top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-28

Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is

http://m.guardiannews.com/technology/2013/jul/28/edward-snowden-death-of-internet

13 years ago

369 upvotes – 87 comments

Dont Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted

http://sicksad.com/blog/2013/07/28/dont-worry-government/

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 43 comments

Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes

http://bzg.fr/learn-emacs-lisp-in-15-minutes.html

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 69 comments

Sleepwalking into censorship

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/sleepwalking-into-censorship

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 89 comments

My hell as a 911 operator

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/my_hell_as_operator_HYlg05QYm291rqIakgY24J

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 231 comments

Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified

http://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-thats-classified

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 101 comments

Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

http://www.google.com/patents/US8296192

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 128 comments

Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

http://antonyloewenstein.com/2013/07/29/chomsky-praises-snowden-and-condemns-us-hypocrisy/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 93 comments

What is new in IPython 1.0

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/whatsnew/version1.0.html

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 45 comments

Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/glenn-greenwald-low-level-nsa-analysts-have-powerful-and-invasive-search-tool/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 64 comments

The American-Western European Values Gap

http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/11/17/the-american-western-european-values-gap/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 162 comments

Greenland’s ice sheets are disappearing faster than anyone predicted

http://www.rollingstone.com/greenland-melting

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 102 comments

Fuck the Super Game Boy: Introduction (2010)

http://loveconquersallgam.es/post/2350461718/fuck-the-super-game-boy-introduction

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 24 comments

Hyperloop lets you travel on a resonant acoustic wave?

http://conscienceofanentrepreneur.blogspot.com/2013/07/hyperloop-lets-you-travel-on-resonant.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 83 comments

Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web

http://blog.meanpath.com/twitter-bootstrap-now-powering-1-percent-of-the-web/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 69 comments

Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgotten-empires-apl-languages/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 172 comments

Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google

http://blog.gtvhacker.com/2013/chromecast-exploiting-the-newest-device-by-google/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

The Haskell School of Music (2012) [pdf]

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/Papers/HSoM.pdf

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 26 comments

In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the Radar

http://cis-india.org/news/time-world-anjan-trivedi-june-30-2013-in-india-prison-like-surveillance-slips-under-the-radar

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

How Apple Gets At-Home Workers To Work

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/28/how-apple-gets-at-home-workers-to-work/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

How to Almost Build an Engine With Only Parts From the Hardware Store [video]

http://howtolou.com/engine

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Move.js is a small JavaScript library making CSS3 backed animation

http://visionmedia.github.io/move.js/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/10/russ-10-ingredient-recipe-for-making-1-million-tps-on-5k-har.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

How We Increased Our Conversion Rate By 311%

http://blog.statuspage.io/how-we-increased-our-conversion-rate-by-311-percent

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Highly customizable checkboxes and radio buttons

http://damirfoy.com/iCheck/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Unblock Torrent Sites, Blocked Proxies, & Cameron’s Porn Filter With Immunicity

http://torrentfreak.com/unblock-torrent-sites-blocked-proxies-camerons-porn-filter-with-immunicity-130728/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Securely store sensitive data in the DB?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6116243

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

A Simple, Comprehensive Overview of Javascript

http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-single-page-javascript-overview/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Soylent Subterfuge: When a Bad Joke Turns into a Business

http://www.priceplow.com/blog/soylent-subterfuge

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 90 comments

Awesome projects from the Docker community

http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-projects-from-the-docker-community/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

Clay – A language designed for generic programming

http://claylabs.com/clay/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 60 comments
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