top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-13

This coupon code is a slap in the face

http://justinjackson.ca/the-coupon-code-is-a-slap-in-the-face/

13 years ago

431 upvotes – 245 comments

Using Voice to Code Faster than Keyboard

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

13 years ago

403 upvotes – 133 comments

Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/13/wireless-devices-go-battery-free-with-new-communication-technique/

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 72 comments

The Future of Programming in Node.js

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/9afurRCTlOc

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 176 comments

SDL 2.0.0 is out after many years in development

http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2013-August/089854.html

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 61 comments

After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/08/13/after_multiple_denials_cia_admits_to_snooping_on_noam_chomsky

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 81 comments

Lavabit Founder Says He Had ‘Obligation’ to Shut Service

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/lavabit-founder-says-he-had-obligation-to-shut-service

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 104 comments

Q & A: Edward Snowden speaks to Peter Maass

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/snowden-maass-transcript.html

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 43 comments

How phone batteries measure the weather

http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 27 comments

Bottle light inventor proud to be poor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 80 comments

Firefox now only has one HTML parser

https://blog.mozilla.org/mrbkap/2013/08/12/the-old-html-parser-is-dead-long-live-the-html-parser/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 57 comments

The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam

http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/12/the-big-ugly-affiliate-marketing-scam/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 119 comments

Hyperloop Update: Elon Musk Will Start Developing It Himself

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2013/08/12/latest-update-elon-musk-will-start-the-hyperloop-himself/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 56 comments

Hacking the OS X Kernel for Fun and Profiles

http://research.swtch.com/macpprof

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 35 comments

WebGL to add 3D hover effects to your website

http://glecollinet.github.io/webgl-demo/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 112 comments

No Way NSA

http://nowaynsa.com/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 36 comments

HTML.js – Befriend the DOM

http://nbubna.github.io/HTML/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 106 comments

DOJ Elevated Its Charges Against Swartz Because Internet Rallied on His Behalf

http://pjmedia.com/blog/report-doj-elevated-its-charges-against-swartz-because-internet-community-rallied-on-his-behalf/?singlepage=true

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 94 comments

I Am Being Watched

http://amsiegel.com/post/58170083617/i-am-being-watched

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 52 comments

Go 1.1.2 has been released

https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 8 comments

Searching a Sorted Matrix Faster

http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post5365_searching-a-sorted-matrix-faster

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 10 comments

Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49906/why-is-freebsd-deprecating-gcc-in-favor-of-clang-llvm

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 159 comments

AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television

http://qz.com/114483/amc-is-succeeding-by-breaking-the-rules-of-legacy-television/

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 134 comments

We Give a F*** How the Site Loads

http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/We-Give-a-F-How-the-Site-Loads-392679726

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/swartz-foia-release/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 15 comments

AnsibleWorks Raises $6M

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/12/ansibleworks-raises-6m-for-popular-open-source-and-easy-to-use-it-automation-framework/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

Push Notifications to Mobile Devices Using Amazon SNS

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/08/push-notifications-to-mobile-devices-using-amazon-sns.html

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Bootstrap 3 RC2

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/08/13/bootstrap-3-rc2/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 56 comments

Fitbit Raises $43 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/fitbit-43m/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 57 comments

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 16 comments

Explore what is Trending on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1585-explore-what-is-trending-on-github

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 30 comments

PingFS

http://www.shysecurity.com/posts/pingfs

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus

http://commoncrawl.org/a-look-inside-common-crawls-210tb-2012-web-corpus/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

frak: Transform collections of strings into regular expressions

https://github.com/noprompt/frak

13 years ago

★ 1.1k Clojure
98 upvotes – 38 comments

How to Write the Shit Out of Something

http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/how-to-write-the-shit-out-of-something/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

What you need to know about employee stock options

https://medium.com/p/c4ac448850b7

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 60 comments

How to Raise Money as a First Time Founder

http://wadefoster.net/post/58039721398/how-to-raise-money-as-a-first-time-founder

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Star Wars Weather Forecast

http://www.tomscott.com/weather/starwars/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Blindness

http://www.marco.org/2013/08/13/google-blindness

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 110 comments

Pentagon Now Sees Big Data as 'National Security Threat'

http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/08/12/irony_alert_pentagon_now_fears_a_big_data_national_security_threat

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

A Visit to Disney’s Magic Kingdom

http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/08/13/a-visit-to-disneys-magic-kingdom/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

AngularJS 1.2.0-rc1 released

http://blog.angularjs.org/2013/08/angularjs-120-rc1-spooky-giraffe.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

The drab stupidity of Soylent

http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/column/4264/the-drab-stupidity-of-soylent/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 122 comments

White House denies intel chief will lead NSA surveillance review

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/316879-white-house-denies-intel-chief-will-lead-nsa-review

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Elm 0.9 - New type checker, much better error messages

http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/version-0.9.elm

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciations Are Soaring

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323585604579007860126146566.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 92 comments

Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments

Bitcoin Block Time Halved To Five Minutes Amid Exponential Network Growth

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-block-time-halved-to-five-minutes-amid-exponential-network-growth/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18220576/my-accounts-applications-have-been-disabled-with-no-explanation#_=_

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 80 comments

Gophercloud: A Multi-cloud Software Development Kit for Go

http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/gophercloud.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments

Hyperloop: Why can't we believe in the big ideas?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57598213-256/hyperloop-why-cant-we-believe-in-the-big-ideas/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

Just type `whois Microsoft.com` in your shell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204867

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Windows Store dev account: getting rid of it is as hard as signing up

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2013/08/13/windows-store-account-getting-rid-of-it-is-as-hard-as-signing-up.aspx

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Here is a puzzle entitled "lowercase"

http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/one.htm

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask PG: What Do You Think Of Hyperloop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6207165

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments
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