top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-11

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents

13 years ago

673 upvotes – 172 comments

Fucking Sue Me (2011)

http://pud.com/post/10103947044/fucking-sue-me/

13 years ago

663 upvotes – 194 comments

Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition

https://eloquentjavascript.net/2nd_edition/

13 years ago

371 upvotes – 103 comments

Why you should not trust emails sent from Google

http://vagosec.org/2013/09/google-scholar-email-html-injection/

13 years ago

353 upvotes – 94 comments

Steam Family Sharing

http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 117 comments

Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya

http://www.itv.com/news/2013-09-10/kenya-water-aquifer-found-in-lotikipi/

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 108 comments

Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encryption Standards

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 129 comments

Dungeons and Developers

http://www.dungeonsanddevelopers.com

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 65 comments

Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

https://www.humblebundle.com/#9

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 113 comments

Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer

http://blog.close.io/post/60948403716/why-engineers-scare-me-a-true-story

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 211 comments

Act As If

https://medium.com/design-startups/3600f4672b3e

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 69 comments

MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)

http://cirw.in//blog/time-to-move-on.html

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 168 comments

Barrett Brown Can't Talk About Why the Government Wants to Jail Him

http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/10/barrett-brown-cant-talk-about-why-the-govern/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=barrett-brown-cant-talk-about-why-the-govern

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 44 comments

An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001)

http://ycombinator.com/tredennick.html

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 54 comments

The ﹤main﹥ element

http://html5doctor.com/the-main-element/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 91 comments

Clojure for the Brave and True – Functional Programming

http://www.braveclojure.com/functional-programming/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 188 comments

FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ1ODc

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 124 comments

My Quest for a New Browser

http://spolu.github.io/exo_browser/2013/09/11/my-quest-for-a-new-browser.html

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 88 comments

CoreOS: Boot on Bare Metal with PXE

http://coreos.com/blog/boot-on-bare-metal-with-pxe/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 55 comments

Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/vinod-khosla/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 82 comments

NIST reopens draft recommendation on random number generation for comment [pdf]

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/itlbul2013_09_supplemental.pdf

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 46 comments

ZooKeeper vs. Doozer vs. Etcd

http://devo.ps/blog/2013/09/11/zookeeper-vs-doozer-vs-etcd.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 90 comments

Responsive Design is Not About Screen Sizes Any More

http://speckyboy.com/2013/09/11/responsive-design-is-not-about-screen-sizes-any-more/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+speckboy-design-magazine+%28Speckyboy+Design+Magazine%29

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 60 comments

I'm 2 years into development of my sandbox game, Moonman

http://bp.io/post/1501

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 71 comments

HTML Live Video Streaming Via WebSockets

http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/09/html5-live-video-streaming-via-websockets

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

Getting a Job in a Top Tier Quant Hedge Fund

http://quantstart.com/articles/Getting-a-Job-in-a-Top-Tier-Quant-Hedge-Fund

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 72 comments

RethinkDB 1.9: Indexing and query runtime performance

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.9-release/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 45 comments

Microsoft's Concept Videos From 2000: Why Didn't Ballmer Build Any of It?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-11/microsoft-s-concept-videos-from-2000-were-spot-on-so-why-didn-t-ballmer-build-any-of-it-.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 101 comments

How to Publish Open-Source Code

http://williamcotton.com/how-to-publish-open-source-code

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 38 comments

Companies lay off thousands, then demand immigration reform for new labor

http://washingtonexaminer.com/companies-lay-off-thousands-then-demand-immigration-reform-for-new-labor/article/2535595

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 117 comments

IPhone 5C: C is for Cognitive Illusion

http://www.asymco.com/2013/09/11/c-is-for-cognitive-illusion/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 104 comments

Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend

http://bl.ocks.org/erwaller/6511564

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 76 comments

Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/can-emotional-intelligence-be-taught.html?hp&pagewanted=all&_r=0

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

Intel-based Chromebooks

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-fresh-mix-of-intel-based-chromebooks.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 52 comments

LuaJIT 2.1 Profiler released

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luajit/3413

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Linux Performance Measurements using vmstat

http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Linux_Performance_Measurements_using_vmstat

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

A Personal Lisp Crisis (2012)

http://blog.jacius.info/2012/05/29/a-personal-lisp-crisis/?

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 80 comments

How the Internet affected kiteboarding

http://blog.rb.cm/how-the-internet-affected-kiteboarding

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

SoundCloud and Uploads

http://blog.turntable.fm/post/60847013839/soundcloud-and-uploads

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and Vimeo with your phone

http://sw1tch.com/post/60929341147/mote-io-is-now-available-for-iphone-and-android

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Startup Pitch Competitions have tricked Founders into sharing all their secrets.

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/09/11/startup-pitch-competitions-founders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=startup-pitch-competitions-founders

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction

http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/iphone_5c_5c_event

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 53 comments
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