top 50% 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

Cannot Measure Productivity

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 74 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

Use RF noise from VGA DAC to drive VHF TV

http://bellard.org/dvbt/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/28/why-arent-there-any-technologists-on-the-nsa-review-panel/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments

DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhabrahabr.ru%2Fpost%2F191654%2F

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 84 comments

Understanding the FFT Algorithm

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/08/28/understanding-the-fft/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 37 comments

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0

http://moz.com/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet-2013-edition

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 15 comments

Adwords’ Keyword Tool replacement story

http://growthhacker.am/post/59670896552/the-big-g-is-hiding-data-again-adwords-keyword-tool

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 34 comments

Creative Link Effects - Subtle and modern effects for links or menu items

http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeLinkEffects/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

Android’s Hugo Barra Departs Google for China’s Xiaomi

http://allthingsd.com/20130828/androids-hugo-barra-departs-google-for-chinas-xiaomi/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 90 comments

Nearly a fifth of scientists are considering abandoning the U.S.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/29/nearly_a_fifth_of_scientists_are_considering_abandoning_the_u_s/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 52 comments

How “cell tower dumps” caught the High Country Bandits, and why it matters

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/how-cell-tower-dumps-caught-the-high-country-bandits-and-why-it-matters/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 80 comments

Introduction to AWS OpsWorks

http://artsy.github.io/blog/2013/08/27/introduction-to-aws-opsworks/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Andy Hertzfeld on the Original 'Boot Beep'

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Boot_Beep.txt

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

Android's Hugo Barra leaves Google

https://plus.google.com/+HugoBarra/posts/BzZMqRht1xQ

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

The cardinal UX mistake we made, you might be making it too

http://www.cucumbertown.com/craft/the-carnal-ux-mistake-we-made-you-might-be-making-it-too/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 78 comments

Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground

http://www.space.com/22553-moon-water-mystery-source.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/08/29/bring-me-your-accents-immigration-fuels-innovation/?utm_source=t.co&utm_content=awesm-publisher&awesm=bothsid.es_cFK&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=bothsid.es-twitter

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

Why We’re Traveling

http://phileasandblogg.com/why-were-traveling/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

The consequences of living with a legacy PHP framework

http://blog.yannickmahe.com/symfony/2013/08/19/the-walking-dead.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth

http://scinotions.com/2013/08/harvesting-solar-power-in-space-and-sending-it-back-to-earth/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 80 comments

Open Source and the iOS App Store

http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/59687500040/open-source-and-the-ios-app-store

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

Roll your own Ruby Web Framework in Half an Hour

http://svs.io/post/59495114366/roll-your-own-web-framework-in-half-an-hour

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-data-reveals-mega-canyon-under-greenland-ice/#.Uh_YCWSe_Iw

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Building our first app in Go

http://renderedtext.com/blog/2013/08/28/building-our-first-app-in-go

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Reverse Engineering Marketing For Startups

http://www.startupmoon.com/reverse-engineering-marketing-where-do-other-sites-get-their-traffic/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments
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