top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-09

The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&host=216.81.59.173

13 years ago

770 upvotes – 78 comments

I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

http://log.nadim.cc/?p=110

13 years ago

701 upvotes – 341 comments

I made $200K and PayPal locked my account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5191142

13 years ago

474 upvotes – 270 comments

Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/02/07/171370893/next-time-your-mom-says-don-t-go-out-in-the-rain-spray-yourself-with-this

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 138 comments

CSS 3D Clouds

http://www.clicktorelease.com/code/css3dclouds/

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 44 comments

Meet Kirsty Nathoo, Y Combinator’s Secret Financial And Operational Weapon

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/09/meet-kirsty-nathoo-y-combinators-secret-financial-and-operational-weapon/?icid=tc_home_art&

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 60 comments

Star Wars Traceroute - How I did it

http://beaglenetworks.net/

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 21 comments

Curiosity images strange metallic-looking object on Mars

http://www.universetoday.com/99750/another-weird-shiny-thing-on-mars-2/

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 147 comments

I’m Sick of Tiny, Tiny Type

http://jxnblk.tumblr.com/post/41796724549/im-sick-of-your-tiny-tiny-type

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 142 comments

How to Learn JavaScript Properly

http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 50 comments

Pixel Art Tutorial

http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/42648699708/pixel-art-tutorial

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 38 comments

A ‘frighteningly ambitious’ way to improve email

http://thenextweb.com/voice/2013/02/08/inboxpro-com-structured-communications/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 86 comments

CISPA is back

http://www.cispaisback.com

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 28 comments

MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems labs rewritten in Go

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-1.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: An NES emulator written in Rust

https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes

13 years ago

★ 756 Rust MIT
125 upvotes – 27 comments

Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released

http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/linux-foundation-secure-boot-system-released/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

JSDB.io - A Database of JavaScript Libraries

http://www.jsdb.io

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 60 comments

Security Engineering – The Book

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 12 comments

I Don't Do That Job Anymore

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/02/i-dont-do-that-job-anymore/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/?cid=co5746764

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 135 comments

Samsung laptop bug is not Linux specific

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/22855.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 37 comments

The Elsevier boycott one year on

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/the-elsevier-boycott-one-year-on/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/02/08/ibms-watson-gets-its-first-piece-of-business-in-healthcare/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 69 comments

How to prevent a meritocracy entrenching itself

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571417-how-prevent-virtuous-meritocracy-entrenching-itself-top-repairing-rungs

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 101 comments

Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the-ev-highway.html?hpw&_r=0

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 102 comments

Amazon has patented the milkman, etc.

https://plus.google.com/104716271353648708358/posts/Q7xrJaMru93

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 58 comments

User revolt over Java bloatware

http://news.techeye.net/software/user-revolt-over-java-bloatware

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

How to achieve 4 flops per cycle?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8389648/how-to-achieve-4-flops-per-cycle

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: First time in SF today and tomorrow – can I visit your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193077

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

A list of donations that Bill Gates has made

http://www.youhavetocit.com/2012/04/bill-gates-had-donated-over-36854000000.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 62 comments

2013 will see a shift from social networks back to blogs

http://dendory.net/blog.php?id=5116e01b

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

Microsoft’s 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At Online Store Just Hours After Launch

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/09/microsofts-128gb-surface-pro-sells-out-at-ms-online-store-just-hours-after-launch/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 91 comments

Password Cracking AES-256 DMGs and Epic Self-Pwnage

http://blog.whitehatsec.com/cracking-aes-256-dmgs-and-epic-self-pwnage

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Haskell I/O is pure

http://chris-taylor.github.com/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

For sale: Trusted root SSL CA signing certificate

https://www.globalsign.com/certificate-authority-root-signing/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 131 comments

Beware of Ballers on a Budget

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/02/09/beware-of-ballers-on-a-budget/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

Gestures + Reveal.JS

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/gesture-based-revealjs/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments
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