top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-05

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html

13 years ago

606 upvotes – 230 comments

U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-dea-sod-20130805,0,5453047.story

13 years ago

565 upvotes – 260 comments

Taken

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman?currentPage=all

13 years ago

468 upvotes – 223 comments

“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-tasks-api/T4kKnEDl6so

13 years ago

437 upvotes – 190 comments

Torsploit takedown: analysis, reverse engineering, forensic

https://www.cryptocloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2894&p=3852#p3852

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 82 comments

Why I'll be a solo founder next time

http://dennybritz.com/blog/2013/08/05/why-i-will-be-a-solo-founder-next-time/

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 145 comments

7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/y-combinator-startup-7-cups-of-tea-connects-people-in-need-of-emotional-support-with-trained-listeners/

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 91 comments

Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/05/google-sergey-brin-synthetic-beef-hamburger

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 264 comments

OS X emulation layer for Linux

http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 54 comments

Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/08/04/tesla-nabs-8-of-the-us-luxury-car-market.aspx

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 169 comments

Jeff Bezos on Post purchase

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jeff-bezos-on-post-purchase/2013/08/05/e5b293de-fe0d-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 62 comments

Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code

http://blog.garrytan.com/goldman-sachs-sent-a-brilliant-computer-scientist-to-jail-over-8mb-of-open-source-code-uploaded-to-an-svn-repo

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 78 comments

Introduction to Recommender Systems

https://www.coursera.org/course/recsys

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 48 comments

OpenBR – An open face recognition/biometry library

http://openbiometrics.org/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 29 comments

Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/freedom-hosting/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 33 comments

Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/webflow-lets-you-design-responsive-websites-visually-publish-instantly-when-youre-done/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 53 comments

Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/latvia-blocking-extradition-of-gozi-writer-thanks-to-disproportionate-us-sentencing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 178 comments

SQL Injection Galore

https://github.com/search?p=3&q=extension:php+mysql_query+%24_GET&ref=searchresults&type=Code

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 86 comments

Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..."

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/364265592112414720

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 54 comments

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009)

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-netcat/#

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 36 comments
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