top 50% 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

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

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

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

Australian opposition vows to implement Internet filter by default

http://www.zdnet.com/au/australian-opposition-vows-to-implement-internet-filter-by-default-7000020270/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 162 comments

The code culture problem

http://www.fraustollc.com/blog/shit_code/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 155 comments

Speed Up Git Pull

http://interrobeng.com/2013/08/25/speed-up-git-5x-to-50x/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 48 comments

Homegrown DevOps Tools at Stack Exchange

http://blog.serverfault.com/2013/09/05/homegrown-devops-tools-at-stack-exchange/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 66 comments

Schema for Clojure(Script) Data Shape Declaration and Validation

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2013/9/4/schema-for-clojurescript-data-shape-declaration-and-validation

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 56 comments

Effective Scala

http://twitter.github.io/effectivescala/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 71 comments

It ain't about the callbacks, it's about the flow control

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-09-05-it-aint-about-the-callbacks/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

Data Broker Lets You See Their Dossier About You Starting Today

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/09/04/800-pound-gorilla-among-data-brokers-lets-you-see-their-dossier-about-you-starting-today/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 75 comments

How to handle millions of new Tor clients

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients?

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

US stops jailed activist Barrett Brown from discussing hacking prosecution

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/barrett-brown-gag-order-us-government

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/a_really_good_a.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 73 comments

Open-Sourcing Stripe Shop

https://stripe.com/blog/open-sourcing-stripe-shop

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 25 comments

Australian political activist targeted by opposition party's lawyers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTYfzipCMAAKOu3.jpg:large

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 17 comments

We knew we wanted a logo that reflected Big Dogs - big, yet also dogs.

http://leyawn.tumblr.com/post/60381120615/geeking-out-on-the-logo

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables

http://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/09/probabalistic-scraping-of-plain-text-tables/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Radical Inclusion vs. Radical Self-Reliance at Burning Man

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/b6ab7a2a8321

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/05/elon-musk-cross-country-tesla-trip/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 78 comments

Linode Longview

https://blog.linode.com/2013/09/05/linode-longview/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Js Game Wiki

https://github.com/DaRaFF/jsgamewiki

13 years ago

★ 1.2k
80 upvotes – 14 comments

Large botnet cause of recent Tor network overload

http://blog.fox-it.com/2013/09/05/large-botnet-cause-of-recent-tor-network-overload/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

A Close Look at Dark Souls’ Ingenious Difficulty

http://savetherobot.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/the-great-big-puzzle-box-a-close-look-at-dark-souls-ingenious-difficulty-as-witnessed-by-one-dead-guy-in-sens-fortress/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

This Man Moved to a Desert Island to Disappear. Here's What Happened

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114549/dave-glasheen-lost-boy-restoration-island

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

Yahoo reveals its new logo

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/60332693287/introducing-our-new-logo

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

Heimcontrol.js - Home automation in Node.js with Raspberry PI and Arduino

http://ni-c.github.io/heimcontrol.js/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Braintree Is On The Block, Had Acquisition Talks With Square And PayPal

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/05/braintree-is-on-the-block-had-acquisition-talks-with-square-and-paypal/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 56 comments

Australian Coalition retracts Internet filters policy

http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-filter/coalition-retracts-internet-filters-policy/story-fn5j66db-1226712390937

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments
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