top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-10

CSS Absolute Centering

http://codepen.io/shshaw/full/gEiDt

13 years ago

The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/09/the-president-is-wrong-the-nsa-debate-wouldnt-have-happened-without-snowden/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/09/lavabits-ladar-levison-if-you-knew-what-i-know-about-email-you-might-not-use-it/

13 years ago

Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python

https://textblob.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

13 years ago

How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound

http://jacklinstudios.com/docs/making-of-158-marimba.html

13 years ago

Text-based terminal screencasts

http://showterm.io

13 years ago

Vim 7.4 is released

http://www.vim.org/

13 years ago

How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/08/this-is-how-your-brain-becomes-addicted-to-caffeine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+smithsonianmag%2FSurprisingScience+%28Surprising+Science+%7C+Smithsonian.com%29

13 years ago

Why founders fail: the product CEO paradox

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/10/why-founders-fail-the-product-ceo-paradox/

13 years ago

What makes Lua tick?

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-04/msg00331.html

13 years ago

Learn Emacs and Lisp with simple, bite-sized screencasts

http://www.emacsbites.com/

13 years ago

Homes for Hackers gets a visit from the FBI

http://www.banterant.com/2013/08/homes-for-hackers-gets-visit-from-fbi.html

13 years ago

Woody Allen: What I've learned

http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/woody-allen-0913

13 years ago

The free Web program that got Bradley Manning convicted of computer fraud

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30/the-free-web-program-that-got-bradley-manning-convicted-of-computer-fraud/

13 years ago

How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/08/the-government-versus-your-secrets.html

13 years ago

Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-releases-pirate-browser-to-thwart-censorship-130810/

13 years ago

Firebase 404

https://www.firebase.com/404.html

13 years ago

Math Advances Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years

https://www.technologyreview.com/news/517781/math-advances-raise-the-prospect-of-an-internet-security-crisis/

13 years ago

"To come up with something truly original, you have to ignore common sense."

http://vooza.com/videos/radimparency/

13 years ago

The Factoring Cryptopocalypse

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-08-10-the-factoring-cryptopocalypse.html

13 years ago

Bootstrap-switch

http://www.bootstrap-switch.org/

13 years ago

Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz

13 years ago

Show HN: An open-source media hosting site that's anonymous and fast

https://blog.mediacru.sh/2013/07/19/MediaCrush-for-nerds.html

13 years ago

Getting started with Clojure

http://aheusingfeld.github.io/2013/08/06/getting-started-with-clojure.html

13 years ago

How Bad is DOM Interaction Really?

http://andyshora.com/how-bad-is-dom-interaction-javascript.html

13 years ago

SSD myths and legends: write endurance

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

13 years ago

Why isn't there a Kickstarter for killing patents?

http://galenward.com/post/57896321656/why-isnt-there-a-kickstarter-for-killing-patents

13 years ago

Super Mario Melodies (2011)

http://www.losdoggies.com/archives/1302

13 years ago

E-mail's Big Privacy Problem: Q&A With Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/08/09/e-mails-big-privacy-problem-qa-with-silent-circle-co-founder-phil-zimmermann/

13 years ago

The Animals are Also Getting Fat

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/08/the-animals-are-also-getting-fat.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29

13 years ago