top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-17

White Coke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Coke

13 years ago

478 upvotes – 236 comments

Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=57560

13 years ago

464 upvotes – 162 comments

Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

http://flavorwire.com/404511/why-is-netflix-secretly-cropping-movies

13 years ago

362 upvotes – 147 comments

The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/nsa-admits-it-analyzes-more-peoples-data-previously-revealed/67287/

13 years ago

358 upvotes – 134 comments

Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker

https://flynn.io?hn

13 years ago

339 upvotes – 153 comments

Stunned by Go

http://how-bazaar.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/stunned-by-go.html

13 years ago

320 upvotes – 108 comments

Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/police-documents-license-plate-scanners-reveal-mass

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 95 comments

Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51702/10-lifehacks-100-years-ago

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 92 comments

How things get done

http://blog.samaltman.com/how-things-get-done

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 26 comments

All three major Russian carriers dump iPhone

http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2013/07/16/all-russian-leaders-dump-iphone.htm

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 128 comments

100% time

http://cemerick.com/2013/02/15/100-time/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 35 comments

Sheldon Brown's Articles

http://sheldonbrown.com/articles.html

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 45 comments

Who Says C is Simple?

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/cil016.html

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup

http://www.distelli.com

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 103 comments

How Heroku Works

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/how-heroku-works

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 36 comments

Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a fake iPhone charger

http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 36 comments

The Real Value of Stock Options

http://benjyboxer.com/post/55714250364/the-real-value-of-stock-options

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 62 comments

Why You Need to Ring the Freaking Cash Register

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/07/16/ring-the-freaking-cash-register

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 73 comments

Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

http://www.backwardcompatible.net/178-yahoo-mail-catching-up

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 154 comments

The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator

http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 68 comments

Bjork Brings Biophilia to Android With a Little Help From Apportable (YC W11)

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/07/17/bjork-brings-biophilia-to-android-with-a-little-help-from-apportable/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 50 comments

Global Rich List

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 52 comments

Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs

http://9elements.com/io/index.php/hybrid-javascript-apps/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

C as an intermediate language (2012)

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/c-as-an-intermediate-language.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 30 comments

Kalzumeus Podcast 5: Quitting Consulting Via Productization

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/07/17/kalzumeus-podcast-5-quitting-consulting-via-productization/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 33 comments

Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/17/202801282/police-may-know-exactly-where-you-were-last-tuesday

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 74 comments

‘Sorry is not enough’: Bolivia demands EU find culprits behind aerial hijack

http://rt.com/news/bolivia-eu-apologies-not-enough-202/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

New online master's degree to train the data scientists of tomorrow

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/online-datascience-masters-degree

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding

https://www.helpscout.net/blog/psychology-of-color/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

A personal statistics dashboard and API

http://api.chocol.it

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

BitTorrent Sync comes to Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bittorrent.sync

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

Network Solutions' DNS was down

http://www.networksolutions.com

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

Edit Wars Reveal The Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517101/edit-wars-reveal-the-10-most-controversial-topics-on-wikipedia/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/17/tech/paypal-error/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

RSS mistakes: let's not make them again

http://blog.superfeedr.com/rss-mistakes/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 61 comments

Time to First Tweet

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/time-to-first-tweet

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

RealCrowd (YC S13) Rides The Crowdfunding Wave For Real Estate Investments

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/17/realcrowd/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Command Line

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingABetterSomewhatPrettierButDefinitelyMoreFunctionalWindowsCommandLine.aspx

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 57 comments

Meldium (YC W13) nets $1M to make sense out of password management

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/17/meldium-nets-1m-to-make-sense-out-of-password-management/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding

http://www.nature.com/news/cosmologist-claims-universe-may-not-be-expanding-1.13379

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 61 comments

Top Genetic Findings of 2012

http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/top-genetic-findings-of-2012

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57594171-38/google-tests-encryption-to-protect-users-drive-files-against-government-demands/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 62 comments

On Being Black in China

http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/07/on-being-black-in-china/277878/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 56 comments

‘US-Russian relations above Snowden case' – Putin

http://rt.com/news/putin-snowden-us-relations-196/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

http://hiremyfriend.io

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 41 comments

FundersClub rewarding investors for referrals

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/16/fundersclub-braces-against-general-solitication-by-rewarding-investors-for-referrals/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Fuck Off As A Service

http://foaas.herokuapp.com/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Domain-Driven Design with Clojure

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/DDD-Clojure

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

GCHQ use of Prism surveillance data was legal, say MPs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23341597

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 35 comments

Goodyear bids goodbye to blimps, says hello to zeppelins

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13576_3-57593561-315/goodyear-bids-goodbye-to-blimps-says-hello-to-zeppelins/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

How War in Syria Turned Ordinary Engineers Into Deadly Weapons Inventors

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/diy-arms-syria/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 21 comments
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