top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-19

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-schedule7-danger-reporters

13 years ago

681 upvotes – 152 comments

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

13 years ago

546 upvotes – 349 comments

Bootstrap 3 released

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/08/19/bootstrap-3-released/

13 years ago

469 upvotes – 124 comments

Loyalty and Layoffs

http://heartmindcode.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/

13 years ago

359 upvotes – 138 comments

My Final Post

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?104367-My-Final-Post&p=1245087#post1245087

13 years ago

308 upvotes – 119 comments

Sayonara, V8

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/MUq5WrC2kcE

13 years ago

302 upvotes – 87 comments

"Journey to Justinia" – how I got my 5-year-old son to sit still for 5 hours

http://justy.me/justy/2013/8/18/journey-to-justinnia-or-how-i-got-my-5-yo-son-to-sit-still-and-concentrate-for-almost-5-hours

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 70 comments

India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1023053

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 191 comments

Chesscademy, a free chess learning site

http://chesscademy.com

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 66 comments

Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted's Deferreds

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-tulip/ut4vTG-08k8/discussion

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 62 comments

White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/19/white-house-had-advance-notice-on-heathrow-detention/?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 119 comments

So that’s what I’m going to do

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/58707926941/so-thats-what-im-going-to-do

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: What happened to Proposition HN? ("$8000 for your side project")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6239304

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 42 comments

Goread - Open Source Google Reader clone in Go

http://www.goread.io/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 69 comments

Notch puts 0x10c on ice

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/notch-puts-0x10c-on-icecommunity-heats-things-up-by-going-diy

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 109 comments

New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-website-loading-bars/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 124 comments

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 161 comments

Cameron Proves Greenwald Right

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/08/18/cameron-proves-greenwald-right/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 34 comments

Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929300.300-meet-the-nasa-scientist-devising-a-starship-warp-drive.html#.UhJQjry9wu5

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 90 comments

On Hyperloop

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 203 comments

Node.js incorrectly parses HTTP methods

http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/08/sigh.html

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 67 comments

Scala School

http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 73 comments

What Exactly Did The US Government Ask Lavabit to Do?

http://xato.net/privacy/lavabit-shutdown/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 44 comments

Court Holds That Circumventing IP Address Ban Is “Access Without Authorization”

http://www.volokh.com/2013/08/18/district-court-holds-that-intentionally-circumventing-ip-address-block-is-unauthorized-access-under-the-cfaa/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 134 comments

U.K. Government Thought Destroying Guardian Hard Drives Would Stop Stories

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/u-k-government-thought-destroying-guardian-hard-drives-would-stop-snowden-stories/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

Why I Was Fired From a Tech Startup and What My Boss Had to Say About It

http://www.fdpod.com/why-i-was-fired-from-a-tech-startup-and-what-my-boss-had-to-say-about-it/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 146 comments

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't cooperate'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-interview-detention-heathrow

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops

http://jerzygangi.com/why-silicon-valley-funds-instagrams-not-hyperloops/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 95 comments

Beautiful Native Libraries

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/8/18/beautiful-native-libraries/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

IronPigeon - Decentralized communication protocol for sending secure messages

https://github.com/aarnott/ironpigeon

13 years ago

★ 266 C#
121 upvotes – 41 comments

Git Tips

http://adit.io/posts/2013-08-16-five-useful-git-tips.html

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

DSP in Go

https://github.com/mjibson/go-dsp

13 years ago

★ 911 Go ISC
116 upvotes – 17 comments

Groupon Fires Sales Rep Who Threatened Bad Reviews for Business Owner

http://allthingsd.com/20130819/groupon-fires-sales-rep-who-threatened-negative-yelp-reviews-for-restaurant-owner/?mod=tweet

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 30 comments

How I Made My Ruby Project 10x Faster

http://www.adit.io/posts/2013-03-04-How-I-Made-My-Ruby-Project-10x-Faster.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 57 comments

How to quickly become effective when joining a new company

http://www.drmaciver.com/2013/08/how-did-you-get-started-so-quickly/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

The NSA Searches Ten Times as Much of the Internet as It Said It Does

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/08/nsa-better-data-collection-math/68490/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6

http://www.sencha.com/blog/toward-modern-web-apps-with-ecmascript-6/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

Windows 8 Benchmark Records No Longer Accepted

http://hwbot.org/news/9824_breaking_windows_8_benchmark_results_no_longer_accepted_at_hwbot

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

Amazon was down

http://amazon.com

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

BlinkDB: Queries with Bounded Errors and Response Times on Very Large Data

http://blinkdb.org/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 4 comments

Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/fe6a2067d770

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments

Sci-Fi Author Iain M. Banks Gets Asteroid Named after Him

http://minorplanetcenter.net/blog/sci-fi-author-iain-m-banks-gets-asteroid-named-after-him/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Feds seized $2.9M from Mt. Gox, court docs show

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/19/feds-seized-2-9m-in-bitcoin-funds-from-mt-gox-court-docs-show/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Time for Answers from the NSA

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/356098/time-answers-nsa-john-fund

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

The Cryptopocalypse

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/the_cryptopocal.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Choosing a payment provider for your Europe-based SaaS startup

http://blog.gogemba.com/post/58534526652/choosing-a-payment-provider-for-your-europe-based-saas

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Understanding Slices in Go

http://www.goinggo.net/2013/08/understanding-slices-in-go-programming.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained in London for nine hours

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/08/18/david_miranda_gleen_greenwald_s_partner_detained_for_nine_hours_at_heathrow.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Germany Sets Standard for Bitcoin Regulation

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/germany-sets-standard-for-bitcoin-regulation/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 71 comments
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