top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-13

Go 1.1 is released

http://blog.golang.org/2013/05/go-11-is-released.html

13 years ago

484 upvotes – 290 comments

A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/

13 years ago

459 upvotes – 111 comments

U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/05/13/us/politics/ap-us-ap-phone-records-subpoena.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

373 upvotes – 232 comments

Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

http://www.duetapp.com/hn

13 years ago

367 upvotes – 197 comments

The Lethality of Loneliness

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness-how-isolation-can-kill-you#

13 years ago

321 upvotes – 157 comments

Macros in Python

https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy#case-classes

13 years ago

★ 3.3k TSQL
300 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Create Javascript charts with one line of Ruby

http://ankane.github.io/chartkick/

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 61 comments

Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets

http://mapbox.com/blog/vector-tiles/

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 48 comments

10 Million Concurrent Connections – The Kernel is the Problem

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-million-concurrent-connections-the-kernel-i.html

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 92 comments

Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM

http://www.veracode.com/blog/2013/05/executable-archaeology-the-case-of-the-stupid-thing-eating-all-my-ram/

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 40 comments

15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/bringing-it-all-together-15-gb-now.html

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 130 comments

ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Covers ‘Space Oddity’ in Space

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/13/watch-commander-chris-hadfield-covers-space-oddity-in-space/

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 42 comments

Unbelievable

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/549-Unbelievable.html

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 107 comments

PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1463/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 117 comments

Philip Greenspun Reviews “Lean In”

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/05/12/lean-in/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 106 comments

Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (2008)

http://okasaki.blogspot.ru/2008/02/ten-years-of-purely-functional-data.html

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 24 comments

Flat design is great for mediocre designers like me

http://whoo.ps/2013/05/12/flat-design-is-great-for-mediocre-designers-like-me

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 67 comments

Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools

http://www.evanmiller.org/announcing-evans-awesome-ab-tools.html

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

The Archive of Interesting Code

http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 24 comments

Weev placed in solitary confinement for tweeting from prison

http://www.dailydot.com/news/andrew-weev-aurenheimer-solitary-prison-tweets/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 88 comments

Bad as Shit

http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/JOLLYROGER/152.jrc

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 24 comments

Subreddit connections

http://redditstuff.github.io/sna/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 33 comments

Akiyoshi's illusion pages

http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 15 comments

Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined

http://www.thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-network-8-times-faster-than-top-500-super-computers-combined/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 102 comments

Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 58 comments

What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-seo-in-the-coming-months/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 89 comments

My last Android app sales figures and why it's still great to start a mobile app

http://blog.edward-kim.com/my-last-android-app-sales-figures-and-closing-thoughts-on-starting-an-android-app-business#

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

How “We’re booked” was ruining our business

https://bigswing.squarespace.com/blog/2013/5/13/how-were-booked-was-ruining-our-business

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

A Lesson Learned as a Technical Founder: Sell First, Build Later

http://blog.framebase.io/post/50355416770/sell-first-build-later

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

Twitter's odd use of the word 'followed'

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/05/twitters-odd-use-of-word-followed.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Google Celebrates the 37th Anniversary of Atari's Breakout

http://www.google.com/search?q=atari+breakout&tbm=isch

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

'Brave' creator blasts Disney for 'blatant sexism' in princess makeover

http://www.marinij.com/millvalley/ci_23224741/brave-creator-blasts-disney-blatant-sexism-princess-makeover

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 138 comments

Why Zuckerberg’s Lobby Is Collapsing Outside Of DC

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/12/why-zuckerbergs-lobby-fwd-is-collapsing-like-a-house-of-cards-outside-of-dc/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 100 comments

Ok, glass – new Google Glass concepts

http://jackwmorgan.com/ok-glass

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Another user/developer banned from GNOME's bugzilla without any warning

http://felipec.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/no-gnome-doesnt-want-user-feedback-how-i-argued-in-favor-of-voting-in-bugzilla-and-got-banned-as-a-result/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 88 comments

This phosphine will get you fired

http://orgprepdaily.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/a-phosphine-that-will-get-you-fired/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

IRS targeted groups critical of government

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/irs-targeted-groups-critical-of-government-documents-from-agency-probe-show/2013/05/12/bb38e5bc-bb24-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html?hpid=z1

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 55 comments

Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/business/media/bloomberg-admits-terminal-snooping.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

What’s in store for Google I/O?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/android-4-3-google-babel-and-the-nexus-7-whats-in-store-for-google-io/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 46 comments

Bookshelf.js: An ORM for Node.js with transactions, eager loading, promises

http://bookshelfjs.org

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Freeman Dyson Answers Questions

http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/1410230/interviews-freeman-dyson-answers-your-questions

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 7 comments

Ads and articles from UnixWorld Magazine (1992-1996)

http://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Spark Inspector, a run-time debugging tool for iOS apps

http://static.sparkinspector.com/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Canada and science: NRC will now only do science that promotes “economic gain”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/13/canada_and_science_nrc_will_now_only_do_science_that_promotes_economic_gain.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 71 comments

Grad school four months out

http://www.umbrant.com/blog/2013/grad_school_4_months_out.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler

http://honza.ca/2013/05/building-a-lisp-to-javascript-compiler

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Funnel Visualization in HTML/CSS/D3.js

http://bl.ocks.org/inlineblock/raw/5557802/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23519-commercial-quantum-computer-leaves-pc-in-the-dust.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: mist.io - Cloud management in your pocket

http://mist.io

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments

Supreme Court rules for Monsanto in case against farmer

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/13/183603368/supreme-court-rules-for-monsanto-in-case-against-farmer

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 85 comments

Markov Chain Monte Carlo and the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest

http://mewo2.com/nerdery/2013/05/12/eurovision-2013-first-predictions/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/05/12/183218751/new-closed-captioning-glasses-help-deaf-go-out-to-the-movies

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments
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