top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-21

U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-charges-snowden-with-espionage/2013/06/21/507497d8-dab1-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_print.html

13 years ago

749 upvotes – 346 comments

Antiprism

http://antiprism.eu/

13 years ago

422 upvotes – 106 comments

NeoCities

http://neocities.org

13 years ago

411 upvotes – 209 comments

A useful program, 0 bytes long

http://peetm.com/blog?p=55

13 years ago

389 upvotes – 75 comments

On Confirmed Assumptions or, Not Trusting Google is a Good Idea

http://anarchism.is/

13 years ago

382 upvotes – 221 comments

How I Got Fired from the Job I Invented

http://aroundtheworldin80jobs.com/how-i-got-fired-from-the-job-i-invented/?

13 years ago

296 upvotes – 72 comments

Battery Swap [video]

http://www.teslamotors.com/batteryswap

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 175 comments

How to know when someone is in trouble in the water

http://mobile.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/family/2013/06/rescuing_drowning_children_how_to_know_when_someone_is_in_trouble_in_the.html

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 114 comments

Prince Of Persia Code Review

http://www.fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/index.php

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 30 comments

Newly disclosed papers give rules for NSA surveillance without a warrant

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/newly-disclosed-papers-give-rules-for-nsa-surveillance-without-a-warrant/2013/06/21/6346a462-da7c-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 54 comments

NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 125 comments

How to travel around the world for a year

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/how-to-travel-around-the-world-for-a-year/

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 149 comments

NY auto dealers trying to shut down Tesla Motors in NY

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/348112948230774784

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 133 comments

Next Generation Video: Introducing Daala

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 34 comments

Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/20/tesla-shows-off-a-90-second-battery-swap-system-wants-it-at-supercharging-stations-by-years-end/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 76 comments

We were wrong

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/we-were-wrong

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 525 comments

Pay No Attention to the Bloody Corpse in the Bathroom

https://medium.com/p/ce3f3a495d12

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 63 comments

In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer’s Gmail

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/wikileaks-gmail/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 40 comments

7k more signatures needed on the Snowden pardon petition

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD?at93

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 11 comments

NSA: we can warrantlessly grab your data and keep it forever if encrypted

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/15390323549/nsa-has-convinced-fisa-court-that-if-your-data-is-encrypted-you-might-be-terrorist-so-itll-hang-onto-your-data.shtml

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 96 comments

Paris Air Show’s Slowest Plane Could Have Biggest Impact

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/06/electric-taxiing-airlines/?cid=co9091394

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

How Browsers Store Your Passwords (and Why You Shouldn't Let Them)

http://raidersec.blogspot.in/2013/06/how-browsers-store-your-passwords-and.html

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 81 comments

Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/important-message-from-facebooks-white-hat-program/10151437074840766

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 30 comments

Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that NSA keeps your data

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/use-of-tor-and-e-mail-crypto-could-increase-chances-that-nsa-keeps-your-data/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 109 comments

Foxconn to hire 3,000 to support Firefox OS and software development

http://www.itworld.com/361807/foxconn-hire-3000-support-firefox-os-and-software-development

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 52 comments

Packagers don't know best

http://vagabond.github.io/2013/06/21/z_packagers-dont-know-best/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 126 comments

No One Is Innocent

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/no-one-is-innocent.html

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 29 comments

What Product Companies Can Learn From Consulting Companies

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/products_vs_services

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Don't Look for Talent, Find People Who Do Things

http://tuckermax.me/dont-look-for-talent-find-people-who-do-things/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 67 comments

Soylent raises $750k on Crowdhoster – what’s next for open source crowdfunding?

http://blog.crowdtilt.com/post/53534200723/soylent-raises-750k-on-crowdhoster-whats-next-for

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa?CMP=twt_gu

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

GitHub Got Silly Rich. Next Step: 'Make More Awesome'

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/github-got-silly-rich-dot-next-step-make-more-awesome

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 47 comments

Creative People Say No

https://medium.com/design-thinking-1/bad7c34842a2

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 44 comments

Five Years of Stackoverflow.com

http://www.stum.de/2013/06/21/5-years-of-stackoverflow-com/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 59 comments

Whole human brain mapped in 3D

http://www.nature.com/news/whole-human-brain-mapped-in-3d-1.13245

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 (2012)

http://andrewchen.co/2012/08/15/mobile-app-startups-are-failing-like-its-1999/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 50 comments

Tesla announces 90 sec battery swap

https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/347925866061385728

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 77 comments

Paddle

https://vine.co/v/huvw7v1Og0m

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 40 comments

Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/20/google-says-tricky-job-interview-brainteasers-were-a-waste-of-time/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Docker Tutorials

http://blog.docker.io/2013/06/14-great-tutorials-on-docker/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

A LaTeX-Package that comes up with synonyms for 'Therefore,'

https://github.com/bgschiller/latex-therefore

13 years ago

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80 upvotes – 32 comments

Church Committee Report on NSA Surveillance Affecting Americans (1975) [pdf]

http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book3/pdf/ChurchB3_10_NSA.pdf

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Upboat, idea validation with a twist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5916181

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

25,000 Dead Bees Found In Car Park Amid Probe

http://news.sky.com/story/1106549/dead-bees-25000-found-in-car-park-amid-probe

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs

http://blog.smartbear.com/careers/13-things-people-hate-about-your-open-source-docs/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Autoscaling on AWS

http://qzaidi.github.io/2013/06/21/autoscaling-with-aws/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

Smog over Singapore

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/06/smog-over-singapore

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

Creating and Verifying Hashes in PHP 5.5

http://www.jcurcio.com/posts/creating-and-verifying-hashes-in-php-the-easy-way/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

SSH into your EC2 instances with ease

http://ozkatz.github.io/ssh-into-your-ec2-instances-with-ease.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments
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