top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-07

Speculation on "BULLRUN"

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12325.html

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 88 comments

London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

http://the-libertarian.co.uk/london-student-reported-to-police-enchanted-by-anarchism-and-individualism/

13 years ago

251 upvotes – 177 comments

Easy 6502

http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 28 comments

Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/snowden-disclosures-nsa-bombshell-decryption

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 121 comments

Infectious disease doesn't care why you're unvaccinated

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/i-refute-it-thus/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 227 comments

The feds pay for 60 percent of Tor’s development. Can users trust it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/06/the-feds-pays-for-60-percent-of-tors-development-can-users-trust-it/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 94 comments

John Gilmore: NSA obstructed development of IPSEC Crypto in Linux Kernel

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/07/195241/john-gilmore-analyzes-nsa-obstruction-of-crypto-in-ipsec

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: How to best acquire theoretical computer science knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6345368

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 116 comments

NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/tech-industry-tainted/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 107 comments

The psychiatric drug crisis

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/psychiatry-prozac-ssri-mental-health-theory-discredited.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 145 comments

1Password and the Crypto Wars

http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/09/06/1password-and-the-crypto-wars/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 106 comments

Stealing Traction: How Youtube, Paypal, AirBnB grew through piggybacking

https://medium.com/p/fbced00417e6

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 27 comments

Linux vs. Bullshit

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-vs-bullshit

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 80 comments

The Wikipedia layer has been removed from Google Maps

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/toaewYdz0kg

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 104 comments

The 10 commandments for happiness and success

http://www.chentir.com/?p=1871

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 118 comments

Know Your HTTP Well

https://github.com/andreineculau/know-your-http-well

13 years ago

★ 2.4k Emacs Lisp Unlicense
127 upvotes – 10 comments

What People Like About the Plan 9 OS

http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/what_do_people_like_about_plan_9/index.html

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

Most TOR servers are vulnerable (NSA crackable)

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/tor-is-still-dhe-1024-nsa-crackable.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Running a hackathon and someone's laptop got stolen, what should we do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6346032

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

Games That Teach Programming: A Brief Overview

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobLockhart/20130905/199667/Games_That_Teach_Programming_A_Brief_Overview.php

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

Spooks break most Internet crypto, but how?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/spooks-break-most-internet-crypto-but-how/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter vs sqlite)

http://vombat.tumblr.com/post/60530544401/date-parsing-performance-on-ios-nsdateformatter-vs

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

S3for.Me – cheap alternative S3 cloud storage

http://www.s3for.me/index.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 98 comments

Efficient String Concatenation in Python

http://www.skymind.com/~ocrow/python_string/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Gut Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-thin-humans-can-slim-mice-down.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 77 comments

The State of TLS on XMPP

https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/09/02/the-state-of-tls-on-xmpp-3/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

How I Travelled Across The World For Free Using Nothing But Google+

https://plus.google.com/100125012078853567494/posts/S3nJef9fBVB

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Compare headphones

http://headphones.techcrunch.com/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 42 comments

Is The Web Dying?

https://medium.com/p/b2977dbee814

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 67 comments
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