top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-27

US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

http://boingboing.net/2013/05/26/us-entertainment-industry-to-c.html

13 years ago

608 upvotes – 257 comments

You are dangerously bad at cryptography

http://happybearsoftware.com/you-are-dangerously-bad-at-cryptography.html

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 167 comments

This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary

http://www.vice.com/vice-news/this-is-what-winning-looks-like-full-length

13 years ago

254 upvotes – 193 comments

Chinese DIY Inventions

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/chinese-diy-inventions/100511?re&utm_source=buffer&&utm_content=buffer3141e

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 77 comments

Open Source Game Clones

http://osgameclones.com

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 81 comments

Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/26/google-blimps

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 115 comments

Sucks to be an old engineer

http://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/sucks-to-be-an-old-engineer/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 236 comments

Google Java Annotations Gallery

https://code.google.com/p/gag/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5774303

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 132 comments

Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/27/is-silicon-valley-only-interested-in-the-problems-of-twentysomethings/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 84 comments

OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.

http://oauth.io

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 50 comments

Indiegogo fund raises enough money to buy video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rob-ford-crackstarter

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 95 comments

The declining profitability of Google Adwords

http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/05/26/the-declining-profitability-of-google-adwords/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 99 comments

The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 30 comments

Crate.io: A new kind of Python package index

https://crate.io/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 47 comments

Elsevier journals: has anything changed?

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/elsevier-journals-has-anything-changed/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 5 comments

Django 1.6 alpha 1 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/may/26/django-16-alpha-1/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 35 comments

37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/338805881972080641

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Haxe 3 Released

http://haxe.org/download

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Dear WordPress

http://ma.tt/2013/05/dear-wordpress/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 77 comments

A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins (2007)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/a-visual-explanation-of-sql-joins.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 13 comments

Twitter API returning results that do not respect the arrow of time

http://twitterbug.quietbabylon.com/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Got my Pebble and built a seven minute workout watchapp today

http://kennberg.com/7min/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

List of unsolved problems in computer science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2

http://supplementsos.com/blog/eat-healthily-for-1-pound-per-day-version-0-2/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 81 comments

BitTorrent Sync Is A Dropbox Killer, Or Maybe Much More Than That

http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2013/05/27/bittorrent-sync-is-a-dropbox-killer-or-maybe-much-more-than-that/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 94 comments

Researchers turn cement into metal

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-cement-metal.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability

https://gist.github.com/ismasan/5647955

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Best Place To Start A Company If You Have Kids

http://jeffkward.com/best-place-for-starting-a-company-if-you-have-kids

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

Our Recurring Payment Pricing Was Rejected

http://jerviswhitley.com/why-should-i-pay-for-your-saas/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 76 comments

The true power of regular expression

http://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Preparing a Mac laptop for your Grandma

http://blog.accursedware.com/nonagenarian-laptop/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 66 comments

Finishing

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/05/finishing.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Rundown of the newest features in C++11 [pdf]

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13100941/C%2B%2B11.pdf

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 36 comments

Scientists find woman who sees 99 million more colors than others (2012)

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/326976

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed paid vacation or holidays

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/27/america-is-the-only-rich-country-that-doesnt-guarantee-paid-vacation-or-holidays/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 142 comments

Wintersmith – a flexible static site generator

http://wintersmith.io/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 51 comments

How Email On Acid stole our work

http://stampready.net/blog/digital-theft/index.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 61 comments

Coinbase Leads Charge In Bitcoin’s Consumerization

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/27/bitcoin-2/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments
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