top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-02

Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/xkcd-time-comic/

13 years ago

634 upvotes – 92 comments

Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

13 years ago

472 upvotes – 89 comments

Two Stories of Passive Income Excess

http://x.myles.io/19BPrtG

13 years ago

348 upvotes – 123 comments

Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6145261

13 years ago

340 upvotes – 292 comments

FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57596791-38/fbi-pressures-internet-providers-to-install-surveillance-software

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 97 comments

Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 220 comments

TimelineJS: build visually rich interactive timelines

http://timeline.verite.co/

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 29 comments

After NSA's XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches to HTTPS

http://www.fastcompany.com/3015199/the-code-war/after-nsas-xkeyscore-wikipedia-switches-to-secure-https

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 114 comments

OAuth of Fealty: Resignation beyond sorrow on the Facebook Platform and beyond

http://m.bogost.com/blog/oauth_of_fealty.shtml

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 45 comments

Don't Plug Your Phone into a Charger You Don't Own

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/hacking/314361-black-hat-don-t-plug-your-phone-into-a-charger-you-don-t-own

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 93 comments

Here’s what real reform of the NSA looks like

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/02/heres-what-real-reform-of-the-nsa-looks-like

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 38 comments

Khan Academy now accepts Bitcoin via Coinbase

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/57119163938/khan-academy-now-accepts-bitcoin-donations-using

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

Bradley Manning and "hacker madness" scare tactic

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23981-bradley-manning-and-hacker-madness-scare-tactic.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Conline-news#.UfuDdlM6dEk

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 45 comments

Comments in JSON

http://fadefade.com/json-comments.html

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 176 comments

Carmack: Armadillo Aerospace in “hibernation mode”

http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/08/01/carmack-armadillo-aerospace-in-hibernation-mode/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

CoreOS Vagrant Images

http://coreos.com/blog/coreos-vagrant-images/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 43 comments

Dwarf Fortress in 2013

http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/195148/dwarf_fortress_in_2013.php

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 77 comments

Hacker News in the Terminal

http://andrewvos.com/2013/08/02/hacker-news-in-the-terminal/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 68 comments

Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/26/scientist-banned-revealing-codes-cars

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Germany ends spy pact with US and UK after Snowden

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23553837

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

Mean Stack

http://mean.io/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 93 comments

Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/07/31/tby-face-wash-beads-plastic-fish-consumption-great-lakes-thunder-bay.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 78 comments

Security disclosure about a Bluetooth toilet

https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-020.txt

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Germany nixes surveillance pact with US, Britain

http://news.yahoo.com/germany-nixes-surveillance-pact-us-britain-113557159.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

The Outrage about PRISM spying is wearing off already

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043777/the-outrage-about-prism-spying-is-wearing-off-already.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 107 comments

Full Stack Web Development

http://act2.me/full-stack-web-development/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Mark Shuttleworth is important to desktop Linux

http://fossforce.com/2013/08/why-mark-shuttleworth-is-important-to-desktop-linux/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml

https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

13 years ago

★ 5.9k OCaml MIT
86 upvotes – 29 comments

The Startup Legitimizer

http://thestartuplegitimizer.com/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 18 comments

The State Machines of Core.Async

http://hueypetersen.com/posts/2013/08/02/the-state-machines-of-core-async/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 2 comments

NYTimes Objective–C Style Guide

https://github.com/NYTimes/objective-c-style-guide

13 years ago

★ 5.8k MIT
80 upvotes – 47 comments

SSL, Gone in 30 seconds

http://breachattack.com

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 49 comments

Massachusetts Introduces Software Service Tax

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/as_software_services_tax_hits.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 81 comments

Yahoo acquires Rockmelt

http://blog.rockmelt.com/post/57166686461/big-company-news

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

WordPress 3.6 arrives with better post locking, built-in HTML5 media player

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/08/02/wordpress-3-6-arrives-with-new-blog-centric-theme-better-post-locking-built-in-html5-media-player-and-more/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 63 comments

Bitfury 400 GH/s Bitcoin Mining Rig Hits US Shores

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitfury-400-ghs-bitcoin-mining-rig-hits-us-shores/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 70 comments

Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors

http://www.eteknix.com/expert-says-nsa-have-backdoors-built-into-intel-and-amd-processors/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 58 comments

LinkedIn rejects engineering ads with female images, bans account

http://www.toptal.com/remote/in-defense-of-female-engineers

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 89 comments

Yahoo Has Acquired Rockmelt, Apps To Shut Down On August 31st

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/02/yahoo-has-acquired-rockmelt-apps-to-shut-down-on-august-31st/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 109 comments

T-Mobile backs Ubuntu smartphone

http://www.zdnet.com/t-mobile-backs-ubuntu-smartphone-7000018916/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Rails Performance Help – Tracer Bullets

http://ninjasandrobots.com/rails-performance-help-tracer-bullets/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Hackers to NSA chief: Read the Constitution

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57596420-83/hackers-to-nsa-chief-read-the-constitution/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Russia's Massive Android Malware Industry Revealed

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/mobile-security/314386-russia-s-massive-android-malware-industry-revealed

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

'WWIII Queen's speech' script revealed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23518587

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 76 comments

What’s Asseta (YC S13), A Used Equipment Marketplace, Doing In Y Combinator?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/02/whats-asseta-a-marketplace-for-used-manufacturing-equipment-doing-in-y-combinator-um-making-money/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps America's soldiers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/us-usa-pentagon-payerrors-special-report-idUSBRE96818I20130709

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

Americans Thought They Smelled Fine Until Marketers Convinced Them Otherwise

http://priceonomics.com/americans-thought-they-smelled-fine-until/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 71 comments

The Quantum Zeno Effect actually does stop the world

http://io9.com/the-quantum-zeno-effect-actually-does-stop-the-world-977909459

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 61 comments

Bloodline - Social Initiative from India

http://bloodlinelabs.com

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/mystery_object_falls_from_sky_area_sealed_off_by_military_weather_balloon_say_officials/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments
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