top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-07

John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/john-carmack-joins-oculus-as-cto/

13 years ago

993 upvotes – 204 comments

How to Convince Investors

http://paulgraham.com/convince.html

13 years ago

489 upvotes – 113 comments

Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues

http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/A-Russian-Bank-Is-Sued-for/8/7/2013/id/51205

13 years ago

413 upvotes – 179 comments

EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering

13 years ago

384 upvotes – 77 comments

Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue

http://blog.statuspage.io/5-steps-to-5000-in-monthly-recurring-revenue

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 106 comments

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/slashdot-founder-rob-malda-on-why-there-wont-be-another-hacker-news/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 246 comments

Android AOSP maintainer quits

https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/9HHRURorE7g

13 years ago

328 upvotes – 227 comments

I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

http://www.kickoffboost.com/

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 105 comments

Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/cyberscare_ex_nsa_chief_calls_transparency_groups_hackers_next_terrorists/singleton/

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 177 comments

I cannot afford to go back to engineering school

https://medium.com/p/4ee09a99696e

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 270 comments

Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/restoring_trust.html

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 117 comments

Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir

http://adambard.com/blog/3-languages-to-watch/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 103 comments

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 90 comments

DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/fast-growing-cloud-hosting-service-digital-ocean-raises-3-2m-seed-round-led-by-ia-ventures/

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 109 comments

IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-dea-irs-idUSBRE9761AZ20130807

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 83 comments

Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

http://www.thevine.com.au/life/tech/the-single-most-reckless-idiotic-wonderful-app-ever-is-here/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 115 comments

Pixel-perfect timing attacks with HTML5

http://contextis.co.uk/research/white-papers/pixel-perfect-timing-attacks-html5/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 46 comments

A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/2641409235/a-tmux-crash-course/#

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 84 comments

Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/08/01/staring-at-the-sun-dalvik-vs-spidermonkey/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 75 comments

iPhone logs my complete movement profile

http://board.protecus.de/t42771.htm#360301

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 112 comments
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