The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2015

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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor techcrunch.com · TiredOfLife · 29 Apr 2015

1.6k pts 543 comments

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Console.mihai(); incompleteness.me · julien · 27 Apr 2015

1.4k pts 50 comments

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New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity blog.ycombinator.com · sama · 3 Apr 2015

1.2k pts 631 comments

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I Quit: What really goes on at Apple roadlesstravelled.me · andrew_gs · 8 Apr 2015

1.2k pts 544 comments

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The days are long but the decades are short blog.samaltman.com · jordanmessina · 28 Apr 2015

1.2k pts 387 comments

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Project Fi by Google fi.google.com · _optl · 22 Apr 2015

1.1k pts 581 comments

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How to Center in CSS howtocenterincss.com · plurby · 19 Apr 2015

1k pts 289 comments

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Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died messages.yale.edu · bigfishprod · 30 Apr 2015

1k pts 89 comments

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The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers vitavonni.de · Spakman · 22 Apr 2015

970 pts 443 comments

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Myself – v1.0.3 codepen.io · mmastrac · 3 Apr 2015

965 pts 78 comments

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Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X truesecdev.wordpress.com · mortenlarsen · 9 Apr 2015

920 pts 356 comments

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Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it dominik-schwarz.net · herrherr · 30 Apr 2015

919 pts 220 comments

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Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac techcrunch.com · Errorcod3 · 29 Apr 2015

915 pts 237 comments

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The 500-mile email (2002) web.mit.edu · folz · 8 Apr 2015

915 pts 139 comments

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What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years talkingquickly.co.uk · vinnyglennon · 7 Apr 2015

865 pts 275 comments

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Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example transformy.io · createmyaccount · 24 Apr 2015

764 pts 144 comments

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Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support forums.getpebble.com · FreakyT · 23 Apr 2015

702 pts 407 comments

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Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn animalnewyork.com · jdi626 · 6 Apr 2015

696 pts 360 comments

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Docker without Docker chimeracoder.github.io · deepakprakash · 26 Apr 2015

681 pts 97 comments

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Announcing Git Large File Storage github.com · dewski · 8 Apr 2015

620 pts 159 comments

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Show HN: A random startup generator tiffzhang.com · LikeMyBread · 23 Apr 2015

607 pts 189 comments

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Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads aphyr.com · llambda · 21 Apr 2015

605 pts 144 comments

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Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw huffingtonpost.in · nileshtrivedi · 15 Apr 2015

602 pts 195 comments

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Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps google.com · ezhik_ · 24 Apr 2015

594 pts 190 comments

25

List of April Fools' Day Announcements conroy · 1 Apr 2015

592 pts 538 comments

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We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership wired.com · klunger · 21 Apr 2015

578 pts 394 comments

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Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older? tastyface · 7 Apr 2015

558 pts 408 comments

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To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014) hbr.org · edward · 13 Apr 2015

543 pts 225 comments

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Fearless concurrency with Rust blog.rust-lang.org · steveklabnik · 10 Apr 2015

542 pts 179 comments

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Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship hostmeinca.com · MarekDlugos · 29 Apr 2015

533 pts 240 comments

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Agar.io agar.io · primigenus · 30 Apr 2015

528 pts 219 comments

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Get your own USB PID pid.codes · oxplot · 4 Apr 2015

528 pts 50 comments

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John Resig annotates original jQuery source code genius.com · tomlemon · 7 Apr 2015

523 pts 97 comments

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Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds linux.com · lclark · 6 Apr 2015

509 pts 177 comments

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NGINX open sources TCP load balancing hg.nginx.org · realityking · 20 Apr 2015

500 pts 117 comments

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Four days of Go evanmiller.org · wtbob · 22 Apr 2015

496 pts 180 comments

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden] youtube.com · XioNoX · 6 Apr 2015

494 pts 138 comments

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Under Pressure minusbat.livejournal.com · FatalLogic · 27 Apr 2015

494 pts 96 comments

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Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring? whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me · manlio · 9 Apr 2015

493 pts 117 comments

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VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos youtube-eng.blogspot.com · jplevine · 6 Apr 2015

483 pts 197 comments

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Truecrypt report blog.cryptographyengineering.com · java-man · 2 Apr 2015

479 pts 174 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015) _whoishiring · 1 Apr 2015

473 pts 949 comments

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Google pulling China CNNIC CA from its products googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com · tptacek · 2 Apr 2015

472 pts 159 comments

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Amazon Elastic File System aws.amazon.com · suprgeek · 9 Apr 2015

471 pts 213 comments

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The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy vox.com · prawn · 13 Apr 2015

461 pts 214 comments

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OS X Reviewed hypercritical.co · Doubleguitars · 16 Apr 2015

461 pts 109 comments

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Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters eff.org · billyvg · 10 Apr 2015

460 pts 86 comments

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Remote Kernel Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On Windows ma.ttias.be · Mojah · 15 Apr 2015

458 pts 186 comments

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HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can porter.io · adieu · 7 Apr 2015

455 pts 163 comments

50

Jq – A Command-line JSON processor stedolan.github.io · geekrax · 27 Apr 2015

451 pts 91 comments

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What happens if you remove randomness from Doom? jmtd.net · pdw · 23 Apr 2015

450 pts 102 comments

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Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking” eff.org · CapitalistCartr · 20 Apr 2015

442 pts 217 comments

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Vault – A tool for managing secrets hashicorp.com · eloycoto · 28 Apr 2015

440 pts 107 comments

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Redis 3.0.0 is out groups.google.com · agonzalezro · 1 Apr 2015

440 pts 78 comments

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The Fuck – Correct your previous console command github.com · nvbn · 17 Apr 2015

438 pts 165 comments

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Elevator.js tholman.com · ozh · 21 Apr 2015

438 pts 66 comments

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Prof. Sussman's Reading List aurellem.org · jonnybgood · 20 Apr 2015

437 pts 75 comments

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Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem explained superpowered.com · lmedinas · 16 Apr 2015

431 pts 299 comments

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Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot acuman.us · seanlevan · 16 Apr 2015

430 pts 297 comments

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“The colored boxes indicate which CPU core performed layout for each node” blog.servo.org · steveklabnik · 2 Apr 2015

429 pts 57 comments