top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-10-04

Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590

13 years ago

904 upvotes – 357 comments

Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity

13 years ago

654 upvotes – 176 comments

Model S Fire

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-fire

13 years ago

594 upvotes – 238 comments

Melatonin

http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

13 years ago

385 upvotes – 219 comments

And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 144 comments

You Must Try, and then You Must Ask

https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/10/you-must-try-and-then-you-must-ask.html

13 years ago

366 upvotes – 48 comments

'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-stinks-nsa-presentation-document

13 years ago

292 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: govuptime.com

http://govuptime.com/

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 168 comments

MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/mongodb-becomes-king-of-nyc-startups-with-1-2-billion-valuation.html

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 223 comments

Show HN: Introducing Harp – A static web server with built in preprocessing

http://sintaxi.com/introducing-harp

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 75 comments

Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-linux-basemosaic-ubuntu-parity,24519.html

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 89 comments

How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228878659/how-snowdens-email-provider-tried-to-foil-the-fbi-using-tiny-font

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 55 comments

MIT inventor creates cube robots with no external moving parts

http://www.kurzweilai.net/mit-inventor-unleashes-hundreds-of-self-assembling-cube-swarmbots

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 44 comments

Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge

https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 62 comments

Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-assembling-robots-1004.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 47 comments

Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangerous Place?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/did-shutting-down-the-silk-road-make-the-world-a-more-dangerous-place/280270/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 157 comments

GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala

https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket

13 years ago

★ 9.3k Scala Apache-2.0
123 upvotes – 107 comments

OS X Mavericks GM Seed available to Developers

https://developer.apple.com/osx/whats-new/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 113 comments

Docker + Red Hat OpenShift = The Tipping Point for Open PaaS?

http://www.themiddlewareman.org/2013/09/27/docker-red-hat-openshift-tiping-point-open-paas/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Bit of News

http://www.bitofnews.com/news/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments
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