top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-28

Making the web fun again

http://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again

13 years ago

706 upvotes – 232 comments

The Criminal N.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html

13 years ago

552 upvotes – 106 comments

An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20786

13 years ago

406 upvotes – 78 comments

Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 258 comments

The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/27/the_nsa_cant_tell_the_difference_between_an_american_and_a_foreigner?page=0,0

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 119 comments

DevDocs

http://devdocs.io/

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 76 comments

In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/27/in-the-1970s-congress-investigated-intelligence-abuses-time-to-do-it-again/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 63 comments

Refactoring GitHub's Design

http://ianstormtaylor.com/refactoring-githubs-design/

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 92 comments

Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/27/tesla-victory-north-carolina

13 years ago

254 upvotes – 83 comments

U.S. Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for World Democracy

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/us-government-surveillance-bad-for-silicon-valley-bad-for-democracy-around-the-world/277335/

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 76 comments

Facebook Android app sends phone number to Facebook servers without consent

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/norton-mobile-insight-discovers-facebook-privacy-leak

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 86 comments

Clojure core.async Channels

http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channels.html

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 44 comments

CIA Agents Were Embedded With NYPD And Had “No Limits”

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/06/28/cia-agents-were-embedded-with-nypd-and-had-no-limits/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 75 comments

Productizing A Freelancing / Consulting Business

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

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 64 comments

Why The NSA's Surveillance Program Is Illegal And Unconstitutional

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130628/01171923655/why-nsas-surveillance-program-is-unconstitutional.shtml

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 30 comments

Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms

http://www.packer.io/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 52 comments

Defense Department Blocks Access to Guardian to Prevent Viewing of NSA Leaks

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/06/27/defense-department-blocks-access-to-guardian-news-website-to-prevent-viewing-of-nsa-leaks/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 43 comments

Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 224 comments

A surprising JavaScript memory leak found at Meteor

http://point.davidglasser.net/2013/06/27/surprising-javascript-memory-leak.html

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 104 comments

Army restricts access to The Guardian in the wake of NSA leaks

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/army-restricts-access-to-the-guardian-in-the-wake-of-nsa-leaks/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 91 comments

Learn Python in minutes

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 55 comments

Lawyers said Bush couldn’t spy on Americans. He did it anyway.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/27/lawyers-said-bush-couldnt-spy-on-americans-he-did-it-anyway/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 61 comments

A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/06/26/practical-guide-to-graphite-monitoring/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 29 comments

Man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk

http://topinfopost.com/2013/06/26/man-faces-13-years-in-jail-for-scribbling-anti-bank-messages-in-chalk

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 92 comments

Django 1.6 beta 1 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/jun/28/django-16-beta-1-released/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 69 comments

Ecuador cancels US trade deal & donates $23MM to US for "human rights education"

http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/americas/308167-ecuador-nixes-trade-deal-offers-to-educate-us-on-human-rights-in-showdown-over-snowden

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 17 comments

How People Think Facebook Connect Log‑in and Log‑out Work

http://skinnywhitegirl.com/blog/how-people-think-facebook-connect-login-logout-work/861/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 36 comments

Cool water vapor effect in HTML5 Canvas

http://raizin-japan.com/cool/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

How to botch TLS forward secrecy

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/27/botchingpfs.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 18 comments

The State of the Tau

http://tauday.com/state-of-the-tau

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

The Making of Dwarf Fortress (2012)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131954/interview_the_making_of_dwarf_.php?print=1

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

Stop selling your Software for Peanuts

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1384&v=2

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 85 comments

The weirdest languages

http://idibon.com/the-weirdest-languages/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/54125001066/keeping-our-focus-on-whats-next

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 59 comments

Getting all your data out of Google Reader

http://blog.persistent.info/2013/06/getting-all-your-data-out-of-google.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

ArchiveTeam needs OPMLs and feed URLs to grab cached data from Google Reader

http://allyourfeed.ludios.org:8080/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

Tiedot - Your NoSQL document database engine powered by Go

https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot

13 years ago

★ 2.7k Go BSD-2-Clause
85 upvotes – 34 comments

Git Cheet Sheet

http://www.git-tower.com/blog/git-cheat-sheet/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

Edward Snowden's Father Gives Interview: My Son Is Not A Traitor

http://www.today.com/news/edward-snowdens-father-my-son-not-traitor-6C10480514

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Unsure if I understand TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14636178/unsure-if-i-understand-transactionawarepersistencemanagerfactoryproxy/14636231#14636231

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 79 comments

Vipassana Trip Report by Rap Genius Founder

http://rapgenius.com/albums/Abominablehoman/Baby-s-first-meditation-retreat

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

Google is developing its own Android game console - Report

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/195257/Google_is_developing_its_own_Android_game_console__Report.php

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 84 comments

Ecuador Using Copyright To Try To Take Down Leaked Docs About Its Surveillance

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130627/22382723648/ecuador-using-copyright-to-try-to-take-down-leaked-documents-about-its-surveillance-practices.shtml

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Intuition and Logic in Mathematics (1905)

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Poincare_Intuition.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

What's Really 'Immoral' About Student Loans

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324688404578541372861440606-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwNzEyNDcyWj.html?mod=wsj_valettop_email

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 99 comments

Alan Turing wanted to base early computer memory on gin

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/28/wilkes_centenary_mercury_memory/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Evi Nemeth, retired Boulder computer professor, missing at sea near New Zealand

http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_23553916/retired-cu-boulder-computer-professor-evi-nemeth-missing

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments
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