top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-30

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

13 years ago

1604 upvotes – 592 comments

Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/announcing-the-dark-mail-alliance-founded-by-silent-circle-lavabit/

13 years ago

565 upvotes – 209 comments

Does life end after 35?

http://kzhu.net/does-life-end-at-35.html

13 years ago

530 upvotes – 220 comments

Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack

https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/ciscos-h-264-good-news/

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 175 comments

Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19512174.aspx

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 159 comments

Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js

https://github.com/YaroslavGaponov/node-jvm#!

13 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript
286 upvotes – 138 comments

Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)

http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails

http://differential.io/blog/meteor-killin-rails

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 323 comments

The Battle for Power on the Internet

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/the_battle_for_1.html

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 30 comments

Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 62 comments

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946)

http://alexgolec.github.io/orwell/politics

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 62 comments

The Impossible Music of Black MIDI

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 175 comments

Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 19 comments

California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while driving

https://plus.google.com/+CeciliaAbadie/posts/Kofr18UWLfc

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 295 comments

Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity

http://jjcm.org/blog/mac_pros_and_modularity/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 112 comments

Hacker News was down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640210

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 94 comments

Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t

http://robohub.org/insect-inspired-flying-robot-handles-collisions-goes-where-other-robots-cant/

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 41 comments

Microsoft Research uses Kinect to translate between spoken and sign languages

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/10/30/microsoft-research-uses-kinect-translate-spoken-sign-languages-real-time/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 25 comments

Startup Idea: Solve Personal Analytics

http://blog.kirigin.com/personal-analytics

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 97 comments

Stalin's Rope Roads

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/stalins-rope-roads/100577/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 32 comments

Principal Component Analysis for Dummies

http://georgemdallas.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/principal-component-analysis-4-dummies-eigenvectors-eigenvalues-and-dimension-reduction/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people within 1 mile

https://appsto.re/us/bTI0Q.i

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 130 comments

iPad Air Review

http://anandtech.com/show/7460/apple-ipad-air-review

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 100 comments

HealthCare.gov deferred final security check, could leak personal data

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/healthcare-gov-deferred-final-security-check-could-leak-personal-data/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 101 comments

Pakistani family of drone strike victim gives harrowing testimony to Congress

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/29/pakistan-family-drone-victim-testimony-congress

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 84 comments

CircleCI security incident

http://status.circleci.com/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

You can build cool stuff with WebRTC in five minutes

http://simplewebrtc.com/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/stories/people/andrew-kim.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 58 comments

Chromium: "MathML is not something that we want at this time"

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152430#c43

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 103 comments

Evidence that dendrites actively process information in the brain

http://www.kurzweilai.net/evidence-that-dendrites-actively-process-information-in-the-brain

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Build a Subscription Service on Rails: A Noob's Guide

http://www.joelhooks.com/blog/2013/10/30/how-to-build-a-subscription-service-on-rails-a-noobs-guide/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments
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