top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-22

Don't Fly During Ramadan

http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan

13 years ago

2744 upvotes – 962 comments

Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561

13 years ago

374 upvotes – 255 comments

Nginx Plus

http://nginx.com/products/

13 years ago

340 upvotes – 141 comments

Linux may have been causing USB disconnects

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116960357493251979546/posts/RZpndv4BCCD

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 116 comments

The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/21/terrorism-act-david-miranda-detention

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 66 comments

Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors?

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/74412/why-does-nasa-use-gold-foil-on-equipment-and-gold-coated-visors

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 114 comments

Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy

http://wekeroad.com/2013/08/22/js-frameworks-are-amazing-and-no-one-is-happy

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 200 comments

Four fears for authoritarians

http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/four-fears-for-authoritarians/

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 126 comments

In California, a Champion for Police Cameras

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/in-california-a-champion-for-police-cameras.html

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 118 comments

Selling Software To Large Businesses

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterprise_sales

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 56 comments

Declassified Documents Prove NSA Is Tapping the Internet

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/nsa-tapping-internet/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 76 comments

Github now supports rendering tabular data

https://github.com/blog/1601-see-your-csvs

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 57 comments

The Man Who Invented Modern Probability

http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely/the-man-who-invented-modern-probability

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 71 comments

Coursera-dl – A script for downloading course material from coursera.org

https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl

13 years ago

★ 1.7k Python GPL-3.0
184 upvotes – 70 comments

Firebug 1.12 – New Features

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/08/firebug-1-12-new-features/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 36 comments

Light Table 0.5.0

http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/08/22/light-table-050/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 54 comments

Yahoo tops Google in US traffic

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57599600-93/wait-what-yahoo-tops-google-in-us-traffic/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 149 comments

D3 3.3 Released

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/releases/tag/v3.3.0

13 years ago

★ 112.8k Shell ISC
166 upvotes – 57 comments

Gaia: The 'impossible space mission' ready to fly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779294

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 21 comments

Hack your motivation

http://www.bemmu.com/hack-your-motivation

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 41 comments
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