top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-16

Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead/

13 years ago

581 upvotes – 481 comments

Happy 20th birthday Debian

http://bits.debian.org/2013/08/20-birthday-debian.html

13 years ago

520 upvotes – 88 comments

NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html

13 years ago

416 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: noteZilla - Interactive sheet music

http://notezilla.io

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 130 comments

Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ripping-off-young-america-the-college-loan-scandal-20130815?print=true

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 266 comments

Obama said the NSA wasn’t “actually abusing” its powers. He was wrong

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/15/remember-when-obama-said-the-nsa-wasnt-actually-abusing-its-powers-he-was-wrong/

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 50 comments

Kal – a clean JavaScript alternative without callbacks

http://rzimmerman.github.io/kal/

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 125 comments

Lavabit.com owner: 'I could be arrested' for resisting surveillance order

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-surveillance-order?lite

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 110 comments

The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery

http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html?bg

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 145 comments

Brick – UI Components for Modern Web Apps

http://mozilla.github.io/brick/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 72 comments

ZMap: Internet scanner maps all of IPv4 in 45 minutes

https://zmap.io/

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 63 comments

Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scaling-reddit

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 109 comments

Getty Just Made 4,600 Images Public Domain

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/08/getty-just-made-4600-incredible-images-public-domain/

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 65 comments

Edward Snowden and Gen Y: a sign of leaks to come?

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/08/snowden-leaks-the-real-take-ho.html

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 92 comments

Docker interactive tutorial

http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/introducing-an-interactive-docker-tutorial/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 47 comments

Pineapple – Web tutorials, tools, and resources that don't suck

http://pineapple.io/about/?utm_source=hn

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 49 comments

Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits

http://blog.mailgun.com/post/new-mailgun-pricing-no-more-minimums-features-for-all/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 64 comments

Web server in one line of bash

http://www.razvantudorica.com/08/web-server-in-one-line-of-bash/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 63 comments

Samsung's exFAT Linux driver officially released as GPL

http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: We structured and compared hospital chargemaster prices

http://pricemed.org/procedures/transfusion-of-blood-or-blood-products

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 47 comments

The True Size of Africa - Misleading Maps

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/07/01/the-true-size-of-africa-have-our-maps-been-misleading-for-over-500-years/#_

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 101 comments

They're Using it at Coffee Shops

http://usingitatcoffeeshops.tumblr.com/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

Introducing FuzzDB

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/08/16/introducing-fuzzdb/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 1 comments

The creation of Missile Command and the haunting of its creator, Dave Theurer

http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/8/15/4528228/missile-command-dave-theurer

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 66 comments

How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space?

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 61 comments

How to build a large Angular.js application

https://gocardless.com/blog/building-a-large-angular-application/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 52 comments

Funniest reviews

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001250201

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 36 comments

fish shell

http://fishshell.com/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 75 comments

The 1975 Buffett memo that saved the Washington Post's pension

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/15/warren-buffett-katharine-graham-letter/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 108 comments

ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271258990669

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 113 comments

Snake Vim Trainer

http://www.vimsnake.com/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

Area 51 'declassified' in U-2 spy plane history

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23731759

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

ICANN bans dotless domains

http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-13aug13-en.htm

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Magic Does Exist With “Uber-For-Flowers” Startup Bloomthat (YC S13)

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/16/bloomthat/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

Amulyte (YC S13) is Building a Better Lifeline For Seniors on the Move

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/16/yc-backed-amulyte-is-building-a-better-lifeline-for-seniors-on-the-move/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

How we raised a $1.1M seed round without customers, revenue or even a product.

http://john-sheehan.com/post/58453831272/how-runscope-raised-a-1-1m-seed-round-without

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

A third of venture-backed IPOs between 2006 and 2012 had an immigrant founder

http://www.fastcompany.com/3015616/the-shocking-stats-about-whos-really-starting-companies-in-america

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 37 comments

Infinite Bang Bang

http://shadabahmed.com/blog/2013/08/16/bang-bang

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

A Guide to the Web's Growing Set of Free Image Collections

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/a-guide-to-the-webs-growing-set-of-free-image-collections/278655/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 2 comments
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