top 50% 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

Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

https://github.com/frankleenaars/gearsketch

13 years ago

★ 132 CoffeeScript MIT
201 upvotes – 58 comments

Twelve Go Best Practices

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

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 151 comments

Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google

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

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 136 comments

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

186 upvotes – 59 comments

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

178 upvotes – 81 comments

Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years

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

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 105 comments

Authy: Faster Two-Factor Authentication

https://www.authy.com/thefuture

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 94 comments

Wraith – A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC

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

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 36 comments

How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition

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

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 94 comments

Do Not Track is not respected on mozilla.org

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

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 109 comments

Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/microsoft_surface_sales_disaster/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 201 comments

1984 Day - Rally Against Surveillance

http://1984Day.com/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back the company

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/26/activision-blizzard-goes-indie-after-ceo-kotick-buys-back-the-co/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 86 comments

Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk

http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=797

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 76 comments

Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/two-years-later-senators-criticism-of-nsa-spying-sinks-in/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 23 comments

FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot Act sharing

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/fisa-court-judge-no-company-has-ever-challenged-patriot-act-sharing/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better than face-to-face

http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/articles/2013/psychotherapie-via-internet-wirkt-gleich-gut-oder-besser-wie-im-sprechzimmer_en.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 56 comments

RethinkDB: new documentation site, cookbook with examples, practical guides

http://rethinkdb.com/docs/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition

http://insightdatascience.com/blog/from-phd-to-data-scientist.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 87 comments

NSA Response to XKEYSCORE allegations

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2013/30_July_2013.shtml

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 77 comments

We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing

https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 115 comments

Servers of Hacker News

http://ls.pwd.io/2013/07/servers-of-hacker-news/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Bitcast.io – A marketplace for web development tutorials

https://www.bitcast.io/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Sublime Text packages

http://sublimepackages.com/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

US must tell defendants when spying is used to build case against them

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/us-must-tell-defendants-when-spying-is-used-to-build-case-against-them/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Everybody thinks about garbage collection the wrong way (2010)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/08/09/10047586.aspx

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

I got access to all of BitTorrent Inc's source code and sensitive documents

http://forum.ragezone.com/f10/bittorrent-source-dns-reward-948810/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 59 comments

HackRF, an open source SDR platform

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

Perl - the Detroit of scripting languages

https://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-the-detroit-of-scripting-languages

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 95 comments

Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends name

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23515738

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

Why are most browsers developed in C++?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/41883/why-are-most-browsers-developed-in-c

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: For the boaters among us, my small company made an iOS app

http://www.tryskipper.com/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments
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