top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-26

Defeated

http://orenhazi.com/defeated.html

13 years ago

759 upvotes – 438 comments

What would you like to see most in minix? (1991)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA/SwRavCzVE7gJ

13 years ago

398 upvotes – 186 comments

901614 – Adopt Tor as a feature in Firefox

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901614

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 120 comments

Mesh Networks

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/mesh-internet-privacy-nsa-isp

13 years ago

312 upvotes – 99 comments

Map of America's Racial Segregation

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-this-eye-opening-map-shows-you

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 182 comments

Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great thing

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57600048-71/matt-damon-edward-snowden-did-a-great-thing/

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 95 comments

Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-graham-became-successful.html

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 172 comments

SQLite 3.8.0 Release with next-generation query planner

https://www.sqlite.org/news.html?year=2013

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 91 comments

The one HR benefit every startup should add

http://42floors.com/blog/the-one-hr-benefit-every-startup-should-add/

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 184 comments

Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/26/reddit-lessons-learned-from-mistakes-made-scaling-to-1-billi.html

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 89 comments

The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance

http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/26/nsa-gchq-psychology-government-mass-surveillance

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 78 comments

The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy (2012)

http://io9.com/the-greatest-mystery-of-the-inca-empire-was-its-strange-1198541254

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 147 comments

Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python

https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/blob/master/

13 years ago

★ 2.9k Python MIT
218 upvotes – 35 comments

John Carmack: Thoughts on Haskell [video]

http://functionaltalks.org/2013/08/26/john-carmack-thoughts-on-haskell/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 149 comments

Chromecast update breaks AllCast

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13be5ajwpmvux5a304ccxsypuevhtcwgao

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 121 comments

Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86?

http://repzret.org/p/repzret/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 34 comments

1pxdeep v1.0 released: Now a Bootstrap 3 theme

http://rriepe.github.io/1pxdeep/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

Tutor reveals the Ivy-admissions madness of rich penthouse parents

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/how_got_nyc_rich_kids_in_college_KQQVjQ2t4AFmy3UaFkvTDK

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 91 comments

Confessions of a failed indie developer

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/07/30/confessions-of-a-failed-indie-developer/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 79 comments

CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/25/secret_cia_files_prove_america_helped_saddam_as_he_gassed_iran?page=0,0

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 90 comments

Recycling memory buffers in Go

http://blog.cloudflare.com/recycling-memory-buffers-in-go

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 42 comments

Hong Kong’s Massive High-Rise Neighborhoods

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/unbelievable-photographs-of-hong-kongs-crazy-high-rises/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 76 comments

A Startup Reading List

http://simplifilm.com/startup-reading-list/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 48 comments

The realtime magic behind Moot and how we deliver all your instant notifications

https://moot.it/blog/technology/real-timey-wimey-stuff.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 44 comments

Google.ps domain was hacked

http://google.ps/

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 86 comments

Tesla outsells Porsche, Jaguar, others in California

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/08/26/tesla-models-s-porsche-jaguar-california/2700289/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 81 comments

Detained in the US for “Visiting Thailand Too Much”

http://www.richardbarrow.com/2013/08/detained-in-the-us-for-visiting-thailand-too-much/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 118 comments

How Stripe does engineering interviews

http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-interview-process-like-at-Stripe?share=1

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 48 comments

'StarCraft' Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/25/starcraft-gameplay-boosts-mental-flexibility-says-study/?mod=WSJBlog

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 86 comments

Numbeo - comparison of cost of living around the world

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

Want to Win a Political Debate? Try Making a Weaker Argument

http://www.psmag.com/politics/why-even-your-best-arguments-never-work-64910/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook friends could change your credit score

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-credit-score/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 129 comments

Noodlejs - Node.js web scraper

http://noodlejs.com/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Reuters swaps story about NSA hacking the UN for NSA fluff piece.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276793

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution

https://www.acquia.com/blog/look-phps-continuing-evolution

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project

http://www.popped.at/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 46 comments

Rejit - prototype of a non-backtracking, just-in-time, SIMD-able regexp compiler

http://coreperf.com/projects/rejit/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Spain begins disciplinary proceedings against site for violating Cookie Law

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pabloburgueno.com%2F2013%2F08%2Fsancion-por-incumplir-la-ley-de-cookies%2F&act=url

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 79 comments

The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities

http://nymag.com/news/features/nypd-demographics-unit-2013-9/#print

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

The Hackathon Experience Is a Hack

http://www.tomordonez.com/blog/2013/08/25/the-hackathon-experience-is-a-hack/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

Wikileaks reveals Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian emailed with Stratfor

http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=282044

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/firefox-os-gives-the-open-web-gets-central-billing/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

OSTree – Robust OS upgrades for Linux

http://blog.verbum.org/2013/08/26/ostree-v2013-6-released/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

The Free Network Foundation

http://thefnf.org/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/08/24/web-ad-killer-adblock-launches-crowdfunding-initiative-to-finance-an-internet-ad-campaign/?

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 82 comments

Don't use bcrypt (2012)

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 42 comments

Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed

http://allthingsd.com/20130825/ballmer-departure-from-microsoft-was-more-sudden-than-portrayed-by-the-company/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 55 comments
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