top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-09-05

N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html

13 years ago

923 upvotes – 388 comments

Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier

http://www.BeeLineReader.com

13 years ago

739 upvotes – 262 comments

How a Car Engine Works

http://jacoboneal.com/car-engine/

13 years ago

571 upvotes – 170 comments

PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds

http://www.mailpile.is/blog/2013-09-05_PayPal_Freezes_Campaign_Funds.html

13 years ago

528 upvotes – 351 comments

The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying

13 years ago

482 upvotes – 105 comments

Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned

http://davegooden.com/2013/08/our-story-10-years-of-bootstrapping/

13 years ago

339 upvotes – 70 comments

NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/hundreds-pages-nsa-spying-documents-be-released-result-eff-lawsuit

13 years ago

338 upvotes – 78 comments

A new breed of Chrome Apps

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-new-breed-of-chrome-apps.html

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 157 comments

How to remain secure against NSA surveillance

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 156 comments

Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/downs-syndrome-reversed-in-newborn-mice/4936412

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 114 comments

How Advanced Is the NSA's Cryptanalysis, and Can We Resist It?

https://www.schneier.com/essay-446.html

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 61 comments

US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 33 comments

Hacker News: Best

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 48 comments

Geeking Out on the Logo

http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/60336044815/geeking-out-on-the-logo

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 158 comments

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 32 comments

Deeply Moving: Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis

http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/index.html

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 45 comments

PayPal releases Mailpile’s $45,000 (updated)

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/paypal-freezes-45000-of-mailpiles-crowdfunded-dollars/?update

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 42 comments

The Steely, Headless King of Texas Hold ’Em

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/magazine/poker-computer.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 96 comments

Docker can now run within Docker

http://blog.docker.io/2013/09/docker-can-now-run-within-docker/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles

http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 69 comments
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