The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2015
We track 761 stories from April 2015, averaging 221 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 37 stories. Together they drew 73,927 comments, 97 per story on average.
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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
techcrunch.com · TiredOfLife · 29 Apr 2015
1.6k pts
543 comments
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3
New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
blog.ycombinator.com · sama · 3 Apr 2015
1.2k pts
631 comments
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4
I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
roadlesstravelled.me · andrew_gs · 8 Apr 2015
1.2k pts
544 comments
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5
The days are long but the decades are short
blog.samaltman.com · jordanmessina · 28 Apr 2015
1.2k pts
387 comments
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8
Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died
messages.yale.edu · bigfishprod · 30 Apr 2015
1k pts
89 comments
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9
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
vitavonni.de · Spakman · 22 Apr 2015
970 pts
443 comments
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11
Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X
truesecdev.wordpress.com · mortenlarsen · 9 Apr 2015
920 pts
356 comments
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12
Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
dominik-schwarz.net · herrherr · 30 Apr 2015
919 pts
220 comments
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13
Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac
techcrunch.com · Errorcod3 · 29 Apr 2015
915 pts
237 comments
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15
What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years
talkingquickly.co.uk · vinnyglennon · 7 Apr 2015
865 pts
275 comments
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16
Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
transformy.io · createmyaccount · 24 Apr 2015
764 pts
144 comments
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17
Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support
forums.getpebble.com · FreakyT · 23 Apr 2015
702 pts
407 comments
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18
Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
animalnewyork.com · jdi626 · 6 Apr 2015
696 pts
360 comments
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19
Docker without Docker
chimeracoder.github.io · deepakprakash · 26 Apr 2015
681 pts
97 comments
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20
Announcing Git Large File Storage
github.com · dewski · 8 Apr 2015
620 pts
159 comments
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21
Show HN: A random startup generator
tiffzhang.com · LikeMyBread · 23 Apr 2015
607 pts
189 comments
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22
Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads
aphyr.com · llambda · 21 Apr 2015
605 pts
144 comments
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23
Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw
huffingtonpost.in · nileshtrivedi · 15 Apr 2015
602 pts
195 comments
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24
Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
google.com · ezhik_ · 24 Apr 2015
594 pts
190 comments
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26
We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
wired.com · klunger · 21 Apr 2015
578 pts
394 comments
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27
Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
tastyface · 7 Apr 2015
558 pts
408 comments
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28
To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)
hbr.org · edward · 13 Apr 2015
543 pts
225 comments
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29
Fearless concurrency with Rust
blog.rust-lang.org · steveklabnik · 10 Apr 2015
542 pts
179 comments
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30
Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship
hostmeinca.com · MarekDlugos · 29 Apr 2015
533 pts
240 comments
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33
John Resig annotates original jQuery source code
genius.com · tomlemon · 7 Apr 2015
523 pts
97 comments
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34
Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
linux.com · lclark · 6 Apr 2015
509 pts
177 comments
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35
NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
hg.nginx.org · realityking · 20 Apr 2015
500 pts
117 comments
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37
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]
youtube.com · XioNoX · 6 Apr 2015
494 pts
138 comments
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38
Under Pressure
minusbat.livejournal.com · FatalLogic · 27 Apr 2015
494 pts
96 comments
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39
Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me · manlio · 9 Apr 2015
493 pts
117 comments
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40
VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos
youtube-eng.blogspot.com · jplevine · 6 Apr 2015
483 pts
197 comments
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41
Truecrypt report
blog.cryptographyengineering.com · java-man · 2 Apr 2015
479 pts
174 comments
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43
Google pulling China CNNIC CA from its products
googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com · tptacek · 2 Apr 2015
472 pts
159 comments
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44
Amazon Elastic File System
aws.amazon.com · suprgeek · 9 Apr 2015
471 pts
213 comments
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45
The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy
vox.com · prawn · 13 Apr 2015
461 pts
214 comments
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47
Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
eff.org · billyvg · 10 Apr 2015
460 pts
86 comments
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48
Remote Kernel Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On Windows
ma.ttias.be · Mojah · 15 Apr 2015
458 pts
186 comments
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49
HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can
porter.io · adieu · 7 Apr 2015
455 pts
163 comments
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50
Jq – A Command-line JSON processor
stedolan.github.io · geekrax · 27 Apr 2015
451 pts
91 comments
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51
What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?
jmtd.net · pdw · 23 Apr 2015
450 pts
102 comments
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52
Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”
eff.org · CapitalistCartr · 20 Apr 2015
442 pts
217 comments
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53
Vault – A tool for managing secrets
hashicorp.com · eloycoto · 28 Apr 2015
440 pts
107 comments
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55
The Fuck – Correct your previous console command
github.com · nvbn · 17 Apr 2015
438 pts
165 comments
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57
Prof. Sussman's Reading List
aurellem.org · jonnybgood · 20 Apr 2015
437 pts
75 comments
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58
Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem explained
superpowered.com · lmedinas · 16 Apr 2015
431 pts
299 comments
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59
Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
acuman.us · seanlevan · 16 Apr 2015
430 pts
297 comments
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60
“The colored boxes indicate which CPU core performed layout for each node”
blog.servo.org · steveklabnik · 2 Apr 2015
429 pts
57 comments
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