top 50% 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

Pirated Apps in the App Store

http://lipsky.me/blog/2013/7/2/pirated-apps-in-the-app-store

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 44 comments

Google flights

https://www.google.com/flights/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 65 comments

Russian Proton Rocket crashes Seconds after Launch

http://www.spaceflight101.com/proton-m-block-dm-03-glonass-launch-2013.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 122 comments

State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes'

http://washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-bureau-spent-630000-on-facebook-likes/article/2532629

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 35 comments

Frameworks Round 6

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/07/02/frameworks-round-6/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 132 comments

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality just got several fascinating updates

http://hpmor.com

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 99 comments

How We Hit $912 Million in Sales

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201307/christine-lagorio/jack-dangermond-how-he-started-esri.html

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 55 comments

Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised

https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ.aspx?platformid=60&brandid=2030&productid=3888&faqid=kA030000000eYZ2CAM

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 100 comments

The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

http://www.smiirl.com

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 91 comments

Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist

http://www.scribd.com/doc/151346841/Bitcoin-Foundation-Response-to-California-DFI

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 30 comments

The Underhanded C contest

http://underhanded.xcott.com

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

Time to come Clean Motorola (2012)

https://forums.motorola.com/posts/e24b3bfc6d

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 21 comments

Why the Story on Snowden and the NSA Doesn't Add Up

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/nyt-snowden-was-hacker-nsa

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 84 comments

Pebble Smartwatch Is Coming To Best Buy On July 7 For $149.95

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/02/pebble-smartwatch-is-coming-to-best-buy-july-7-for-149-95/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

How we perceive time: stop it slipping away by doing new things

http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-time-perception-how-to-make-your-days-longer

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

How Google have lost opportunity to get millions of Google+ users

http://blog.cloudorado.com/2013/07/how-google-have-lost-opportunity-to-get.html

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

Continuous Design and the NoPSD Movement

http://thoughtworks.github.io/p2/issue02/continuous-design.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 106 comments

HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surveillance Complex

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Palantir-Prism-Facebook-The-Industrial-Surveillance-Complex

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

Snowden needs "world's protection", says Venezuelan President

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/02/us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE96107520130702

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 26 comments

NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/nsa_e-mail_eave.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

Pixate Engine Now Free

http://www.pixate.com/blog/article/2013-07-01-pixate-free/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Bolivian Leader's Plane Rerouted on Snowden Fear

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/02/world/americas/ap-lt-nsa-surveillance-bolivia.html?hp

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Snowden withdraws Russian asylum bid after Putin says he must 'stop harming' US

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/02/19245678-snowden-withdraws-russian-asylum-bid-after-putin-says-he-must-stop-harming-us

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

Edward Snowden submits asylum applications

http://wikileaks.org/Edward-Snowden-submits-asylum.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Immutable Infrastructure and Disposable Components

http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

Andrew Mason's album "Hardly Workin'" now available

http://smandrew.com/blog/2013/7/1/hardly-workin-now-available-on-itunes

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 56 comments

What Marshmallows Tell Us About Silicon Valley

http://priceonomics.com/what-marshmallows-tell-us-about-silicon-valley/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Stanford students capture the flight of birds on very high-speed video

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/july/bird-flight-secrets-070213.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

Tesla: almost at 100000 votes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5977027

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

CSS filters, GIFs, and performance

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/4364221d6d97

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Yahoo Acquires Qwiki For Around $50 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/02/yahoo-acquires-qwiki-for-around-50-million/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

Quartzy Collects $4M To Help Scientists Manage Lab Inventory

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/07/02/quartzy-collects-4m-to-help-scientists-manage-lab-inventory/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Application for registration approved – The Wikileaks Party

http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registration_Decisions/2013/5145.htm

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Opera 15 released

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2013/07/02/opera-15

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 48 comments

Bolivia leader's jet diverted 'amid Snowden suspicions'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23156360

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

The Best Name Ever for a Computer Language

http://blog.pokercopilot.com/2010/02/best-name-ever-for-computer-language.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Artificial Intelligence for Humans Vol 1: Fundamental Algorithms

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffheaton/artificial-intelligence-for-humans-vol-1-fund-algo

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Browse the Debian source code

http://sources.debian.net

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments
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