The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2015
We track 731 stories from August 2015, averaging 208 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 42 stories. Together they drew 70,886 comments, 97 per story on average.
1
G is for Google
googleblog.blogspot.com · dkasper · 10 Aug 2015
2.2k pts
562 comments
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2
“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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4
Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are
blog.filippo.io · FiloSottile · 4 Aug 2015
836 pts
245 comments
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7
Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy
pixarinabox.org · beneater · 27 Aug 2015
753 pts
65 comments
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8
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
nytimes.com · IBM · 15 Aug 2015
708 pts
424 comments
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9
Bootstrap 4 alpha
blog.getbootstrap.com · lobo_tuerto · 19 Aug 2015
655 pts
208 comments
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10
“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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11
“Stop reverse engineering our code”
blogs.oracle.com · hughstephens · 11 Aug 2015
613 pts
344 comments
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13
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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14
Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
hscott.net · zeckalpha · 4 Aug 2015
578 pts
97 comments
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15
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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17
Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment
casetext.com · lutesfuentes · 5 Aug 2015
533 pts
173 comments
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18
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket
gnu.gl · ers35 · 18 Aug 2015
533 pts
154 comments
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19
Hack: A typeface designed for source code
sourcefoundry.org · erickhill · 29 Aug 2015
521 pts
243 comments
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20
OS X Command Line Utilities
mitchchn.me · AlexeyBrin · 30 Aug 2015
517 pts
202 comments
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21
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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22
The Unemployable Programmer
unemployable.pen.io · fuligo · 3 Aug 2015
513 pts
449 comments
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23
Presumption of stupidity
aaronkharris.com · garry · 10 Aug 2015
510 pts
178 comments
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28
We are barely halfway done
ascii.textfiles.com · pmorici · 18 Aug 2015
487 pts
74 comments
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29
The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work
deep.design · networked · 10 Aug 2015
484 pts
174 comments
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30
Relay Technical Preview
facebook.github.io · cpojer · 11 Aug 2015
474 pts
106 comments
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31
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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32
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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34
“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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35
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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36
Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody
imageplay.io · loomi · 5 Aug 2015
451 pts
167 comments
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37
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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38
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
npr.org · Practicality · 14 Aug 2015
445 pts
184 comments
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39
Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks
hexahedria.com · hexahedria · 8 Aug 2015
443 pts
120 comments
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40
The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures
bzarg.com · tbabb · 11 Aug 2015
443 pts
48 comments
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41
Edward Snowden at IETF 93
gist.github.com · grey-area · 14 Aug 2015
442 pts
139 comments
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42
Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application
github.com · nimitkalra · 17 Aug 2015
442 pts
62 comments
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45
Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview
techblog.netflix.com · vquemener · 17 Aug 2015
438 pts
50 comments
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46
My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon
qz.com · lladnar · 19 Aug 2015
437 pts
330 comments
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47
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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48
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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49
Bernie Sanders' 404 page
berniesanders.com · duggieawesome · 26 Aug 2015
434 pts
262 comments
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50
How “oldschool” graphics worked [video]
youtube.com · brk · 18 Aug 2015
434 pts
72 comments
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51
Intel open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system
blogs.msdn.com · btzll · 17 Aug 2015
432 pts
64 comments
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52
WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
wordsafety.com · randall · 25 Aug 2015
431 pts
276 comments
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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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54
Shutdownify is shutting down
shutdownify.com · jawns · 19 Aug 2015
423 pts
95 comments
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55
Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]
youtube.com · makmanalp · 21 Aug 2015
423 pts
41 comments
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56
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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58
Firefox exploit found in the wild
blog.mozilla.org · _jomo · 7 Aug 2015
415 pts
265 comments
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59
Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
krebsonsecurity.com · david_shaw · 26 Aug 2015
410 pts
293 comments
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60
John Carmack's son's game in Racket
groups.google.com · tesmar2 · 24 Aug 2015
402 pts
169 comments
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