top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-18

Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa

13 years ago

1459 upvotes – 449 comments

Cookieless cookies

http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/

13 years ago

353 upvotes – 86 comments

How to trap a whistleblower

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/16/how_to_trap_a_whistleblower/

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 113 comments

Rewriting a large production system in Go

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/08/rewriting-large-production-system-in-go.html

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 187 comments

Amnesty International on the detention of Greenwald's partner

https://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/uk-detention-guardian-employee-heathrow-unlawful-and-unwarranted-2013-08-18

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 47 comments

PostgreSQL Basics by Example

http://darthdeus.github.io/blog/2013/08/19/postgresql-basics-by-example/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 54 comments

OpenDesk – Open Source Furniture

https://www.opendesk.cc

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 52 comments

Open Source Google App Engine Clone

https://github.com/AppScale/appscale

13 years ago

★ 2.4k Python Apache-2.0
187 upvotes – 43 comments

Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/carl-june-key-fighting-cancer/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 98 comments

Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong’ With Jobs Movie [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/wozniak-says-lot-of-things-wrong-with-jobs-movie-Mm1dnrz8QJuikP6iFdCJmQ.html

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 125 comments

I hate the Pumping Lemma

http://bosker.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/i-hate-the-pumping-lemma/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 48 comments

One VM to Rule Them All [pdf]

http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2013_JVMLanguageSummit_OneVMToRuleThemAll.pdf

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 88 comments

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md

13 years ago

★ 112
160 upvotes – 59 comments

How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions

http://coryg89.github.io/technical/2013/08/13/how-to-create-your-own-chrome-extensions/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/technology/an-inventor-wants-one-less-wire-to-worry-about.html

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 94 comments

Directed Graph Editor with D3.js

http://bl.ocks.org/rkirsling/5001347

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 21 comments

Update on STM

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/08/update-on-stm.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 5 comments

An open source HTML/CSS framework for prototyping native touch applications

http://getclank.com/demos/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

SF fire chief bans helmet cameras in wake of crash

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-fire-chief-bans-helmet-cameras-in-wake-of-crash-4741338.php#photo-5057066

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 49 comments

Of Wizards and Magical Machines (2012)

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/of-wizards-and-magical-machines/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 16 comments

Rejection, tragedy and billions of dollars – The story of FIFA Video Games

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/rejection-tragedy-and-billions-of-dollars-the-story-of-fifa/0120299

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

Here’s what you find when you scan the entire Internet in an hour

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/18/heres-what-you-find-when-you-scan-the-entire-internet-in-an-hour/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Is It Nuts to Give to the Poor Without Strings Attached?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/is-it-nuts-to-give-to-the-poor-without-strings-attached.html?hp

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 86 comments

How Kal Compiles Itself

http://blog.rzimmerman.me/how-kal-compiles-itself/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Xpressive - CSS3 Live Design Tool for Mac OSX

http://xpressive.org/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Hacker Posts Facebook Bug Report on Mark Zuckerberg’s Wall

http://arabcrunch.com/2013/08/palestinian-hacker-posts-facebook-bug-report-on-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-wall.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 78 comments

Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Furniture as by Terrorism (2012)

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/americans-are-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-their-own-furniture-as-by-terrorism/258156/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Why I'm Learning Morse Code

http://burakkanber.com/blog/why-im-learning-morse-code/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 72 comments
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