top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-29

The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html

13 years ago

549 upvotes – 37 comments

Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream”

http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59684564818/why-youve-never-read-i-have-a-dream

13 years ago

505 upvotes – 226 comments

iPhone, meet Haskell

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/haskell-cafe/agDRueqFUFk/7SKMNGnmKV0J

13 years ago

373 upvotes – 48 comments

A horrifying startup accelerator story

http://www.davidgcohen.com/2013/08/29/a-shocking-accelerator-story-that-youll-need-to-read-twice/

13 years ago

330 upvotes – 132 comments

I'm Building a GitHub for Writers

http://madebyloren.com/github-for-writers

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 143 comments

Does Steve Jobs know how to code?

http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 226 comments

Explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

http://explainshell.com/

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 82 comments

Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-27/why-walmart-will-never-pay-like-costco.html?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer8003f&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 235 comments

Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome

http://corner.squareup.com/2013/08/fly-vim-first-class.html

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 141 comments

Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo

https://people.gnome.org/~csaavedra/news-2013-08.html#D27

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 135 comments

The Raising of Chicago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 73 comments

New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/black-budget/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 116 comments

Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/tor-usage-doubles-in-under-a-week-and-no-one-knows-why/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 71 comments

Stanford Javascript Crypto Library

http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 86 comments

No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/29/politics/holder-marijuana-laws/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go

http://www.tamber.com/posts/ferret.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 41 comments

U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 49 comments

First look at Clojure.core.typed

http://logaan.github.io/clojure/core.typed/2013/08/29/first-look-at-core.typed.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 57 comments

Letter from Da Vinci to the Duke of Milan applying for a position

http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/59667145879/leonardo-da-vinci-needs-a-job

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Spy Kids

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/28/spy_kids_nsa_surveillance_next_generation?page=full

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 62 comments
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