top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-09-08

Left with Nothing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/

13 years ago

460 upvotes – 280 comments

Quark: A secure Web Browser with a Formally Verified Kernel

http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/

13 years ago

296 upvotes – 78 comments

Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-had-restrictions-on-nsa-reversed-in-2011/2013/09/07/c26ef658-0fe5-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html

13 years ago

292 upvotes – 73 comments

JPEG image glitching / corruption

http://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 69 comments

Theranos

http://www.theranos.com

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 113 comments

Why hardware development is hard: Verilog is weird

http://danluu.github.io/blog/2013/09/07/why-hardware-development-is-hard/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 51 comments

You are committing a crime right now (2012)

http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/11/you-are-committing-crime-right-now.html

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 65 comments

ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru

http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/33608/Working-with-Talent-markets-oDesk-Elance-Freelancer-Guru-vWorker.aspx

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 112 comments

Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

http://swombat.com/2010/11/30/no-new-ideas

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 102 comments

Message threading (1997-2002)

http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

They're Taking Over - jellyfish bloom and the future of the ocean.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/sep/26/jellyfish-theyre-taking-over/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 56 comments

Why cards are the future of the web

http://www.insideintercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 83 comments

U.S. government spied on Brazil's Petrobras oil firm

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/08/us-usa-security-snowden-petrobras-idUSBRE9870AD20130908

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 81 comments

Proposal to Change the Default TLS Ciphersuites Offered by Browsers

http://briansmith.org/browser-ciphersuites-01.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 78 comments

NSA Spying: Are Americans Now the Enemy?

http://anewdomain.net/2013/09/06/john-c-dvorak-nsa-spying-americans-now-enemy/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 20 comments

Code & Conquer: A War Game for Coders

http://codeandconquer.co/#start

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

Doing Good in the Addiction Economy

http://kajsotala.fi/2013/09/doing-good-in-the-addiction-economy/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 17 comments

Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers

http://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-guide-to-mathematics-for-programmers/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 102 comments

Technology is Heroin (2009)

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/02/technology-is-h.php

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Says-No-to-Ubuntu-s-New-Display-Server-381223.shtml

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 94 comments
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