top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-25

Calibre version 1.0 released

http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/ten

13 years ago

313 upvotes – 121 comments

I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/im-thinking-please-be-quiet.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130825&

13 years ago

296 upvotes – 243 comments

NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/25/nsa-hacked-into-un-communications-leaked-documents-show/

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 108 comments

Nimrod: C + Macros + GC

http://nimrod-code.org/index.html

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 111 comments

Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 27 comments

JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator

http://parall.ax/products/jspdf

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 67 comments

How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-secret-costs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 183 comments

On the Cleverness of Compilers

http://alexey.radul.name/ideas/2013/cleverness-of-compilers/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 54 comments

GitLab 6.0 Released

http://blog.gitlab.org/gitlab-6-dot-0-released

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 88 comments

List of freely available programming books

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books/392926#392926

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 31 comments

Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity

http://garthontech.blogspot.ca/2013/08/reddit-has-killer-social-network.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 145 comments

This site is down because the owner stiffed the web designer

http://www.nycfreshmarket.com/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 148 comments

How Not to Sell Bitcoin on eBay for 300% Profit

http://whatilearnedtoday.jameslarisch.com/?action=view&url=bitcoin-ebay-profit

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 100 comments

On Lisp

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework

http://adminjs.com

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

Algorithms, Part I: Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick

https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: I designed a language for code golf, compiling to Common Lisp

http://www.rhoscript.com

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Install Ubuntu On Your Chromebook

http://greenido.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/chromebook-for-developers-and-hackers/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

Myth: Select * is Bad

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2013-08/its-not-about-the-star-stupid/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple

http://stratechery.com/2013/if-steve-ballmer-ran-apple/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 84 comments
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