top 50% 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

Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/09/senic-wants-to-revolutionize-measurement-starting-with-a-smartphone-connected-laser-distance-meter/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 60 comments

Mailinator has a new design

http://mailinator.com/?new

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 54 comments

NSA To Lay Off 90 Percent Of Its System Administrators

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/nsa-to-lay-off-90-percent-of-its-system-administrators-124357

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 77 comments

Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0

http://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/08/lets-remove-verbs-from-http-20.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 136 comments

Deutsche Telekom, Web.de and GMX launch "E-mail made in Germany" initiative

http://www.telekom.com/media/company/192834

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access

http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/9/nsa-to-cut-system-administrators-by-90-percent-to

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 76 comments

NYC has released data for every tax lot in the city. Here is my first look

http://andrewxhill.github.io/cartodb-examples/scroll-story/pluto/index.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 23 comments

Open Source Backdoor – Copyrighted Under GNU GPL

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/08/open-source-backdoor-copyrighted-under-gnu-gpl.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Top Rift Experiences Right Now

http://www.oculusriftinfo.com/top-5-rift-experiences-right-now-august-2013-edition/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 31 comments

Is a Nest worth the money?

http://developdaly.com/general/is-a-nest-worth-the-money/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

FBI Special Agent visit Thursday August 8th

https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-August/038824.html

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

PyPy.js Update: A Proof-of-Concept JIT

http://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-poc-jit/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 4 comments

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek Leads the Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-craig-jelinek-leads-the-cheapest-happiest-company-in-the-world

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Ubuntu Phone Will Be A Big Success, Even If It Never Happens

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sharifsakr/2013/08/08/crowdfunded-ubuntu-phone-will-be-a-big-success-even-if-it-never-happens/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Koding - Free VMs for online development

http://koding.github.io/docs/guides/koding-overview/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Tumblr founder to get $81 million to remain at Yahoo

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100951955

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 53 comments

Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private

https://github.com/blog/1580-keep-your-email-private

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

How to write a command line application in Node.js

http://blog.liangzan.net/blog/2012/07/30/how-to-write-a-command-line-application-in-node-dot-js/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

3D printing tiny human livers

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23419-3d-printer-makes-tiniest-human-liver-ever.html#.UgUWjGTXhcQa

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Bitcoins are more expensive in Argentina than in the US

http://www.coindesk.com/why-bitcoins-are-60-more-expensive-in-argentina-than-the-us/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

LocalOn (YC S13) Gives Small Businesses a One-Stop Shop for Online Marketing

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/09/localon-launch/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Google Latitude retired

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3001634?p=maps_lat_faq

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 68 comments

USA v Lavabit LLC Email Account of Joey006

http://cryptome.org/2013/08/joey006/usa-v-joey006.htm

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

“Hand of Thief” Trojan Targets Linux

https://blogs.rsa.com/thieves-reaching-for-linux-hand-of-thief-trojan-targets-linux-inth3wild/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

Godaddy caves to UK Porn hysteria

http://domainincite.com/14058-the-uk-is-going-nuts-about-porn-and-go-daddy-and-nominet-are-helping

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 41 comments
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