The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2015

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G is for Google googleblog.blogspot.com · dkasper · 10 Aug 2015

2.2k pts 562 comments

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“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this” github.com · realfuncode · 22 Aug 2015

1.5k pts 525 comments

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OnHub on.google.com · ropiku · 18 Aug 2015

984 pts 615 comments

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Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are blog.filippo.io · FiloSottile · 4 Aug 2015

836 pts 245 comments

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Phoenix 1.0 phoenixframework.org · arthurcolle · 28 Aug 2015

792 pts 223 comments

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The Web We Have to Save medium.com · e12e · 3 Aug 2015

760 pts 238 comments

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Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy pixarinabox.org · beneater · 27 Aug 2015

753 pts 65 comments

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Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace nytimes.com · IBM · 15 Aug 2015

708 pts 424 comments

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Bootstrap 4 alpha blog.getbootstrap.com · lobo_tuerto · 19 Aug 2015

655 pts 208 comments

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“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed” kickstarter.com · danso · 12 Aug 2015

645 pts 374 comments

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“Stop reverse engineering our code” blogs.oracle.com · hughstephens · 11 Aug 2015

613 pts 344 comments

12

Eve Version 0 chris-granger.com · darklighter3 · 17 Aug 2015

590 pts 190 comments

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Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay codeornocode · 10 Aug 2015

584 pts 278 comments

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Twitter Contest Winning as a Service hscott.net · zeckalpha · 4 Aug 2015

578 pts 97 comments

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AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic nytimes.com · tchalla · 15 Aug 2015

568 pts 117 comments

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Go 1.5 is released blog.golang.org · rsc · 19 Aug 2015

559 pts 103 comments

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Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment casetext.com · lutesfuentes · 5 Aug 2015

533 pts 173 comments

18

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket gnu.gl · ers35 · 18 Aug 2015

533 pts 154 comments

19

Hack: A typeface designed for source code sourcefoundry.org · erickhill · 29 Aug 2015

521 pts 243 comments

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OS X Command Line Utilities mitchchn.me · AlexeyBrin · 30 Aug 2015

517 pts 202 comments

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Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data github.com · minimaxir · 10 Aug 2015

514 pts 79 comments

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The Unemployable Programmer unemployable.pen.io · fuligo · 3 Aug 2015

513 pts 449 comments

23

Presumption of stupidity aaronkharris.com · garry · 10 Aug 2015

510 pts 178 comments

24

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015) whoishiring · 3 Aug 2015

504 pts 969 comments

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Oliver Sacks has died nytimes.com · aburan28 · 30 Aug 2015

495 pts 37 comments

26

Unix Toolbox cb.vu · lostbit · 7 Aug 2015

491 pts 38 comments

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I made a cell phone [video] youtube.com · luu · 16 Aug 2015

487 pts 79 comments

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We are barely halfway done ascii.textfiles.com · pmorici · 18 Aug 2015

487 pts 74 comments

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The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work deep.design · networked · 10 Aug 2015

484 pts 174 comments

30

Relay Technical Preview facebook.github.io · cpojer · 11 Aug 2015

474 pts 106 comments

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Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane theguardian.com · tokenadult · 12 Aug 2015

472 pts 123 comments

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Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1 plus.google.com · cpeterso · 28 Aug 2015

462 pts 172 comments

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Tufte CSS daveliepmann.com · isp · 5 Aug 2015

461 pts 103 comments

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“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon” medium.com · tchalla · 26 Aug 2015

458 pts 297 comments

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Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to Microsoft arstechnica.co.uk · gregmolnar · 13 Aug 2015

453 pts 257 comments

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Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody imageplay.io · loomi · 5 Aug 2015

451 pts 167 comments

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Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way washingtonpost.com · nkassis · 11 Aug 2015

446 pts 197 comments

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Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) npr.org · Practicality · 14 Aug 2015

445 pts 184 comments

39

Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks hexahedria.com · hexahedria · 8 Aug 2015

443 pts 120 comments

40

The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures bzarg.com · tbabb · 11 Aug 2015

443 pts 48 comments

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Edward Snowden at IETF 93 gist.github.com · grey-area · 14 Aug 2015

442 pts 139 comments

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Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application github.com · nimitkalra · 17 Aug 2015

442 pts 62 comments

43

CS for All cs.hmc.edu · joeclef · 10 Aug 2015

439 pts 63 comments

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LLVM for Grad Students adriansampson.net · samps · 3 Aug 2015

439 pts 50 comments

45

Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview techblog.netflix.com · vquemener · 17 Aug 2015

438 pts 50 comments

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My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon qz.com · lladnar · 19 Aug 2015

437 pts 330 comments

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From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth nasa.gov · dnetesn · 6 Aug 2015

437 pts 153 comments

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Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled up1.ca · ultramancool · 10 Aug 2015

436 pts 274 comments

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Bernie Sanders' 404 page berniesanders.com · duggieawesome · 26 Aug 2015

434 pts 262 comments

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How “oldschool” graphics worked [video] youtube.com · brk · 18 Aug 2015

434 pts 72 comments

51

Intel open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system blogs.msdn.com · btzll · 17 Aug 2015

432 pts 64 comments

52

WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages wordsafety.com · randall · 25 Aug 2015

431 pts 276 comments

53

Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com · jeena · 1 Aug 2015

427 pts 432 comments

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Shutdownify is shutting down shutdownify.com · jawns · 19 Aug 2015

423 pts 95 comments

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Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video] youtube.com · makmanalp · 21 Aug 2015

423 pts 41 comments

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Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec blogs.cisco.com · TD-Linux · 11 Aug 2015

422 pts 164 comments

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Windows Bridge for iOS github.com · jmsaunders · 6 Aug 2015

417 pts 142 comments

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Firefox exploit found in the wild blog.mozilla.org · _jomo · 7 Aug 2015

415 pts 265 comments

59

Who Hacked Ashley Madison? krebsonsecurity.com · david_shaw · 26 Aug 2015

410 pts 293 comments

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John Carmack's son's game in Racket groups.google.com · tesmar2 · 24 Aug 2015

402 pts 169 comments