top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-04

Restore the Fourth

http://www.restorethefourth.net/#July4th

13 years ago

772 upvotes – 173 comments

DecryptoCat

http://tobtu.com/decryptocat.php

13 years ago

516 upvotes – 276 comments

Join the largest online protest since SOPA to stop NSA spying

http://CallForFreedom.org/

13 years ago

386 upvotes – 59 comments

A few words on Doug Engelbart

http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/

13 years ago

382 upvotes – 54 comments

The 19-year-old jailed for the crime of sarcasm

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352432/free-justin-carter-now-charles-c-w-cooke

13 years ago

313 upvotes – 90 comments

FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"

http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/06/27/fbi-document-deleted-plots-to-kill-occupy-leaders-if-deemed-necessary/

13 years ago

308 upvotes – 145 comments

Distributed Everything

https://medium.com/surveillance-state/19a5db211e47

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 117 comments

EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/july-4-show-your-support-fourth-amendment

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 36 comments

Bill before Icelandic Parliament to grant Edward Snowden citizenship

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.althingi.is%2Faltext%2F142%2Fs%2F0078.html&act=url

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 80 comments

How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/how-exercise-can-calm-anxiety/?ref=health&_r=0

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 71 comments

Zynga Mistake Puts Random Stranger In Customer Support Role

http://kotaku.com/zynga-mistake-puts-random-stranger-in-customer-support-664780630

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 61 comments

Snowden's Constitution vs Obama's Constitution

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130703/00121023700/snowdens-constitution-vs-obamas-constitution.shtml

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 36 comments

Revelations about the French Big Brother

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/07/04/revelations-sur-le-big-brother-francais_3441973_3224.html

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 87 comments

Clojure core.async and Go: A Code Comparison

http://blog.drewolson.org/blog/2013/07/04/clojure-core-dot-async-and-go-a-code-comparison/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 78 comments

France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillions Of Metadata Elements

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/04/france-has-a-prism-like-program-with-thousands-of-trillions-of-metadata-elements/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 46 comments

The last Incan suspension bridge is made entirely of grass and woven by hand

http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/06/10/the_last_incan_suspension_bridge_is_made_entirely_of_grass_and_woven_by.html?wpsrc=theweek

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 45 comments

What it looks like when Google links to your website

http://raaw.se/2013/07/04/google-shuts-down-a-popular-service-and-links-to-your-website/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

The web you know is dying

http://evbogue.com/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments

Critical Vulnerability in Cryptocat

https://blog.crypto.cat/2013/07/new-critical-vulnerability-in-cryptocat-details/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

Swedish Campground (2004)

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campground.txt

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 49 comments

The Fall of the American Worker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/07/the-fall-of-the-american-worker.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 168 comments

AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance (2007)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/10/att-invents-pro/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

Final Fantasy VII is available on Steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/39140/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

JavaScript projects to look into

http://www.javascriptoo.com/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Statement on planned Fourth of July demonstrations

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/speeches_testimonies/3jul13_4th.shtml

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

How a sysadmin can become a programmer

http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=817

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 79 comments

A chimp-pig hybrid origin for humans?

http://m.phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 82 comments

Texas teen in jail for his Facebook comment

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201307032030-0022876

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 63 comments

On Open-Sourcing Libraries

http://williamdurand.fr/2013/07/04/on-open-sourcing-libraries/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

These charts show how the Edward Snowden story is overwhelming the NSA story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/03/how-ed-snowden-became-a-bigger-story-than-nsa-spying-in-two-charts/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

Meshing in a Minecraft Game (2012)

http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/meshing-in-a-minecraft-game/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Firefox OS Building Blocks find a new home, and get more streamlined

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/firefox-os-building-blocks-find-a-new-home-and-get-more-streamlined/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Long copy isn't back

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/july/apple-long-copy-ads

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

Verizon network ALG blocks SIP

http://www.onsip.com/blog/2013/07/02/in-depth-verizon-blocks-sip-traffic-using-alg

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Ferrari 512 BBi Is A Piece of Art [video]

http://www.videry.me/videopage2.php?id=44

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Terminal-based group chat with end-to-end encryption

https://github.com/jeztek/deadchat

13 years ago

★ 204 Python BSD-3-Clause
60 upvotes – 41 comments
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