top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-07

When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what FB sends the cops

http://blog.thephoenix.com/blogs/phlog/archive/2012/04/06/when-police-subpoena-your-facebook-information-heres-what-facebook-sends-cops.aspx

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 111 comments

Notch live coding 0x10c

http://www.twitch.tv/notch?0x10c

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 147 comments

Static analysis of an unknown compression format

http://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/8-static-analysis-of-an-unknown-compression-format.html

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 12 comments

Surf Air: Unlimited Flights for $1k/mo

http://www.surfair.com

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 175 comments

Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing

http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 276 comments

Burnout - How it happened to me

http://geon.github.com/Personal/2012/04/07/burnout/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 63 comments

3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/3-major-publishers-sue-open-education-textbook-start-up/35994?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 67 comments

Facebook Unsocial Reader

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lbdpfpcjdacpjajeiinhbbgdahbdgdbh

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 46 comments

Experiment: Living Without A Home Internet Connection

http://www.graemeblake.ca/2012/04/07/experiment-living-without-a-home-internet-connection/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 77 comments

Quora’s Demise

http://delw.in/quoras-demise/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 85 comments

Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov

https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples?

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20582845717/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-2-notes-essay

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 20 comments

Open Letter to XSLT Fans

http://www.snoyman.com/blog/2012/04/xslt-rant.html

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 66 comments

Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/04/netflix-recommendations-beyond-5-stars.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Zmqc: netcat for ØMQ

http://zacharyvoase.github.com/zmqc/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

CoffeeConsole: A Chrome Extension

http://snook.ca/archives/browsers/coffeeconsole

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Megaupload Points Out That The Feds Want To Destroy Relevant Evidence

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120406/12172918409/megaupload-points-out-that-feds-want-to-destroy-relevant-evidence-its-case.shtml

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120404/17021118376/size-matters-why-tsa-fears-thirteen-inch-laptops-not-eleven-inch-ones.shtml

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

Shadowrun Returns: an old-school turn-based RPG on Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Histogrem: The Histogram Font

http://www.histogrem.com

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

OLPC problems in Peru

http://www.economist.com/node/21552202

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: How is your Start-Up Chile experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3810821

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 53 comments

Daily Mail Used My Photos Without Permission and Without Payment

http://gakuranman.com/daily-mail-used-my-photos-without-permission-and-without-payment/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

The App Store, 3 years later: Apple just doesn't care.

http://kswizz.com/post/20535041240/app-store-retrospective?3-years-later-apple-does-not-care

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

Understanding TPP, ACTA's nastier, more secret little brother

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120402/09551618327/where-tpp-goes-beyond-acta-how-it-shows-us-future-ip-enforcement.shtml

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Unix-like operating system for the TI-89 and TI-92+ graphing calculators.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/punix/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

A Means to Many Ends: 10+ Years of Haskell at Galois (Lang.NEXT 2012)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/A-Means-to-Many-Ends-10-Years-of-Haskell-at-Galois

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

Selling You on Facebook: Don't be surprised where your details pop up

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303302504577327744009046230.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEADTop

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

AT&T will unlock your iPhone for free starting tomorrow

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/att-confirms-plans-to-begin-unlocking-some-iphones-on-april-8.ars

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/when-dan-ariely-found-the-key-to-human-nature-1.422824

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

TextBelt is a free API for outgoing SMS

http://textbelt.com/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Kinda like posterous?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3811638

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2181798

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Tempup artists: on tech's version of the sexual revolution

http://beyroutey.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/tempup-artists/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/07/convertible-note-seed-financings/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Rick Falkvinge and his "a bit slow full-duplex 100Mbit" Internet Connection

http://rick.falkvinge.usesthis.com/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 60 comments

To Fix America's Education Bureaucracy, We Need to Destroy It

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/print/2012/04/to-fix-americas-education-bureaucracy-we-need-to-destroy-it/255173/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 70 comments
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