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Top of Month - Apr 2014

1. Drop Dropbox
   (10 Apr 2014 | 1990 points | Comments)

2. The Heartbleed Bug
   (7 Apr 2014 | 1768 points | Comments)

3. Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
   (3 Apr 2014 | 1374 points | Comments)

4. How we got read access on Google’s production servers
   (11 Apr 2014 | 1156 points | Comments)

5. Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
   (22 Apr 2014 | 1055 points | Comments)

6. Write Code Every Day
   (10 Apr 2014 | 1025 points | Comments)

7. “Game Programming Patterns” is now finished
   (23 Apr 2014 | 988 points | Comments)

8. Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
   (3 Apr 2014 | 982 points | Comments)

9. The Absurdity of LinkedIn
   (30 Apr 2014 | 803 points | Comments)

10. What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap
    (3 Apr 2014 | 801 points | Comments)

11. Results of the GitHub Investigation
    (21 Apr 2014 | 739 points | Comments)

12. SF’s Housing Crisis Explained
    (15 Apr 2014 | 683 points | Comments)

13. Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app
    (16 Apr 2014 | 644 points | Comments)

14. Learn C and build your own Lisp
    (4 Apr 2014 | 641 points | Comments)

15. The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]
    (17 Apr 2014 | 635 points | Comments)

16. The New Deal
    (22 Apr 2014 | 625 points | Comments)

17. Amazon Dash
    (4 Apr 2014 | 621 points | Comments)

18. Follow up to the investigation results
    (28 Apr 2014 | 620 points | Comments)

19. Firefox 29
    (29 Apr 2014 | 603 points | Comments)

20. The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
    (17 Apr 2014 | 584 points | Comments)

21. New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier
    (18 Apr 2014 | 579 points | Comments)

22. Stripe Open-Source Retreat
    (24 Apr 2014 | 572 points | Comments)

23. Stock Photos That Don’t Suck
    (19 Apr 2014 | 568 points | Comments)

24. CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked
    (12 Apr 2014 | 562 points | Comments)

25. Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain
    (6 Apr 2014 | 560 points | Comments)

26. Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation
    (11 Apr 2014 | 558 points | Comments)

27. Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source
    (7 Apr 2014 | 555 points | Comments)

28. Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87
    (17 Apr 2014 | 548 points | Comments)

29. European Parliament passes net neutrality law
    (3 Apr 2014 | 541 points | Comments)

30. Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
    (10 Apr 2014 | 526 points | Comments)

31. Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server
    (14 Apr 2014 | 524 points | Comments)

32. Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding
    (10 Apr 2014 | 523 points | Comments)

33. Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)
    (10 Apr 2014 | 523 points | Comments)

34. Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue
    (7 Apr 2014 | 521 points | Comments)

35. Employee Equity
    (18 Apr 2014 | 510 points | Comments)

36. 0^0
    (2 Apr 2014 | 506 points | Comments)

37. "OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable"
    (9 Apr 2014 | 497 points | Comments)

38. The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.
    (1 Apr 2014 | 490 points | Comments)

39. SSH Kung Fu
    (28 Apr 2014 | 487 points | Comments)

40. Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money
    (4 Apr 2014 | 477 points | Comments)

41. Better bash in 15 minutes
    (16 Apr 2014 | 475 points | Comments)

42. TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
    (16 Apr 2014 | 473 points | Comments)

43. You have ruined JavaScript
    (23 Apr 2014 | 459 points | Comments)

44. The Guardian and Washington Post win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
    (14 Apr 2014 | 455 points | Comments)

45. Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login
    (30 Apr 2014 | 454 points | Comments)

46. SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station
    (20 Apr 2014 | 445 points | Comments)

47. No Exit
    (25 Apr 2014 | 445 points | Comments)

48. Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown
    (3 Apr 2014 | 442 points | Comments)

49. Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel
    (14 Apr 2014 | 435 points | Comments)

