top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-26

Obama Promises Disappear from Web

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/25/obama-promises-disappear-from-web/

13 years ago

657 upvotes – 162 comments

Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy

http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/passive-income-hacker-vs-startup-guy

13 years ago

466 upvotes – 258 comments

Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go

http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide

13 years ago

426 upvotes – 120 comments

UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal

http://torrentfreak.com/uk-porn-filter-will-censor-other-content-too-isps-reveal-130726/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 169 comments

Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23452097

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 120 comments

Free email address validation API for web forms

http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 129 comments

Hacker Barnaby Jack has died

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-hacker-death-idUSBRE96P0K120130726

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 82 comments

Feds tell web firms to turn over user passwords

http://m.cnet.com/news/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/57595529

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 148 comments

You shouldn't hotlink someone else's JavaScript

http://beta.whatispolymath.com/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 96 comments

How to kill an unresponsive SSH session

http://www.laszlo.nu/post/553591402/how-to-kill-an-unresponsive-ssh-session

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 109 comments

Simple API with Nginx and PostgreSQL

http://rny.io/nginx/postgresql/2013/07/26/simple-api-with-nginx-and-postgresql.html

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 73 comments

Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/26/scientist-banned-revealing-codes-cars

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 88 comments

Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer

http://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/big-o-notation-explained.html

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 78 comments

ChessBoardJS

http://chessboardjs.com/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 68 comments

Measuring the Haskell Gap [pdf]

http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/hs2013/haskell-gap.pdf

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

Docker, Containers, and the Future of Application Delivery

http://www.slideshare.net/dotCloud/why-docker2bisv4

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 87 comments

Russia won’t extradite Snowden to US – Kremlin

http://rt.com/news/snowden-russia-extradite-us-634/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 66 comments

Haskell for Web Developers

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_web.html

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 163 comments

System Administrator Appreciation Day

http://sysadminday.com/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 43 comments

Court grants Chevron access to 9 years of email data of activists, critics [pdf]

http://dg5vd3ocj3r4t.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/documents/Kaplan-Order-Hotmail-IP-subpoena_0.pdf

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

Android Bug Superior to Master Key

http://www.saurik.com/id/18

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

The Financial Times on Edward Tufte

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/dda1cb5c-f4c0-11e2-a62e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2aBj9w7FJ

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Spy agencies ban Lenovo PCs on security grounds

http://www.afr.com/p/technology/spy_agencies_ban_lenovo_pcs_on_security_HVgcKTHp4bIA4ulCPqC7SL

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 79 comments

How to slaughter a patent troll in 5 steps

http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/26/how-to-slaughter-a-patent-troll-in-5-steps/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

My RabbitMQ setup for notifications

http://andreim.net/2013/07/my-rabbitmq-setup-for-notifications

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

Legal Weed is Hurting San Francisco's Hippies

http://priceonomics.com/legal-weed-is-hurting-san-franciscos-hippies/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 142 comments

They Know Much More Than You Think

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/nsa-they-know-much-more-you-think/?pagination=false

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/25/prim-laundry/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 206 comments

This $200 3D printed bot can crack your phone's PIN in 20 hours

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130725-the-3d-printed-bot-can-crack-your-phone-pin-in-20-hours.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 80 comments

Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal

https://sellboxhq.com/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery sales statistics

http://www.capybaragames.com/2013/07/a-sworcery-infographic

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

Pixar’s RenderMan turns 25

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/pixars-renderman-turns-25/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Kindergarten coders can program before they can read

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929275.800-kindergarten-coders-can-program-before-they-can-read.html#.UfLVScX2UgQ

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Signs You’re in a Dead-End Job

http://www.thedailymuse.com/career/3-signs-youre-in-a-dead-end-job/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments

Node v0.10.14 (Stable)

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/07/25/node-v0-10-14-stable/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

Did Frank Lloyd Wright create America's greatest office?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13576_3-57595625-315/did-frank-lloyd-wright-create-americas-greatest-office/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

https://www.coursera.org/course/mathphil

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

Golang Resources

https://github.com/mindreframer/golang-stuff/

13 years ago

★ 938 Go
72 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple’s Developer Center Is Back After Over a Week Offline

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/apples-developer-center-is-back-after-over-a-week-offline/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

Distributed Actors in Java and Clojure

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/56519815799/distributed-actors-in-java-and-clojure

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

New edX courses

https://www.edx.org/course-list/allschools/allsubjects/new

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

DoorDash (YC S13) Delivers Food Quickly In South Bay, Hopes To Expand Beyond Food

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/y-combinator-backed-doordash-delivers-food-quickly-in-south-bay-hopes-to-expand-beyond-food/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

Hidden “App Ops” Feature in Android 4.3 Lets You Disable Permissions From Apps

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/26/hidden-app-ops-feature-in-android-4-3-lets-you-selectively-disable-permissions-from-apps/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 62 comments

Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

http://news.rapgenius.com/Steve-jobs-academy-of-achievement-speech-1982-lyrics

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Crashmapper: Visualizing Years of Traffic Collisions in NYC

http://blog.accursedware.com/introducing-nyc-crashmapper/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Oauthd: OAuth.io open sourced

https://github.com/oauth-io/oauthd

13 years ago

★ 1.5k JavaScript Apache-2.0
59 upvotes – 15 comments

Philanthropist, Family Man, Sex-Toy Tycoon

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/sex_toys_and_the_recession_a_detroit_entrepreneur_who_succeeded_against.single.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments
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