The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2015
We track 759 stories from October 2015, averaging 211 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 32 stories. Together they drew 76,820 comments, 101 per story on average.
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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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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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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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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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OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
gisdoctor.com · liotier · 20 Oct 2015
529 pts
138 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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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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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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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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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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Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
airpaperinc.com · estsauver · 2 Oct 2015
386 pts
257 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
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