top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-15

Quine Relay

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

13 years ago

★ 14.4k Ruby
983 upvotes – 177 comments

Cello: Higher level programming in C

http://libcello.org/

13 years ago

535 upvotes – 157 comments

Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/yahoo-fight-for-users-earns-company-special-recognition

13 years ago

438 upvotes – 71 comments

Enough with the JavaScript already

http://fr.slideshare.net/nzakas/enough-withthejavascriptalready

13 years ago

402 upvotes – 221 comments

Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2421733,00.asp

13 years ago

394 upvotes – 299 comments

The Case for Abolishing the DHS

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-15/the-case-for-abolishing-the-dhs#r=rss

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 72 comments

When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up

http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/ideasatwork/feature/7219454/Like+Daughter,+Like+Father

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 239 comments

Elon Musk to publish hyperloop design by August

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/356776740409974785

13 years ago

293 upvotes – 167 comments

GitHub's on your phone

https://github.com/blog/1559-github-s-on-your-phone

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 81 comments

Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-for-Workgroups-Linux-3-11-s-feature-set-now-confirmed-1917712.html

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 113 comments

$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/99-arm-based-pc-runs-either-ubuntu-or-android/

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 134 comments

Useful Unix commands for data science

http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science/

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 106 comments

Set up an email server in two hours

http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-hours/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 127 comments

Sustaining git-annex development

https://campaign.joeyh.name

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 34 comments

Minion drawn entirely using CSS

http://cssdeck.com/labs/pure-css-minion

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 51 comments

The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-nsa-collect-it-all

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 61 comments

Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/bills-fail-fix-unconstitutional-nsa-spying

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 52 comments

Double Secret Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/double-secret-surveillance.html

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 64 comments

Probably not for hackers

http://essays.kuntz.co/you-re-probably-not-for-hackers/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 105 comments

FB event to walk to NSA's Dagger Complex results in a visit by the German police

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130715-50859.html

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

DMT, the NeXT and the Soul of the Human/Machine

http://stone.com/dmt/DMT-NeXT_1.html

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor

https://www.wakati.me/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 59 comments

Namecheap now accepts Bitcoin with zero confirmations

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2013/07/15/bitcoin-zero-confirmation/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 60 comments

Choosing an OSS license

http://choosealicense.com/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 162 comments

Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper-stores-are-tracking-your-cell.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 86 comments

Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/30/full/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Ben Horowitz: Capital market climate change

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/15/capital-market-climate-change/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

Apiary.io – REST tools for API documentation and testing

http://apiary.io/blueprint

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 21 comments

Golang Diaries II

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2013/07/15/Golang-Diaries-2

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I won't speak at women-only events

http://www.guardian.co.uk/women-in-leadership/2013/jul/03/why-i-wont-speak-at-women-only-events?CMP=twt_gu

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 130 comments

19-year-old hacker reveals how he rigged voting machines and election in Brazil

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.folhapolitica.org%2F2013%2F07%2Fhacker-de-19-anos-revela-como-fraudou.html%3Fm%3D1

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

German discount host Hetzner launches new servers

https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling Enhancements

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/2013/07/15/windows-8-1-dpi-scaling-enhancements.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

European commission backs Merkel's call for tougher data protection laws

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/15/european-commission-angela-merkel-data-protection

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Hacking a $9 Remote Control Car with Arduino

http://forefront.io/a/hacking-9-buck-remote-controlled-car-with-arduino

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to "collect it all" observers say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-nsa-chief-terrorist-threat-drives-passion-to-collect-it-all/2013/07/14/3d26ef80-ea49-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 79 comments

Richard Stallman: Snowden leak a chance for privacy [video]

http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden-leak-privacy-surveillance-093/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich Are Removing Their Music from Spotify

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/20130714yorke

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 89 comments

Making a JIT interpreter with LuaJIT

http://rjpower.org/wordpress/making-a-jit-with-luajit/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: PouchDB - The JavaScript database that syncs

http://pouchdb.com

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

Sanskrit and Lisp (2011)

http://ifacethoughts.net/2011/03/15/sanskrit-and-lisp/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

In times of change, make tires

https://medium.com/new-media/c8adfdd884cf

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Why is the mobile web slow?

http://www.codenameone.com/3/post/2013/07/why-mobile-web-is-slow.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 45 comments

Choosing an Open Source License

https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

Fear and Loathing in Programming La La Land (2012)

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-March/065519.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

GameBoy Advance emulator for iOS, no jailbreak required

https://github.com/rileytestut/GBA4iOS

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 56 comments

Greenwald: Snowden docs contain NSA 'blueprint'

http://news.yahoo.com/greenwald-snowden-docs-contain-nsa-blueprint-235836523.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

Academic publishing as ruinous competition: Is there a way out?

http://33bits.org/2013/07/15/academic-publishing-as-ruinous-competition-is-there-a-way-out/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption (1998)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Chaffing.txt

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

Anxiety: Nothing to Do but Embrace the Dread

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/nothing-to-do-but-embrace-the-dread/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

US blocks crackdown on tax avoidance by net firms like Google and Amazon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/14/us-tax-avoidance-google-amazon

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 88 comments

SSH Brute Force – The 10 Year Old Attack That Still Persists

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/07/ssh-brute-force-the-10-year-old-attack-that-still-persists.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 63 comments

How Stripe Builds their Software

http://blog.airbrake.io/devops/how-stripe-builds-software-an-interview-with-cto-greg-brockman/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments
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