top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-20

Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks

http://linuxlock.blogspot.sg/2013/07/hacker-news-gets-long-overdue-thanks.html

13 years ago

564 upvotes – 138 comments

“What Is That Box?” – When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company

http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/what-is-that-box-when-the-nsa-shows-up-at-your-internet-comp

13 years ago

326 upvotes – 94 comments

The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitamin-myth-why-we-think-we-need-supplements/277947/?1

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 179 comments

iPhone 6: An edgy concept

http://www.behance.net/gallery/iPhone-6-An-edgy-concept/7617209

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 133 comments

CSS Zen Garden relaunched

http://www.csszengarden.com/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 47 comments

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

https://gist.github.com/Tho85/6045429

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 63 comments

Welcome to the ‘Sharing Economy’

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/friedman-welcome-to-the-sharing-economy.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 120 comments

Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

http://regex101.com/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 77 comments

Gmail now features ads that look like emails

http://marketingland.com/new-gmail-inbox-features-ads-that-look-like-emails-above-promotional-email-subscriptions-52318

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 62 comments

When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 77 comments

Thanks For The Identity Theft, Yahoo

http://b0ing.me/thanks-for-the-identity-theft-yahoo/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 59 comments

How Forensic Linguistics Identified J.K. Rowling

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/19/how-forensic-linguistics-outed-j-k-rowling-not-to-mention-james-madison-barack-obama-and-the-rest-of-us/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 69 comments

The Locust Economy

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 49 comments

DNS: The Good Parts

http://www.petekeen.net/dns-the-good-parts

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 51 comments

Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/54430/video-lectures-of-mathematics-courses-available-online-for-free

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

Peers call for a pardon for Alan Turing [video]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-23378209

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website

http://www.yalelawtech.org/ip-in-the-digital-age/why-nissan-com-isn%E2%80%99t-a-car-website/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 85 comments

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch

http://vimeo.com/4366695

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Why Canada Has No Big Tech Companies

http://blog.contentdj.com/2013/07/20/why-canada-has-no-big-tech-companies/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 167 comments

Apple Acquires Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur's Startup HopStop

http://www.cp-africa.com/2013/07/20/apple-hopstop-com/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Do You Google Yourself? Are You Hiring?

http://priceonomics.com/do-you-google-yourself-are-you-hiring/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

NetBeans 7.4 – New and Noteworthy

http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB74

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials reveal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-extended-by-court-intelligence-officials-reveal/2013/07/19/cb03218a-f0bf-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_story.html?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 3 comments

A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-aluminum-but-to-banks-pure-gold.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/media/nate-silver-blogger-for-new-york-times-is-to-join-espn-staff.html?_r=0

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 62 comments

MPAA Demands Source Code of isoHunt’s “Failing” Piracy Filter

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-demands-source-code-of-isohunts-failing-piracy-filter-130720/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Beyond grep: ack, a code search tool for programmers

http://beyondgrep.com/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Plug anti-PRISM solution raises half a million dollars in 9 days on Kickstarter

http://press.meetplug.com/53920-plug-anti-prism-solution-raises-half-a-million-dollars-in-9-days-on-kickstarter

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 52 comments

Malcolm Gladwell's Reponse to the Culturalism Post

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/07/malcolm-gladwells-reponse-to.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 68 comments

Ubuntu forums hacked

http://ubuntuforums.org/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments

Twitter / paulg: We installed Nest thermostats ...

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/358420997591941120

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Marketplace to sell and buy side projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6075273

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

Reading the Ruby Source to Understand Rails Idiosyncrasies

http://pivotallabs.com/reading-the-ruby-source/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Google login now requires Google+ Account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6075811

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 59 comments

SML#: a new Standard ML family programming language

http://www.pllab.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/smlsharp/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

The curious case of the fall in crime

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21582004-crime-plunging-rich-world-keep-it-down-governments-should-focus-prevention-not

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 47 comments

Bill Gates on the future of education and programming

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/15/bill-gates-on-the-future-of-education-programming-and-just-about-everything-else/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 31 comments

NFC Ring

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mclear/nfc-ring

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 27 comments

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Yesod in Production

http://joelt.io/entries/yesod-in-production

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments
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