top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-16

Linus on "acting professionally"

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2

13 years ago

488 upvotes – 485 comments

Ask HN: I'm quadriplegic – can you help me with my security?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053047

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 168 comments

EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/node/75009

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 36 comments

Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57593871-93/yahoo-wins-motion-to-declassify-court-documents-in-prism-case/

13 years ago

477 upvotes – 86 comments

Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/16/gordon-humphrey-email-edward-snowden

13 years ago

423 upvotes – 214 comments

A Low-Tech Mosquito Deterrent

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/a-low-tech-mosquito-deterrent.html

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 190 comments

Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/mission-creep-when-everything-is-terrorism/277844/

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 129 comments

19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection

http://www.securityweek.com/19-groups-sue-nsa-over-data-collection

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 35 comments

Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M0jhAuAuJI

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 30 comments

Logic Pro X

http://www.apple.com/logic-pro/whats-new/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 230 comments

Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/07/malware-hidden-inside-jpg-exif-headers.html

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 61 comments

Gittip at Khan Academy

http://ejohn.org/blog/gittip-at-khan-academy/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 66 comments

A preview of LightTable 0.5

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/light-table-discussion/DP4BllY9Wcw/CxldwiB_HlYJ

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 43 comments

SculptGL - A WebGL sculpting app

http://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 37 comments

Disney Research unveils augmented reality books

http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/hideout/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 51 comments

My self-published book on being a great developer

http://www.theseniorsoftwareengineer.com/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6052075

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 83 comments

Microsoft: U.S. Constitution is 'suffering' from NSA secrecy

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57594011-38/microsoft-u.s-constitution-is-suffering-from-nsa-secrecy/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 47 comments

Why You Need To Work For A Big Company

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/33111/7-Reasons-Why-You-Need-To-Work-For-A-Big-Company.aspx

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 113 comments

Has Ubuntu lost it?

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/has-ubuntu-lost-it--1162717

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 144 comments

Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/health/study-finds-dip-in-dementia-rates.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 54 comments

Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way

https://blog.conformal.com/gotk3-gtk3-the-go-way/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 56 comments

The Recomputation Manifesto

http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-07-09-recomputation-manifesto

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 59 comments

Where are the Voyagers?

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 36 comments

What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future?

http://martinjeeblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-is-programmer-anarchy-and-does-it-have-a-future/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

Authentic Design

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/07/16/authentic-design/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

Code and Creative Destruction

http://dangrover.com/2013/07/16/code-and-creative-destruction/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 7 comments

Why I've Decided to Avoid US Genetic Testing

http://www.bencollier.info/content/why-ive-decided-avoid-us-genetic-testing

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

Snowden applies for asylum in Russia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23328074

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 45 comments

Overtime is Morphine

http://erniemiller.org/2013/07/16/overtime-is-morphine/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

The Decline In Male Fertility

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323394504578607641775723354.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments

StatusPage (YC S13) Lets Anyone Communicate With Customers About Outages

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/16/statuspage-lets-anyone-communicate-with-customers-about-errors-and-outages/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

Being an excellent robot (Erica Goldson Graduation speech)

http://zenpencils.com/comic/123-erica-goldson-graduation-speech/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

Card management API

https://stripe.com/blog/multiple-cards?

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Is Sugar Really Toxic?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2013/07/15/is-sugar-really-toxic-sifting-through-the-evidence/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 110 comments

Hand-written lexer in Javascript compared to the regex-based ones

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/07/16/hand-written-lexer-in-javascript-compared-to-the-regex-based-ones/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Gistblog – a blogging platform for Github users

https://github.com/jazzychad/gistblog

13 years ago

★ 295 CSS MIT
77 upvotes – 12 comments

Automatic Summarization in Medium

https://medium.com/medium-ideas/59b1747c1d36

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're toast if we fight Google on price'

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2013/07/15/microsoft_office365_versus_google/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments

Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel developers

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 150 comments

Critical vulnerabilities in numerous ASUS routers

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Critical-vulnerabilities-in-numerous-ASUS-routers-1918469.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

When you have a nail in your eye, everything looks like a nail

http://robertheaton.com/2013/07/15/when-you-have-a-nail-in-your-eye/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

The Unfortunate Rise of Patents in the Startup World

http://immad.me/post/55609778589/the-unfortunate-rise-of-patents-in-the-startup-world

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

Instagram Designer Tim Van Damme Is Leaving Facebook For Dropbox

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/16/instagram-designer-tim-van-damme-is-leaving-facebook-for-dropbox/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 44 comments
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