The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2015

1

14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School techcrunch.com · ahmad19526 · 16 Sep 2015

2k pts 946 comments

2

Amazon Web Services in Plain English expeditedssl.com · ins0 · 11 Sep 2015

1.5k pts 223 comments

3

Node v4.0.0 nodejs.org · mmebane · 8 Sep 2015

1.2k pts 267 comments

4

Show HN: Make a programmable mirror github.com · hannahmitt · 11 Sep 2015

1.2k pts 136 comments

5

Our First Certificate Is Now Live letsencrypt.org · joshmoz · 14 Sep 2015

1.1k pts 255 comments

6

Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says nytimes.com · uptown · 28 Sep 2015

1k pts 178 comments

7

React Native for Android code.facebook.com · Kajdav · 14 Sep 2015

907 pts 240 comments

8

'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules latimes.com · augustocallejas · 23 Sep 2015

872 pts 196 comments

9

Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight nytimes.com · m_haggar · 21 Sep 2015

830 pts 450 comments

10

Otto, the successor to Vagrant hashicorp.com · agonzalezro · 28 Sep 2015

772 pts 177 comments

11

When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup medium.com · katm · 22 Sep 2015

767 pts 233 comments

12

Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip zulip.org · joeclef · 25 Sep 2015

755 pts 313 comments

13

What Happens Next Will Amaze You idlewords.com · synacksynack · 23 Sep 2015

753 pts 281 comments

14

The Pixel Factory acko.net · bpierre · 7 Sep 2015

739 pts 47 comments

15

Two HN Announcements blog.ycombinator.com · tilt · 29 Sep 2015

698 pts 284 comments

16

Google’s look, evolved googleblog.blogspot.com · rryan · 1 Sep 2015

683 pts 430 comments

17

Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads techcrunch.com · zhuxuefeng1994 · 1 Sep 2015

683 pts 302 comments

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

19

Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA eff.org · panarky · 22 Sep 2015

641 pts 158 comments

20

The Website That Got Me Expelled codeword.xyz · Rudism · 5 Sep 2015

639 pts 281 comments

21

New human-like species discovered bbc.co.uk · m1k3r420 · 10 Sep 2015

635 pts 211 comments

22

Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web ipfs.io · stesch · 8 Sep 2015

632 pts 235 comments

23

Show HN: %%30%30: A Game github.com · szhu · 20 Sep 2015

608 pts 89 comments

24

The Case of Richard Glossip pg.posthaven.com · david_shaw · 28 Sep 2015

595 pts 223 comments

25

Amazon Flex flex.amazon.com · adrow · 29 Sep 2015

593 pts 461 comments

26

Stripe: Open Source stripe.com · benjamindc · 3 Sep 2015

581 pts 64 comments

27

Show HN: Hacker News Simulator news.ycombniator.com · orf · 20 Sep 2015

572 pts 163 comments

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

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

30

37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned flyertalk.com · rplnt · 14 Sep 2015

552 pts 230 comments

31

Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads mattcutts.com · espadrine · 24 Sep 2015

549 pts 453 comments

32

Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama nasa.gov · adventured · 18 Sep 2015

543 pts 95 comments

33

I'm Begging for Work brokedev.tumblr.com · brokedev · 10 Sep 2015

497 pts 336 comments

34

Google Nexus 5x and 6P google.com · tmlee · 29 Sep 2015

495 pts 550 comments

35

Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter glowforge.com · mlmilleratmit · 24 Sep 2015

493 pts 205 comments

36

Python 3.5.0 python.org · korisnik · 13 Sep 2015

491 pts 154 comments

37

New React Developer Tools facebook.github.io · spicyj · 2 Sep 2015

487 pts 126 comments

38

How we ended up with microservices philcalcado.com · hyperpallium · 9 Sep 2015

479 pts 90 comments

39

Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business backblaze.com · discreditable · 4 Sep 2015

476 pts 267 comments

40

Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet nytimes.com · nkurz · 24 Sep 2015

474 pts 227 comments

41

Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place wired.com · sk2code · 16 Sep 2015

473 pts 325 comments

42

Tech companies lobbying for CISA are abandoning their users' privacy youbetrayedus.org · ingve · 23 Sep 2015

470 pts 91 comments

43

The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever snellman.net · kryptiskt · 1 Sep 2015

464 pts 238 comments

44

Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results transportenvironment.org · antr · 30 Sep 2015

462 pts 324 comments

45

Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership recode.net · uptown · 15 Sep 2015

460 pts 274 comments

46

From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities theintercept.com · jakobdabo · 25 Sep 2015

450 pts 236 comments

47

Just doesn’t feel good marco.org · coloneltcb · 18 Sep 2015

449 pts 297 comments

48

Apple Unveils the iPad Pro techcrunch.com · salimmadjd · 9 Sep 2015

446 pts 842 comments

49

Chris Poole avc.com · doppp · 23 Sep 2015

441 pts 152 comments

50

OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes optikey.org · aw3c2 · 10 Sep 2015

437 pts 86 comments

51

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015) whoishiring · 1 Sep 2015

436 pts 864 comments

52

Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online book immersivemath.com · samlittlewood · 8 Sep 2015

434 pts 78 comments

53

How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours bytecrafter.blogspot.com · rograndom · 4 Sep 2015

430 pts 490 comments

54

Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element hacks.mozilla.org · liotier · 30 Sep 2015

429 pts 79 comments

55

HTML5 Deck of Cards pakastin.github.io · delambo · 3 Sep 2015

419 pts 157 comments

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

57

Computer science courses that don't exist, but should prog21.dadgum.com · Scramblejams · 11 Sep 2015

415 pts 247 comments

58

Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices blog.evernote.com · jasondc · 29 Sep 2015

412 pts 448 comments

59

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage backblaze.com · SudoAlex · 22 Sep 2015

411 pts 225 comments

60

Fukushima podniesinski.pl · JoshGlazebrook · 22 Sep 2015

404 pts 211 comments