The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2015
We track 718 stories from February 2015, averaging 223 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 40 stories. Together they drew 68,862 comments, 96 per story on average.
1
Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
propublica.org · r0h1n · 5 Feb 2015
2.1k pts
453 comments
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2
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 27 Feb 2015
1.6k pts
165 comments
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3
FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote
techcrunch.com · LukeB_UK · 26 Feb 2015
1.5k pts
711 comments
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5
FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
wired.com · Libertatea · 4 Feb 2015
1.3k pts
424 comments
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6
Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
gizmodo.com · sagivo · 13 Feb 2015
1.2k pts
636 comments
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7
Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
thenextweb.com · cpeterso · 19 Feb 2015
1.1k pts
419 comments
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8
“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered
arstechnica.com · privong · 16 Feb 2015
870 pts
362 comments
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9
Extracting the SuperFish certificate
blog.erratasec.com · robin_reala · 19 Feb 2015
867 pts
231 comments
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11
Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
goralph · 14 Feb 2015
806 pts
214 comments
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13
Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
dev.windows.com · velodrome · 2 Feb 2015
723 pts
373 comments
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14
CoreCLR is now open source
blogs.msdn.com · xyziemba · 3 Feb 2015
709 pts
333 comments
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17
Introducing Pebble Time
kickstarter.com · kenny_r · 24 Feb 2015
658 pts
386 comments
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18
“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
eff.org · mxfh · 23 Feb 2015
647 pts
156 comments
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19
It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)
schneier.com · dyoder · 25 Feb 2015
638 pts
133 comments
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20
F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility
nytimes.com · NearAP · 2 Feb 2015
636 pts
438 comments
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21
Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer
nytimes.com · the_duck · 19 Feb 2015
625 pts
121 comments
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22
Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken
envisage-project.eu · amund · 24 Feb 2015
608 pts
140 comments
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23
I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords
xato.net · m8urn · 10 Feb 2015
594 pts
216 comments
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24
How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast
medium.com · rokhayakebe · 19 Feb 2015
592 pts
88 comments
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26
The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
firstlook.org · frandroid · 19 Feb 2015
576 pts
195 comments
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27
Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed
theregister.co.uk · mmastrac · 2 Feb 2015
573 pts
201 comments
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28
Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
reddit.com · ahamdy · 23 Feb 2015
559 pts
79 comments
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29
The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up
slate.com · tokenadult · 13 Feb 2015
552 pts
173 comments
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30
How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
nymag.com · danso · 24 Feb 2015
548 pts
210 comments
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31
A Xenon flash will cause the Raspberry Pi 2 to freeze
raspberrypi.org · voltagex_ · 7 Feb 2015
544 pts
128 comments
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32
First Impressions Using React Native
jlongster.com · jlongster · 6 Feb 2015
539 pts
191 comments
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33
Stop Using LinkedIn
stopusinglinkedin.com · ruperp · 13 Feb 2015
534 pts
230 comments
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34
Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
bloomberg.com · geoffwoo · 2 Feb 2015
523 pts
276 comments
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35
Goodbye “undefined is not a function”
plus.google.com · tosh · 22 Feb 2015
522 pts
65 comments
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36
A girl who gets gifts from birds
bbc.com · th0br0 · 26 Feb 2015
506 pts
136 comments
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38
Flipboard releases React Canvas
github.com · jordwalke · 10 Feb 2015
501 pts
131 comments
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39
Browser Vulnerability to Superfish: A Fact-Finding Trip to Best Buy [pdf]
bug1134506.bugzilla.mozilla.org · ndesaulniers · 20 Feb 2015
494 pts
174 comments
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40
Startup advice, briefly
blog.samaltman.com · taylorwc · 20 Feb 2015
490 pts
130 comments
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41
Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens
washingtonpost.com · petethomas · 1 Feb 2015
485 pts
295 comments
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42
Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
crockpotveggies.com · signa11 · 10 Feb 2015
482 pts
171 comments
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44
Get your loved ones off Facebook
saintsal.com · Siimteller · 1 Feb 2015
471 pts
291 comments
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45
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
whoishiring · 1 Feb 2015
461 pts
637 comments
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46
Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android
gphilip · 10 Feb 2015
448 pts
230 comments
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51
Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
reuters.com · prostoalex · 16 Feb 2015
437 pts
131 comments
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52
Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?
observationdeck.io9.com · shovel · 8 Feb 2015
428 pts
130 comments
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53
Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot
youtube.com · mhb · 10 Feb 2015
426 pts
245 comments
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54
Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY
blog.chromium.org · Nimi · 9 Feb 2015
426 pts
179 comments
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55
Ask HN: What up with these startup salaries?
whiddershins · 15 Feb 2015
421 pts
416 comments
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56
Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets
websocketd.com · joewalnes · 14 Feb 2015
421 pts
140 comments
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57
A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics
medium.com · hecubus · 4 Feb 2015
419 pts
222 comments
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58
What Color Is Your Function?
journal.stuffwithstuff.com · jashkenas · 2 Feb 2015
410 pts
146 comments
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59
Join the U.S. Digital Service
whitehouse.gov · danso · 3 Feb 2015
409 pts
233 comments
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60
GitHut – Programming Languages on GitHub
githut.info · jrslv · 11 Feb 2015
406 pts
124 comments
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