top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-08

Final Term - Terminal Emulator

http://finalterm.org/

13 years ago

461 upvotes – 166 comments

"Nothing like this will be built again"

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html?

13 years ago

452 upvotes – 95 comments

Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents

http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

13 years ago

435 upvotes – 70 comments

Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/swartz-foia/?cid=9593124

13 years ago

427 upvotes – 47 comments

Alternative Internet

https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet

13 years ago

★ 5.6k
357 upvotes – 92 comments

San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down

http://tomdale.net/2013/07/san-francisco-i-love-you-but-youre-bringing-me-down/

13 years ago

351 upvotes – 440 comments

The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-twitter-uses-to-deal-with-150m-active-users.html

13 years ago

316 upvotes – 162 comments

Game Programming Patterns

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 64 comments

Monocle

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/monocle

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 181 comments

Snowden releases information about Australian Intelligence gathering programs

http://www.theage.com.au/world/snowden-reveals-australias-links-to-us-spy-web-20130708-2plyg.html

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 98 comments

Kenya Shilling Symbol

http://arkafrica.com/projects/kenya-shilling-symbol

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 60 comments

Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' [video]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-video-interview

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 38 comments

Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-leaker-snowden-made-the-right-call/2013/07/07/0b46d96c-e5b7-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html?hpid=z2

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 54 comments

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 74 comments

First arrest captured on Google Glass points to a “Little Brother” future

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/07/first-arrest-captured-on-google-glass-points-to-a-little-brother-future/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 136 comments

Secret Court's Redefinition of 'Relevant' Empowered Vast NSA Data-Gathering

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323873904578571893758853344-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwODEwNDgyWj.html

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 70 comments

How upgrading to Google Apps for Business killed my company's email for 6 hours

http://floriancornu.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-upgrading-to-google-apps-for.html

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 111 comments

Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/08/justice-dept-defends-secret-rulings-in-new-spy-court-filing/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 94 comments

Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/mos-def-force-fed-guantanamo-bay-video

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 93 comments

Switzerland: Say no to a surveillance state

http://buepf.ch

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 15 comments

Docker Desktop: Your Desktop over ssh inside of a Docker container

http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-over-ssh-running-inside-of-a-docker-container/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 80 comments

After PRISM reports, Swiss data bank sees boost

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-prism-reports-swiss-data-bank-sees-boost/2013/07/08/cc8dfe14-e569-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 39 comments

Privacy International files legal challenge against UK government

https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/privacy-international-files-legal-challenge-against-uk-government-over-mass

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 29 comments

Privacy Group to Ask Supreme Court to Stop N.S.A.’s Phone Spying Program

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/us/privacy-group-to-ask-supreme-court-to-stop-nsas-phone-spying-program.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 19 comments

Private companies protect US access to cables’ data for surveillance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/agreements-with-private-companies-protect-us-access-to-cables-data-for-surveillance/2013/07/06/aa5d017a-df77-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 15 comments

Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/07/cameras_catch_mystery_break_in_at_whistleblowers_law_firm

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 63 comments

How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/disruptions-how-driverless-cars-could-reshape-cities/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 190 comments

What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go

http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-code-from-python-to-golang-what-you-need-to-know/2013/04/23/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 111 comments

Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air [pdf]

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/Papers/amb.pdf

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 42 comments

EJDB: Embedded JSON Database for C/C++, .Net, NodeJS, Python, Lua, Java, Ruby

http://ejdb.org/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Miyamoto Admits Nintendo Underestimated The Switch To HD

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/07/08/miyamoto-admits-nintendo-underestimated-the-switch-to-hd/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 117 comments

Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/07/afghanistan-in-the-1950s-and-60s/100544/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

Use your browser as Notepad

http://www.fizerkhan.com/blog/posts/Use-your-browser-as-Notepad.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

Top iOS apps available for free ahead of App Store 5th anniversary

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/07/08/apple-makes-top-ios-apps-free-ahead-of-app-store-5th-anniversary/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops

http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops-part-2/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments

CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou’s Open Letter to Edward Snowden

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/07/02/cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakous-open-letter-to-edward-snowden/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 3 comments

Photographer.io is now open source

http://blog.photographer.io/posts/2013/07/08/were-now-open-source/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Apple TV for Torrent Streaming in JS

https://github.com/SamyPesse/tv.js

13 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript Apache-2.0
89 upvotes – 31 comments

Why I Turned Down A $20,000/Year Client

http://creativeoverflow.net/why-i-turned-down-a-20000year-client/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification

https://www.lob.com/services/verify

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 49 comments

Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ryan-davis-1979-2013/1100-4685/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7

http://typographica.org/on-typography/beyond-helvetica-the-real-story-behind-fonts-in-ios-7/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

The Top Free-to-Play Monetization Tricks

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/194933/?

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Google Doodle of Roswell anniversary is a point-and-click adventure

https://www.google.com/doodles/roswells-66th-anniversary

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

Trying to find people in Chicago for a meshnet

http://karmanebula.com/chicagomeshnet/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

On the Security of RC4 in TLS and WPA – Full Paper Released

http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/?new

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Haste – A Haskell to JS Compiler

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haste-compiler

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Linus Torvalds, Visual Basic Fan (2006)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/linus-torvalds-visual-basic-fan.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

Promises/A+

http://promisesaplus.com/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 45 comments

Hacking For Good

http://rix.si/2013/07/07/hacking-for-good-1/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments
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