top 10 hacker news stories for 2013-07-31

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

13 years ago

1688 upvotes – 612 comments

NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/31/nsa-director-heckled-at-conference-as-he-asks-for-security-communitys-understanding/

13 years ago

339 upvotes – 208 comments

The entire US Code is now online in XML

http://uscodebeta.house.gov/download/download.shtml

13 years ago

320 upvotes – 237 comments

Introducing Quip

https://quip.com/blog/introducing-quip

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 155 comments

How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet

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

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 128 comments

The Door To The FISA Court Doesn't Even Have A Sign On It

http://konklone.com/post/the-door-to-the-fisa-court

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 56 comments

Why I Left Medium

http://kennethreitz.org/why-i-left-medium/

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 167 comments

Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7187/looking-at-cpugpu-benchmark-optimizations-galaxy-s-4

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 78 comments

Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1980s? Blame copyright

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/07/31/why-does-amazon-have-more-books-from-the-1880s-than-the-1980s-blame-copyright/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 80 comments

More Encryption Is Not the Solution

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2508864

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 87 comments
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