The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2015

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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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Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 27 Feb 2015

1.6k pts 165 comments

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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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Magic getmagicnow.com · wittyphrasehere · 22 Feb 2015

1.3k pts 528 comments

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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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Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox gizmodo.com · sagivo · 13 Feb 2015

1.2k pts 636 comments

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Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers thenextweb.com · cpeterso · 19 Feb 2015

1.1k pts 419 comments

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“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered arstechnica.com · privong · 16 Feb 2015

870 pts 362 comments

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Extracting the SuperFish certificate blog.erratasec.com · robin_reala · 19 Feb 2015

867 pts 231 comments

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Stripe: Bitcoin stripe.com · sunils34 · 19 Feb 2015

855 pts 368 comments

11

Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma goralph · 14 Feb 2015

806 pts 214 comments

12

Whiteboard Clock docs.google.com · unbeli · 18 Feb 2015

784 pts 82 comments

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Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2 dev.windows.com · velodrome · 2 Feb 2015

723 pts 373 comments

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CoreCLR is now open source blogs.msdn.com · xyziemba · 3 Feb 2015

709 pts 333 comments

15

Side projects antirez.com · fcambus · 26 Feb 2015

698 pts 236 comments

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Now, I can see wifi signals imgur.com · bane · 15 Feb 2015

695 pts 56 comments

17

Introducing Pebble Time kickstarter.com · kenny_r · 24 Feb 2015

658 pts 386 comments

18

“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 eff.org · mxfh · 23 Feb 2015

647 pts 156 comments

19

It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014) schneier.com · dyoder · 25 Feb 2015

638 pts 133 comments

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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Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer nytimes.com · the_duck · 19 Feb 2015

625 pts 121 comments

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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I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords xato.net · m8urn · 10 Feb 2015

594 pts 216 comments

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How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast medium.com · rokhayakebe · 19 Feb 2015

592 pts 88 comments

25

GPG and Me thoughtcrime.org · jashkenas · 24 Feb 2015

588 pts 249 comments

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The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle firstlook.org · frandroid · 19 Feb 2015

576 pts 195 comments

27

Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed theregister.co.uk · mmastrac · 2 Feb 2015

573 pts 201 comments

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Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA reddit.com · ahamdy · 23 Feb 2015

559 pts 79 comments

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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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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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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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First Impressions Using React Native jlongster.com · jlongster · 6 Feb 2015

539 pts 191 comments

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Stop Using LinkedIn stopusinglinkedin.com · ruperp · 13 Feb 2015

534 pts 230 comments

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Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor bloomberg.com · geoffwoo · 2 Feb 2015

523 pts 276 comments

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Goodbye “undefined is not a function” plus.google.com · tosh · 22 Feb 2015

522 pts 65 comments

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A girl who gets gifts from birds bbc.com · th0br0 · 26 Feb 2015

506 pts 136 comments

37

Deleting any Facebook album 7xter.com · compbio · 12 Feb 2015

506 pts 97 comments

38

Flipboard releases React Canvas github.com · jordwalke · 10 Feb 2015

501 pts 131 comments

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

40

Startup advice, briefly blog.samaltman.com · taylorwc · 20 Feb 2015

490 pts 130 comments

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Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens washingtonpost.com · petethomas · 1 Feb 2015

485 pts 295 comments

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Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces crockpotveggies.com · signa11 · 10 Feb 2015

482 pts 171 comments

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The Bitcoin Piñata ownme.ipredator.se · amirmc · 10 Feb 2015

482 pts 103 comments

44

Get your loved ones off Facebook saintsal.com · Siimteller · 1 Feb 2015

471 pts 291 comments

45

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015) whoishiring · 1 Feb 2015

461 pts 637 comments

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Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android gphilip · 10 Feb 2015

448 pts 230 comments

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Modern SQL in PostgreSQL slideshare.net · lelf · 8 Feb 2015

446 pts 130 comments

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YC for Hardware blog.ycombinator.com · sama · 5 Feb 2015

445 pts 128 comments

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FarmLogs blog.samaltman.com · clschnei · 10 Feb 2015

444 pts 87 comments

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HTTP/2 Is Done mnot.net · stephenjudkins · 18 Feb 2015

437 pts 136 comments

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Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program reuters.com · prostoalex · 16 Feb 2015

437 pts 131 comments

52

Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? observationdeck.io9.com · shovel · 8 Feb 2015

428 pts 130 comments

53

Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot youtube.com · mhb · 10 Feb 2015

426 pts 245 comments

54

Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY blog.chromium.org · Nimi · 9 Feb 2015

426 pts 179 comments

55

Ask HN: What up with these startup salaries? whiddershins · 15 Feb 2015

421 pts 416 comments

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Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets websocketd.com · joewalnes · 14 Feb 2015

421 pts 140 comments

57

A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics medium.com · hecubus · 4 Feb 2015

419 pts 222 comments

58

What Color Is Your Function? journal.stuffwithstuff.com · jashkenas · 2 Feb 2015

410 pts 146 comments

59

Join the U.S. Digital Service whitehouse.gov · danso · 3 Feb 2015

409 pts 233 comments

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GitHut – Programming Languages on GitHub githut.info · jrslv · 11 Feb 2015

406 pts 124 comments