top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-21

I will not do a tech interview

https://medium.com/lessons-learned/80ba19c55883

13 years ago

1032 upvotes – 542 comments

Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-to-sentence-bradley-manning-today/2013/08/20/85bee184-09d0-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html

13 years ago

640 upvotes – 471 comments

We Need To Talk, Google

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002593.html

13 years ago

470 upvotes – 234 comments

Bradley Manning's Post-Sentencing Statement

http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2013/08/bradley-mannings-post-sentencing.html

13 years ago

412 upvotes – 184 comments

'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/21/sending-message-miranda-gchq-nsa

13 years ago

405 upvotes – 152 comments

Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 360 comments

Show HN: Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor

http://tridiv.com

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 59 comments

Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/grav_speed.html

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 132 comments

Helpouts by Google

https://helpouts.google.com/welcome

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 148 comments

A Week with Mozilla's Rust

http://relistan.com/a-week-with-mozilla-rust/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 102 comments

I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

http://pastie.org/8255933

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 98 comments

German government warns Windows 8 is a security risk

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2013-08/trusted-computing-microsoft-windows-8-nsa

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 119 comments

Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional to be released

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/eff-victory-results-expected-release-secret-court-opinion-finding-nsa-surveillance

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 34 comments

Average Income per Programming Language

http://bpodgursky.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/average-income-per-programming-language/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 177 comments

Introducing Silvrback: Hosted, Markdown-Powered Blogging

https://www.silvrback.com/dsowers/introducing-silvrback

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 91 comments

Scroll This

http://codepen.io/sol0mka/full/Jsyxq

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 45 comments

Intern’s death puts banking culture under microscope

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2013/08/21/interns-death-puts-banking-culture-under-microscope/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 179 comments

Beware of geeks bearing gifts

http://aralbalkan.com/notes/beware-of-geeks-bearing-gifts/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 73 comments

SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/sopa-died-in-2012-but-obama-administration-wants-to-revive-part-of-it/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 54 comments

FlowType: font-size and line-height based on element width

http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: ngProgress - slim, site-wide progressbar for AngularJS, without jQuery

http://victorbjelkholm.github.io/ngProgress/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 35 comments

Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/coreos-the-new-linux/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 39 comments

WebKit has implemented srcset

http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/21/webkit-implements-srcset-and-why-its-a-good-thing/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 94 comments

October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/document/october-3-2011-fisc-opinion-holding-nsa-surveillance-unconstitutional

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 35 comments

The problem with vim

http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 88 comments

The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_nsa_the_abyss_from_which_there_is_no_return

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 18 comments

Government and the Internet

http://patrickcollison.com/post/government-internet

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 18 comments

Containers and Docker: how secure are they?

http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/containers-docker-how-secure-are-they/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 54 comments

New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324108204579022874091732470-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwMDEyNDAyWj.html

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

Two-Factor Authentication and the Police State

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/08/two-factor-authentication-and-the-police-state/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 81 comments

When An Accidental Feature Becomes Your Entire Business

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/08/21/when-an-accidental-feature-becomes-your-entire-business-vayable-turns-to-custom-travel/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 48 comments

US doesn't know what Snowden took, sources say

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20108770-us-doesnt-know-what-snowden-took-sources-say?lite

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 48 comments

EFF Pioneer Awards: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/late-digital-rights-activist-international-access-knowledge-advocate-and-nsa-spying

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 5 comments

Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data

http://relistan.com/cassandra-vs-mongo/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 81 comments

Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge#123

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/technology/facebook-leads-an-effort-to-lower-barriers-to-internet-access.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 65 comments

How Not to DDoS Your Former Employer

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/how-not-to-ddos-your-former-employer/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

New Zealand's GCSB spying bill becomes law

http://www.3news.co.nz/GCSB-Bill-becomes-law/tabid/1607/articleID/310009/Default.aspx

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

Graphene transistor clocked at 427 GHz [pdf]

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/25/1205696109.full.pdf

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

Groklaw news website abandoned over US surveillance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23768810

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

RethinkDB now available on AWS marketplace

http://rethinkdb.com/docs/aws/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Why the Only Real Way to Buy Bitcoins Is on the Streets

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/buttonwood

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010)

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i46/8846news3.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+EnvironmentalScienceTechnologyOnlineNews+ES%26T+Online+News

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 65 comments

Willow Garage shutting down

http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2013/08/21/willow-garage-employees-join-suitable-technologies

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

Let’s Start a Revolution

http://writing.jan.io/2013/08/16/lets-start-a-revolution.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/measuring_entro.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Hacker News has native mobile view

https://news.ycombinator.com/?native_mobile

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Announcing the Hacker School Maintainers Program

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/23-announcing-the-hacker-school-maintainers-program

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments
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