top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-09

Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

13 years ago

625 upvotes – 422 comments

Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/09/lavabit-shutdown-snowden-silicon-valley

13 years ago

509 upvotes – 166 comments

Bugger

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER

13 years ago

373 upvotes – 101 comments

NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/nsa-loophole-warrantless-searches-email-calls

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 62 comments

Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/09/meta-the-ar-glasses-that-aim-to-be-what-google-glass-is-not-go-up-for-pre-order/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser

http://app.io

13 years ago

261 upvotes – 107 comments

Free Schnail Mail for life

http://aralbalkan.com/notes/schnail-mail-free-real-mail-for-life/

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 85 comments

Silent Circle shuts down email service

http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers/

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 71 comments

Two Providers of Secure E-Mail Shut Down

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/two-providers-of-encrypted-e-mail-shut-down

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 69 comments

SWAT-Team Nation: The Militarization of the U.S. Police

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/swat-team-nation.html

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 159 comments

We need an NRA for privacy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6185138

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 167 comments

Obama to release FISA court opinion that ruled NSA surveillance unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/document/doj-status-report-re-releasing-fisa-court-opinion

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 142 comments

Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 143 comments

Hex, Lies and Startups

http://www.codingjohnson.com/hex-lies-and-startups

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 141 comments

Information Dashboard Design, 2nd Edition

http://chartio.com/blog/2013/08/informationdashboarddesign

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 31 comments

NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' hackers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/03/net-us-usa-security-hacking-ethics-idUSBRE9720A020130803

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 104 comments

A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf]

http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 119 comments

Unusual speed boost: size matters

https://www.webkit.org/blog/2826/unusual-speed-boost-size-matters/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 72 comments

CloudFlare and Free Speech

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-free-speech

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 31 comments

New Sublime Package Control Site

https://sublime.wbond.net/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments
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