top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-19

A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

http://abovethelaw.com/2013/06/how-to-write-a-great-response-to-a-cease-and-desist-letter

13 years ago

640 upvotes – 167 comments

Nginx for Developers: An Introduction

http://carrot.is/coding/nginx_introduction

13 years ago

434 upvotes – 138 comments

Maybe buses should be free

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/06/fares

13 years ago

393 upvotes – 458 comments

DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2275867/DuckDuckGo-Sees-Record-Traffic-After-NSA-PRISM-Scandal

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 122 comments

NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/12553023511/nsa-boss-asks-congress-legal-immunity-companies-that-help-nsa-spy-everyone.shtml

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 91 comments

Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 227 comments

MySQL man pages license change is a bug

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69512

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 56 comments

OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic data for the world

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 65 comments

Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/18/steve-jobs-ponders-his-legacy-in-never-before-seen-1994-video/

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 76 comments

The most telling part of “1984″ is the appendix

http://qz.com/95696/you-probably-didnt-read-the-most-telling-part-of-orwells-1984-the-appendix/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 136 comments

Dokku: A small PaaS implementation

http://progrium.com/blog/2013/06/19/dokku-the-smallest-paas-implementation-youve-ever-seen/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 38 comments

Leaseweb has wiped all Megaupload servers

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/347342896174866433

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 86 comments

AngularJS Screencasts

http://www.egghead.io/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Passive income ideas?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 172 comments

Partial Tesla Model S recall

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/partial-recall

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 117 comments

Why I retracted my Nature paper: correcting the scientific record

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/why-i-retracted-my-nature-paper-a-guest-post-from-david-vaux-about-correcting-the-scientific-record/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 43 comments

John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bKgf5PaBzyg

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Playable Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

http://ken-soft.com/tictactoe/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 50 comments

Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/yahoo-amazon-amplab-spark/all/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 39 comments

Lobster, a game programming language

http://strlen.com/lobster

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 32 comments

FBI Surveilling U.S. With Drones

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/fbi-drones/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 93 comments

DuckDuckGo Changes Homepage Logo, Links to StopWatching.Us Call Campaign

https://duckduckgo.com/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft reverses controversial game licensing policies

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/rumor-microsoft-set-to-reverse-controversial-game-licensing-policies/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 145 comments

LeaseWeb: Statement on former client MegaUpload

http://blog.leaseweb.com/2013/06/19/statement-on-former-client-megaupload/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 30 comments

Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/19/stratasys-acquiring-makerbot-combined-company-will-likely-dominate-3d-printing-industry/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

How to become a designer without going to design school

http://karenx.com/blog/how-to-become-a-designer-without-going-to-design-school/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 55 comments

NVidia will license their GPU cores to other hardware manufacturers

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2013/06/18/visual-computings-ascent-gives-nvidia-room-to-expand-its-business-model/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 67 comments

Clickbank order details in plain view

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aclkbank.com%2ForderDetail.htm

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 76 comments

On Scala

http://www.dehora.net/journal/2013/06/15/on-scala/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 99 comments

Steve Wozniak speaks out against NSA spying: this is not my America

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11133123507/steve-wozniak-speaks-out-against-nsa-spying-this-is-not-my-america.shtml

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

Zinc – Order products with a few lines of code

https://zinc.io

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities

http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/bountyprograms.aspx

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 65 comments

Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome

http://www.howtogeek.com/165264/heres-why-firefox-is-still-years-behind-google-chrome/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 170 comments

Working with the Stripe Payouts API

http://blog.chriswinn.com/working-with-stripe-payouts

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

Public Outcry in Taiwan Kills their version of SOPA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 1 comments

Russia promises legal action over NSA surveillance scandal

http://rt.com/politics/internet-surveillance-western-prevent-928/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

How cash secretly rules surveillance policy

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/18/how_cash_secretly_rules_surveillance_policy/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

MegaPipe: A New Programming Interface for Scalable Network I/O

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/6/19/paper-megapipe-a-new-programming-interface-for-scalable-netw.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

The Economics of the American Prison System

http://www.smartasset.com/blog/news/the-economics-of-the-american-prison-system/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 81 comments

Most AB-tests will fail

http://www.jitbit.com/news/185-most-of-your-abtests-will-fail/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

Log in to Yahoo by July 15th to keep your email address

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/52805929240/yourname-yahoo-com-can-be-yours/?

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 59 comments

Getting Docker to run on Linode

http://nick.stinemat.es/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Problem after update to PS3 firmware

http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-3-Support/Problem-after-update-to-4-45/m-p/40712247#U40712247

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

Map the iPhone Users In Any City, And You Know Where the Rich Live

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/06/map-iphone-users-any-city-and-you-know-where-rich-live/5961/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 61 comments

OpenCV Face Detection For Cropping Faces

http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/opencv-face-detection-for-cropping-faces

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

TokuMX 1.0: MongoDB with transactions, compression, MVCC, clustering indexes

http://www.tokutek.com/2013/06/announcing-tokumx-v1-0-tokumongo-you-can-have-it-all-2/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Texting-Enabled Raspberry-Pi-Powered Espresso Machine

http://blog.zipwhip.com/2013/06/18/zipwhip-text-enabling-of-the-delonghi-magnifica-espresso-machine/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

http://newrelic.com/platform

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 10th July

http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/125382282/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Netflix is producing original content

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/06/13/why-netflix-is-producing-original-content/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 48 comments

The MetaC Language

http://www.maier-komor.de/metac/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

DNSCrypt: A tool for securing communications between a client and a DNS resolver

http://dnscrypt.org/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app

http://www.radioformac.com

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

Guess You Thought I Was Someone To Mess With

http://georgiaweidman.com/wordpress/guess-you-thought-i-was-someone-to-mess-with/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

Videopixie (YC S11) Launches To Create A Marketplace For Video Editors

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/19/yc-backed-videopixie-launches-to-create-a-marketplace-for-video-editors/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Impending National Distraction, aka Public Relations 101

https://medium.com/surveillance-state/7fae51440170

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments
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