top 50% 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

Hacker News Onion

https://twitter.com/hackernewsonion/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Norman Borlaug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 85 comments

Why I Don't Write For Medium

https://medium.com/p/c7cc156bc5d9

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 61 comments

Yahoo says U.S. sought data on 40,332 user accounts in 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/yahoo-says-us-sought-data-on-40332-user-accounts-in-2013/2013/09/06/be304008-1718-11e3-804b-d3a1a3a18f2c_story.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Writing an Nginx authentication module in Lua and Go

http://www.stavros.io/posts/writing-an-nginx-authentication-module-in-lua/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Iterator patterns in Go

http://ewencp.org/blog/golang-iterators/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Solving Rubik's cube from scratch, in python

http://fulmicoton.com/posts/rubix/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 4 comments

Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

http://namebox.io/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 76 comments

Lego robot that strips DRM off Kindle books

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/07/lego-robot-that-strips-drm-off.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

An Apology From TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 168 comments

Thoughts on Intel's upcoming Software Guard Extensions (Part 1)

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/thoughts-on-intels-upcoming-software.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

On Lisp: Happy 20th Birthday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348557

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Darkness

http://stories.wegnerdesign.com/darkness/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

http://firstround.com/article/How-to-Go-From-Google-Engineer-to-First-Time-CTO#!

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Why I don't use a parser generator

http://mortoray.com/2012/07/20/why-i-dont-use-a-parser-generator/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348150

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 95 comments

The New Science of Mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/opinion/sunday/the-new-science-of-mind.html?smid=re-share&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

TutorSpree (YC W11) shuts down

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/tutorspree-shut-down/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 45 comments

Big Data and the Soviet Ghosts

http://mempko.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/big-data-and-the-soviet-ghosts/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments
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