50. F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane
    (23 Apr 2014 | 434 points | Comments)

51. Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
    (20 Apr 2014 | 429 points | Comments)

52. Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
    (1 Apr 2014 | 428 points | Comments)

53. Will you drown?
    (26 Apr 2014 | 428 points | Comments)

54. Google AdSense leak?
    (29 Apr 2014 | 425 points | Comments)

55. They say “nothing will change”
    (16 Apr 2014 | 423 points | Comments)

56. Coinbase user emails and full names leaked
    (1 Apr 2014 | 419 points | Comments)

57. Rails 4.1.0 released
    (8 Apr 2014 | 417 points | Comments)

58. A Motion-Sensing Keyboard
    (29 Apr 2014 | 406 points | Comments)

59. Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects
    (21 Apr 2014 | 404 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave
    (13 Apr 2014 | 403 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
    (17 Apr 2014 | 403 points | Comments)

62. The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback
    (24 Apr 2014 | 403 points | Comments)

63. Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company
    (24 Apr 2014 | 402 points | Comments)

64. Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death
    (9 Apr 2014 | 401 points | Comments)

65. Memories of Steve
    (11 Apr 2014 | 399 points | Comments)

66. The Case Against ISP Tolls
    (24 Apr 2014 | 398 points | Comments)

67. Apache Wave
    (4 Apr 2014 | 397 points | Comments)

68. Free Programming Books
    (9 Apr 2014 | 396 points | Comments)

69. The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving
    (28 Apr 2014 | 391 points | Comments)

70. What Killed My Sister?
    (28 Apr 2014 | 390 points | Comments)

71. Amazon Fire TV
    (2 Apr 2014 | 388 points | Comments)

72. Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
    (8 Apr 2014 | 387 points | Comments)

73. Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020
    (13 Apr 2014 | 385 points | Comments)

74. Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices
    (30 Apr 2014 | 379 points | Comments)

75. How Americans Die
    (17 Apr 2014 | 378 points | Comments)

76. Parallax effect from Google Lens Blur photos
    (22 Apr 2014 | 375 points | Comments)

77. Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
    (2 Apr 2014 | 371 points | Comments)

78. Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
    (23 Apr 2014 | 371 points | Comments)

79. “In a typical year the OpenSSL project receives about US $2000 in donations”
    (11 Apr 2014 | 370 points | Comments)

80. My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player
    (22 Apr 2014 | 370 points | Comments)

81. Click – Python library for command-line interfaces
    (24 Apr 2014 | 370 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Idea Sunday
    (6 Apr 2014 | 369 points | Comments)

83. Learn CSS Layout
    (12 Apr 2014 | 369 points | Comments)

84. Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
    (1 Apr 2014 | 367 points | Comments)

85. How Zidisha (YC W14) Is Misleading the Public About Its Interest Rates
    (7 Apr 2014 | 364 points | Comments)

86. What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing
    (9 Apr 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

87. Skype group video calling becomes free
    (28 Apr 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

88. Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns
    (30 Apr 2014 | 359 points | Comments)

89. Raspberry Pi Compute Module
    (7 Apr 2014 | 356 points | Comments)

90. The Worst Part of YC
    (16 Apr 2014 | 354 points | Comments)

91. TDD is dead. Long live testing.
    (23 Apr 2014 | 351 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: Super Planet Crash
    (15 Apr 2014 | 349 points | Comments)

93. How I Hacked a Router
    (5 Apr 2014 | 348 points | Comments)

94. Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing
    (21 Apr 2014 | 348 points | Comments)

95. The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid
    (6 Apr 2014 | 347 points | Comments)

96. Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
    (16 Apr 2014 | 347 points | Comments)

97. Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
    (17 Apr 2014 | 345 points | Comments)

98. Build Tools – Make, no more
    (21 Apr 2014 | 344 points | Comments)

99. GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll
    (16 Apr 2014 | 342 points | Comments)

100. Cheap microscopes: Yours to cut out and keep
     (15 Apr 2014 | 340 points | Comments)