top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-01

Skeuocard

http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/

13 years ago

1066 upvotes – 196 comments

We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web?rq=1

13 years ago

661 upvotes – 236 comments

Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

http://rt.com/news/snowden-entry-papers-russia-902/

13 years ago

527 upvotes – 492 comments

Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my

https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

13 years ago

514 upvotes – 273 comments

Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/31/fastest-iphone-camera/

13 years ago

460 upvotes – 253 comments

Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users

http://delyan.me/08-01-2013/samsung-agency-is-buying-off-stackoverflow-users/

13 years ago

447 upvotes – 155 comments

Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/

13 years ago

428 upvotes – 215 comments

Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented

http://priceonomics.com/volvo-gave-away-the-most-important-design-they/

13 years ago

402 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139927

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 385 comments

In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money-toyota-donates-efficiency-to-new-york-charity.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&

13 years ago

274 upvotes – 97 comments

Forebruary, an endless wall calendar

http://ilyabirman.net/projects/forebruary/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 101 comments

Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy

http://www.pachamama.org/blog/models-of-sustainability-sweden-runs-out-of-garbage

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 188 comments

New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/gone-in-30-seconds-new-attack-plucks-secrets-from-https-protected-pages/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 55 comments

A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ARichNewJavaScriptCodeEditorSpreadingToSeveralMicrosoftWebSites.aspx

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 69 comments

PEP 8 Modernisation

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 141 comments

Employer Tipped Off Police In Pressure Cooker/Backpack-gate, Not Google

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/employer-tipped-off-police-in-pressure-cookerbackpack-gate-not-google/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 116 comments

The Belt CPU Architecture

http://ootbcomp.com/docs/belt/index.html

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 79 comments

Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0801/Global-trendsetter-Uruguay-moves-to-legalize-marijuana

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 65 comments

Compilers in OpenBSD

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232&w=2

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 74 comments

John Carmack Quakecon 2013 Keynote Livestream

http://www.twitch.tv/bethesda

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 47 comments

Basics Of Function Pointers In C

http://denniskubes.com/2013/03/22/basics-of-function-pointers-in-c/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 57 comments

Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000)

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3G05B1TQ5XGZP/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0262510871&nodeID=283155&store=books

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 101 comments

NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 59 comments

YC Partners Taggar, Tan And Ohanian Raise $39M For Initialized Capital

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/initialized-capital-39m/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 35 comments

How We Created a Fake Vodka Brand to Promote Our Startup

http://blog.speakeasy.is/post/57069846759/how-we-created-a-fake-vodka-brand-to-promote-our

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 112 comments

In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/08/in-defense-of-leakers.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139937

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 161 comments

Defense subcontractor posted a job listing for XKEYSCORE 2 weeks ago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/01/is-xkeyscore-still-active-defense-contractor-posted-a-job-listing-for-it-2-weeks-ago/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 99 comments

"Accidentally" Freelance

http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/57035586783/accidentally-freelance

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices

http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 4 comments

PyPy 2.1 – Considered ARMful

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/08/pypy-21-considered-armful.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 8 comments

Here’s why economists hate software patents

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/07/31/heres-why-economists-hate-software-patents/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

Animatable: One property, two values, endless possiblities

http://leaverou.github.io/animatable/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

Application Development in Go

http://jasonroelofs.com/2013/08/01/application-development-in-go/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Shopify Acquires Jet Cooper

http://www.shopify.ca/press/articles/2013-08-01-shopify-acquires-jet-cooper.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Edward Snowden leaves Moscow airport

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/edward-snowden-leaves-moscow-airport-live

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 3 comments

The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 82 comments

CSV as a Data Source

http://chartio.com/blog/2013/08/csvdata

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments

True Link (YC S13) To Help The Elderly Avoid Scammers With Pre-Paid Visa Cards

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/yc-start-up-true-link-financial-is-out-to-help-the-elderly-avoid-scammers-with-pre-paid-visa-cards/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/nsas-internet-taps-can-find-systems-to-hack-track-vpns-and-word-docs/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

Soylent reaches $1M in pre-orders

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/soylent-1m-preorders/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 69 comments

Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQyNTE

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments
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