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Top of Month - Feb 2015

1. Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
   (5 Feb 2015 | 2088 points | Comments)

2. Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
   (27 Feb 2015 | 1584 points | Comments)

3. FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote
   (26 Feb 2015 | 1489 points | Comments)

4. Magic
   (22 Feb 2015 | 1329 points | Comments)

5. FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
   (4 Feb 2015 | 1275 points | Comments)

6. Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
   (13 Feb 2015 | 1174 points | Comments)

7. Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
   (19 Feb 2015 | 1142 points | Comments)

8. “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered
   (16 Feb 2015 | 870 points | Comments)

9. Extracting the SuperFish certificate
   (19 Feb 2015 | 867 points | Comments)

10. Stripe: Bitcoin
    (19 Feb 2015 | 855 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
    (14 Feb 2015 | 806 points | Comments)

12. Whiteboard Clock
    (18 Feb 2015 | 784 points | Comments)

13. Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
    (2 Feb 2015 | 723 points | Comments)

14. CoreCLR is now open source
    (3 Feb 2015 | 709 points | Comments)

15. Side projects
    (26 Feb 2015 | 698 points | Comments)

16. Now, I can see wifi signals
    (15 Feb 2015 | 695 points | Comments)

17. Introducing Pebble Time
    (24 Feb 2015 | 658 points | Comments)

18. “Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
    (23 Feb 2015 | 647 points | Comments)

19. It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)
    (25 Feb 2015 | 638 points | Comments)

20. F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility
    (2 Feb 2015 | 636 points | Comments)

21. Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer
    (19 Feb 2015 | 625 points | Comments)

22. Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken
    (24 Feb 2015 | 608 points | Comments)

23. I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords
    (10 Feb 2015 | 594 points | Comments)

24. How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast
    (19 Feb 2015 | 592 points | Comments)

25. GPG and Me
    (24 Feb 2015 | 588 points | Comments)

26. The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
    (19 Feb 2015 | 576 points | Comments)

27. Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed
    (2 Feb 2015 | 573 points | Comments)

28. Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
    (23 Feb 2015 | 559 points | Comments)

29. The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up
    (13 Feb 2015 | 552 points | Comments)

30. How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
    (24 Feb 2015 | 548 points | Comments)

31. A Xenon flash will cause the Raspberry Pi 2 to freeze
    (7 Feb 2015 | 544 points | Comments)

32. First Impressions Using React Native
    (6 Feb 2015 | 539 points | Comments)

33. Stop Using LinkedIn
    (13 Feb 2015 | 534 points | Comments)

34. Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
    (2 Feb 2015 | 523 points | Comments)

35. Goodbye “undefined is not a function”
    (22 Feb 2015 | 522 points | Comments)

36. Deleting any Facebook album
    (12 Feb 2015 | 506 points | Comments)

37. A girl who gets gifts from birds
    (26 Feb 2015 | 506 points | Comments)

38. Flipboard releases React Canvas
    (10 Feb 2015 | 501 points | Comments)

39. Browser Vulnerability to Superfish: A Fact-Finding Trip to Best Buy [pdf]
    (20 Feb 2015 | 494 points | Comments)

40. Startup advice, briefly
    (20 Feb 2015 | 490 points | Comments)

41. Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens
    (1 Feb 2015 | 485 points | Comments)

42. Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
    (10 Feb 2015 | 482 points | Comments)

43. The Bitcoin Piñata
    (10 Feb 2015 | 482 points | Comments)

44. Get your loved ones off Facebook
    (1 Feb 2015 | 471 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
    (1 Feb 2015 | 461 points | Comments)

46. Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android
    (10 Feb 2015 | 448 points | Comments)

47. Modern SQL in PostgreSQL
    (8 Feb 2015 | 446 points | Comments)

48. YC for Hardware
    (5 Feb 2015 | 445 points | Comments)

49. FarmLogs
    (10 Feb 2015 | 444 points | Comments)

50. Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
    (16 Feb 2015 | 437 points | Comments)

