The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2015

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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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YC Fellowship blog.ycombinator.com · mattkrisiloff · 20 Jul 2015

998 pts 378 comments

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Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014) idlewords.com · jmduke · 21 Jul 2015

988 pts 233 comments

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I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 jonathan.porta.codes · jonathanporta · 30 Jul 2015

965 pts 574 comments

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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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Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf] nintendo.co.jp · hkmurakami · 12 Jul 2015

937 pts 179 comments

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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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Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief nytimes.com · jonmarkgo · 10 Jul 2015

862 pts 822 comments

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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth nasa.gov · randomname2 · 23 Jul 2015

851 pts 294 comments

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Tell HN: Hello wwwarsame · 19 Jul 2015

847 pts 179 comments

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7 Rejections medium.com · flylib · 12 Jul 2015

720 pts 192 comments

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Dear Google Mail Team plus.google.com · ingve · 17 Jul 2015

719 pts 260 comments

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Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win blog.newegg.com · nkurz · 29 Jul 2015

704 pts 151 comments

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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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Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway wired.com · SpaceInvader · 21 Jul 2015

691 pts 603 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015) whoishiring · 1 Jul 2015

673 pts 1.1k comments

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Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash github.com · p8952 · 21 Jul 2015

662 pts 87 comments

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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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Stuff in Space stuffin.space · andygambles · 6 Jul 2015

629 pts 130 comments

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React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery reactfordesigners.com · chibicode · 9 Jul 2015

614 pts 230 comments

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Two.js jonobr1.github.io · bikeshack · 16 Jul 2015

613 pts 88 comments

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The Really Big One newyorker.com · Thevet · 13 Jul 2015

612 pts 274 comments

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Pure UI rauchg.com · brbcoding · 13 Jul 2015

603 pts 102 comments

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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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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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The Icy Mountains of Pluto nasa.gov · Thorondor · 15 Jul 2015

591 pts 136 comments

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Using Google without a Google+ profile googleblog.blogspot.com · _khwc · 27 Jul 2015

589 pts 273 comments

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Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data csoonline.com · sandmansandine · 6 Jul 2015

582 pts 221 comments

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GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation wsj.com · icpmacdo · 29 Jul 2015

569 pts 389 comments

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Stop pushing the web forward quirksmode.org · mmahemoff · 28 Jul 2015

569 pts 299 comments

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Potato paradox en.wikipedia.org · Panoramix · 15 Jul 2015

559 pts 132 comments

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New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto bbc.co.uk · nns · 14 Jul 2015

558 pts 297 comments

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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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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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Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map whoishiring.it · xando · 6 Jul 2015

546 pts 136 comments

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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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Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan universonline.nl · Someone · 2 Jul 2015

542 pts 126 comments

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ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself swannodette.github.io · programnature · 31 Jul 2015

536 pts 106 comments

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Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort lukew.com · mathattack · 20 Jul 2015

535 pts 234 comments

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A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving nytimes.com · granfalloon · 2 Jul 2015

533 pts 281 comments

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Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle mattg.co.uk · mmastrac · 25 Jul 2015

509 pts 55 comments

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How a car works (2012) howacarworks.com · gshrikant · 17 Jul 2015

508 pts 117 comments

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Airbnb, My $1B Lesson arenavc.com · rvcamo · 23 Jul 2015

504 pts 138 comments

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Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production sirupsen.com · PolandKid · 28 Jul 2015

502 pts 280 comments

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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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PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database github.com · cdjk · 22 Jul 2015

486 pts 204 comments

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The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts wsj.com · eas · 10 Jul 2015

473 pts 180 comments

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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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1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999 futilitycloset.com · bemmu · 1 Jul 2015

446 pts 84 comments

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How Shazam works coding-geek.com · billconan · 11 Jul 2015

446 pts 48 comments

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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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Facebook’s Piracy Problem slate.com · wesd · 8 Jul 2015

439 pts 236 comments

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“Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service” reddit.com · kgm · 18 Jul 2015

439 pts 67 comments

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How I became an artist medium.com · noahbradley · 6 Jul 2015

437 pts 106 comments

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Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.” medium.com · Thevet · 5 Jul 2015

427 pts 337 comments

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FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection nytimes.com · facetube · 1 Jul 2015

425 pts 152 comments

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One in every 600 websites has .git exposed jamiembrown.com · jamiejin · 26 Jul 2015

424 pts 205 comments

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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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Project Oberon projectoberon.com · Fenume · 7 Jul 2015

417 pts 87 comments