The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2015

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YC Research blog.ycombinator.com · sama · 7 Oct 2015

1.8k pts 370 comments

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Let's Encrypt is Trusted letsencrypt.org · coffeecheque · 20 Oct 2015

1.3k pts 311 comments

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Free Lossless Image Format flif.info · davidbarker · 2 Oct 2015

1.3k pts 362 comments

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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? medium.com · alokedesai · 28 Oct 2015

1.1k pts 339 comments

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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? freedom-to-tinker.com · sohkamyung · 15 Oct 2015

1k pts 246 comments

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New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft blogs.windows.com · yread · 6 Oct 2015

875 pts 949 comments

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Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 pigdog.org · MilnerRoute · 6 Oct 2015

809 pts 319 comments

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Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game twitchinstalls.com · jbott · 30 Oct 2015

802 pts 250 comments

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Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department alexandercoward.com · elinear · 12 Oct 2015

778 pts 260 comments

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Mercury Spill jefftk.com · luu · 8 Oct 2015

764 pts 359 comments

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EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software supporters.eff.org · paulmlewis · 27 Oct 2015

730 pts 107 comments

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Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices bloomberg.com · coloneltcb · 1 Oct 2015

716 pts 529 comments

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A story about <input> meowni.ca · kevincennis · 22 Oct 2015

693 pts 181 comments

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The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared eff.org · walterbell · 9 Oct 2015

667 pts 180 comments

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Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA fusion.net · kmfrk · 16 Oct 2015

658 pts 216 comments

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Write like you talk paulgraham.com · bakztfuture · 25 Oct 2015

647 pts 272 comments

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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 anders.unix.se · r3bl · 29 Oct 2015

638 pts 232 comments

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A Guide to Fast Page Loads nateberkopec.com · nateberkopec · 7 Oct 2015

597 pts 163 comments

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Ogo, a new take on personal transportation ogotechnology.com · prawn · 19 Oct 2015

588 pts 182 comments

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Twitter announces layoffs sec.gov · uptown · 13 Oct 2015

582 pts 381 comments

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Losing Sight tink.uk · robin_reala · 3 Oct 2015

564 pts 93 comments

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Europe's highest court has rejected the 'safe harbor' agreement uk.businessinsider.com · noplay · 6 Oct 2015

563 pts 299 comments

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Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? computers-are-fast.github.io · luu · 25 Oct 2015

557 pts 174 comments

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Page Weight Matters (2012) blog.chriszacharias.com · shubhamjain · 15 Oct 2015

556 pts 165 comments

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Show HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos github.com · Jack000 · 12 Oct 2015

548 pts 73 comments

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Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days well.blogs.nytimes.com · imjk · 27 Oct 2015

546 pts 402 comments

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The Hostile Email Landscape liminality.xyz · jodyribton · 17 Oct 2015

544 pts 241 comments

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The Drone Papers theintercept.com · yuvadam · 15 Oct 2015

543 pts 221 comments

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El Capitan and Homebrew github.com · juanfatas · 1 Oct 2015

540 pts 288 comments

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Flux is the new WndProc bitquabit.com · gecko · 13 Oct 2015

532 pts 126 comments

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OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo gisdoctor.com · liotier · 20 Oct 2015

529 pts 138 comments

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The Little Printf ferd.ca · gmcabrita · 12 Oct 2015

529 pts 84 comments

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Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead? Evgeny · 15 Oct 2015

520 pts 174 comments

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The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets theatlantic.com · sergeant3 · 20 Oct 2015

515 pts 283 comments

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Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android wsj.com · sanatgersappa · 29 Oct 2015

510 pts 480 comments

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Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing github.com · dreger · 19 Oct 2015

510 pts 130 comments

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Image diffing using CSS franklinta.com · ck2 · 2 Oct 2015

488 pts 22 comments

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Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014 bbc.co.uk · unfunco · 12 Oct 2015

484 pts 432 comments

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BMW i8 in WebGL car.playcanvas.com · antouank · 21 Oct 2015

479 pts 135 comments

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached nytimes.com · shill · 5 Oct 2015

478 pts 371 comments

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Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers techcrunch.com · jsnathan · 21 Oct 2015

474 pts 268 comments

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For the First Time, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting huffingtonpost.com · fahimulhaq · 29 Oct 2015

468 pts 228 comments

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Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off bugs.debian.org · calpaterson · 22 Oct 2015

450 pts 155 comments

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Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets spectrum.ieee.org · zmanian · 29 Oct 2015

446 pts 109 comments

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Guide to Your Equity github.com · samuelcouch · 9 Oct 2015

442 pts 113 comments

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I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972 boston.craigslist.org · brandonmenc · 3 Oct 2015

438 pts 96 comments

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The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease nytimes.com · apsec112 · 5 Oct 2015

427 pts 209 comments

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LogMeIn acquires Lastpass blog.lastpass.com · anu_gupta · 9 Oct 2015

422 pts 417 comments

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Why Homejoy Failed medium.com · steven · 26 Oct 2015

421 pts 334 comments

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How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? medium.com · steven · 19 Oct 2015

420 pts 502 comments

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Nylas N1 – extensible open-source mail client nylas.com · ropiku · 5 Oct 2015

413 pts 124 comments

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Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy github.com · epsylon · 23 Oct 2015

408 pts 171 comments

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A global movement to ban urban billboards theguardian.com · amelius · 11 Oct 2015

399 pts 192 comments

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Httpie: A CLI http client radek.io · astro- · 20 Oct 2015

391 pts 49 comments

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Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes airpaperinc.com · estsauver · 2 Oct 2015

386 pts 257 comments

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Amazon Snowball aws.amazon.com · polmolea · 7 Oct 2015

384 pts 192 comments

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OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English robb.weblaws.org · dogweather · 18 Oct 2015

381 pts 129 comments

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Machine Learning for Developers xyclade.github.io · haifeng · 8 Oct 2015

380 pts 93 comments

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Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore yegor256.com · nkurz · 28 Oct 2015

379 pts 311 comments

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The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates qz.com · eplanit · 22 Oct 2015

379 pts 189 comments