top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-22

Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID

http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

13 years ago

Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer

http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/index.php

13 years ago

BackgroundCheck

http://www.kennethcachia.com/background-check/

13 years ago

LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked their e-mail accounts

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/linkedin-sued-by-users-who-say-it-hacked-their-e-mail-accounts/

13 years ago

The Free Software Foundation is even more relevant now than before

http://www.markwatson.com/blog/2013-08/fsf-more-relevant-than-ever.html

13 years ago

The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/the-life-and-death-of-buran-the-ussr-shuttle-built-on-faulty-assumptions/

13 years ago

Was This Whistle-Blower Muzzled?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/was-this-whistle-blower-muzzled.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

WikiLeaks Leaks 'Fifth Estate' Screenplay

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/09/22/us/ap-us-film-wikileaks-drama.html?ref=us&_r=0

13 years ago

If PyPy is 6.3 times faster than CPython, why not just use it?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18946662/if-pypy-is-6-3-times-faster-than-cpython-why-not-just-use-faster-interpreter

13 years ago

The average faces of women in different countries

http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/09/22/the-average-women-faces-in-different-countries/

13 years ago

Show HN: Send Secret Messages over Twitter as Public Tweets

https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/tweet-secret

13 years ago

★ 184 Clojure MIT

How to tell your mother and bosses why they should protest surveillance

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/20/how_to_tell_your_mother_and_bosses_why_they_should_protest_surveillance.html

13 years ago

Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/21/222082247/trader-joes-ex-president-to-turn-expired-food-into-cheap-meals

13 years ago

Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/close-the-nsas-back-doors.html?_r=0

13 years ago

Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

http://html5.grooveshark.com

13 years ago

Musings about Debian and Python

http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/

13 years ago

4.2.2.2: The Story Behind a DNS Legend

http://www.tummy.com/articles/famous-dns-server/

13 years ago

Microduino: Arduino in your pocket, small, stackable, smart

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/microduino/microduino-arduino-in-your-pocket-small-stackable

13 years ago

Flat Docker Images

http://3ofcoins.net/2013/09/22/flat-docker-images/

13 years ago

Datomic: Can Simple be also Fast?

http://www.dotkam.com/2013/05/31/datomic-can-simple-be-also-fast/

13 years ago

AngelList raises $24 million at a heavenly valuation

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/22/angellist-raises-24/

13 years ago

The American Dream, RIP?

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21586581-economist-asks-provocative-questions-about-future-social-mobility-american

13 years ago

LLVM Python

http://www.llvmpy.org/

13 years ago

We Built It, And They Didn't Come

http://www.slideshare.net/lfittl/we-built-itandtheydidntcome

13 years ago

Avatars.io

http://avatars.io/

13 years ago

What Clayton Christensen got wrong

http://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/

13 years ago

Show HN: Solid, a scripting language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/chameco/Solid

13 years ago

★ 271 C MIT

How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE

13 years ago

The Rise, Fall and Survival of Ashton-Tate's dBASE

http://www.eweek.com/database/30-years-ago-the-rise-fall-and-survival-of-ashton-tates-dbase.html

13 years ago

Cubr – Solving Rubik's cube using webcam and Python

http://cbarker.net/blog/projects/applications/cubr

13 years ago