5 Nov 2014

506 pts 381 comments

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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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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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Mean People Fail paulgraham.com · grellas · 29 Nov 2014

489 pts 479 comments

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The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy toddwschneider.com · lil_tee · 6 Nov 2014

485 pts 150 comments

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SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31 techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 6 Nov 2014

474 pts 65 comments

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How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence alex-buono.com · shakes · 26 Nov 2014

470 pts 56 comments

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Urbit: a personal cloud computer doc.urbit.org · aberatiu · 8 Nov 2014

460 pts 265 comments

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Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks karpathy.github.io · bernatfp · 3 Nov 2014

450 pts 34 comments

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2 years with Angular fse.guru · robin_reala · 24 Nov 2014

445 pts 207 comments

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Pulling JPEGs out of thin air lcamtuf.blogspot.com · atulagarwal · 7 Nov 2014

444 pts 83 comments

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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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The Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Company justinkan.com · sinak · 10 Nov 2014

442 pts 54 comments

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Cache is the new RAM blog.memsql.com · aristus · 19 Nov 2014

438 pts 95 comments

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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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New Search Strategy for Firefox blog.mozilla.org · Osmose · 19 Nov 2014

430 pts 344 comments

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Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died milesf · 30 Nov 2014

429 pts 69 comments

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Show HN: Meet me, I'll buy you coffee letstalkover.coffee · milesokeefe · 11 Nov 2014

427 pts 199 comments

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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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What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals nytimes.com · rooster8 · 12 Nov 2014

420 pts 202 comments

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Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier prooffreaderplus.blogspot.com · signa11 · 27 Nov 2014

418 pts 169 comments

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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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The Art of Not Working at Work theatlantic.com · jamessun · 4 Nov 2014

414 pts 125 comments

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What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders blog.ycombinator.com · katm · 24 Nov 2014

412 pts 277 comments

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A Eulogy for RadioShack sbnation.com · Thevet · 26 Nov 2014

412 pts 167 comments

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FreeBSD turns 21 freebsd.org · tachion · 2 Nov 2014

412 pts 130 comments

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0h h1 – A little logic game 0hh1.com · mrtnkl · 13 Nov 2014

411 pts 152 comments