top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-02

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/crime-silkroad-raid-idUSL1N0HS12C20131002

13 years ago

1101 upvotes – 577 comments

Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/

13 years ago

592 upvotes – 250 comments

Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/09/children_s_language_development_talk_and_listen_to_them_from_birth.html

13 years ago

472 upvotes – 276 comments

HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

http://gemal.dk/blog/2013/10/02/html5_flash_player_shumway_landed

13 years ago

373 upvotes – 176 comments

How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard

http://www.mikeperham.com/2013/10/01/how-to-make-100k-in-oss-by-working-hard

13 years ago

316 upvotes – 93 comments

PostgreSQL Studio

http://www.postgresqlstudio.org/

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 94 comments

Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf]

http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 142 comments

Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/patent-troll-lodsys-settles-nothing-avoid-trial

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 73 comments

MTurk + Google News API = press

http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/09/24/google-news-api-mturk-press/#

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 111 comments

U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance

http://allthingsd.com/20131002/u-s-opposes-tech-companies-requests-to-disclose-surveillance/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 83 comments

Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/10/mobile-web-design-the-reign-of-morons-indeed/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 115 comments

Tom Clancy has died

http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-clancy-dead-celebrated-thriller-author-dies-at-age-66-2013-10

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 85 comments

SQRL - Replacement for usernames and passwords

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 131 comments

Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Nexus-5-to-be-first-smartphone-with-MEMS-camera-fastest-on-a-phone-Lytro-like-functionality_id47900

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 89 comments

Flutter (YC W12) acquired by Google

https://flutterapp.com/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Did your YC (or other incubator) startup fail? What are you doing now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480720

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 56 comments

The Bonehead Mistake That Brought Down an Online Drug-Dealing Empire

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/02/silk_road_s_dread_pirate_ross_ulbricht_asked_stack_overflow_question_under.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 74 comments

Richard Stallman on the Painful Birth of GNU

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/10/richard-stallman-on-the-painful-birth-of-gnu/index.htm

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Design Great APIs [video]

http://blog.parse.com/2013/10/02/parse-developer-day-video-series-how-to-design-great-apis/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 16 comments

AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3NDU

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 36 comments

Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser

http://hover.ie/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 100 comments

XMir postponed in Ubuntu

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-October/037695.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 110 comments

Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/global-celebration-for-the-gnu-systems-30th-anniversary

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

Response of US Govt to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn [pdf]

http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/motion-declaratory-judgement-131002.pdf

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

MySQL is to SQL like MongoDB to NoSQL

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2013-10-01/mysql-is-to-sql-like-mongodb-to-nosql

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 124 comments

NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/nsa_storing_int.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

RAML - RESTful API modeling language

http://raml.org/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

California’s $327 million web site in operation

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/10/02/californias-327-million-web-site-in-operation/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

Getting Meteor to 1.0

http://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/10/01/geoff-schmidt-at-devshop-8-getting-meteor-to-10

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

SimplyInsured (YC W13) raises $750K to simplify health insurance

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/02/simplyinsured-aims-to-put-health-insurance-into-terms-anyone-can-understand/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

Smalltalk: Swimming with the fish

http://simberon.blogspot.nl/2013/01/swimming-with-fish.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 85 comments

The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009)

http://bitquabit.com/post/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Monsanto Acquires Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For $930M

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/02/monsanto-acquires-weather-big-data-company-climate-corporation-for-930m/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

http://www.airpair.com/pair-programming/our-future

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

The Nacho Dorito

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/01/dining/nacho-graphic.html/#

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Ten years of working on Krita

http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Ikea's New Solar Panels: Sunshine Optional, Subsidies Required

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-01/ikeas-new-solar-panels-sunshine-optional-subsidies-required

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: In 2016, will Rails & Django be competitive against newer technologies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482169

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 78 comments

Unnoficial design concept for Windows 9

http://eiskis.net/windows9

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 96 comments

Is your work better than kittens?

http://betterthankittens.com

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65M in Cash

http://allthingsd.com/20131002/in-a-big-mobile-move-pivotal-buys-xtreme-labs-for-65-million-in-cash

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

Garbage Collection vs. malloc/free

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/1TMjVjyyMmA

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 56 comments
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