top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-17

Edward Snowden Q&A

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower

13 years ago

588 upvotes – 299 comments

Repository Next

https://github.com/blog/1529-repository-next

13 years ago

392 upvotes – 154 comments

How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/how-fpgas-work-and-why-youll-buy-one.html

13 years ago

379 upvotes – 152 comments

Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last

http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/monday-was-my-46th-birthday-and-likely-my-last-anything-awesome-i-should-try-after-i-die

13 years ago

345 upvotes – 200 comments

I Know What You Think of Me

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/i-know-what-you-think-of-me/

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 109 comments

European roaming charges will end in 2014

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/15/roaming-charges-die

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 104 comments

Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly

https://github.com/Overv/MineAssemble

13 years ago

★ 1k Assembly MIT
285 upvotes – 47 comments

Cryptography is a science, not engineering

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-06-17-crypto-science-not-engineering.html

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 94 comments

Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses

http://prinzhorn.github.io/skrollr/

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 67 comments

NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower [video]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 82 comments

Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage using Norwegian laws

http://www.jottacloud.com/its-your-stuff-guaranteed/

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 118 comments

Stanford's new course on building a startup

http://startup.stanford.edu/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 63 comments

If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/06/17/if-your-business-uses-rails-2-3-you-need-to-move-to-a-supported-option-asap/

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 104 comments

Airbnb vs. Hotels: A Price Comparison

http://priceonomics.com/hotels/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 89 comments

Digg Reader Update

http://blog.digg.com/post/53203926175/digg-reader-update

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 95 comments

Shakespeare.txt.jpg: A JPEG compression experiment

http://www.tomscott.com/romeo/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

Priced out of Paris

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a096d1d0-d2ec-11e2-aac2-00144feab7de.html#axzz2WSyQOXWl

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 178 comments

Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls without warrants

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589672-38/snowden-nsa-snoops-on-u.s-phone-calls-without-warrants/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 32 comments

Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy

http://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 123 comments

Effective Technical Leadership

https://medium.com/tech-talk/b193a544e771

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 18 comments

Edward Snowden, Ars, the NSA, and me: digging through the past

http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/edward-snowden-digging-through-the-past-of-the-gamer-who-changed-the-world

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server

http://www.tunnelsup.com/tup/2013/05/08/raspberry-pi-phoning-home-using-a-reverse-remote-ssh-tunnel

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 32 comments

We're Too Cheap to Fly Faster

https://medium.com/we-live-in-the-future/7885a299bca2

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 165 comments

Obama: If you are a US citizen the NSA can’t listen to your calls

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/17/pres-obama-if-you-are-a-us-citizen-the-nsa-cannot-listen-to-your-telephone-calls-and-the-nsa-cannot-target-your-emails/?utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_c0ZGR&utm_source=Twitter

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 118 comments

Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over

http://mintchaos.github.io/flippant.js/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 33 comments

Python Headless Web Browser Scraping on Amazon Linux

http://fruchterco.com/post/53164489086/python-headless-web-browser-scraping-on-amazon-linux

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s10/sh/cb5049c0-54e7-477a-92a8-2f49e1fffbf2/96832700c99f170c665364a3414cf92a

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

Real World OCaml

http://www.realworldocaml.org/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

China Dissident Says He’s Being Forced From N.Y.U.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/world/asia/china-dissident-says-hes-being-forced-from-nyu.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Golang Diaries I

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2013/06/16/Go-Love-Hate

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Stripe for Printing

https://www.infraprint.com/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

Forget PRISM, the recent NSA leaks are plain: Digital privacy doesn’t exist

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/16/forget-prism-the-recent-nsa-leaks-are-plain-digital-privacy-is-a-joke/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

PRISM update

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/16/prism-update-recent-reports-you-shouldnt-miss/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

India to send last telegram

http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop?cmpid=addthis_twitter#.Ubtm6T2Rpus.twitter

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

Deep Learning With Commodity Off-The-Shelf High Performance Computing [pdf]

http://stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/CoatesHuvalWangWuNgCatanzaro_icml2013.pdf

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

How Yahoo Fought Against PRISM in Secret and Lost

http://mashable.com/2013/06/14/yahoo-fought-prism-lost/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

Jonathan Mayer Threatens To End “Do Not Track” Talks

http://www.businessinsider.com/jonathan-mayer-threatens-to-end-do-not-track-talks-2013-6

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Favorite mailing lists, IRC channels

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5892712

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Binary, a cloud development environment on the iPad

http://www.thebinaryapp.com

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 38 comments

Body scanner ruling could squelch NSA domestic spying

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589640-38/body-scanner-ruling-could-squelch-nsa-domestic-spying/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Woz: This is not my America

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57589534-71/woz-this-is-not-my-america/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

RoboRoach: Control a cockroach with a smartphone.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/backyardbrains/the-roboroach-control-a-living-insect-from-your-sm

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 73 comments

Django-registration 1.0 is out

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-registration

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Avoid Null Checks by Replacing Finders with Tellers

http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/2013/06/avoid-null-checks-by-replacing-finders-with-tellers.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 103 comments

Pirate Party Australia

http://pirateparty.org.au/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

New Particle Hints at Four-Quark Matter

http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/69

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Supreme Court: Pre-Miranda silence can be used as evidence of guilt

http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2021208775_apussupremecourtsilence.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 72 comments
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