top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-11

Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/diy-flying/finally-a-human-powered-helicopter-wins-the-250000-sikorsky-prize-15682369

13 years ago

601 upvotes – 95 comments

Feds, We Need Some Time Apart

https://www.defcon.org/#dc21fedbreak

13 years ago

587 upvotes – 250 comments

How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

13 years ago

470 upvotes – 156 comments

Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income

http://simulacrum.cc/2013/07/10/three-trends-that-push-us-towards-an-unconditional-basic-income/

13 years ago

432 upvotes – 655 comments

Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi

http://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/

13 years ago

423 upvotes – 110 comments

Do the right thing, wait to get fired

http://brendansterne.com/2013/07/11/do-the-right-thing-wait-to-get-fired/

13 years ago

351 upvotes – 87 comments

Microsoft reorganizes

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11OneMicrosoft.aspx

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 271 comments

Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’

http://rt.com/usa/utah-isp-surveillance-state-corporations-925/

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 52 comments

Navigating the Postmodern Python World

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/postmodern.html

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 119 comments

Why is nobody using SSL client certificates?

http://pilif.github.io/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-certificates/

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 153 comments

How to permanently delete a Facebook account

http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 90 comments

Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X

http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 109 comments

HP admits to backdoors in storage products

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/11/hp_prepping_fix_for_latest_storage_vuln/

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 22 comments

For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/for-first-time-ever-feds-asked-to-sit-out-defcon-hacker-conference/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 30 comments

Plug: the brain of your devices

http://meetplug.com/kickstarter/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 111 comments

Hey programmers, we need to talk

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/hey-programmers-we-need-to-talk/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

Explanation of the Asiana SF crash by a former UAL captain

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/518568-asiana-flight-crash-san-francisco-63.html#post7931852

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 108 comments

Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/11/quinoa-should-be-taking-over-the-world-this-is-why-it-isnt/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 178 comments

Philosophy and "for" loops — more from Go and Rust

http://lwn.net/Articles/557073/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 55 comments

LINQ Ruined My Favorite Interview Question

http://scottchamberlin.tumblr.com/post/55152416452/linqinterview

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 196 comments

Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Car's Location For $10 Online

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/10/data-broker-offers-new-service-showing-where-they-have-spotted-your-car/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 53 comments

The worm that regrows its head, and memories, when decapitated

http://theweek.com/article/index/246703/the-worm-that-regrows-its-head-and-memories-when-decapitated

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/nokia-lumia-1020/4505-6452_7-35822762.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 233 comments

Comprehend (YC W11) Raises $8.4M Led by Sequoia to Lower Clinical Trial Costs

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/07/11/comprehend-raises-8-4m-led-by-sequoia-to-lower-costs-of-clinical-trials/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

A Shiny Content Farm is Still a Content Farm

https://medium.com/on-medium/336300490cbb

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 52 comments

GitHub Flow in the Browser

https://github.com/blog/1557-github-flow-in-the-browser

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 36 comments

Chemists Work to Desalt the Ocean for Drinking Water, One Nanoliter at a Time

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2013/06/27/chemists-work-to-desalt-the-ocean-for-drinking-water-one-nanoliter-at-a-time/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 60 comments

Verizon backs Ubuntu smartphone

http://www.zdnet.com/verizon-backs-ubuntu-smartphone-7000017954/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

Secure Ideas will not be presenting at DEF CON this year

http://blog.secureideas.com/2013/07/secure-ideas-will-not-be-presenting-at.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 89 comments

Open Dylan 2013.1 released

http://opendylan.org/news/2013/07/11/new-release.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Can we trust our CPUs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025144

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 56 comments

Instant Bitcoin Purchases at Coinbase

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/55203204550/instant-bitcoin-purchases-at-coinbase

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: We built an easy way to create online guides and tutorials

http://stps.co/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

IFTTT goes Mobile

http://blog.ifttt.com/post/55130449805/the-power-of-ifttt-now-in-your-pocket

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

The Case of the Missing Human Ancestor

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/125-missing-human-ancestor/shreeve-text

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Moscow-Cuba flight skirts US airspace, prompts speculation Snowden is aboard

http://rt.com/news/snowden-plane-route-cuba-965/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

PyPy 2.1 beta released with ARM JIT

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/07/pypy-21-beta.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

The CIA and a secret vacuum cleaner

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=yGifdkEQ

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Why I don't touch crypto

http://pilif.github.io/2013/07/why-I-dont-touch-crypto/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 123 comments

Navy Drone Successfully Lands on Aircraft Carrier

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/07/10/navy-drone-successfully-lands-on-aircraft-carrier/?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

Firefox OS Simulator 4.0 released

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/firefox-os-simulator-4-0-released/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

Soundlab: Lazy signal synthesis in Common Lisp

http://mr.gy/software/soundlab/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

A Statistical Analysis of Nerf Blasters and Darts

http://shawntoneil.com/index.php/pages/nerftest1

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Congratulations to the Meteor Summer Hackathon 2013 teams

http://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/07/09/congratulations-to-the-meteor-summer-hackathon-2013-teams

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Don't build an app, build a business

http://alexwarren.co.uk/2013/07/11/dont-build-an-app-build-a-business/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments
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