top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-01

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

http://wikileaks.org/Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html?snow

13 years ago

954 upvotes – 483 comments

Tell-all telephone – Six months of phone metadata visualized

http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention/

13 years ago

568 upvotes – 72 comments

How Google is Killing Organic Search

http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/54349646327/death-of-organic-search

13 years ago

535 upvotes – 209 comments

Never Trust Facebook

http://wellpreparedmind.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/never-ever-trust-facebook/

13 years ago

533 upvotes – 190 comments

Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home

http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listening.html?source=hn

13 years ago

483 upvotes – 112 comments

"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873709&resub

13 years ago

445 upvotes – 365 comments

Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/stop-penalizing-boys-for-not-being-able-to-sit-still-at-school/276976/

13 years ago

325 upvotes – 215 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970187

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 367 comments

Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2013/07/mozilla-and-partners-prepare-to-launch-first-firefox-os-smartphones/

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 195 comments

How to build (and how not to build) a secure “remember me” feature

http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/07/how-to-build-and-how-not-to-build.html

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 64 comments

Germany says Cold War tactics don't help EU-US trade talks

http://news.yahoo.com/germanys-greens-snowden-safe-haven-europe-080014894.html

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 54 comments

Harlan, new Lispy language for GPU programming

http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/06/28/announcing-the-release-of-harlan/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 39 comments

The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire

http://www.dailydot.com/business/reddit-quickmeme-banned-miltz-brothers/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 120 comments

Yelp Hipster Finder

http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/sf/hipster

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 85 comments

Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23138073

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 115 comments

Chrome 27, Firefox 22, IE10, And Opera Next, Benchmarked

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-opera-next,3534-12.html

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language

http://torso.me/chicken

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 71 comments

Winklevoss twins to offer Bitcoin ETF

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/000119312513279830/d562329ds1.htm

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 90 comments

PRISM: The Amazingly Low Cost of ­Using Big Data to Know More About You

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/1/prism-the-amazingly-low-cost-of-using-bigdata-to-know-more-a.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 28 comments

4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20

https://www.4chan.org/advertise?selfserve

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 117 comments

My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why

http://www.jitbit.com/news/186-my-startup-is-microsoftbased-heres-why/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 201 comments

Putin Says Snowden Must Stop Hurting U.S. to Stay in Russia

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/world/europe/snowden-applies-for-asylum-in-russia.html?_r=0

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970190

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 166 comments

Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know: Reservoir Sampling

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/04/hadoop-stratified-randosampling-algorithm/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 40 comments

Beware of these lame App Store techniques

http://www.neotokyo.vg/2013/06/30/app-developers-publishers-beware-of-these-lame-app-store-techniques/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 56 comments

Misinformation on NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/misinformation-on-classified-nsa-programs-includes-statements-by-senior-us-officials/2013/06/30/7b5103a2-e028-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_print.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 25 comments

Automating Development Environments with Vagrant and Puppet

http://blog.kloudless.com/2013/07/01/automating-development-environments-with-vagrant-and-puppet/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Google Chrome heuristic warnings pose threat to our business

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971403

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 80 comments

French parties call for Snowden political asylum

http://www.france24.com/en/20130701-snowden-nsa-france-asylum-melanchon-greens-le-pen-hollande

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

$99 Parallella Supercomputer is Now Open Source Hardware

http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/06/30/99-parallella-supercomputer-is-now-open-source-hardware/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Google Glass + Tesla Model S = GlassTesla

http://glasstesla.com

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 49 comments

TCP simultaneous open and peer to peer networking

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/29/sim/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments

How Google pulled the plug on the public Jabber Network

http://jabbermania.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-google-pulled-plug-on-public-jabber.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Introducing Cloud Typography Webfonts by H&FJ

http://www.typography.com/cloud/welcome/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 51 comments

Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him

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

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO

http://allthingsd.com/20130701/in-major-hire-zynga-confirms-xbox-head-mattrick-as-new-ceo-replacing-founder/?mod=tweet

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist

http://qz.com/99413/first-ever-human-head-transplant-is-now-possible-says-neuroscientist/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 93 comments

Why You Shouldn’t Join Medium

http://blog.spanishcurls.com/the-reasons-why-you-should-not-join-medium

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Learn Java in Minutes

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/java/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

PuTTY Tray

https://puttytray.goeswhere.com/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

Signs of a Stranger, Deeper Side to Nature’s Building Blocks

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/signs-of-a-stranger-deeper-side-to-natures-building-blocks/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

CSS Loaders and Spinners

http://codepen.io/collection/HtAne/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130701022638-22330283-a-simple-rule-to-eliminate-useless-meetings?trk=tod-home-art-large_0

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

An Apple-1 Personal Computer

http://artsy.net/artwork/an-apple-1-personal-computer

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

CoderPad

https://coderpad.io/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 42 comments
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