The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2014
We track 769 stories from December 2014, averaging 215 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 43 stories. Together they drew 69,308 comments, 90 per story on average.
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NASA: We're sending humans to Mars
twitter.com · didgeoridoo · 2 Dec 2014
1.4k pts
586 comments
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2
“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
imgur.com · shalmanese · 14 Dec 2014
1.3k pts
265 comments
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3
Nature makes all articles free to view
nature.com · nikhilpandit · 2 Dec 2014
1.1k pts
128 comments
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5
CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
coreos.com · kelseyhightower · 1 Dec 2014
902 pts
277 comments
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6
“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”
article.gmane.org · chummm · 21 Dec 2014
883 pts
157 comments
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7
US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program
intelligence.senate.gov · uptown · 9 Dec 2014
879 pts
551 comments
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8
The Case for Slow Programming
ventrellathing.wordpress.com · bufo · 1 Dec 2014
865 pts
337 comments
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9
Quake on an oscilloscope
lofibucket.com · markmassie · 29 Dec 2014
859 pts
70 comments
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11
Git client vulnerability announced
github.com · polemic · 18 Dec 2014
818 pts
177 comments
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12
EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
eff.org · etr71115 · 18 Dec 2014
808 pts
169 comments
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13
India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
techdirt.com · peter123 · 31 Dec 2014
796 pts
298 comments
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14
Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
extremetech.com · lelf · 27 Dec 2014
748 pts
400 comments
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15
PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
postgresql.org · petercooper · 18 Dec 2014
744 pts
188 comments
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16
Android Studio 1.0
android-developers.blogspot.com · ingve · 8 Dec 2014
725 pts
227 comments
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18
Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
plinkplonk · 7 Dec 2014
698 pts
110 comments
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19
Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com · r721 · 3 Dec 2014
694 pts
420 comments
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21
Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy
paperplanes.de · michaelochurch · 10 Dec 2014
675 pts
329 comments
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22
The State of JavaScript in 2015
breck-mckye.com · sahara · 1 Dec 2014
675 pts
220 comments
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23
Good News You May Have Missed in 2014
gatesnotes.com · prajjwal · 15 Dec 2014
656 pts
114 comments
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24
Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
markshuttleworth.com · selectnull · 9 Dec 2014
650 pts
147 comments
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25
Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven
ifixit.org · ColinWright · 30 Dec 2014
621 pts
372 comments
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26
From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
benjamincburns.com · benjamincburns · 1 Dec 2014
618 pts
221 comments
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27
Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML
mail.mozilla.org · ash · 10 Dec 2014
609 pts
144 comments
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29
Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
getskeleton.com · hit8run · 9 Dec 2014
598 pts
121 comments
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30
Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
spiegel.de · FabianBeiner · 28 Dec 2014
595 pts
165 comments
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31
Streem – a new programming language from Matz
github.com · tree_of_item · 11 Dec 2014
547 pts
189 comments
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32
Android: I don't need your permission
blog.danlew.net · dopkew · 16 Dec 2014
540 pts
183 comments
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34
Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count
plus.google.com · stephenheron · 2 Dec 2014
530 pts
226 comments
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35
Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
nytimes.com · rpicard · 22 Dec 2014
521 pts
323 comments
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36
Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
blog.torproject.org · dewey · 19 Dec 2014
516 pts
121 comments
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38
Wire – Modern Communications Network
wire.com · jkaljundi · 3 Dec 2014
498 pts
402 comments
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39
The Pirate Bay down, forever?
blog.brokep.com · Apaze · 10 Dec 2014
496 pts
187 comments
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40
Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
graemereynolds.wordpress.com · Jare · 15 Dec 2014
489 pts
172 comments
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41
Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions
robertheaton.com · aitskovi · 16 Dec 2014
488 pts
55 comments
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42
Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo
threefingeredfox.net · adrianhoward · 11 Dec 2014
485 pts
93 comments
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44
Immigration is about talent, not costs
aerofs.com · gabaix · 2 Dec 2014
468 pts
618 comments
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45
Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
techcrunch.com · jonastern · 12 Dec 2014
460 pts
231 comments
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48
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
paulgraham.com · jayzalowitz · 21 Dec 2014
452 pts
117 comments
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49
Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine
duktape.org · bpierre · 4 Dec 2014
445 pts
129 comments
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50
Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
onbeing.org · juanplusjuan · 13 Dec 2014
441 pts
291 comments
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51
Mozilla Research Projects
mozilla.org · yuashizuki · 24 Dec 2014
440 pts
92 comments
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52
Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps
getflakes.com · khet · 4 Dec 2014
438 pts
93 comments
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53
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
paulgraham.com · gpoort · 26 Dec 2014
434 pts
632 comments
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54
Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps
accidentalscientist.com · jfuhrman · 24 Dec 2014
433 pts
125 comments
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55
Saving a Project and a Company
jacquesmattheij.com · andrewaylett · 30 Dec 2014
425 pts
130 comments
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56
Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik Are Joining the Rust Core Team
blog.rust-lang.org · wycats · 12 Dec 2014
423 pts
131 comments
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57
Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban Government Backdoors Into Cellphones and Computers
wyden.senate.gov · sethbannon · 4 Dec 2014
417 pts
62 comments
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58
Microsoft accepting Bitcoin
commerce.microsoft.com · DavidSJ · 11 Dec 2014
416 pts
148 comments
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59
“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
kev.inburke.com · kevinburke · 1 Dec 2014
413 pts
182 comments
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60
JMAP – a better way to email
blog.fastmail.com · brongondwana · 22 Dec 2014
410 pts
115 comments
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