top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-31

We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries

http://figure53.com/notes/2013-08-30-we-just-set-our-salaries/

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 159 comments

ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source

http://www.reactos.org/about-reactos

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 118 comments

Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?"

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6560049/3eb18e64/even_bellen_met_de_nsa.html

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 96 comments

Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/aug/31/microsoft-google-sue-us-fisa

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 87 comments

Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t

http://tomslee.net/2013/08/why-the-sharing-economy-isnt.html

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 40 comments

Grace Hopper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 54 comments

The Temple Operating System

http://www.templeos.org/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 136 comments

IsTumblrDown hit with a Cease & Desist

http://istumblrdown.com/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 110 comments

Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 154 comments

Retraction from Tumblr

http://istumblrdown.com/retraction

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

The STEM Crisis is a Myth

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 145 comments

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (2009)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 8 comments

The parody shirt the NSA doesn’t want you to wear

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/30/the_parody_shirt_the_nsa_doesnt_want_you_to_wear_partner/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

New Zealand just abolished software patents. Here’s why we should, too

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/29/new-zealand-just-abolished-software-patents-heres-why-we-should-too/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 17 comments

Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324108204579023143974408428.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

Incredible pictures from the Redbull Photography Contest

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/winners-of-the-red-bull-illume-photo-contest-2013/100583/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Transparent gel-based audio speaker

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/08/transparent-artificial-muscle-plays-grieg-to-prove-point/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=harvard-youtube

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 6 comments

The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/31/the-decline-and-fall-of-flowtab-a-startup-story/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Judge Says Search Warrants for E-mails Must Be ‘Limited’

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/judge-says-search-warrants-for-e-mails-must-be-limited/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

‘Fuck’ in Linux Kernel

http://pastie.org/8285826

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments
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