top 20 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

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

The entire US Code is now online in XML

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

13 years ago

Introducing Quip

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

13 years ago

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

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

Why I Left Medium

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

13 years ago

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

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

More Encryption Is Not the Solution

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

13 years ago

Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

https://github.com/frankleenaars/gearsketch

13 years ago

★ 132 CoffeeScript MIT

Twelve Go Best Practices

http://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#1

13 years ago

Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/starbucks-wifi-goes-google.html

13 years ago

Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-nsa-leaks-snowden-20130731,0,4611758.story

13 years ago

Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241234/Intel_39_s_first_39_open_source_PC_39_on_sale_for_199

13 years ago

Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/travel/tsa-misconduct/

13 years ago

Authy: Faster Two-Factor Authentication

https://www.authy.com/thefuture

13 years ago

Wraith – A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC

https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith

13 years ago

How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition

http://blog.togo.io/redisphere/how-youporn-uses-redis-sfw-edition/

13 years ago

Do Not Track is not respected on mozilla.org

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858839

13 years ago