51. HTTP/2 Is Done
    (18 Feb 2015 | 437 points | Comments)

52. Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?
    (8 Feb 2015 | 428 points | Comments)

53. Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY
    (9 Feb 2015 | 426 points | Comments)

54. Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot
    (10 Feb 2015 | 426 points | Comments)

55. Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets
    (14 Feb 2015 | 421 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: What up with these startup salaries?
    (15 Feb 2015 | 421 points | Comments)

57. A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics
    (4 Feb 2015 | 419 points | Comments)

58. What Color Is Your Function?
    (2 Feb 2015 | 410 points | Comments)

59. Join the U.S. Digital Service
    (3 Feb 2015 | 409 points | Comments)

60. GitHut – Programming Languages on GitHub
    (11 Feb 2015 | 406 points | Comments)

61. At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday
    (7 Feb 2015 | 402 points | Comments)

62. How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
    (12 Feb 2015 | 401 points | Comments)

63. The Software Revolution
    (16 Feb 2015 | 400 points | Comments)

64. Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
    (20 Feb 2015 | 397 points | Comments)

65. My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple
    (25 Feb 2015 | 394 points | Comments)

66. VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
    (27 Feb 2015 | 394 points | Comments)

67. Alan Turing's notes found being used as roof insulation at Bletchley Park
    (3 Feb 2015 | 393 points | Comments)

68. $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
    (9 Feb 2015 | 393 points | Comments)

69. Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him
    (13 Feb 2015 | 391 points | Comments)

70. An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split
    (17 Feb 2015 | 389 points | Comments)

71. RapidShare is Shutting down
    (11 Feb 2015 | 388 points | Comments)

72. How to pick startup ideas
    (25 Feb 2015 | 385 points | Comments)

73. YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
    (7 Feb 2015 | 381 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio
    (8 Feb 2015 | 375 points | Comments)

75. Sans Bullshit Sans
    (26 Feb 2015 | 370 points | Comments)

76. Firefox 36.0 released
    (24 Feb 2015 | 368 points | Comments)

77. Replacing Middle Management with APIs
    (2 Feb 2015 | 367 points | Comments)

78. ‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game
    (6 Feb 2015 | 367 points | Comments)

79. Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline
    (13 Feb 2015 | 364 points | Comments)

80. There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me
    (18 Feb 2015 | 364 points | Comments)

81. Hello, World
    (27 Feb 2015 | 364 points | Comments)

82. The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
    (26 Feb 2015 | 361 points | Comments)

83. Make a Lisp
    (27 Feb 2015 | 361 points | Comments)

84. Bypassing Windows 10's Protections Using a Single Bit
    (11 Feb 2015 | 358 points | Comments)

85. Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University
    (11 Feb 2015 | 358 points | Comments)

86. Google announces Android for Work
    (25 Feb 2015 | 357 points | Comments)

87. “A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”
    (18 Feb 2015 | 353 points | Comments)

88. Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy
    (19 Feb 2015 | 351 points | Comments)

89. Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams
    (12 Feb 2015 | 350 points | Comments)

90. The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
    (3 Feb 2015 | 349 points | Comments)

91. Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results
    (3 Feb 2015 | 347 points | Comments)

92. 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1
    (12 Feb 2015 | 345 points | Comments)

93. Apple CEO Tim Cook challenges Obama with impassioned stand on privacy
    (14 Feb 2015 | 345 points | Comments)

94. IPython 3.0 released
    (28 Feb 2015 | 342 points | Comments)

95. Testosterone is the drug of the future
    (4 Feb 2015 | 341 points | Comments)

96. “Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”
    (27 Feb 2015 | 339 points | Comments)

97. Scala.js no longer experimental
    (5 Feb 2015 | 337 points | Comments)

98. Lenovo Statement on Superfish
    (19 Feb 2015 | 337 points | Comments)

99. Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers
    (24 Feb 2015 | 337 points | Comments)

100. Photos of the An-225 Mriya – the world’s largest aircraft
     (9 Feb 2015 | 333 points | Comments)