The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2014

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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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“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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Nature makes all articles free to view nature.com · nikhilpandit · 2 Dec 2014

1.1k pts 128 comments

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Farewell, Dr. Dobb's drdobbs.com · andrewbinstock · 16 Dec 2014

1k pts 320 comments

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CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket coreos.com · kelseyhightower · 1 Dec 2014

902 pts 277 comments

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“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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US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program intelligence.senate.gov · uptown · 9 Dec 2014

879 pts 551 comments

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The Case for Slow Programming ventrellathing.wordpress.com · bufo · 1 Dec 2014

865 pts 337 comments

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Quake on an oscilloscope lofibucket.com · markmassie · 29 Dec 2014

859 pts 70 comments

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BPG Image format bellard.org · mjs · 5 Dec 2014

843 pts 328 comments

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Git client vulnerability announced github.com · polemic · 18 Dec 2014

818 pts 177 comments

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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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India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin techdirt.com · peter123 · 31 Dec 2014

796 pts 298 comments

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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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PostgreSQL 9.4 Released postgresql.org · petercooper · 18 Dec 2014

744 pts 188 comments

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Android Studio 1.0 android-developers.blogspot.com · ingve · 8 Dec 2014

725 pts 227 comments

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Look, no hands looknohands.me · jamesisaac · 28 Dec 2014

698 pts 140 comments

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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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Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com · r721 · 3 Dec 2014

694 pts 420 comments

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How You Know paulgraham.com · _pius · 15 Dec 2014

686 pts 257 comments

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Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy paperplanes.de · michaelochurch · 10 Dec 2014

675 pts 329 comments

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The State of JavaScript in 2015 breck-mckye.com · sahara · 1 Dec 2014

675 pts 220 comments

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Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 gatesnotes.com · prajjwal · 15 Dec 2014

656 pts 114 comments

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Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates markshuttleworth.com · selectnull · 9 Dec 2014

650 pts 147 comments

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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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From hacker to hospice in seven weeks benjamincburns.com · benjamincburns · 1 Dec 2014

618 pts 221 comments

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Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML mail.mozilla.org · ash · 10 Dec 2014

609 pts 144 comments

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24/192 music downloads are silly xiph.org · tosh · 2 Dec 2014

604 pts 424 comments

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Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework getskeleton.com · hit8run · 9 Dec 2014

598 pts 121 comments

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Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security spiegel.de · FabianBeiner · 28 Dec 2014

595 pts 165 comments

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Streem – a new programming language from Matz github.com · tree_of_item · 11 Dec 2014

547 pts 189 comments

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Android: I don't need your permission blog.danlew.net · dopkew · 16 Dec 2014

540 pts 183 comments

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Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass keurighack.com · Aco- · 10 Dec 2014

535 pts 285 comments

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Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count plus.google.com · stephenheron · 2 Dec 2014

530 pts 226 comments

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Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses nytimes.com · rpicard · 22 Dec 2014

521 pts 323 comments

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Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network blog.torproject.org · dewey · 19 Dec 2014

516 pts 121 comments

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Merry Christmas to HN lateguy · 25 Dec 2014

502 pts 110 comments

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Wire – Modern Communications Network wire.com · jkaljundi · 3 Dec 2014

498 pts 402 comments

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The Pirate Bay down, forever? blog.brokep.com · Apaze · 10 Dec 2014

496 pts 187 comments

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Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation graemereynolds.wordpress.com · Jare · 15 Dec 2014

489 pts 172 comments

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Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions robertheaton.com · aitskovi · 16 Dec 2014

488 pts 55 comments

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Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo threefingeredfox.net · adrianhoward · 11 Dec 2014

485 pts 93 comments

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The Fatal Pinch paulgraham.com · _pius · 8 Dec 2014

480 pts 198 comments

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Immigration is about talent, not costs aerofs.com · gabaix · 2 Dec 2014

468 pts 618 comments

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Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox techcrunch.com · jonastern · 12 Dec 2014

460 pts 231 comments

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Introducing .NET Core blogs.msdn.com · ntakasaki · 4 Dec 2014

458 pts 218 comments

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Go 1.4 is released blog.golang.org · ahochhaus · 11 Dec 2014

453 pts 257 comments

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How to Be an Expert in a Changing World paulgraham.com · jayzalowitz · 21 Dec 2014

452 pts 117 comments

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Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine duktape.org · bpierre · 4 Dec 2014

445 pts 129 comments

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Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) onbeing.org · juanplusjuan · 13 Dec 2014

441 pts 291 comments

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Mozilla Research Projects mozilla.org · yuashizuki · 24 Dec 2014

440 pts 92 comments

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Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps getflakes.com · khet · 4 Dec 2014

438 pts 93 comments

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Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In paulgraham.com · gpoort · 26 Dec 2014

434 pts 632 comments

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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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Saving a Project and a Company jacquesmattheij.com · andrewaylett · 30 Dec 2014

425 pts 130 comments

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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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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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Microsoft accepting Bitcoin commerce.microsoft.com · DavidSJ · 11 Dec 2014

416 pts 148 comments

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“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure kev.inburke.com · kevinburke · 1 Dec 2014

413 pts 182 comments

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JMAP – a better way to email blog.fastmail.com · brongondwana · 22 Dec 2014

410 pts 115 comments