307
159
We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries
http://figure53.com/notes/2013-08-30-we-just-set-our-salaries/
13 years ago
280
118
ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source
http://www.reactos.org/about-reactos
258
96
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
244
87
Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/aug/31/microsoft-google-sue-us-fisa
196
40
Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t
http://tomslee.net/2013/08/why-the-sharing-economy-isnt.html
190
54
Grace Hopper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
174
136
The Temple Operating System
http://www.templeos.org/
172
110
IsTumblrDown hit with a Cease & Desist
http://istumblrdown.com/
156
154
Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1
149
61
Retraction from Tumblr
http://istumblrdown.com/retraction
139
145
The STEM Crisis is a Myth
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth
137
8
A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (2009)
http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html
122
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/
117
17
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
107
69
Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324108204579023143974408428.html
106
Incredible pictures from the Redbull Photography Contest
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/winners-of-the-red-bull-illume-photo-contest-2013/100583/
101
6
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
99
36
The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/31/the-decline-and-fall-of-flowtab-a-startup-story/
98
16
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/
89
50
‘Fuck’ in Linux Kernel
http://pastie.org/8285826
88
Plotagon – Make a movie by just writing a story
https://plotagon.com/
22
The Lie Behind the Lie Detector [pdf]
https://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf
84
64
It's not the $7, but the principle
http://antti.vilpponen.net/2013/08/31/its-not-the-7-but-the-principle/
82
24
Show HN: 30-second Slideshows for Hackers
http://jdan.github.io/cleaver/
72
13
A litmus test for your idea
http://ninjasandrobots.com/litmus-test/
23
Set up your own truly secure, encrypted and shared file synchronization
https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_encrypted_shared_storage_aka_Dropbox_clone.html
68
10
Non-Von Neumann Supercomputer in an FPGA
http://www.chrisfenton.com/non-von-1/
67
The Bay Bridge is gradually disappearing from Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/myplaces?hl=en&ll=37.816599,-122.355552&spn=0.017663,0.036263&ctz=420&t=m&z=15
66
42
W3C Approves RDFa 1.1 for HTML5
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9919
11
VNC client in 200 lines of JavaScript
http://blog.mgechev.com/2013/08/30/vnc-javascript-nodejs/
63
35
Microsoft Retiring Master Certifications And Training
http://blogs.technet.com/b/neiljohn/archive/2013/08/31/retiring-the-microsoft-master-certifications-and-training.aspx
3
Glass.py: Create Python web applications for Google Glass
https://github.com/SamyPesse/glass.py
★ 279 Python Apache-2.0– 13 years ago
56
18
Asynchronous Error Handling
http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/31/asynchronous-error-handling/