top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-26

Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617551

13 years ago

My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619993

13 years ago

Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea

http://www.danielmiessler.com/blog/putting-ssh-another-port-good-idea#.Umsq_hbdDzU.hackernews

13 years ago

Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us/federal-prosecutors-in-a-policy-shift-cite-warrantless-wiretaps-as-evidence.html

13 years ago

Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London

http://bestburgerinnorthwestlondon.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/cheaper-to-rent-in-barcelona-and-commute-to-london/

13 years ago

Clojure from the ground up

http://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welcome

13 years ago

US bugged Merkel's phone from 2002 until 2013, report claims

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24690055

13 years ago

Show HN: A Github for writers?

http://www.penflip.com/

13 years ago

Startup School 2013 Videos Now Online

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/26/y-combinators-startup-school-2013-videos-now-online-including-ones-mark-zuckerberg-jack-dorsey/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&awesm=tnw.to_r8x7

13 years ago

Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/26/mac-os-10-9-infinity-times-your-spam/

13 years ago

Ask HN: Why can't I see downvote or upvote arrows anywhere?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6616972

13 years ago

Confessions of a Drone Warrior

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-pilot-assassination

13 years ago

Mod_python - the long story

http://grisha.org/blog/2013/10/25/mod-python-the-long-story/

13 years ago

On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (1992) [pdf]

http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/adegani/Flight-Deck_Documentation.pdf

13 years ago

The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/169448-good-news-dieters-the-kilo-is-losing-weight-changing-all-of-science-but-unfortunately-we-dont-know-why

13 years ago

Extensionizr: Chrome extension boilerplate generator

http://extensionizr.com/

13 years ago

Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/ten-steps-against-surveillance

13 years ago

Ask HN: Buffer got hacked - does anyone know details?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6618689

13 years ago

The Slash Programming Language

http://slash-lang.org/

13 years ago

CCAN - Comprehensive C Archive Network

http://ccodearchive.net/

13 years ago

Can you break my home rolled encryption?

http://news.quelsolaar.com/#comments101

13 years ago

Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours: A Haskell Tutorial

http://jonathan.tang.name/files/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html

13 years ago

A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/09/a-school-with-no-teachers-where-students-teach-themselves/

13 years ago

This Guy’s Wife Got Cancer, So He Did Something Unforgettable.

http://www.viralnova.com/wifes-cancer/

13 years ago

App Review rejection 10.6

http://www.stefankendall.com/2013/10/app-review-rejection-106-fuck-you.html

13 years ago

Xenopsychology

http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/Xenopsychology.htm

13 years ago

Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video]

https://rally.stopwatching.us

13 years ago

The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/23/240242221/episode-391-the-anti-addiction-pill-thats-big-business-for-drug-dealers

13 years ago

I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling

http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/26/i-challenged-hackers-to-investigate-me-and-what-they-found-out-is-chilling/

13 years ago

Police Departments Work to Expand Capability to “Shut Down” Social Media

http://kennethlipp.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/police-departments-work-to-expand-capability-to-shut-down-social-media/

13 years ago

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon

http://intelligence.org/2013/10/21/hadi-esmaeilzadeh-on-dark-silicon/

13 years ago

Entangled toy universe shows time may be an illusion

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24473-entangled-toy-universe-shows-time-may-be-an-illusion.html#.UmtMd2Rgbes

13 years ago

The FreedMan Chair - A better way to sit.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/929020713/the-freedman-chair-a-better-way-to-sit

13 years ago

Filesharing site revealed to be anti-piracy ‘honeypot’

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/25/filesharing-site-anti-piracy-honeypot-uploadertalk-user-data?CMP=ema_632&et_cid=53911&[email protected]&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2ftechnology%2f2013%2foct%2f25%2ffilesharing-site-anti-piracy-honeypot-uploadertalk-user-data

13 years ago

Review of “Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals” (2001)

http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/01BRrt.html

13 years ago

Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts

http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/lua-good-different-bad-and-ugly-parts

13 years ago

Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s Apple Event

http://daringfireball.net/2013/10/this_weeks_ipad_event

13 years ago