top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-23

Forgotten Employee (2002)

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

13 years ago

747 upvotes – 291 comments

The slippery slope

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2013/07/23/the-slippery-slope/

13 years ago

520 upvotes – 135 comments

Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans

http://DefundTheNSA.com/

13 years ago

482 upvotes – 220 comments

The sad story of Facebook Platform

http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/23/move-fast-break-things-the-sad-story-of-platform-facebooks-gigantic-missed-opportunity/

13 years ago

335 upvotes – 100 comments

Leaked report shows high civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/22/leaked_report_shows_high_civilian_death_toll_from_cia_drone_strikes/

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 151 comments

How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates

http://blog.mailchimp.com/how-gmails-new-inbox-is-affecting-open-rates/

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 213 comments

Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites

http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2013/07/hillbilly-tracking-of-low-earth-orbit.html

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 33 comments

The unprofitable SaaS business model trap

http://blog.asmartbear.com/unprofitable-saas-business-model.html

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 98 comments

Sneak peek of Macaw – a code-savvy web design tool [video]

http://macaw.co/peek/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 71 comments

No filter: the meanest thing Paul Graham said to a startup

http://brandonb.cc/no-filter-the-meanest-thing-paul-graham-said-to-a-startup

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 107 comments

Life in the Boy's Dorm: My Career at Sun Microsystems

http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/life-in-boys-dorm-my-career-at-sun.html

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 61 comments

House forces vote on amendment that would limit NSA bulk surveillance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/house-amendment-nsa-bulk-surveillance

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 35 comments

Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber

https://github.com/blog/1567-reginald-braithwaite-is-a-githubber

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 63 comments

Little Lisp interpreter

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/21-little-lisp-interpreter

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 46 comments

Impressions of Go

http://blog.bensigelman.org/post/56158760736/golang-impressions

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 268 comments

Leaked Samsung exFat driver relicensed as GPL

http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2013-July/004100.html

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 195 comments

Security Researchers tell court: We do what Andrew Auernheimer did

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130710170719460

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 110 comments

Is This The Future of The Airline Website?

http://www.f-i.com/fi/airlines/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 107 comments

Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone?

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-seeing-less-and-less-crime-even-face-high-unemployment-and-economic

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 183 comments

Ubuntu Edge funding level over time

http://movebits.net/2013/07/23/ubuntu-edge-funding-level/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 101 comments

The Web’s longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/the-webs-longest-nightmare-ends-eolas-patents-are-dead-on-appeal

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 50 comments

C.S. on the cheap

http://blog.fogus.me/2013/07/23/c-s-on-the-cheap/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 16 comments

Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud

http://37signals.com/bootstrapped

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

http://wenshanren.org/?p=418

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 82 comments

PyPy.js: First Steps

http://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-first-steps/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 49 comments

Licensing in a Post Copyright World

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/7/23/licensing/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 192 comments

$99 Parallella supercomputing boards start shipping

http://www.parityportal.com/2013/07/24/99-parallella-supercomputing-boards-start-shipping/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 57 comments

Court: Chevron can subpeona Americans' email data in Ecuador case

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/chevron-ecuador-american-email-legal-activists-journalists

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

Jimmy Wales: This is super cool. "I started to learn python..."

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/359640425268649984

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: HN Special – A visual theme and Chrome extension for Hacker News

http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 71 comments

NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails

http://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-says-it-cant-search-own-emails

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

http://halftone.co/projects/temperatures

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Iran Removed From All Major Travel Sites

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5825577/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 76 comments

BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? (2011)

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2076798

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Facebook wins right to police “face-” trademark prefix

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91198355&pty=OPP&eno=64

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 91 comments

What If You Could See WiFi?

http://www.mydeals.com/blog/what-if-you-could-see-wifi/post

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Amazon Unpacked

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a.html#slide0

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

More Bad Angel Behavior

http://www.crashdev.com/2013/07/more-bad-angel-behavior.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

If x is a fraction, x^x and x^x^x are irrational. But can x^x^x^x be rational?

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/430797/can-xxxx-be-a-rational-number

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

SEC Charges Texas Man With Running Bitcoin-Denominated Ponzi Scheme

https://www.sec.gov/servlet/Satellite/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539730583#.Ue6yMI1WZ8F

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 57 comments

Solar panels help keep buildings cool, reducing A/C needs

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/bonus-solar-panels-help-keep-buildings-cool-reducing-c-needs.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

New in RubyMotion: Blocks Rewrite, Retain Cycle Detection, Better Crash Reports

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/56232015979/new-in-rubymotion-blocks-rewrite-retain-cycle

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Setup.py vs requirements.txt

https://caremad.io/blog/setup-vs-requirements/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

“When all your engines stop, the flight is over”

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56209408824/important-update/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/pogue/2013/07/20/what-readers-found-in-facebooks-other-folder/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

ASUS PQ321Q UltraHD Review: Living with a 31.5-inch 4K Display

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7157/asus-pq321q-ultrahd-4k-monitor-review

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments
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