top 50% 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

Fair trial impossible in U.S., Snowden tells Ecuador

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/24/politics/nsa-leak/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 107 comments

Australian government shelves controversial data retention scheme

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/government-shelves-controversial-data-retention-scheme-20130624-2oskq.html

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 34 comments

Python and the Real-time Web

http://mrjoes.github.io/2013/06/21/python-realtime.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 17 comments

Ambition can be poison

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3547-ambition-can-be-poison

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 99 comments

Project Meshnet

https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/Getting_started

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 11 comments

OpenGL – OS X Mountain Lion vs. Mavericks

http://rk.md/2013/opengl-osx-mountain-lion-vs-mavericks/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 91 comments

German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens

http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=109248

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 74 comments

Edward Snowden whereabouts unknown as US presses Russia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/edward-snowden-booked-on-plane-from-moscow-to-havana-live-coverage

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 73 comments

If you only hire in the Valley, you don’t have the best talent

http://pandodaily.com/2013/06/21/tom-preston-werner-if-you-only-hire-in-the-valley-you-dont-have-the-best-talent

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

Book discovery service: No Names. No Jackets

http://www.nonamesnojackets.com/launch-announcement/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Don Knuth and the Art of Computer Programming: The Interview

https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/don-knuth-and-the-art-of-computer-programming-the-interview/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

Basic income as an answer to all out automation

http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/06/basic-income-versus-robots

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 153 comments

The Decline and Fall of the English Major

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-english-major.html?_r=0

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 156 comments

A very old problem turns 20

http://plus.maths.org/content/very-old-problem-turns-20

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 56 comments

The Little, Big Idea

https://medium.com/editors-picks/271ae5edf93e

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

A List of Useful Backend Architectures

https://gist.github.com/ragingwind/5840075

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

On NSA disclosures, has Glenn Greenwald become something other than a reporter?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-nsa-disclosures-has-glenn-greenwald-become-something-other-than-a-reporter/2013/06/23/c6e65be4-dc47-11e2-9218-bc2ac7cd44e2_story.html?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 69 comments

NSA can retain encrypted communications of Americans possibly indefinitely

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2042673/nsa-can-retain-encrypted-communications-of-americans-possibly-indefinitely.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

Snowden’s whereabouts unknown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-says-it-has-no-authority-to-expel-snowden/2013/06/24/325281f2-dcaf-11e2-bd83-e99e43c336ed_story.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 67 comments

A List of Programming Screencast Series

http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/21/a-list-of-programming-screencast-series/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Open letter and petition for NSA to conduct public rulemaking on surveillance

https://epic.org/NSApetition/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 2 comments

Prism Button

http://www.prismbutton.com

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Open Letter to the NY Post: Snowden is a Hero, Not a Traitor

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/an-open-letter-to-the-ny-post-snowden-is-a-hero-not-a-traitor/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

How I Under-promised, Over-delivered and Screwed Myself

http://nathanconyngham.com/under-promising-over-delivering-screwed-me/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 59 comments

Data Compression Explained

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html?year=2011

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Ember.js 1.0 RC6 released

https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/tree/v1.0.0-rc.6

13 years ago

★ 22.5k TypeScript MIT
73 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Building an HTML5 Desktop environment with a minimal server component

https://github.com/Lerc/notanos

13 years ago

★ 155 JavaScript MIT
68 upvotes – 16 comments

From Europe to Silicon Valley - things I do/don't like about USA

http://filipmolcan.com/blog/2012/12/17/from-europe-to-silicon-valley-20-things-i-dodont-like-about-usa

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 110 comments

Pink Floyd: Pandora's Internet radio royalty ripoff

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/23/pink-floyd-royalties-pandora-column/2447445/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 98 comments

Recursive Postgres Queries

http://blog.timothyandrew.net/blog/2013/06/24/recursive-postgres-queries/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

Building a Raspberry Pi based server powered 100% by solar energy

http://pi.qcontinuum.com/project.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments
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