top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-29

A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

13 years ago

544 upvotes – 234 comments

Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us

https://medium.com/surveillance-state/f77088fd4c28

13 years ago

407 upvotes – 218 comments

15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160003-15-year-old-girl-invents-flashlight-powered-by-the-heat-of-your-hand

13 years ago

386 upvotes – 121 comments

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 86 comments

U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks

http://news.yahoo.com/u-bugged-eu-offices-computer-networks-german-magazine-162017024.html

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 123 comments

Papers and essays that every programmer should be aware of

http://projectmona.com/bits-of-brilliance-session-five/

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 50 comments

Freedom: The Big American Lie

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-u-s-and-the-n-s-a-scandal-freedom-the-big-american-lie-12263704.html

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 105 comments

Console.image - Images in Chrome Dev tools

https://github.com/dunxrion/console.image

13 years ago

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116 upvotes – 24 comments

Anatomy of a Compiler Bug

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-06-28-anatomy-of-a-compiler-bug.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur

https://bazqux.com/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 46 comments

What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/what-its-like-to-get-a-national-security-letter.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

“Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” by Mark Watson

https://leanpub.com/javaai

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

The Future of Computing - An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz" Matsumoto

http://fredwu.me/post/54175219257/the-future-of-computing-the-future-of-computer-programmers

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java [video]

https://marakana.com/s/post/1496/the_rise_and_fall_and_rise_of_java

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 86 comments

Large-scale quantum chip validated

http://news.usc.edu/#!/article/52818/large-scale-quantum-chip-validated/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: What is your experience making a free service completely paid?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5962205

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers

http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35851

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for U.Va. student

http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/bottled-water-purchase-leads-to-night-in-jail-for-u/article_45498018-e019-11e2-b98a-001a4bcf6878.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

Python-Based Tools for the Space Science Community

http://spacepy.lanl.gov/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

Free Speech Zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Wi-Vi: See Through Walls with Wi-Fi Signals

http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/nyregion/city-homicides-drop-sharply-again-police-cite-new-antigang-strategy.html?hp

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 68 comments

Hollywood’s role in shaping public views on mass surveillance

http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/06/29/hollywoods-role-in-shaping-public-views-on-mass-surveillance/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/the-best-hope-for-frances-young-get-out.html?hp

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 94 comments

The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (1991)

http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/comp_game_designers.article

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

How Aziz Ansari Tests Jokes With Analytics

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3013485/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

A Difficult Month - Post Mortem

http://blog.iron.io/2013/06/a-difficult-month-post-mortem.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

The 10 Megabyte Manifesto

http://10mbmanifesto.neocities.org/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/157777-how-nsas-prism-affects-you-and-how-to-protect-yourself-from-being-spied-on

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/29/tomorrows-surveillance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

How a total n00b mined $700 in bitcoins

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/06/how-a-total-n00b-mined-700-in-bitcoins/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: kouio, the Reader you've always wanted

https://kouio.com

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 36 comments
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