top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-16

Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward Snowden

http://www.correntewire.com/six_reasons_why_choosing_hong_kong_is_a_brilliant_move_by_edward_snowden

13 years ago

527 upvotes – 302 comments

Terms of Service; Didn't Read

http://tosdr.org/

13 years ago

440 upvotes – 108 comments

San Francisco

http://antirez.com/news/59

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 255 comments

Linux has better hardware support than OS X

http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/16/linux-has-better-hardware-support-than-os-x/

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 212 comments

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

http://www.nand2tetris.org/

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 83 comments

AngularJS versus Ember

http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/15/ember-vs-angular-its-not-even-close.html

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 162 comments

Algorithms from the “Book”

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/189/algorithms-from-the-book?

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 33 comments

Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python

http://arnab.org/blog/so-i-suck-24-automating-card-games-using-opencv-and-python

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 30 comments

Dear Mozilla, stop watching me

http://emilis.github.io/privacy/2013/06/16/mozilla-stop-watching-me.html

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 54 comments

GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

Death of Yuri Gagarin demystified 40 years on

http://rt.com/news/gagarin-death-truth-revealed-674/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of Internet, phone metadata

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-surveillance-architecture-includes-collection-of-revealing-internet-phone-metadata/2013/06/15/e9bf004a-d511-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_print.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 11 comments

Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction)

http://www.warscapes.com/literature/cryptogams-nsa

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Returning to Free Software: A Guide

http://words.steveklabnik.com/returning-to-free-software-a-guide

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 126 comments

Former Bank of America workers allege it lied to home owners

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-bankofamerica-mortgages-idUSBRE95D10O20130614

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

Cyanogen Mod: Run in Incognito Mode

https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts/6jzWcRR6hyu

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 35 comments

Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated

http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USBRE95F00B20130616

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 66 comments

The ARM server apocalypse

http://storagezilla.typepad.com/storagezilla/2013/06/the-arm-server-apocalypse.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 63 comments

Licenses Over Data: A Case Study with Github v BitBucket

http://www.techlawyer.com.au/uncategorized/licenses-over-data-a-case-study-with-github-v-bitbucket/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 50 comments

The Snowden Principle

https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/06/snowden-principle

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#, JS, AS, Perl and D

http://cito.sourceforge.net/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 70 comments

Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/15/campus/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 75 comments

The lack of proper “alter table” support in SQLite

http://dustycloud.org/blog/sqlite-alter-pain/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

How Canada’s shadowy metadata-gathering program went awry

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-canadas-shadowy-metadata-gathering-program-went-awry/article12580225/?page=all

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

A new lightweight lift cable will let buildings soar ever upward

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21579437-new-lightweight-lift-cable-will-let-buildings-soar-ever-upward-other

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 71 comments

Simple Statistics, a JS library for doing statistics

http://macwright.org/simple-statistics/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

Project Loon details from the Christchurch event today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887330

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Django's Architecture: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

https://speakerdeck.com/andrewgodwin/djangos-architecture-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Advice on how to best spend $3,000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5889625

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 59 comments

Sublime Text Ctrl+P Like Fuzzy Matching In Few Lines of Python

http://crossplatform.net/sublime-text-ctrl-p-fuzzy-matching-in-python/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Rep. Nadler now saying CNET story (NSA recording calls) is not true.

https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/346304794970968064

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 76 comments

A staggering migration – 250M people into Chinese cities in 12-15 years [video]

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/06/15/world/asia/100000002279849/in-china-a-staggering-migration.html?smid=pl-share

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

How Cults Seduce and What Marketing Can Learn From Them [pdf]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/514598/How-Cults-Seduce

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments

Nitpicker – an overly picky language style checker

http://nitpickertool.com

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

Upgrading a cPanel plugin

http://www.zamfoo.com/updatezamfoo

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 29 comments

What's a good replacement for Google Apps in a NSA-poisoned post-cloud era?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888247

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 79 comments
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