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

Lavabit abruptly shuts down

http://lavabit.com/

13 years ago

1831 upvotes – 640 comments

Why I Changed My Mind On Weed

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/

13 years ago

591 upvotes – 363 comments

Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/57712756801/persona-makes-signing-in-easy-for-gmail-users

13 years ago

346 upvotes – 118 comments

Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid'

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/2013841016657318.html

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 187 comments

Ubuntu Edge price dropped to $695

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=activity&key=value

13 years ago

320 upvotes – 153 comments

Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/a-light-has-gone-out-on-the-web/

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 146 comments

Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/lavabit-snowden/

13 years ago

293 upvotes – 88 comments

I quit my job

http://madebyloren.com/i-quit-my-job

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 189 comments

Hacker News Web App for Mobile

http://hn.premii.com

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 160 comments

Shutting Down a Dream

http://dandreamsofcoding.com/2013/08/07/shutting-down-a-dream/

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 81 comments

GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

http://mediagoblin.org/

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 68 comments

Donate to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7BCR4A5W9PNN4

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 46 comments

Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions

http://stuartkhall.com/posts/stop-allowing-app-reviews-from-beta-ios-versions

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 62 comments

New Rust runtime turned on. What next?

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-August/005158.html

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 114 comments

Russia's Mark Zuckerberg offers Snowden a job.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/05/technology/social/snowden-vkontakte/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 105 comments

Patent Troll Forced To Settle Frivolous Lawsuit Against One-Man Business

http://www.marco.org/2013/08/08/lodsys-honest-headline

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart

http://www.joyent.com/blog/introducing-kartlytics-mario-kart-64-analytics

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 33 comments

Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23587916

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 159 comments

Enterprise Sales Tips for Hackers

http://brandonb.cc/enterprise-sales-tips-for-hackers

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 72 comments

Amazon's profits

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/8/8/amazons-profits

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 144 comments

Create a font from your own handwriting

http://www.myscriptfont.com/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 64 comments

End to end encrypted email, based in Sweden

https://countermail.com/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 73 comments

The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21582535-costly-criminalisation-mentally-ill-locked

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 76 comments

Getting to Docker 1.0

http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/getting-to-docker-1-0/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 38 comments

Mail provider allegedly used by Snowden suspending operations

http://72.249.41.52

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 31 comments

Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math

http://skibinsky.com/godel-turing-and-cantor-the-math/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 25 comments

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

How to build a procedural city in WebGL

http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2013/08/02/how-to-do-a-procedural-city-in-100lines/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 19 comments

Exposing Patent Trolls

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/exposing-patent-trolls/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 13 comments

Professor's apparent request to student for fake data published by mistake

http://blog.chembark.com/2013/08/06/a-disturbing-note-in-a-recent-si-file/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 47 comments

Queueing in the Linux Network Stack

http://www.coverfire.com/articles/queueing-in-the-linux-network-stack/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 8 comments

Python for Android

http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 74 comments

We Already Know What Kind of Newspaper Owner Jeff Bezos Will Be

http://coreypein.net/blog/2013/08/06/jeff-bezos-buys-washington-post-wikileaks-servers-amazon/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

http://harpjs.com/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

The most interesting things I've learnt about learning

http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-most-interesting-things-ive-learnt.html?view=classic

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Observations From a Tipless Restaurant, Part 5: Sex, Power and Tips

http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-5-sex-power-tips/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Google supports MariaDB

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/google_backs_mariadb/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Watchsend (YC S13) records mobile screen interactions for user testing

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/08/yc-backed-watchsend-records-mobile-screen-interactions-for-user-testing/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

London Startup Map

http://roundabout.io/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

DC, Maryland: Speed Camera Firms Move To Hide Evidence

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4167.asp

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Rediscala: Non-blocking Redis driver for Scala

https://github.com/etaty/rediscala

13 years ago

★ 786 Scala Apache-2.0
67 upvotes – 16 comments

3d Printing at UPS

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/08/3d-printing?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/outofthebox

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments
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