top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-06

Judge to serve 28 years after making $2 million sending children to jail

http://rollingout.com/criminal-behavior/judge-must-serve-28-years-after-making-2-million-for-sending-children-to-jail/

13 years ago

314 upvotes – 168 comments

Security advisory: Breach and Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/aug/06/breach-and-django/

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 139 comments

Beg HN: Please only report serious GitHub outages (1h+)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165419

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 69 comments

My experience at a YC startup

http://techiedudeblog.tumblr.com/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 138 comments

The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/05aug_fieldflip/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 95 comments

Twitter’s New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/twitter-new-two-facto/?mbid=social10522764

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 114 comments

SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/sopa-died-in-2012-but-obama-administration-wants-to-revive-part-of-it/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 54 comments

Crossbar Resistive RAM stores a terabyte on a chip

http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/05/crossbar-says-it-will-explode-the-60b-flash-memory-market-with-resistive-ram-which-stores-a-terabyte-on-a-chip/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 74 comments

Play Framework Security Advisory

http://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/20130806-SessionInjection

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail

https://github.com/charlierguo/gmail

13 years ago

★ 1.7k Python MIT
158 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Nobody Should Use Rails

http://blog.bensigelman.org/post/57543889435/why-nobody-should-use-rails-for-anything-ever

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 133 comments

Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace

http://www.amazon.com/art

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 107 comments

How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers

http://firstround.com/article/How-Medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 90 comments

The $4 Million Complaint Call (2012)

http://www.inc.com/ron-burley/4-million-complaint-call.html

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 32 comments

Wild Ideas

http://hanson.gmu.edu/wildideas.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 163 comments

Scala vs. Go TCP Benchmark

http://eng.42go.com/scala-vs-go-tcp-benchmark/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 129 comments

SimpleLegal (YC S13) Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/06/yc-backed-simplelegal-reduces-legal-bills-with-machine-learning/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 45 comments

PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 84 comments

IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/ibm_opens_up_power_chips_armstyle_to_take_on_chipzilla/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 94 comments

Deis: Open Source PaaS based on Docker, Chef, and Heroku Buildpacks

http://deis.io/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 28 comments

If You Want to Raise Prices, Tell a Better Story

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/07/want_to_raise_prices_tell_a_be.html

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 31 comments

Machine Learning Course Materials

http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.html

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 13 comments

One Second on the Internet

http://onesecond.designly.com/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&diff=prev&oldid=566904988

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 55 comments

Scala on LLVM

http://greedy.github.io/scala-llvm/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

We still don't really know how bicycles work

http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/07/mysteries-bicycle

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

How an accident revolutionized guitar sound

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2013/08/04/peter-cooper-on-music-how-a-happy-accident-revolutionized-guitar-sound/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 35 comments

You Can Now Send Micro-Transactions With Zero Fees On Coinbase

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/57483182558/you-can-now-send-micro-transactions-with-zero-fees

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

Chrome's insane password security strategy

http://blog.elliottkember.com/chromes-insane-password-security-strategy

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 305 comments

Ways to make yourself happier

http://blog.bufferapp.com/10-scientifically-proven-ways-to-make-yourself-happier

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Chromecast Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Chromecast%20Teardown/16069/1

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Firefox 23 is available

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 110 comments

MIT Researchers: Printable Keys Make Mechanical Locks Insecure

http://www.dailytech.com/MIT+Researchers+Printable+Keys+Make+Mechanical+Locks+Insecure/article33112.htm

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders

http://blog.soylent.me/post/57550580385/just-as-soylent-is-disrupting-the-traditional-food

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 170 comments

Freenet Project's Statement on the recent Freedom Hosting bust

https://freenetproject.org/news.html#2013-tor-bust

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Unsupervised joke generation from big data

http://www.acl2013.org/site/short/2197.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 69 comments

Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess

http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/bezos-not-bozos/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 57 comments

OMGPOP Team Tried To Buy Back Its Site, But Zynga Killed It Instead

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/omgameoverpop/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

Never Be a Customer's Doormat

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/never-be-a-customers-doormat.html?cid=sf01001

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consortium

http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41684.wss

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

A fast and static web server for serving web apps

http://shortfin.io/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 130 comments

Bangladesh government to seize control of Grameen Bank

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB10001424127887323420604578649732663546980?mg=reno64-wsj

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 18 comments

Richard Stallman on proprietary software, SaaS and open source

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/06/hactivist-richard-stallman-takes-on-proprietary-software-saas-and-open-source/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments

Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and Embedly

http://blog.embed.ly/post/57097477000/visualizing-discussions-on-reddit-with-a-d3-network-and

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late August

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2013/08/05/report-ibm-to-furlough-most-of-its-u-s-hardware-staff-in-late-august/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

OpenX.org compromised and downloads injected with a backdoor

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/08/openx-org-compromised-and-downloads-injected-with-a-backdoor.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

Digital physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue

http://realbusinessatxerox.blogs.xerox.com/2013/08/06/always-listening-to-our-customers-clarification-on-scanning-issue/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 67 comments

The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The State House

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2013/08/06/the-new-innovation-battlegrounds-are-city-hall-and-the-state-house/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

Samsung Starts Mass Producing Industry’s First 3D Vertical NAND Flash

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/news-events/press-releases/detail?newsId=12990

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Create Your Own Programming Language

http://createyourproglang.com?hn=1

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

US drug agency surveillance unit to be investigated by Department of Justice

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/06/justice-department-surveillance-dea

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

How tech’s young millionaires spend their money

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/08/05/how-techs-young-millionaires-spend-their-money/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Patio11 on his 362 day work year & what he does in his break

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/08/hello-ladies-patrick-mckenzies-362-day-working-year-other-secrets-of-his-success-a-guest-post-from-patio11/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments

Specifications of the planned solar-powered Ubuntu laptop

http://solaptop.com/en/products/laptops/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 36 comments

Stop Focusing on What You Don't Have

http://timcheadle.com/posts/2013/08/06/stop-focusing-on-what-you-dont-have/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

Perry Fellwock

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Perry_Fellwock

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Project94 – allocation of 1- and 2-character .org domain names

http://www.project94.org

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: I'm writing an ebook about adventure and giving it away for free

http://www.adventureplaybook.com

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 23 comments

WebGL GPU Particles

http://soulwire.co.uk/experiments/webgl-gpu-particles/

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Obscure kernel settings to increase performance of Linux TCP servers

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.kernel.obscure.html

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

Bezos In 2012: People Won’t Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead

http://www.techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/bezos-in-2012-people-wont-pay-for-news-on-the-web-print-will-be-dead-in-20-years/

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 45 comments
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