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Top of Year 2013

1. Don't Fly During Ramadan
   (22 Aug 2013 | 2744 points | Comments)

2. Hyperloop
   (12 Aug 2013 | 2666 points | Comments)

3. Aaron Swartz commits suicide
   (12 Jan 2013 | 2103 points | Comments)

4. Google Reader shutting down
   (13 Mar 2013 | 1964 points | Comments)

5. A Most Peculiar Test Drive
   (14 Feb 2013 | 1859 points | Comments)

6. Lavabit abruptly shuts down
   (8 Aug 2013 | 1831 points | Comments)

7. Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
   (13 Feb 2013 | 1763 points | Comments)

8. Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
   (6 Mar 2013 | 1734 points | Comments)

9. XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
   (31 Jul 2013 | 1688 points | Comments)

10. NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
    (30 Oct 2013 | 1604 points | Comments)

11. I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
    (24 Jul 2013 | 1542 points | Comments)

12. Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
    (18 Aug 2013 | 1459 points | Comments)

13. A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used
    (13 Nov 2013 | 1447 points | Comments)

14. SteamOS
    (23 Sep 2013 | 1436 points | Comments)

15. Amazon Prime Air
    (2 Dec 2013 | 1412 points | Comments)

16. Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5
    (27 Feb 2013 | 1394 points | Comments)

17. Forced Exposure
    (20 Aug 2013 | 1391 points | Comments)

18. Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling
    (4 Feb 2013 | 1388 points | Comments)

19. Coin
    (14 Nov 2013 | 1387 points | Comments)

20. Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling
    (4 Feb 2013 | 1386 points | Comments)

21. Explain Shell
    (2 Dec 2013 | 1372 points | Comments)

22. This is a web page
    (20 Jun 2013 | 1354 points | Comments)

23. Started a stupid company. Failed.
    (27 Nov 2013 | 1344 points | Comments)

24. Gitmo Is Killing Me
    (15 Apr 2013 | 1333 points | Comments)

25. What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
    (24 Jan 2013 | 1331 points | Comments)

26. Sprite Lamp
    (8 Nov 2013 | 1323 points | Comments)

27. “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
    (7 Jul 2013 | 1310 points | Comments)

28. What I Didn't Say
    (30 Dec 2013 | 1289 points | Comments)

29. Do Things that Don't Scale
    (14 Jul 2013 | 1275 points | Comments)

30. NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor
    (10 Jun 2013 | 1268 points | Comments)

31. Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
    (9 Jun 2013 | 1254 points | Comments)

32. Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans
    (6 Jun 2013 | 1227 points | Comments)

33. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
    (23 Aug 2013 | 1227 points | Comments)

34. Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM
    (30 Apr 2013 | 1223 points | Comments)

35. Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
    (6 Nov 2013 | 1217 points | Comments)

36. Prosecutor as bully
    (12 Jan 2013 | 1200 points | Comments)

37. Ubuntu Edge
    (22 Jul 2013 | 1188 points | Comments)

38. Doug Engelbart has died
    (3 Jul 2013 | 1178 points | Comments)

39. South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies
    (5 Dec 2013 | 1137 points | Comments)

40. Google Web Designer
    (30 Sep 2013 | 1126 points | Comments)

41. The PyCon Incident
    (20 Mar 2013 | 1125 points | Comments)

42. FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
    (2 Oct 2013 | 1101 points | Comments)

43. Project Loon
    (15 Jun 2013 | 1094 points | Comments)

44. Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP
    (10 Jan 2013 | 1088 points | Comments)

45. Diamonds Are Bullshit
    (19 Mar 2013 | 1088 points | Comments)

46. Victory Lap for Ask Patents
    (22 Jul 2013 | 1075 points | Comments)

47. Skeuocard
    (1 Aug 2013 | 1066 points | Comments)

48. Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows
    (15 Jan 2013 | 1065 points | Comments)

49. Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?
    (27 Sep 2013 | 1065 points | Comments)

50. Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review
    (20 Dec 2013 | 1056 points | Comments)

51. Why HN was down
    (18 Feb 2013 | 1049 points | Comments)

52. Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
    (23 Apr 2013 | 1048 points | Comments)

53. The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
    (12 Nov 2013 | 1036 points | Comments)

54. I will not do a tech interview
    (21 Aug 2013 | 1032 points | Comments)

55. Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
    (21 Mar 2013 | 1023 points | Comments)

56. What is Happening in Istanbul?
    (2 Jun 2013 | 1007 points | Comments)

57. US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
    (6 Jun 2013 | 997 points | Comments)

58. If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
    (3 Apr 2013 | 996 points | Comments)

59. John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
    (7 Aug 2013 | 993 points | Comments)

60. Quine Relay
    (15 Jul 2013 | 983 points | Comments)

61. Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
    (22 Sep 2013 | 980 points | Comments)

62. Depression Part Two
    (10 May 2013 | 977 points | Comments)

63. How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server
    (4 Mar 2013 | 960 points | Comments)

64. Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
    (20 Nov 2013 | 957 points | Comments)

65. Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
    (29 Jan 2013 | 956 points | Comments)

66. Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
    (1 Jul 2013 | 954 points | Comments)

67. Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort
    (18 Mar 2013 | 948 points | Comments)

68. Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus
    (23 Aug 2013 | 944 points | Comments)

69. What 4chan thinks of HN
    (17 Nov 2013 | 942 points | Comments)

70. Opera moves to WebKit
    (13 Feb 2013 | 938 points | Comments)

71. I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
    (19 Sep 2013 | 935 points | Comments)

72. Why I'm switching back to Firefox
    (11 Mar 2013 | 928 points | Comments)

73. N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
    (5 Sep 2013 | 923 points | Comments)

74. How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
    (26 Nov 2013 | 920 points | Comments)

75. World
    (15 Sep 2013 | 918 points | Comments)

76. Why the Fuck?
    (20 Jan 2013 | 911 points | Comments)

77. I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
    (29 Dec 2013 | 910 points | Comments)

78. Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
    (4 Oct 2013 | 904 points | Comments)

79. I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
    (14 Feb 2013 | 902 points | Comments)

80. New Zealand bans some software patents
    (28 Aug 2013 | 902 points | Comments)

81. Here is today
    (28 Apr 2013 | 899 points | Comments)

82. Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
    (20 Dec 2013 | 899 points | Comments)

83. Pencil
    (19 Nov 2013 | 882 points | Comments)

84. Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
    (4 Mar 2013 | 872 points | Comments)

85. Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
    (15 Apr 2013 | 872 points | Comments)

86. Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
    (21 Oct 2013 | 872 points | Comments)

87. Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online
    (9 Jul 2013 | 868 points | Comments)

88. Nokia acquired by Microsoft
    (3 Sep 2013 | 865 points | Comments)

89. Meteorite crash in Russia
    (15 Feb 2013 | 862 points | Comments)

90. Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
    (6 Mar 2013 | 858 points | Comments)

91. For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
    (29 Jan 2013 | 842 points | Comments)

92. Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
    (4 Apr 2013 | 841 points | Comments)

93. We Found Our Son in the Subway
    (28 Feb 2013 | 839 points | Comments)

94. The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
    (12 Jan 2013 | 837 points | Comments)

95. He got 1%, we can't hire him
    (28 Aug 2013 | 835 points | Comments)

96. NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
    (15 Jun 2013 | 834 points | Comments)

97. What It's Like to Fail
    (18 Nov 2013 | 834 points | Comments)

98. I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
    (17 Dec 2013 | 834 points | Comments)

99. I want the world to scroll this way
    (11 Jan 2013 | 832 points | Comments)

100. My Friends and I Bought an Island
     (16 Sep 2013 | 832 points | Comments)