The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2015
We track 735 stories from July 2015, averaging 218 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 38 stories. Together they drew 76,234 comments, 104 per story on average.
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Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child
spotthedrowningchild.com · omegaworks · 28 Jul 2015
1.2k pts
378 comments
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2
YC Fellowship
blog.ycombinator.com · mattkrisiloff · 20 Jul 2015
998 pts
378 comments
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3
Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)
idlewords.com · jmduke · 21 Jul 2015
988 pts
233 comments
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4
I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10
jonathan.porta.codes · jonathanporta · 30 Jul 2015
965 pts
574 comments
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5
Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
reddit.com · wasd · 3 Jul 2015
963 pts
593 comments
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6
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
nintendo.co.jp · hkmurakami · 12 Jul 2015
937 pts
179 comments
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7
Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
support.mozilla.org · cft · 14 Jul 2015
931 pts
377 comments
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Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home
gainesville.com · cnnrjcbsn · 20 Jul 2015
922 pts
136 comments
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9
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
nytimes.com · jonmarkgo · 10 Jul 2015
862 pts
822 comments
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10
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
nasa.gov · randomname2 · 23 Jul 2015
851 pts
294 comments
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14
Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win
blog.newegg.com · nkurz · 29 Jul 2015
704 pts
151 comments
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15
Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
twitter.com · brie22 · 18 Jul 2015
699 pts
479 comments
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16
Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway
wired.com · SpaceInvader · 21 Jul 2015
691 pts
603 comments
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18
Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
github.com · p8952 · 21 Jul 2015
662 pts
87 comments
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19
If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear
jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 11 Jul 2015
658 pts
308 comments
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21
React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery
reactfordesigners.com · chibicode · 9 Jul 2015
614 pts
230 comments
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25
In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me
washingtonpost.com · webmonkeyuk · 25 Jul 2015
600 pts
285 comments
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26
Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
lg.io · SG- · 10 Jul 2015
592 pts
231 comments
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28
Using Google without a Google+ profile
googleblog.blogspot.com · _khwc · 27 Jul 2015
589 pts
273 comments
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29
Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
csoonline.com · sandmansandine · 6 Jul 2015
582 pts
221 comments
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30
GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
wsj.com · icpmacdo · 29 Jul 2015
569 pts
389 comments
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31
Stop pushing the web forward
quirksmode.org · mmahemoff · 28 Jul 2015
569 pts
299 comments
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33
New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
bbc.co.uk · nns · 14 Jul 2015
558 pts
297 comments
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34
John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language
groups.google.com · minikomi · 1 Jul 2015
555 pts
346 comments
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35
I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help
github.com · mehrzad · 27 Jul 2015
549 pts
74 comments
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36
Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map
whoishiring.it · xando · 6 Jul 2015
546 pts
136 comments
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37
GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'
github.com · necessity · 29 Jul 2015
542 pts
801 comments
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38
Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan
universonline.nl · Someone · 2 Jul 2015
542 pts
126 comments
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39
ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself
swannodette.github.io · programnature · 31 Jul 2015
536 pts
106 comments
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40
Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort
lukew.com · mathattack · 20 Jul 2015
535 pts
234 comments
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41
A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving
nytimes.com · granfalloon · 2 Jul 2015
533 pts
281 comments
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42
Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle
mattg.co.uk · mmastrac · 25 Jul 2015
509 pts
55 comments
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43
How a car works (2012)
howacarworks.com · gshrikant · 17 Jul 2015
508 pts
117 comments
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45
Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production
sirupsen.com · PolandKid · 28 Jul 2015
502 pts
280 comments
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46
Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
blog.mozilla.org · ndesaulniers · 30 Jul 2015
497 pts
290 comments
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47
PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database
github.com · cdjk · 22 Jul 2015
486 pts
204 comments
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49
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died
thehindu.com · Andromeda101 · 27 Jul 2015
458 pts
76 comments
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futilitycloset.com · bemmu · 1 Jul 2015
446 pts
84 comments
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52
Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses
github.com · fiatjaf · 7 Jul 2015
444 pts
92 comments
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54
“Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service”
reddit.com · kgm · 18 Jul 2015
439 pts
67 comments
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56
Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”
medium.com · Thevet · 5 Jul 2015
427 pts
337 comments
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57
FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection
nytimes.com · facetube · 1 Jul 2015
425 pts
152 comments
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58
One in every 600 websites has .git exposed
jamiembrown.com · jamiejin · 26 Jul 2015
424 pts
205 comments
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59
Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication
nytimes.com · conover · 7 Jul 2015
417 pts
217 comments
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