top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-04

Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning?

13 years ago

570 upvotes – 112 comments

HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485

13 years ago

404 upvotes – 252 comments

Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/04/congress-nsa-denied-access

13 years ago

344 upvotes – 90 comments

Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rlo0uu

13 years ago

316 upvotes – 135 comments

Founder of Tor Freedom Hosting arrested in Ireland, awaiting extradition to USA

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/fbi-bids-to-extradite-largest-childporn-dealer-on-planet-29469402.html

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 172 comments

The White Hat's Dilemma

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UfOxCIIlcU-iRcUeA6p6fyEE4qUbSuFMqmSuWjRsL_4/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 101 comments

Bradley Manning case stretches credibility of US computer fraud law

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/04/bradley-manning-case-credibility-computer-fraud-law

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155386

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 129 comments

Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/give_manning_and_snowden_the_nobel_peace_prize/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 49 comments

Hands on with Bootstrap 3 - A landing page

http://www.williamghelfi.com/blog/2013/08/04/bootstrap-in-practice-a-landing-page/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 57 comments

Open letter to Sal Khan

http://christopherdanielson.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/open-letter-to-sal-khan/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 137 comments

The Factoring Dead: Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse

http://www.slideshare.net/astamos/bh-slides

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 39 comments

Why does Ember.js rock?

https://kerricklong.com/articles/why-ember-js-rocks.html

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 75 comments

Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/02/simulating-1-second-of-real-brain-activity-takes-40-minutes-83k-processors/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 118 comments

The idea maze

http://cdixon.org/2013/08/04/the-idea-maze/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 29 comments

Tor Freedom Host compromised, JS injected into multiple sites

http://pastebin.com/pmGEj9bV

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

Mozilla Playdoh, a web application template based on Django

http://playdoh.readthedocs.org/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

Rally Against Surveillance today in San Francisco

http://1984day.com/san-francisco/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 36 comments

Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/video-reveals-108-year-old-subway-ride-article-1.1412802

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 44 comments

Thoughts on Colocation

https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/08/thoughts_on_colocation/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments

The Ecuadorian Library

https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/a1ebd2b4a0e5?

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 12 comments

University Of California Approves Major Open Access Policy To Make Research Free

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/02/university-of-california-approves-major-open-access-policy-to-make-research-free/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 14 comments

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.policymic.com/articles/54929/could-edward-snowden-get-a-nobel-peace-prize

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 55 comments

Brief thoughts on Docker

http://gorsuch.github.io/2013/08/04/brief-thoughts-on-the-dockerfile/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

On Languages, VMs, Optimization, and the Way of the World

http://blog.headius.com/2013/05/on-languages-vms-optimization-and-way.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Python 3.4.0 alpha 1 released

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.4.0/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

GitHub and my open source life

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/62a8eaa0ea9

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 57 comments

How to support both Python 2 and 3

http://ondrejcertik.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-to-support-both-python-2-and-3.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

How Android knows it's on an expensive connection

http://www.lorier.net/docs/android-metered

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

The world is socialist

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/c8f0a6dfffab

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 154 comments

It's the 21st century – why are we working so much?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/01/why-are-we-working-so-hard

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 94 comments

Hidden Services, Current Events, and Freedom Hosting

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-events-and-freedom-hosting

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Distracting the NSA

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/emacs/emacs_29.html#SEC303

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

Linux kernel 3.10 is going to be the next longterm release

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/08/04/longterm-kernel-3-dot-10/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

Obama Administration Vetoes Apple Product Ban

http://allthingsd.com/20130803/obama-vetoes-apple-product-ban/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

Strict Posix Nonconformance

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/strict-posix-nonconformance

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Wikipedia visual editor

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/31/translate-ui-wikipedias-visual-editor/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

*args and **kwargs in python explained

http://freepythontips.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/args-and-kwargs-in-python-explained/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

The computer rig of the Philip Glass Ensemble

http://www.plogue.com/philipglassensemble/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Angular-tips: Consuming services

http://angular-tips.com/blog/2013/08/consuming-services/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments
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