top 50% 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

Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Rankings

http://moz.com/blog/google-plus-correlations

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 97 comments

Crosswords don’t make you clever

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/08/quick-study-neuroscience

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 73 comments

Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-summer-2013-demo-day-batch-1-meet/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Medium Sucks

http://www.codingjohnson.com/medium-sucks

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012)

http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-the-art-and-science-of-software-engineering/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 42 comments

EVA 23: Exploring the frontier

http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/2013/08/20/eva-23-exploring-the-frontier/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 9 comments

The Great App.net Mistake

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/the-great-app-net-mistake/?mbid=social10983564

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 65 comments

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

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

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 49 comments

Amazon Ramps Up $13.9 Billion Warehouse Building Spree

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-20/amazon-ramps-up-13-9-billion-warehouse-building-spree.html

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 83 comments

Wikipedia: Size in volumes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 41 comments

Hours until NZ spy law passed. Contact your MP.

http://www.crossthefloor.co.nz/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Julia introspects: see the AST, LLVM IR, and native assembly for any function

http://blog.leahhanson.us/julia-introspects.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 30 comments

What to Expect When Being Featured on Google Play

http://ryanharter.com/blog/2013/08/20/what-to-expect-when-being-featured-on-google-play/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 2

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-summer-2013-demo-day-batch-2-meet-meta-lob-amulyte-weilos-and-more/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

The NSA, Germany, and journalism

http://buzzmachine.com/2013/08/20/the-nsa-germany-and-journalism/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 3

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-summer-2013-demo-day-batch-3-meet-senic-buttercoin-crowdery-reebee-and-more/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket

https://medium.com/health-the-future/918b3d08f21f

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 96 comments

Bitcoin now 'unit of account' in Germany

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/bitcoin-unit-of-account-germany

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 37 comments

Sandman: A Boilerplate-free Python REST API for Existing Databases

http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/07/23/sandman-a-boilerplatefree-python-rest-api-for-existing-databases/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

US and UK at odds over security tactics

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-david-miranda-guardian-hard-drives

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

Clojure-scheme: Compiling Clojure to Native Code via Scheme [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/clojure-scheme

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

Security Community Raises Money for Researcher Snubbed by Facebook Bounty

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/researcher-denied-facebook-bounty/?mbid=social10973184

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple provides credit to people who have reported security issues

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1318

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments
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