top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-13

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html

13 years ago

776 upvotes – 112 comments

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/

13 years ago

671 upvotes – 262 comments

New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

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

13 years ago

656 upvotes – 139 comments

Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world

http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world

13 years ago

503 upvotes – 299 comments

USB Condoms

http://usbcondoms.com/

13 years ago

376 upvotes – 140 comments

How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16047306/how-is-docker-io-different-from-a-normal-virtual-machine

13 years ago

308 upvotes – 106 comments

NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/government-standards-agency-strongly-suggests-dropping-its-own-encryption-standard/

13 years ago

291 upvotes – 56 comments

No more CSS and HTML, just JS

http://ojjs.org/

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 184 comments

E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/12/e-zpasses-get-read-all-over-new-york-not-just-at-toll-booths/

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 164 comments

Happy Programmers' Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_day

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 65 comments

Drug addiction: The complex truth

http://mindhacks.com/2013/09/13/drug-addiction-the-complex-truth/

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 134 comments

Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI

http://semantic-ui.com/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 81 comments

Being poor changes your thinking about everything

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 189 comments

Click here, save a life, for real

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/13/click_here_save_a_life_for_real/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 116 comments

JSFuck – Write any JavaScript with 6 Characters: []()!+

http://www.jsfuck.com/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 71 comments

Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/pacific-ocean-perilous-turn-overview/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 171 comments

Json.human.js: Json Formatting for Human Beings

http://marianoguerra.github.io/json.human.js/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 69 comments

Building Clojure Services at Scale

http://blog.josephwilk.net/clojure/building-clojure-services-at-scale.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 21 comments

List of Wall Street CEOs prosecuted for the financial crisis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/12/this-is-a-complete-list-of-wall-street-ceos-prosecuted-for-their-role-in-the-financial-crisis/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 137 comments

Duck Duck Go is blowing up again

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html?1

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 60 comments

We scanned the Internet for port 22

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/we-scanned-internet-for-port-22.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SecurityBloggersNetwork+(Security+Bloggers+Network)#.UjOPqsYj_fI

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 78 comments

Trig Functions Your Math Teachers Never Taught You

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2013/09/12/10-trig-functions-youve-never-heard-of/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20130913

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days

http://chuff.it/articles/no-bread-beer-or-biscuits-how-i-lost-63lbs-in-100-days

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 116 comments

Your name is way too long for your ID

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/12/janice-lokelani-keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 163 comments

The Trie: A Neglected Data Structure

http://www.toptal.com/java/the-trie-a-neglected-data-structure

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 82 comments

GitHub Zen API

https://api.github.com/zen

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

Google Founders' Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323864604579069730686941454.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

DC cancels tax lien sales

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/2013/09/13/a0933688-1cc0-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html?wpisrc=al_locmisc

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 32 comments

Fog Creek’s Remote Work Policy

http://blog.fogcreek.com/fog-creeks-remote-work-policy/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 124 comments

Why secure systems require random numbers

http://blog.cloudflare.com/why-randomness-matters

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldman Sachs

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114577/commodities-trading-hedge-funds-spook-wall-st-banks

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

US-East AWS Connectivity Issues

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 49 comments

Programming Without Variables

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/programming-without-variables/240161204

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Raspberry Pi as an Ad Blocking Access Point

http://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-as-an-ad-blocking-access-point/overview

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

HHVM is fast – too bad it doesn’t run my code

http://www.hhvm.com/blog/?p=875

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 59 comments
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