top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-03

Mailpile: Let’s take email back

http://www.mailpile.is/

13 years ago

520 upvotes – 232 comments

NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/july-dec13/whistleblowers_08-01.html

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 106 comments

Why does Angular.js rock?

http://angular-tips.com/blog/2013/08/why-does-angular-dot-js-rock/

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 125 comments

What a 600,000-megapixel-wide picture looks like

http://www.oddly-even.com/2013/07/31/the-largest-photo-ever-taken-of-tokyo-is-zoomable-and-it-is-glorious/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 88 comments

How does Trello access the user's clipboard?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17527870/how-does-trello-access-the-users-clipboard

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 48 comments

Web Tracing Framework by Google

http://google.github.io/tracing-framework/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 32 comments

YouTube adds Play icon to page titles so you can see which tabs are making noise

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/08/03/youtube-adds-play-icon-to-video-page-titles-so-you-can-quickly-see-which-tabs-are-making-noise/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 67 comments

Nightcode: An IDE for Clojure and Java

http://nightcode.info/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 52 comments

Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]

http://www.ustr.gov/sites/default/files/08032013%20Letter_1.PDF

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 118 comments

Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:156.33.241.5

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 55 comments

Inside Caracas' Tower of David, the World's Tallest Slum

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/inside-caracas-tower-of-david-the-worlds-tallest-slum

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 57 comments

How to Design Programs, Second Edition

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

100,000 DOM Updates

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/02/100000-dom-updates/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

The $4 Million Teacher

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324635904578639780253571520.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 130 comments

For Medical Tourists, Simple Math

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/health/for-medical-tourists-simple-math.html

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 60 comments

A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2013/08/02/a-cheap-spying-tool-with-a-high-creepy-factor/?from=global.home

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 83 comments

Finn – A mount for every smartphone and bicycle

http://getfinn.com/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

Gigablast Search Engine, Now Open Source (C/C++)

https://www.gigablast.com/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 25 comments

DIY Drones: Home for everything about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

http://diydrones.com/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Functional Programming with Python

http://kachayev.github.io/talks/uapycon2012/index.html#/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 91 comments

Your Python Regular Expression's Best Buddy

http://www.pyregex.com/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 14 comments

Ubuntu Edge will miss $32M crowdfunding target

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/02/ubuntu-edge-crowdfunding-prediction-miss

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 94 comments

Running Rails? Defend yourself against BREACH

http://blog.meldium.com/home/2013/8/2/running-rails-defend-yourself-against-breach

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 34 comments

2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart

http://torrentfreak.com/2919-movie-pirates-walk-free-as-bittorrent-trolling-scheme-falls-apart-130802

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory (2007)

http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 72 comments

How serious is Google about Dart?

http://yakovfain.com/2013/08/02/how-serious-is-google-about-dart/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 178 comments

Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517786/chinese-hacking-team-caught-taking-over-decoy-water-plant/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

Node.js Deployments with Docker, Dokku, and Digital Ocean

https://medium.com/code-adventures/438bce155dcb

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Wikipedia founder brands PM's porn filters plan 'ridiculous'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23558865

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Comonads

http://www.clojure.net/2013/02/02/Comonads/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

The network of mathematics

https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/SrQe3Bsd9kp

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Build a Blog Engine in Go

http://0value.com/build-a-blog-engine-in-Go

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments
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