top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-03

Doug Engelbart has died

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg80472.html

13 years ago

1178 upvotes – 94 comments

Lockdown

http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown

13 years ago

625 upvotes – 217 comments

Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade

http://rt.com/news/bolivia-un-complaint-plane-601/

13 years ago

537 upvotes – 378 comments

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?hp

13 years ago

497 upvotes – 237 comments

Restore the Fourth

http://www.restorethefourth.net/?s=hn

13 years ago

372 upvotes – 157 comments

MasterCard breaks ranks in WikiLeaks blockade

http://wikileaks.org/MasterCard-breaks-ranks-in.html

13 years ago

359 upvotes – 81 comments

Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_just_became_the_most_used_web_server_among_the_top_1000_websites

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 137 comments

An Open Letter to Craig Newmark

http://krrb.com/craigslist

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 104 comments

Uncovering Android Master Key That Makes 99% of Devices Vulnerable

http://bluebox.com/corporate-blog/bluebox-uncovers-android-master-key

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 105 comments

Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers

http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 110 comments

Reddit, Mozilla to stage Fourth of July protest against NSA spying

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/308931-reddit-mozilla-and-privacy-groups-to-launch-protests-against-nsa-surveillance-programs

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 43 comments

Students Question the NSA at Recruiting Session [audio]

https://soundcloud.com/madiha-1/students-question-the-nsa-at

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 184 comments

German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying

http://www.zdnet.com/german-minister-stop-using-u-s-web-services-to-avoid-nsa-spying-7000017631/

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 198 comments

Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkantrowitz/2013/07/01/google-reader-founder-i-never-would-have-founded-reader-inside-todays-google/

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 95 comments

The Demo

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

13 years ago

232 upvotes – 36 comments

BBC blocking articles from UK residents

http://alexwarren.co.uk/2013/07/03/bbc-blocking-articles-from-uk-residents/

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 100 comments

“A Dark Room” game open-sourced

https://github.com/Continuities/adarkroom

13 years ago

★ 166 JavaScript MPL-2.0
212 upvotes – 117 comments

Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88.html?ref=technology&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 19 comments

How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans

http://pastebin.com/VzqpaF8y

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 68 comments

A bug is found in Ecuador Embassy in London

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegrafo.com.ec%2Factualidad%2Fitem%2Fmicrofono-oculto-es-hallado-en-embajada-de-ecuador-en-londres.html

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 61 comments

Ansible Simply Kicks Ass

http://devo.ps/blog/2013/07/03/ansible-simply-kicks-ass.html

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 153 comments

Rust 0.7 Released

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.txt#

13 years ago

★ 112.3k Rust Apache-2.0
172 upvotes – 50 comments

RethinkDB 1.7: hot backup, atomic set/get, 10x insert performance improvement

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.7-release/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 66 comments

Bolivia says Morales' plane diverted, apparently over Snowden

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-snowden-bolivia-idUSBRE9611AT20130703

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 75 comments

Product Strategy Means Saying No

http://insideintercom.io/product-strategy-means-saying-no/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 39 comments

UK law says provide key to encrypted data or go to jail

http://www.itworld.com/security/285992/uk-law-says-provide-key-encrypted-data-or-go-jail

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 79 comments

Client won’t pay, my final resort

http://pixxel.co/feed/client-wont-pay-my-final-resort

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 101 comments

Somewhat Verbatim Conversation with a Startup Recruiter

http://blog.galler.io/startup-dialog

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 70 comments

AT&T will start selling customers’ usage data

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/03/heres-a-big-shock-att-will-start-selling-customers-usage-data/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: I made an HN job board

https://hnjobs.org/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 77 comments

Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5917093

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 51 comments

Zen Photon Garden - Ray Tracing in the Browser

http://zenphoton.com/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 45 comments

Mass protests planned over web NSA spying revelations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23160309

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 21 comments

Dwarf Fortress in 2013

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/195148/dwarf_fortress_in_2013.php?print=1

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 83 comments

Your test suite is trying to tell you something

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/07/your-test-suite-is-trying-to-tell-you.html

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

Boxee Acquired By Samsung For Around $30M

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/03/streaming-entertainment-startup-boxee-acquired-by-samsung-for-around-30m/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 48 comments

Humble eBook Bundle 2

https://www.humblebundle.com/?ebook2

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Notes on computer science, math, research, programming, and industry

http://yz.mit.edu/notes/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 15 comments

My First Exit

http://kzhu.net/my-first-exit.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 20 comments

Sails.js – Real-time MVC Framework for Node.js

http://sailsjs.org/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 103 comments

Bolivian president's plane forced to divert over a rumor Snowden was on board

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1784988/US-hopeful-Snowden-will-return-home

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 26 comments

How the algorithm for coloring the iTunes song list works

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13637892/how-does-the-algorithm-to-color-the-song-list-in-itunes-11-work

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 9 comments

Dropbox will kill your insane MacBook Air 2013 battery

http://blog.nicoschuele.com/?p=151

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 109 comments

This Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting

http://adage.com/article/privacy-and-regulation/student-project-kill-digital-ad-targeting/242955/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/07/03/qt-5-1-released/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

Why you think your phone is vibrating when it is not

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130701-why-you-feel-phantom-phone-calls/all

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverted - live coverage

http://guardiannews.com/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-asylum-live

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

Yahoo acquires Xobni

http://allthingsd.com/20130703/yahoo-acquires-xobni-for-upwards-of-30-million-like-atd-said-part-2/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Not Python - the GIL hinders concurrency

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/why_not_python.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Spread bitcoins by lending to friends

http://bitcoinswithfriends.com/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments
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