top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-25

Calibre version 1.0 released

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

13 years ago

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

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

Nimrod: C + Macros + GC

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

13 years ago

Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying

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

13 years ago

JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator

http://parall.ax/products/jspdf

13 years ago

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

On the Cleverness of Compilers

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

13 years ago

GitLab 6.0 Released

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

13 years ago

List of freely available programming books

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

13 years ago

Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity

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

13 years ago

This site is down because the owner stiffed the web designer

http://www.nycfreshmarket.com/

13 years ago

How Not to Sell Bitcoin on eBay for 300% Profit

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

13 years ago

On Lisp

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

13 years ago

Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework

http://adminjs.com

13 years ago

Algorithms, Part I: Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick

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

13 years ago

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

http://www.rhoscript.com

13 years ago

Install Ubuntu On Your Chromebook

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

13 years ago

If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple

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

13 years ago

Myth: Select * is Bad

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

13 years ago

Use Node.js to Extract Data from the Web

http://www.storminthecastle.com/2013/08/25/use-node-js-to-extract-data-from-the-web-for-fun-and-profit/

13 years ago

U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters: Germany's Spiegel

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/us-usa-security-nsa-idUSBRE97O08120130825

13 years ago

Use two-factor authentication for Persona with your own domain

http://www.stavros.io/posts/use-two-factor-authentication-mozilla-persona-your/

13 years ago

The Maginot Line

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/the-maginot-line/

13 years ago

NSA spied on UN, breaking active agreements

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-hoerte-zentrale-der-vereinte-nationen-in-new-york-ab-a-918421.html

13 years ago

Help, I'm Too Smart For My Job

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130825030728-52594-help-i-m-too-smart-for-my-job

13 years ago

Google updates Play policies to require games to use its in-app billing service

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/08/23/google-updates-play-policies-to-ban-apps-and-ads-modifying-devices-require-games-use-its-in-app-billing-service/?fromcat=all

13 years ago

SteveB’s Retirement Announcement

http://hal2020.com/2013/08/25/stevebs-retirement-announcement/

13 years ago

Readers offer tales of Silicon Valley's ageism

http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Readers-offer-tales-of-Silicon-Valley-s-ageism-4758726.php

13 years ago

Windows 8.1 quietly gets released to manufacturers

http://guru8.net/2013/08/windows-8-1-quietly-gets-released-to-manufacturers/

13 years ago

My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a privileged app

https://jeena.net/firefox-os-app-rejected

13 years ago