The Best Hacker News Posts of 2014

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Tim Cook Speaks Up businessweek.com · replicatorblog · 30 Oct 2014

3.1k pts 974 comments

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2048 gabrielecirulli.github.io · frederfred · 10 Mar 2014

2.9k pts 410 comments

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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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Today is The Day We Fight Back thedaywefightback.org · brokenparser · 11 Feb 2014

2.1k pts 258 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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All Our Patent Are Belong To You teslamotors.com · gkoberger · 12 Jun 2014

2k pts 314 comments

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Drop Dropbox drop-dropbox.com · PhilipA · 10 Apr 2014

2k pts 1k comments

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The Heartbleed Bug heartbleed.com · tptacek · 7 Apr 2014

1.8k pts 528 comments

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Hacker News API blog.ycombinator.com · kevin · 7 Oct 2014

1.7k pts 298 comments

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Facebook Fraud [video] youtube.com · fanfantm · 10 Feb 2014

1.7k pts 393 comments

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Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me” plus.google.com · jamesbritt · 19 Jan 2014

1.6k pts 301 comments

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Visualizing Algorithms bost.ocks.org · callum85 · 26 Jun 2014

1.6k pts 88 comments

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Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives newyorker.com · mattmight · 17 Jul 2014

1.5k pts 109 comments

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Atom atom.io · hswolff · 26 Feb 2014

1.5k pts 641 comments

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First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos research.microsoft.com · davidst · 10 Aug 2014

1.5k pts 172 comments

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Don't mess with Newegg blog.newegg.com · keerthiko · 23 May 2014

1.5k pts 190 comments

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Facebook acquires Oculus VR facebook.com · nav · 25 Mar 2014

1.4k pts 837 comments

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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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Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler roslyn.codeplex.com · keithwarren · 3 Apr 2014

1.4k pts 446 comments

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Show HN: Show HN news.ycombinator.com · dang · 3 Jul 2014

1.3k pts 166 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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Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey teslamotors.com · zipop · 14 Mar 2014

1.3k pts 400 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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Light Table is now open source chris-granger.com · endianswap · 8 Jan 2014

1.3k pts 431 comments

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I'm Leaving Mojang notch.net · UnfalseDesign · 15 Sep 2014

1.3k pts 418 comments

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How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help medium.com · kf · 13 Feb 2014

1.2k pts 789 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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Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft theverge.com · coloneltcb · 26 Aug 2014

1.2k pts 391 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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The Swift Programming Language developer.apple.com · falava · 2 Jun 2014

1.2k pts 926 comments

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Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit techcrunch.com · dkasper · 16 Mar 2014

1.2k pts 1.1k comments

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Standard Markdown standardmarkdown.com · hglaser · 3 Sep 2014

1.2k pts 366 comments

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The Face Behind Bitcoin? mag.newsweek.com · warrenmiller · 6 Mar 2014

1.2k pts 678 comments

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

1.2k pts 299 comments

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How we got read access on Google’s production servers blog.detectify.com · detectify · 11 Apr 2014

1.2k pts 192 comments

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Quick tip for developers who use OS X gargarplex · 13 Jan 2014

1.1k pts 395 comments

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Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs techcrunch.com · vassvdm · 19 Feb 2014

1.1k pts 802 comments

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GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide theguardian.com · callum85 · 27 Feb 2014

1.1k pts 304 comments

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Count to ten when a plane goes down johncbeck.tumblr.com · UltraMagnus · 21 Jul 2014

1.1k pts 273 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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Mystery signal from a helicopter windytan.com · schappim · 1 Feb 2014

1.1k pts 78 comments

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My startup failed, and this is what it feels like medium.com · wbharding · 23 Jun 2014

1.1k pts 252 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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Show HN: Markov chains explained visually setosa.io · vicapow · 29 Jul 2014

1.1k pts 92 comments

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Google Inbox googleblog.blogspot.com · jmdenis · 22 Oct 2014

1.1k pts 451 comments

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Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image projectnaptha.com · antimatter15 · 22 Apr 2014

1.1k pts 134 comments

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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username medium.com · micahgoulart · 29 Jan 2014

1k pts 386 comments

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Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear hemingwayapp.com · jmngomes · 12 Feb 2014

1k pts 327 comments

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2048 AI ov3y.github.io · ovolve · 11 Mar 2014

1k pts 189 comments

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Cursors cursors.io · alloyed · 19 Oct 2014

1k pts 236 comments

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

1k pts 320 comments

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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize theguardian.com · ahjones · 29 Jan 2014

1k pts 191 comments

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The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' keybase.io · jashkenas · 8 Oct 2014

1k pts 230 comments

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Write Code Every Day ejohn.org · slig · 10 Apr 2014

1k pts 216 comments

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Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO microsoft.com · fredwu · 4 Feb 2014

1k pts 564 comments

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GitHub Student Developer Pack education.github.com · dctrwatson · 7 Oct 2014

1k pts 207 comments

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Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years github.com · timmorgan · 25 Jul 2014

1k pts 304 comments

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ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit isro.gov.in · skbohra123 · 24 Sep 2014

1k pts 154 comments

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Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire glasswire.com · greenwalls · 25 Aug 2014

1k pts 331 comments

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Nexus 6 google.com · myko · 15 Oct 2014

1k pts 684 comments