top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-30

Google Web Designer

https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

13 years ago

1126 upvotes – 442 comments

Tessel: The end of web development as we know it

http://www.slideshare.net/TechnicalMachine/tessel-the-end-of-web-development-as-we-know-it

13 years ago

611 upvotes – 406 comments

Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep emails private

https://rally.org/lavabit

13 years ago

505 upvotes – 118 comments

Programming is a Terrible Job

http://pastebin.com/ed1pP9Ak

13 years ago

479 upvotes – 285 comments

A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea

https://medium.com/lessons-learned/917b8b63ae3e

13 years ago

360 upvotes – 194 comments

French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/french-gendarmerie-open-source-desktop-lowers-tco-40

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 131 comments

BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology

http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/bittorrent-chat.html

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 104 comments

How to get bias into a Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ravpapa/Tilt

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 111 comments

Codebreaker found in bag attended US security conference before death (2012)

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/04/spy-in-bag-attended-hacker-conference

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 78 comments

Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails

https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint

13 years ago

★ 1.8k JavaScript MIT
212 upvotes – 147 comments

NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-metadata-year-documents

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 46 comments

A negative captcha

https://github.com/subwindow/negative-captcha

13 years ago

★ 785 Ruby MIT
210 upvotes – 100 comments

App Store Pricing: Worth Less than a Cup of Coffee

http://floriankugler.com/blog/2013/9/30/worth-less-than-a-cup-of-coffee

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 187 comments

RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/09/30/ryujit-the-next-generation-jit-compiler.aspx

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 80 comments

Where do Github users live? WebGL visualization

http://aasen.in/github_globe/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 88 comments

Procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets

http://www.visakanv.com/blog/2013/09/0086-productivity-apps-fill-buckets-when-they-should-be-lighting-fires/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 110 comments

The Best Part of Grand Theft Auto V is the Stock-Trading Platform

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/gta-vs-stock-trading-platform.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 105 comments

Researchers Develop Method for Getting High-Quality Photos from Crappy Lenses

http://petapixel.com/2013/09/29/newly-developed-software-helps-get-high-quality-photos-crappy-lenses/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 55 comments

It's Behind You: The making of the game R-Type on the ZX Spectrum

http://bizzley.com/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 46 comments

The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree

https://medium.com/design-startups/dc7566b63159

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 83 comments

Clojure's core.typed vs Haskell

http://adambard.com/blog/core-typed-vs-haskell/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6468295

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 124 comments

Dual N-Back Meta-analysis

http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture

http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/18/the-serious-and-the-smirk-the-smile-in-portraiture/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

RethinkDB 1.10: multi-indexing

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.10-release/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Processing 6 billion records in 4 seconds on a home PC

https://github.com/antonmks/Alenka/blob/master/green.md

13 years ago

★ 1.1k Cuda
96 upvotes – 25 comments

What I Wish I Knew Before Studying Computer Security in College

http://blog.matthewdfuller.com/2013/09/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-studying.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 56 comments

So you're thinking of tracking your JS errors

http://blog.meldium.com/home/2013/9/30/so-youre-thinking-of-tracking-your-js-errors

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 37 comments

The Link between Clojure-in-Clojure and Typed Clojure

http://frenchy64.github.io/2013/09/30/link-cinc-typed-clojure.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

Why have SVG images not yet replaced PNG on the web?

http://blog.sekera.cz/2013/09/why-svg-images-did-not-replace-png.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 111 comments

Using Haskell at SQream Technologies

http://blog.sqreamtech.com/2013/09/using-haskell-at-sqream-technologies/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

Security researchers rewarded $12.50 voucher to buy Yahoo T-shirt

http://grahamcluley.com/2013/09/serious-yahoo-bug/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears

http://www.logicmatters.net/igt/further-notes/godel-without-tears/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

An electric motorcycle

https://www.mission-motorcycles.com/r

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

How I learned to Stop Feeling Safe in My Own Country and Hate Border Agents

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i-learned-stop-feeling-safe-my-own-country-and-hate-border-patrol/transcript/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

I've mothballed my blog

http://jgc.org/nocarrier.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments
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