top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-07-02

Releases – a workflow for shipping software to end users

https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software

13 years ago

485 upvotes – 78 comments

Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/text-of-a-july-2-2013-letter-to-edward-snowden-from-his-father-and-fathers-attorney/2013/07/02/e62ff87e-e350-11e2-bffd-37a36ddab820_story.html

13 years ago

448 upvotes – 118 comments

Python Tools for Visual Studio

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OneOfMicrosoftsBestKeptSecretsPythonToolsForVisualStudioPTVS.aspx

13 years ago

412 upvotes – 130 comments

Google Reader is dead

http://www.google.com/reader/about/#overview-page

13 years ago

388 upvotes – 211 comments

Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/07/02/146251/firefox-takes-the-performance-crown-from-chrome?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 136 comments

Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/07/02/internet-explorer-11-dont-call-me-ie/

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 185 comments

Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/23/michael_hastings_sent_panicked_email_hours_before_car_crash.html

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 219 comments

Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/restore-fourth-campaign-organizes-protests-against-unconstitutional-surveillance

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 60 comments

Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll

http://toddmoore.com/2013/07/02/why-im-not-paying-the-troll-toll/

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 60 comments

Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manuscripts/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer20f97&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 82 comments

Breaking a Toy Hash Function

http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post4706_breaking-a-toy-hash-function

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 20 comments

Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean

http://remcobron.com/cloud-server-review-and-comparison-amazon-aws-ec2-vs-linode-vs-digitalocean/

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 113 comments

Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later

http://basho.com/erlang-at-basho-five-years-later/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source)

https://www.streak.com/securegmail

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 98 comments

Jury finds protester not guilty in chalk-vandalism case

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chalk-verdict-20130701,0,1617754.story

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 71 comments

The 4 AM Army

http://nation.time.com/2013/06/27/the-4-am-army/print/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 143 comments

Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS

http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-apple-iigs.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 18 comments

Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions

http://vudlab.com/fat-tails.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/07/dont-hate-the-crime-hate-the-person-how-weevs-appeal-affects-all-of-us/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 144 comments

Girl buys water, spends night in jail

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/uva-girl-water-beer-jail-181104442.html

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 145 comments
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