top 50% 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

A collection of small study projects which teach basic systems coding in Python

https://github.com/zedshaw/lpthw-study-projects

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 12 comments

Fast Android emulator using VirtualBox

http://www.infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/articles/is-your-android-emulator-just-too-slow

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 21 comments

A Tipping Point Against The Copyright Monopoly Is A Lot Closer Than You Think

http://torrentfreak.com/a-tipping-point-against-the-copyright-monopoly-regime-is-a-lot-closer-than-you-think-130804/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 49 comments

Kivo (YC S13) Uses Git to Make Collaborating on Documents Easier

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/kivo-uses-git-to-make-collaborating-on-documents-easier-starting-with-powerpoint/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 27 comments

Github needs a new button

http://joelg236.github.io/2013/08/04/github-needs-a-new-button

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

Dropbox Uploader: Bash script to upload, download, list, delete from Dropbox

https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader

13 years ago

★ 6.6k Shell GPL-3.0
126 upvotes – 32 comments

Michael Hastings - 911 callers and new video confirm large explosions

http://www.sandiego6.com/story/Hastings_Death_Examined-20130804

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 85 comments

I launched my weekend project 7 months ago on HN – here's CameraLends today

https://www.cameralends.com/?utm_source=hackernews

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 86 comments

The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-31/the-public-private-surveillance-partnership.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 30 comments

Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-computer-scientists-develop-247527.aspx

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 45 comments

Intro to CoffeeScript

http://aseemk.com/blog/intro-to-coffeescript

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 89 comments

Why You Don't A/B Test, and How You Can Start This August

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/why_you_do_not_ab_test

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2012)

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/13/extra-virginity-tom-mueller-review

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 90 comments

One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startup While Learning To Code

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/yc-backed-one-month-rails-teaches-you-how-to-build-your-startup-while-you-learn-to-code/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Distributed Homomorphic Encryption Adder (Weekend Project)

http://9ac345a5509a.github.io/p2p-paillier/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 24 comments

Hugo: A Fast And Flexible Static Site Generator Built In GoLang

http://spf13.com/project/hugo

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 50 comments

Car Hacking Whitepaper and tools released

http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/08/car-hacking-content.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

“A book is a sneeze”

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/08/a-book-is-sneeze.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency'

http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/5/fukushima-radioactive-water-likely-breached

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 125 comments

Feedly Pro

https://cloud.feedly.com/#pro

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 67 comments

LLVM Tutorial

http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/LangImpl1.html#tutorial-introduction

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

Some AngularJS pitfalls

http://branchandbound.net/blog/web/2013/08/some-angularjs-pitfalls/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

An Awkward Conversation

http://www.codingjohnson.com/an-awkward-conversation

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 104 comments

Declassified: The US Government’s Quantum Internet

http://www.theconnectivist.com/2013/05/declassified-the-governments-quantum-internet/?utm_source=taboola

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

The Curse of a New Building

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/08/05/steve-blank-the-curse-of-a-new-building/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 47 comments

Dbinbox – An inbox for your Dropbox

http://dbinbox.com/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

The myth of America's missing software engineers

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/05/immigration-h1b-visas-tech-jobs/?iid=HP_Highlight

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 134 comments

Lld - the llvm linker

http://lld.llvm.org

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Zeiss f/0.7: You Can Now Rent Two of the Largest Aperture Lenses Ever Made

http://petapixel.com/2013/08/05/zeiss-f0-7-you-can-now-rent-two-of-the-largest-aperture-lenses-ever-made/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Ancient languages: Perl (2004)

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ancient-languages-perl

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 88 comments

Meet Paulo Machado, the man who has lived in hospital for 45 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23364127

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

The stealthy industrial revolution already underway in open source hardware

http://www.crashdev.com/2013/08/the-stealthy-industrial-revolution.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments
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