top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-20

Forced Exposure

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

13 years ago

1391 upvotes – 414 comments

Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-safety-rating-any-car-ever-tested

13 years ago

814 upvotes – 301 comments

Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/20/groklaw-shuts-nsa-surveillance

13 years ago

706 upvotes – 233 comments

NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/

13 years ago

597 upvotes – 140 comments

UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives

https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/08/uk-authorities-destroy-guardians-hard-drives-force-journalists-report-nsa-stories-exile

13 years ago

429 upvotes – 135 comments

Tesla Model X

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx/

13 years ago

379 upvotes – 244 comments

Don't reinvent the scrollbar

http://bbrks.me/blog/reinventing-scrollbars/

13 years ago

348 upvotes – 167 comments

Mailpile – taking e-mail back

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-back

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 151 comments

A Wretched Google Interview Experience

http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=2055

13 years ago

293 upvotes – 337 comments

Nanomsg – MIT-licensed ZeroMQ alternative

http://www.freelists.org/post/nanomsg/nanomsg-01alpha-released

13 years ago

293 upvotes – 114 comments

Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/obama-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-warrantless-cellphone-searches/?print=1

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 109 comments

Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB?

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-was-mini-usb-deprecated-in-favor-of-micro-usb

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 125 comments

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js

http://blog.modulus.io/absolute-beginners-guide-to-nodejs

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 66 comments

Ungit – Git UI that makes you understand git

https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit

13 years ago

★ 10.5k JavaScript MIT
243 upvotes – 65 comments

Sovereign – Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign/blob/master/README.textile

13 years ago

★ 10.4k HTML
216 upvotes – 60 comments

Purecss.io – A set of small, responsive CSS modules by Yahoo

http://purecss.io/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 44 comments

I just want to say "fuck everything", hold up my hands and walk away.

http://werd.io/entry/5213969abed7de1978b43b2d/government-the-last-great-gatekeeper-is-ripe-for-disruption

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 179 comments

David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation'

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23769324

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 36 comments

Coroutines in one page of C

http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/455.php

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 60 comments

CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 142 comments
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