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

The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in

http://rigsomelight.com/2013/09/09/frameless-geodesic-dome.html

13 years ago

747 upvotes – 310 comments

Postgresql 9.3 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1481/

13 years ago

437 upvotes – 138 comments

Statement of Condemnation of U.S. Mass-Surveillance Programs [pdf]

http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/politics/surveillance.pdf

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 59 comments

Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs

http://petewarden.com/2013/09/09/why-you-should-stop-pirating-googles-geo-apis/

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 113 comments

Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

http://pcaro.es/p/hermit

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 189 comments

(λove (print (eval (read))))

http://readevalprintlove.fogus.me/#

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 78 comments

(Trying To) Face Down The Evil At TechCrunch Disrupt

http://uncrunched.com/2013/09/09/trying-to-face-down-the-evil-at-techcrunch-disrupt/

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 90 comments

Python API

http://www.pythonapi.com

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 49 comments

The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101012270

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 272 comments

An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia

http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 155 comments

Hacker News All-Time Top Links

http://lab.varun.io/hn_all_time_top_links/

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 54 comments

Dropbox disables ASLR on Windows

http://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/installing-dropbox-prepare-to-lose-aslr/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 81 comments

Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers

http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 23 comments

Groupon India sells Onion. Traffic crashes site.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/6/indian-onion-salesignalsworseningeconomy.html

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 73 comments

PhpMyAdmin Turns 15

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/15-years.php

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 111 comments

Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from the U.S. Government

http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/60753842342/yahoo-files-suit-demanding-greater-accountability-from

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

How we got to $1,000 in recurring revenue

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/59489601294/how-we-got-to-1-000-in-recurring-revenue

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 68 comments

Modifying a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem for high performance

http://www.usbjtag.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=8259

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 36 comments

Real Terminal, All Chrome

http://blog.koding.com/2013/09/real-terminal-all-chrome-no-nonsense/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Crime Doesn't Climb in San Francisco

https://github.com/gwintrob/crime-doesnt-climb/blob/master/README.md

13 years ago

★ 100 JavaScript
145 upvotes – 74 comments

New iPad browser from Opera

http://coastbyopera.com

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 91 comments

Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/11

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/excess_automobi.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 111 comments

Building a PGP web of trust that people will actually use

http://bitcoinism.blogspot.nl/2013/09/building-pgp-web-of-trust-that-people.html

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 34 comments

On Ansible

http://benscofield.com/on-ansible/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 54 comments

DockerUI - A web interface for Docker

https://github.com/crosbymichael/dockerui

13 years ago

★ 5k JavaScript
126 upvotes – 12 comments

The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About

http://simpleprogrammer.com/2013/09/09/dark-side-software-development-one-talks/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 117 comments

Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC Today

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/stevengu/archive/2013/09/09/download-windows-8-1-rtm-visual-studio-2013-rc-and-windows-server-2012-r2-rtm-today.aspx

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 66 comments

An open source prosthetic hand costing $1000

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130905-making-advanced-prosthetic-hands-for-under-using-3d-printing.html

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 14 comments

Designs that Bell Almost Used for the Layout of Telephone Buttons

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/the-17-designs-that-bell-almost-used-for-the-layout-of-telephone-buttons/279237/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

Sony Unveils ‘PlayStation Vita TV,’ a Tiny, Sub-$100 Game Console

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/09/playstation-vita-tv/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 83 comments

A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/a-journalist-agitator-facing-prison-over-a-link.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Node's Unicode Dragon

http://cirw.in/blog/node-unicode

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 63 comments

IL-2 Sturmovik and Oculus Rift

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/09/06/best-of-gamescom-il-2-sturmovik-and-oculus-rift/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 65 comments

The Science Of Snobbery

http://priceonomics.com/the-science-of-snobbery/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-dennis-ritchie-a/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Google is changing its logo

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/is-google-revamping-its-logo-hints-appear-in-new-chrome-beta-for-android/#p3

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 86 comments

I want the NBN

http://iwantthenbn.com/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 63 comments

Arduino based curtain automation

http://www.jwz.org/curtain/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

Stanford scientists use DNA to assemble a transistor from graphene

http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-scientists-use-dna-assemble-transistor-graphene

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

On Funemployment (and My Next Job)

http://erniemiller.org/2013/09/07/on-funemployment-and-my-next-job/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 68 comments

IPython in Excel

https://datanitro.com/blog/2013/9/9/ipython_excel/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Precog is being open-sourced

http://precog.com/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

US Budget Visualization Using d3

http://solomonkahn.com/us_budget/#

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

Compromised Keylogger-aaS exposes network of Nigerian 419 scammers

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/spy-service-exposes-nigerian-yahoo-boys/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Twitter Acquires MoPub

http://www.mopub.com/2013/09/09/mopub-twitter/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Paradoxical Gear Sets

http://jacquesmaurel.com/gears

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Connected But Isolated: The Real Problem with Working Remotely

http://blog.screenhero.com/post/60401526813/connected-but-isolated-the-real-problem-with-working?

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Peak Oil Perspective

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/peak-oil-perspective/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 87 comments

Git Tips for Beginners Interested in Open Source

http://markjberger.com/blog/git-tips-for-beginners-interested-in-open-source

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Visualizing transit delays in real time for SF MUNI

http://bdon.org/2013/08/28/visualizing-transit-delays/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

RaspyFi - Pi never sounded so good

http://www.raspyfi.com/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Kickstart the first tailor-fit, American-made henleys and hoodies

http://blog.pistollake.com/post/60775085351/kickstart-the-first-tailor-fit-american-made-henleys

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 40 comments

Low pay and the rise of the machines

http://timharford.com/2013/09/low-pay-and-the-rise-of-the-machines/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 106 comments

Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1904431672/trsst-a-distributed-secure-blog-platform-for-the-o

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 57 comments

Now is the time to do a startup

http://42floors.com/blog/if-youve-ever-wanted-to-do-a-startup-there-is-simply-no-better-time-than-right-now/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 65 comments
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