The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2015
We track 720 stories from September 2015, averaging 217 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 46 stories. Together they drew 71,088 comments, 99 per story on average.
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14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
techcrunch.com · ahmad19526 · 16 Sep 2015
2k pts
946 comments
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2
Amazon Web Services in Plain English
expeditedssl.com · ins0 · 11 Sep 2015
1.5k pts
223 comments
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4
Show HN: Make a programmable mirror
github.com · hannahmitt · 11 Sep 2015
1.2k pts
136 comments
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5
Our First Certificate Is Now Live
letsencrypt.org · joshmoz · 14 Sep 2015
1.1k pts
255 comments
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6
Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says
nytimes.com · uptown · 28 Sep 2015
1k pts
178 comments
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7
React Native for Android
code.facebook.com · Kajdav · 14 Sep 2015
907 pts
240 comments
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8
'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules
latimes.com · augustocallejas · 23 Sep 2015
872 pts
196 comments
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9
Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
nytimes.com · m_haggar · 21 Sep 2015
830 pts
450 comments
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10
Otto, the successor to Vagrant
hashicorp.com · agonzalezro · 28 Sep 2015
772 pts
177 comments
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11
When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup
medium.com · katm · 22 Sep 2015
767 pts
233 comments
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12
Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
zulip.org · joeclef · 25 Sep 2015
755 pts
313 comments
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13
What Happens Next Will Amaze You
idlewords.com · synacksynack · 23 Sep 2015
753 pts
281 comments
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16
Google’s look, evolved
googleblog.blogspot.com · rryan · 1 Sep 2015
683 pts
430 comments
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17
Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads
techcrunch.com · zhuxuefeng1994 · 1 Sep 2015
683 pts
302 comments
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18
Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
hellorhei.com · damjanstankovic · 26 Sep 2015
681 pts
103 comments
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19
Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA
eff.org · panarky · 22 Sep 2015
641 pts
158 comments
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20
The Website That Got Me Expelled
codeword.xyz · Rudism · 5 Sep 2015
639 pts
281 comments
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21
New human-like species discovered
bbc.co.uk · m1k3r420 · 10 Sep 2015
635 pts
211 comments
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22
Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
ipfs.io · stesch · 8 Sep 2015
632 pts
235 comments
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24
The Case of Richard Glossip
pg.posthaven.com · david_shaw · 28 Sep 2015
595 pts
223 comments
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27
Show HN: Hacker News Simulator
news.ycombniator.com · orf · 20 Sep 2015
572 pts
163 comments
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28
Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
medium.com · orf · 18 Sep 2015
561 pts
414 comments
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29
Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money
qz.com · jmngomes · 1 Sep 2015
553 pts
300 comments
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30
37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned
flyertalk.com · rplnt · 14 Sep 2015
552 pts
230 comments
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31
Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
mattcutts.com · espadrine · 24 Sep 2015
549 pts
453 comments
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32
Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
nasa.gov · adventured · 18 Sep 2015
543 pts
95 comments
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33
I'm Begging for Work
brokedev.tumblr.com · brokedev · 10 Sep 2015
497 pts
336 comments
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35
Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
glowforge.com · mlmilleratmit · 24 Sep 2015
493 pts
205 comments
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37
New React Developer Tools
facebook.github.io · spicyj · 2 Sep 2015
487 pts
126 comments
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38
How we ended up with microservices
philcalcado.com · hyperpallium · 9 Sep 2015
479 pts
90 comments
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39
Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
backblaze.com · discreditable · 4 Sep 2015
476 pts
267 comments
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40
Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet
nytimes.com · nkurz · 24 Sep 2015
474 pts
227 comments
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41
Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place
wired.com · sk2code · 16 Sep 2015
473 pts
325 comments
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42
Tech companies lobbying for CISA are abandoning their users' privacy
youbetrayedus.org · ingve · 23 Sep 2015
470 pts
91 comments
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43
The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever
snellman.net · kryptiskt · 1 Sep 2015
464 pts
238 comments
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44
Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results
transportenvironment.org · antr · 30 Sep 2015
462 pts
324 comments
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45
Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership
recode.net · uptown · 15 Sep 2015
460 pts
274 comments
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46
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities
theintercept.com · jakobdabo · 25 Sep 2015
450 pts
236 comments
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48
Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
techcrunch.com · salimmadjd · 9 Sep 2015
446 pts
842 comments
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50
OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes
optikey.org · aw3c2 · 10 Sep 2015
437 pts
86 comments
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51
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
whoishiring · 1 Sep 2015
436 pts
864 comments
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52
Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online book
immersivemath.com · samlittlewood · 8 Sep 2015
434 pts
78 comments
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53
How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours
bytecrafter.blogspot.com · rograndom · 4 Sep 2015
430 pts
490 comments
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54
Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element
hacks.mozilla.org · liotier · 30 Sep 2015
429 pts
79 comments
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56
The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)
remysharp.com · ColinWright · 17 Sep 2015
418 pts
176 comments
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57
Computer science courses that don't exist, but should
prog21.dadgum.com · Scramblejams · 11 Sep 2015
415 pts
247 comments
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58
Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
blog.evernote.com · jasondc · 29 Sep 2015
412 pts
448 comments
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59
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
backblaze.com · SudoAlex · 22 Sep 2015
411 pts
225 comments
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