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

“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/

13 years ago

1310 upvotes – 408 comments

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 101 comments

Alief

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alief_(belief)

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 52 comments

Stay-at-home dad

http://www.facebook.com/tstocky/posts/996111776858

13 years ago

303 upvotes – 197 comments

NSA Rejecting FOIA Requests by US Citizens

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/06/1221694/-NSA-Rejecting-Every-FOIA-Request-Made-by-U-S-Citizens

13 years ago

266 upvotes – 101 comments

Armchair air crash investigator

http://momav.me/armchair-air-crash-investigator/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 150 comments

Snowden Interview with Jacob Applebaum

http://cryptome.org/2013/07/snowden-spiegel-13-0707-en.htm

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 86 comments

A thorough PGP tutorial

http://futureboy.us/pgp.html

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 109 comments

Unshackle the Middle Class

http://blog.pmarca.com/2013/03/26/unshackle-the-middle-class/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 140 comments

Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002595

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 110 comments

WeAreData - London

http://wearedata.watchdogs.com/start.php?locale=en-EN&city=london

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 32 comments

How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/d5da698ee2ba

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 159 comments

Paul Dirac's handwritten notes for his PhD, the first ever on quantum mechanics

http://academia.edu/323246/PhD_Thesis_of_Paul_Dirac

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

GorillaScript

http://ckknight.github.io/gorillascript/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 106 comments

Video shows plane's moment of impact at SFO

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/plane-crash-main/index.html

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 96 comments

Bank of America Bot Cares About You

http://eksith.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/bank-of-america-bot/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 47 comments

The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95%

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/07/jobless-rate-for-poor-black-te.html

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 151 comments

Tools For Treason

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/tools-for-treason/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 55 comments

Let's Play Ancient Greek Geometry

http://blog.sciencevsmagic.net/science/lets-play-ancient-greek-geometry/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

Don't talk to the police [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 37 comments

U.S. spied on millions of e-mails and calls of Brazilians

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/eua-espionaram-milhoes-de-mails-ligacoes-de-brasileiros-8940934

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

Diagnosis: Insufficient Outrage

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/opinion/diagnosis-insufficient-outrage.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 96 comments

Basic income vs. Capitalism

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2013/07/basic-income-vs-capitalism.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: vim-airline

https://github.com/bling/vim-airline

13 years ago

★ 17.9k Vim Script MIT
95 upvotes – 27 comments

Isamu Kaneko, creator of the encrypted P2P file sharing program Winny, has died

http://togetter.com/li/530045

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001)

http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

How to design a multi-user ajax web application to be concurrently safe

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4815226/how-to-design-a-multi-user-ajax-web-application-to-be-concurrently-safe

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: 7min Workout with Rdio

http://7min.io

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6001934

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 55 comments

"Just open-source it" is not realistic

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/07/06/fred/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 66 comments

How clothes should fit

http://howclothesshouldfit.com/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 112 comments

What it is like to be a Muslim woman, and why we know what freedom is

http://aveilandadarkplace.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-muslim-woman-and-why-we-know-what-freedom-is/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

What I learned in 7 years, 5 apartments, and 9 roommates

http://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2013/06/lessons_learned_after_5_apartments_9_roommates_and_7_years_in_new_york_city

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

NSA provides German intelligence service with tools for eavesdropping

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Finterview-mit-edward-snowden-im-spiegel-nsa-und-bnd-arbeiten-zusammen-a-909800.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Analysis of CVE-2013-0809 – Java integer overflow

http://axtaxt.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/analysis-of-cve-2013-0809/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

Flattr adds support for funding in Bitcoin

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/05/flattr-adds-support-for-funding-in-bitcoin-flirts-with-option-to-withdraw-in-the-virtual-currency-too/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

Large Text Compression Benchmark

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments
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