top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-30

A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail

http://dbpmail.net/essays/2013-06-29-hackers-replacement-for-gmail.html

13 years ago

464 upvotes – 215 comments

Startup Investing Trends

http://www.paulgraham.com/invtrend.html

13 years ago

374 upvotes – 145 comments

Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections in Germany

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fnetzpolitik%2Fnsa-ueberwacht-500-millionen-verbindungen-in-deutschland-a-908517.html

13 years ago

313 upvotes – 147 comments

Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011)

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life

13 years ago

304 upvotes – 261 comments

New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/29/new-prism-slides-say-the-program-allows-nsa-to-eavesdrop-on-live-conversations/

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 53 comments

Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/germans-loved-obama-now-we-dont-trust-him.html

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 76 comments

The Rise Of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business

http://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2013/06/29/the-rise-of-the-million-dollar-one-person-business/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 75 comments

Der Spiegel says US bugged EU offices in Washington

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/der-spiegel-says-us-bugged-eu-offices-in-washington/

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Nightweb, the anonymous P2P social network, now runs on the desktop

https://nightweb.net

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 63 comments

German Federal Prosecutor's office gets involved in the NSA data scandal

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2Fbundesanwaltschaft-ueberprueft-nsa-ueberwachung-a-908617.html

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 40 comments

Algorithms Course Materials

http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 13 comments

Germany Minister of Justice demands immediate response to US spying on Germany

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FUdland%2F2013%2F06%2F30%2F0630124247.htm&act=url

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 19 comments

Keith Alexander's Statement to the NSA Workforce

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/speeches_testimonies/25jun13_dir.shtml

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 171 comments

Omni: The "Oculus Rift" of 3D Treadmills

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 113 comments

Deleted Article by The Guardian

http://pastebin.com/NTJvUZdJ

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 17 comments

No free trade agreement if charges of espionage are true, warns EU Commissioner

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FUdland%2F2013%2F06%2F30%2F0630185422.htm&act=url

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 143 comments

On the freedom to speak

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/54268127504/on-the-freedom-to-speak

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 64 comments

There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (2011)

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

Don’t go to art school

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/138c5efd45e9

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 77 comments

Julian Assange: Edward Snowden is ‘marooned in Russia’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/julian-assange-edward-snowden-is-marooned-in-russia/2013/06/30/67ed243e-e191-11e2-9960-65d66450db63_story.html?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 97 comments

AlloyUI – a framework built on top of YUI3

http://alloyui.com/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 22 comments

When Are the Intelligent Aliens?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/?p=203#.UdBLMKa9LCR

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 98 comments

Study material for tech interviews

http://www.geeksforgeeks.org

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

PostgreSQL needs a new load balancer

http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/03/postgresql-needs-new-load-balancer.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 18 comments

A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time

http://searchengineland.com/altavista-eulogy-165366

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share links and not buttons

http://www.garron.me/en/blog/provide-share-buttons-without-exposing-your-visitors.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 63 comments

Ruby 1.8.7 retired

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/30/we-retire-1-8-7/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

Write Android apps in Google Go

https://github.com/eliasnaur/goandroid

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds

http://www.runkite.com

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Delightful Puzzles

http://gurmeet.net/puzzles/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time Ever, Feds Say

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/encryption-foiled-wiretaps/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Things I Do With My Raspberry Pi

http://magnatecha.com/things-i-do-with-my-raspberry-pi/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 51 comments

Best ways to learn a foreign language

http://domenicodefelice.blogspot.it/2013/06/best-ways-to-learn-foreign-language.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

http://supmua.org/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

U.S. Army Restricts Access To 'The Guardian' Website

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/28/196571320/u-s-army-restricts-access-to-the-guardian-website

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Nicole Wong, former top lawyer for Google and Twitter, is the new deputy US CTO

http://qz.com/98582/the-most-important-person-entering-us-government-youve-never-heard-of/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC

http://blog.twelephone.com/post/54269654299/webrtc-chat-roulette

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 41 comments

Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776)

http://www.constitution.org/tp/comsense.htm

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

Paul Graham’s Prescription For VCs: Move Fast, Take Less Equity

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/30/paul-grahams-prescription-for-vcs-move-fast-take-less-equity/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

MySQLgame - a game that just is a database

http://mysqlgame.com/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments
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