top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-06-24

Abandoned island in the middle of NYC

http://backspac.es/r/62JmCbXLb8/abandoned-island-in-the-middle

13 years ago

675 upvotes – 108 comments

Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign

http://sub.garrytan.com/malibu-homeowners-who-hide-access-to-beautiful-beaches-foiled-by-$30k-kickstarter-campaign

13 years ago

596 upvotes – 206 comments

An Apology to my European IT Team

http://fredlybrand.com/2013/06/23/an-apology-to-my-european-it-team/

13 years ago

528 upvotes – 92 comments

Foundations of Computer Science

http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

13 years ago

437 upvotes – 86 comments

Only the Lonely

http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/06/24/only-the-lonely/

13 years ago

395 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932645

13 years ago

374 upvotes – 155 comments

Learn Lua in 15 Minutes

http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 94 comments

Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck

http://blog.smartbear.com/devops/a-taste-of-salt-like-puppet-except-it-doesnt-suck/

13 years ago

354 upvotes – 265 comments

Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no one uses it

http://blogs.computerworld.com/encryption/22366/can-nsa-see-through-encrypted-web-pages-maybe-so

13 years ago

347 upvotes – 135 comments

USA must not hunt down whistleblower Edward Snowden

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/usa-must-not-hunt-down-whistleblower-edward-snowden-2013-06-24

13 years ago

344 upvotes – 237 comments

Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was eliminated

http://markmail.org/message/exc3srjkx3uu66bz?q=android

13 years ago

308 upvotes – 135 comments

America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/opinion/americas-shameful-human-rights-record.html

13 years ago

304 upvotes – 146 comments

What every web developer must know about URL encoding

http://blog.lunatech.com/2009/02/03/what-every-web-developer-must-know-about-url-encoding

13 years ago

266 upvotes – 35 comments

My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89

http://thetrichordist.com/2013/06/24/my-song-got-played-on-pandora-1-million-times-and-all-i-got-was-16-89-less-than-what-i-make-from-a-single-t-shirt-sale/

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 238 comments

PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0

http://www.vgleaks.com/some-details-about-playstation-4-os-development/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 87 comments

Sacrificing everything for my dog. How I became a programmer

https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/612aeda3d770

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 142 comments

List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/400/please-share-your-hidden-os-x-features-or-tips-and-tricks

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 65 comments

Dirty Game Development Tricks

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/194772/dirty_game_development_tricks.php

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 39 comments

One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/24/one-of-the-worst-patents-ever-just-got-upheld-in-court/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 109 comments

Advice for ambitious 19 year olds

http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 155 comments
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