top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-21

Spy Files 3

http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles3p.html

13 years ago

419 upvotes – 24 comments

CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret

https://medium.com/p/97bcce70356d

13 years ago

356 upvotes – 209 comments

Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer

http://www.3ders.org//articles/20130921-the-peachy-printer-the-world-first-100-dollar-3d-printer-scanner.html

13 years ago

351 upvotes – 112 comments

Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices

http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/19/apples-iphone-5-touchscreen-is-2-5-times-faster-than-android-devices/

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 212 comments

The Real Reason The Poor Go Without Bank Accounts

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/09/why-poor-choose-go-without-bank-accounts/6783/

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 224 comments

Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years

http://kottke.org/13/09/temperature-chart-for-the-last-11000-years

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 173 comments

Why I'm Planning to Kill W3Schools

http://www.htmlandcsstutorial.com/blog/why-im-killing-w3schools-and-you-can-too

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 156 comments

The Ph.D.-Industry Gap

https://chronicle.com/blogs/phd/2013/09/19/the-ph-d-industry-gap/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 222 comments

The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/153774-the-honey-launderers-uncovering-the-largest-food-fraud-in-u-dot-s-dot-history?src=longreads

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 92 comments

Amazon’s Music Download Site is Cheaper Than iTunes 78% of the Time

http://dealnews.com/features/Anyone-Who-Buys-Music-Online-from-the-iTunes-Music-Store-Is-an-Idiot/801384.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 100 comments

Dung Beetles Navigate Via the Milky Way, First Known in Animal Kingdom

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-navigate-via-the-milky-way-an-animal-kingdom-first/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

Dinosaur Feathers Found in Ancient Amber

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2013/09/20/dinosaur-feathers-found-in-ancient-amber/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check (2012)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/08/01/professor-billionaire-david-cheriton/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 30 comments

AppleTV 6.0 requires Fairplay-DRM Airplay Sources

http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2013/09/20/warning-on-apple-tv-version-6-0/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 75 comments

How to start up a Boeing 737 [video]

http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/09/21/how-to-start-up-a-boeing-737/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

How Weev's prosecutors are making up the rules

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/how-weevs-prosecutors-are-making-up.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 93 comments

What killed Blackberry? Employees started buying their own devices

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/20/what-killed-blackberry-employees-started-buying-their-own-devices/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 82 comments

Ingenious Designs That Will Fool Your Eyes

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/these-smart-designs-will-play-tricks-on-your-eyes/?viewall=true

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Mozilla Launches Preview Of Firefox For Windows 8 Tablets

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/20/mozilla-launches-preview-of-firefox-for-windows-8-tablets/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 9 comments

China's Empty Cities

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/601729/n/China-s-Empty-Cities

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

NASA Declares End to Deep Impact Comet Mission

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130920-deep-impact-ends-comet-mission-nasa-jpl/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Louis C.K.: I won't let my kids have cell phones

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57603820-71/louis-c.k.-why-i-wont-let-my-kids-have-cell-phones/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 70 comments

The United Nations Meets 13 Principles Against Unchecked Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/united-nations-meets-thirteen-principles-against-unchecked-surveillance

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Things Linus Torvalds said at LinuxCon 2013

http://www.extremeta.com/linus-torvalds-said-linuxcon-kernel-developer-panel

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

A Brief History of Lisp Machines

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/20/another-ios-7-bug-lets-locked-iphones-make-calls-and-this-time-theres-no-easy-fix/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple Notification Center Service (ANCS)

http://waffle.wootest.net/2013/09/18/ancs/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Big buttons are great, but they'd better make sense

http://www.davidverhasselt.com/2013/09/21/big-buttons-are-great-but-they-better-make-sense/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Vim: from n00b to meh

http://dtsironis.net/posts/how-to-vim/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 99 comments

Missing drawing API: Canvas vs SVG paradox

http://bajcic.com/blog/82/missing-drawing-api

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 41 comments

A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

http://lsvp.com/2013/09/21/a-vcs-take-on-the-season-5-premier-of-sharktank/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 35 comments

The Importance of Whimsy in Learning to Program

http://www.natescottwest.com/blog/2013/09/21/the-importance-of-whimsy-in-learning-to-program/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 47 comments

How D.C. could look if the height restriction changes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/lifestyle/magazine/dc-heights-study/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 61 comments

Extracting Tables from PDFs in Javascript with PDF.js

http://www.garysieling.com/blog/extracting-tables-from-pdfs-in-javascript-with-pdf-js

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Deep Learning: Facebook Wants To Know Even More About Its Users

http://allfacebook.com/deep-learning_b125358

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Nepal's ccTLD registrar won't let devs update nameservers. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6422535

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 33 comments
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