top 50% 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

Censorship Doesn’t Just Stifle Speech – It Can Spread Disease

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/08/ap_mers/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 16 comments

Trading Halted in Nasdaq-Listed Securities Due to Technical Issue

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/08/22/nasdaq-halts-all-nasdaq-listed-securities-due-to-trading-issue/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 49 comments

German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA

http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 45 comments

Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/valencia-region-government-completes-switch-libreoffice

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 85 comments

US court rules masking IP address to access blocked Website violates law

http://www.zdnet.com/us-court-rules-masking-ip-address-to-access-blocked-website-violates-law-7000019701/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 116 comments

Apple Buys Another Map App, Embark

http://jessicalessin.com/2013/08/22/exclusive-apple-buys-another-map-app-embark/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 45 comments

The Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324139404579017113415486176.html?mod=hp_opinion

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 119 comments

What Manning Revealed

http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/06/as-debate-continues-what-manning.html

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Scientist Finds PageRank-Type Algorithm from the 1940s

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/417529/scientist-finds-pagerank-type-algorithm-from-the-1940s/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

An Open Letter to My Former NSA Colleagues

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/08/nsa_domestic_spying_mathematicians_should_speak_out.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/larry-summers-and-the-secret-end-game-memo

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

How privacy advocates shined light on the NSA’s unconstitutional surveillance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/22/heres-how-privacy-advocates-shined-light-on-the-nsas-unconstitutional-surveillance/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 8 comments

My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennifergranick/2013/08/22/my-dinner-with-general-alexander

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages

https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

http://tengine.taobao.org

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/22/usa-apple-cook-idUSL1N0G91GF20130822

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 76 comments

I am writing an Elon Musk biography

http://leanpub.com/theengineer

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

San Francisco Real Estate Exuberance

http://priceonomics.com/san-francisco-real-estate-exuberance/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 152 comments

Tesla Gets Carried Away Hyping Crash Test Results, Has Hand Slapped By Feds

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2013/08/22/tesla-gets-a-little-carried-away-has-hand-slapped-by-feds/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 70 comments

EdgeBSD

http://www.edgebsd.org

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments
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