top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-20

This is a web page

http://justinjackson.ca/words.html

13 years ago

1354 upvotes – 420 comments

In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

13 years ago

502 upvotes – 270 comments

Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America

http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/edward-snowden

13 years ago

377 upvotes – 154 comments

Hair

http://codepen.io/MathiasPaumgarten/details/BHIek

13 years ago

322 upvotes – 96 comments

Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub

http://math.andrej.com/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 98 comments

One cost engineers and product managers don't consider

http://firstround.com/article/The-one-cost-engineers-and-product-managers-dont-consider

13 years ago

296 upvotes – 99 comments

The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/20/the-nsa-can-retain-and-use-data-inadvertently-collected-from-communications-of-us-citizens/

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 59 comments

The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster Horse

https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/a849a9d4d530

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 201 comments

LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

https://alpha.app.net/berg/post/6917579

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 93 comments

I Am Bradley Manning

http://iam.bradleymanning.org/

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 61 comments

Aaron’s Law, much-needed reforms to computer crimes law, introduced in Congress

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/aarons-law-much-needed-reforms-to-computer-crimes-law-introduced-in-congress/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 31 comments

Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry

http://prog21.dadgum.com/177.html

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 67 comments

Blowback from the NSA surveillance.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/blowback_from_t.html

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 29 comments

What happened to innovation?

http://blog.samaltman.com/what-happened-to-innovation-1

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 136 comments

Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective

http://www.nature.com/news/silver-makes-antibiotics-thousands-of-times-more-effective-1.13232

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 101 comments

We've raised a $5.6M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-06-20-firebase-series-a.html

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 64 comments

What asm.js is and isn't

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-asmjs-is-and-what-asmjs-isnt.html

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 49 comments

The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

https://medium.com/p/2a7de6627c07

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 117 comments

Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withdrawals

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130620.html

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 112 comments

How A Used Bottle Becomes A New Bottle, In 6 Gifs

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/11/190668206/how-a-used-bottle-becomes-a-new-bottle-in-6-gifs

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 85 comments

Finding Sociopaths on Facebook

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/finding_sociopa.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 72 comments

How to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD

http://theconversation.com/more-data-storage-heres-how-to-fit-1-000-terabytes-on-a-dvd-15306?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+20+June+2013&utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+20+June+2013+CID_06ee2f136721194be78210c407225a91&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=More%20data%20storage%20Heres%20how%20to%20fit%201000%20terabytes%20on%20a%20DVD

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 40 comments

Video on Instagram

http://blog.instagram.com/post/53448889009/introducing-video-on-instagram-over-the-past-two

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 143 comments

An App Store Experiment

http://stuartkhall.com/posts/an-app-store-experiment

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi-mueller-20130620,0,5216531.story

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

Pirate Bay Founder Guilty of Hacking, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-guilty-of-hacking-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison-130620/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

Government Digital Service Design Principles

http://www.gov.uk/designprinciples

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 81 comments

Lawyers eye NSA data as treasure trove for evidence in murder, divorce cases

http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/20/19061109-lawyers-eye-nsa-data-as-treasure-trove-for-evidence-in-murder-divorce-cases?lite

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 37 comments

PHP 5.5

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0/NEWS

13 years ago

★ 40k C BSD-3-Clause
106 upvotes – 109 comments

Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/20/project-chess-how-u-s-snoops-on-your-skype/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 36 comments

A Study of Assassination – CIA (1953)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ciaguat2.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 46 comments

Big web app? Compile it

http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico

http://www.livescience.com/37534-huge-dead-zone-expected.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

NeDB, a pure Javascript database for Node.js and Node Webkit

https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb

13 years ago

★ 13.5k JavaScript MIT
83 upvotes – 46 comments

Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/technology/silicon-valley-and-spy-agency-bound-by-strengthening-web.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Amazon is staffing up for its $600 million cloud for spooks

http://qz.com/95994/amazon-is-staffing-up-for-its-600-million-cloud-for-spooks/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Jepsen: Testing the Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB and Riak

http://www.infoq.com/articles/jepsen

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Microsoft almost bought Nokia

http://www.unwiredview.com/2013/06/20/nokia-in-acquisition-talks-with-microsoft-so-thats-why-meltemi-had-to-die-and-elop-kept-his-job-after-2012/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

Google on NSA: No server access, no back door, no drop box, no free-for-all

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/19/google-issues-clearest-statement-yet-on-nsa-and-prism-no-server-access-no-back-door-no-drop-box-no-free-for-all/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Responding to NSA spying with a simple consumer VPN service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5913839

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 74 comments

Starting Forth – the classic Forth language tutorial

http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Hacker News Karma Superstars

http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/superstars

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 80 comments

Michael Hastings told Wikileaks FBI investigating him hours before death.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/347475869629022208

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 39 comments

In Defense of Floppy Disks: The Vocabulary of the Interface

http://boxesandarrows.com/icon-survey-results/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments

Surviving public school as a blind girl in 1955

http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/53441808738/the-girl-with-bad-eyes

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple's New Mac Pro Begins Showing Up in Benchmarks

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/19/apples-new-mac-pro-begins-showing-up-in-benchmarks/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 55 comments

The Obesity Era

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-berreby-obesity-era/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 92 comments
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