top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-25

As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001062.html

13 years ago

407 upvotes – 289 comments

New Course: The Design of Everyday Things

http://blog.udacity.com/2013/07/new-course-design-of-everyday-things.html

13 years ago

362 upvotes – 55 comments

“NASDAQ is owned.” Five men charged in largest financial hack ever

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/nasdaq-is-owned-five-men-charged-in-largest-financial-hack-ever/

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 135 comments

How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/14994391/561309

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 68 comments

OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk)

https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 241 comments

Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over

http://defundthensa.com/#

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 84 comments

Probablistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers

http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 27 comments

More Git and GitHub Secrets

http://zachholman.com/talk/more-git-and-github-secrets/

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 38 comments

Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'

http://blog.watsi.org/post/56425387090/announcing-our-1-2m-philanthropic-seed-round

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 94 comments

Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23925-light-completely-stopped-for-a-recordbreaking-minute.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Conline-news#.UfEVLFM6dEl

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 127 comments

Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&prev=_dd&u=http%3A%2F%2Fclubs.ya.ru%2Fcompany%2F69367

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 71 comments

An open letter to Jeff Bezos: A contract worker’s take on Amazon.com

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/open-letter-jeff-bezos-contract-workers-amazoncom/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 173 comments

U.S. cloud firms face backlash from NSA spy programs

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241003/U.S._cloud_firms_face_backlash_from_NSA_spy_programs

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 83 comments

Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/increasing-compiler-speed-by-over-75/240158941

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 68 comments

Storage Space Doubled For All Linode VPS plans

https://blog.linode.com/2013/07/25/storage-space-doubled/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 145 comments

Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in SF

https://diogomonica.com/bot-wars-the-arms-race-of-restaurant-reservations-in-sf/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 159 comments

Technologically illiterate UK porn filter MP gets hacked and threatens reporter

http://boingboing.net/2013/07/24/technologically-illiterate-mp.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 48 comments

Democratic establishment unmasked: prime defenders of NSA bulk spying

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/25/democratic-establishment-nsa

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 65 comments

Twitter's Tool For Debugging At Scale

http://twitter.github.io/zipkin/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 28 comments

How Nancy Pelosi Saved the NSA Surveillance Program

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/25/how_nancy_pelosi_saved_the_nsa_surveillance_program

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 83 comments

How Much to Charge as a Freelancer

http://www.jamiebegin.com/how-much-to-charge-as-a-freelancer/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 98 comments

Zynga loses $15.8M in Q2, nearly half its daily users year-over-year

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/25/4557406/zynga-loses-15-8m-and-nearly-half-its-daily-users

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

How HTTPS Stops Attackers: What Every Web Dev Should Know

http://blog.hartleybrody.com/https-certificates/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 43 comments

Why we're doing things that don't scale

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3589-why-were-doing-things-that-dont-scale

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

Fake memory implanted in mice with a beam of light

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/fake-memory-implanted-in-mice-with-a-beam-of-light/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 77 comments

LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-1-new-features-and-fixes

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 81 comments

A Universe Full of Planets

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/opinion/global/a-universe-full-of-planets.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 55 comments

Mono 3.2

http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.2

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 69 comments

Chuck Moore: The Invention of Forth

http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium

http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/07/23/bill-gates-nuclear-company-explores-molten-salt-reactors-thorium/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 68 comments

How A Police Officer Threatened A Yelp Reviewer

http://www.popehat.com/2013/07/24/two-guys-a-cop-and-a-pizza-place-how-a-police-officer-threatened-a-yelp-reviewer/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

CouchDB merges in BigCouch

https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/welcome_bigcouch

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

The Pixar Theory

http://www.pixartheory.com/???

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

12 Years of GPL Compliance: A Historical Perspective

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/LinuxTag-2011/compliance.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Dear Package Maintainers: Stop Being Clever

http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2013/07/dear-package-maintainers-stop-being-clever/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Treehouse Launches iPad App, Apple Prohibits Android Lessons

http://tech.co/treehouse-ipad-app-2013-07

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Lob (YC S13) Debuts a Cloud Printing and Shipping Service for Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/25/y-combinator-backed-lob-debuts-a-cloud-printing-shipping-service-for-developers/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 45 comments

Automatic SIMD Vectorization for Haskell [pdf]

http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/icfp2013/vectorization-haskell.pdf

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

10 Months at Harvard, Quantified

http://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/10-months-at-harvard-quantified/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Understanding CPU Steal Time - when should you be worried?

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-cpu-steal-time-when-should-you-be-worried

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Next generation video: Introducing Daala, part 2

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo2.shtml

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Flying a Drone in First Person View Using the Oculus Rift

http://laughingsquid.com/flying-a-drone-in-first-person-view-using-the-oculus-rift-virtual-reality-headset/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Mark Shuttleworth Reddit AMA today

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge/x/4068980?c=activity

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

A Practical Computer Science Primer (2008)

https://learn-cs.pbworks.com/w/page/15774601/FrontPage

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: What happened to Steve Yegge after 'quitting'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102294

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102405

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

Google will pay for free wireless in S.F. parks

http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Google-to-pay-for-free-Wi-Fi-in-city-parks-4682622.php

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Details on NSA/FBI Eavesdropping

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/details_on_nsaf.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 8 comments

Representatives that rejected limits on NSA data collection and funding sources

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AitechWnbrJVdFpZYjBYSkJCNms4M1ozLVVjSXhpTWc#gid=0

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

FAQs: why we don’t have them

http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2013/07/25/faqs-why-we-dont-have-them/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments
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