top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-02

Google is defragging Android

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-slow-oems-step-aside-google-is-defragging-android/

13 years ago

452 upvotes – 215 comments

English has been my pain for 15 years

http://antirez.com/news/61

13 years ago

433 upvotes – 300 comments

Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.’s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

335 upvotes – 105 comments

Progressive Enhancement Is Dead

http://tomdale.net/2013/09/progressive-enhancement-is-dead/

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 259 comments

Favicon Cheatsheet

https://github.com/audreyr/favicon-cheat-sheet

13 years ago

★ 9.8k MIT
301 upvotes – 54 comments

Developers are the autoworkers of our generation

http://blog.baugues.com/autoworkers

13 years ago

291 upvotes – 205 comments

Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

http://www.righto.com/2013/09/9-hacker-news-comments-im-tired-of.html

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 218 comments

Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice

http://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 52 comments

Frederik Pohl has died

http://www.frederikpohl.com/

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 52 comments

Nidium – A new browser engine

http://www.nidium.com/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 111 comments

My Summer at Mozilla

https://ryanseys.com/blog/summer-at-mozilla/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 54 comments

That Time I Made A Website

http://www.tiffany-young.com/website_progress.html

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 115 comments

Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21583593-using-social-network-seems-make-people-more-miserable-get-life

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 127 comments

How Google’s Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/doers/2013/01/jeff_dean_facts_how_a_google_programmer_became_the_chuck_norris_of_the_internet.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

ArkOS for the Raspberry Pi

https://arkos.io/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 46 comments

Delete any Photo from Facebook by Exploiting Support Dashboard

http://arulxtronix.blogspot.in/2013/09/delete-any-photo-from-facebook-by.html

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Inventing Favicon.ico

http://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 17 comments

'Game changer:' Tourniquet for abdominal wounds is already saving lives

http://www.stripes.com/news/game-changer-tourniquet-for-abdominal-wounds-is-already-saving-lives-1.235791

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

Sparkey – Key/value storage by Spotify

https://github.com/spotify/sparkey

13 years ago

★ 1.2k C Apache-2.0
109 upvotes – 55 comments

Things I did to improve my English and reduce my accent

https://service.goodcharacters.com/blog/blog.php?id=175

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 77 comments

Amish Hackers

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/amish_hackers_a.php

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 56 comments

Japan's maglev train runs test at over 310 mph (with video)

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-japan-maglev-mph-video.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 91 comments

API for creating random users in your application

http://randomuser.me/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 36 comments

Interactive map of all scientific papers from the arXiv

http://paperscape.org

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Nimrod: The Return of Pascal

http://steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/nimrod-return-of-pascal.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

NSA can't trust 'brilliant' people, will automate sysadmins

http://privacysos.org/node/1165

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments

Not the autoworkers of our generation

http://imsky.co/blog/not-autoworkers/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

The NSA's crypto "breakthrough"

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/09/breaking-cryptography

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 95 comments

Nphysics – 2 and 3-dimensional rigid body physics engine in pure Rust

https://github.com/sebcrozet/nphysics

13 years ago

★ 1.6k Rust Apache-2.0
78 upvotes – 21 comments

Non-English-based programming languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 75 comments

Updated RailsCasts Status

http://railscasts.com/announcements/12

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

Booting a Self-signed Linux Kernel

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/how-surveillance-changes-behavior-a-restaurant-workers-case-study/?src=me&_r=0

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 68 comments

Try Bitcoin

http://trybtc.com

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Curated Who's Hiring

http://curatedhnhiring.com/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

The Baby and the Baath Water

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/THE-BABY-AND-THE-BAATH-WATER

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 85 comments

MEGApwn - Bookmarklet to recover your secret MEGA master key

http://nzkoz.github.io/MegaPWN/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 42 comments

A beginner's guide to the conflict in (and country of) Syria

http://thehowardbealeshow.tumblr.com/post/59787605249/a-beginners-guide-to-the-conflict-in-and-country-of

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

High Performance Networking in Google Chrome

http://www.igvita.com/posa/high-performance-networking-in-google-chrome/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Man and Superman

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/09/09/130909crat_atlarge_gladwell

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 75 comments

You Don't Need A Co-Founder

http://publicbeta.co/you-dont-need-a-cofounder/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 40 comments

Report: NSA spied on Brazilian, Mexican presidents

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57600928/report-nsa-spied-on-brazilian-mexican-presidents/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments
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