top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-30

Founders' Accents

http://paulgraham.com/accents.html

13 years ago

508 upvotes – 348 comments

Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content without login

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300856

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 128 comments

In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (2004)

http://lwn.net/Articles/104185/

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 115 comments

Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35

http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html

13 years ago

303 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300923

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 210 comments

No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/08/no-fly_list_ruling_in_portland.html#incart_special-report

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 76 comments

Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

http://darkpatterns.org/

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 94 comments

How Poverty Taxes the Brain

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/how-poverty-taxes-brain/6716/

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 171 comments

Basics of Neural Networks with example codes and illustrations

http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-10-neural-networks/

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 29 comments

More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/more_on_the_nsa.html

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 64 comments

Ignored by big companies, Mexican village creates its own mobile service

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-27/rest-of-world/41496213_1_village-america-movil-afp

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 32 comments

Magic: The Gathering API

http://mtgapi.com/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 120 comments

Learning how to think

http://dcurt.is/startups-ruin-you

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 124 comments

It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/nokias-nicest-dumbphon/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 189 comments

Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/go-ahead-mess-with-texas-instruments/278899/

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 122 comments

Mac OS X Sudo Password Bypass

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/122965

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 51 comments

CIA is largest US spy agency, according to black budget leaked by Edward Snowden

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-is-largest-us-spy-agency-according-to-black-budget-leaked-by-edward-snowden/2013/08/29/d8d6d5de-10ec-11e3-bdf6-e4fc677d94a1_story.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 74 comments

Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

http://www.sayafter.me/hacker-news

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 101 comments

The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/196009/the_scumm_diary_stories_behind_.php?page=1

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

https://gingkoapp.com/p/future-of-text

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 132 comments

Visualizations that make no sense

http://wtfviz.net/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

http://musicfellas.com/hot

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 82 comments

Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/08/stop-clumping-tech-companies-in-with-government-in-the-surveillance-scandals-they-may-be-at-war/#!

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 86 comments

Pisces III: A dramatic underwater rescue

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23862359

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

A flexible E Ink screen that could be in the 2014 Kindle

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-57592886-82/heres-the-flexible-e-ink-screen-that-could-be-in-the-2014-kindle/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 81 comments

Attack-driven defense

http://www.slideshare.net/zanelackey/attackdriven-defense

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Syria’s largest city just dropped off the Internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/30/syrias-largest-city-just-dropped-off-the-internet/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 93 comments

NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/sysadmin-security-fail-nsa-finds-snowden-hijacked-officials-logins/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

Why I'm not going to sign an NDA

https://medium.com/startups-and-things/4193aeda7251

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

Dissent: accountable anonymous group communication

http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/anon/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

A guide to analyzing Python performance

http://www.huyng.com/posts/python-performance-analysis/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Privacy is not dead

https://medium.com/surveillance-state/ca083a5b6b7d

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 66 comments

SF Muni LED Sign at Home with Raspberry Pi

http://coldattic.info/shvedsky/pro/blogs/a-foo-walks-into-a-bar/posts/98

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

New Google Play policy requires opt-in dialog to show ads

http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/policies/ads.html#disclosure

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Dean Karnazes: the man who can run for ever

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/aug/30/dean-karnazes-man-run-forever

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130828-science-chemistry-115-element-ununpentium-periodic-table/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Jeff Atwood's Code Keyboard Review

http://xahlee.info/kbd/jeff_code_keyboard.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 107 comments

Great Technical Talks

http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2013-08-29-great-technical-talks.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

The Haxl Project at Facebook [pdf]

https://github.com/meiersi/HaskellerZ/blob/master/meetups/20130829-FPAfternoon_The_Haxl_Project_at_Facebook/The%20Haxl%20Project%20at%20Facebook.pdf?raw=true

13 years ago

★ 216 HTML
71 upvotes – 27 comments

Tales of an Ex–Microsoft Manager

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/08/microsoft_ceo_steve_ballmer_retires_a_firsthand_account_of_the_company_s.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments

AngularFire - A real-time backend for AngularJS from Firebase

http://angularfire.com/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

How Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/08/how-two-newspaper-reporters-helped-free-an-innocent-man/279166/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

Grabbing random DHL package signatures

http://blog.mclemon.cz/grabbing-dhl-signatures

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 51 comments

How the Dropbox Datastore API Handles Conflicts – Part Two

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/56/how-the-dropbox-datastore-api-handles-conflicts-part-two-resolving-collisions

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf]

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~tygar/161/161.2013.08.29.syllabus.pdf

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 121 comments

James Burke predicted the future in 1973. Now he does it again

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1574606-james-burke-predicted-the-future-in-1973-now-he-does-it-again

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 54 comments
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