top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-11-06

Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"

https://plus.google.com/+MikeHearn/posts/LW1DXJ2BK8k

13 years ago

1217 upvotes – 396 comments

Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement

http://khamidou.github.io/kite

13 years ago

387 upvotes – 180 comments

Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs'

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/05/opinion/annan-cordoso-humane-drug-policy/

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 183 comments

Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face

http://nautil.us/blog/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-homer-simpsons-face

13 years ago

356 upvotes – 100 comments

Django 1.6 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/download/

13 years ago

354 upvotes – 102 comments

Fourier Toy

http://toxicdump.org/stuff/FourierToy.swf

13 years ago

348 upvotes – 70 comments

Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/presto-interacting-with-petabytes-of-data-at-facebook/10151786197628920

13 years ago

336 upvotes – 97 comments

Silk Road 2.0 Launches

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/06/silk-road-2-0-launches-promising-a-resurrected-black-market-for-the-dark-web/

13 years ago

322 upvotes – 225 comments

Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing

http://neat.io/blog/diary-of-a-programmer-with-no-clue-about-marketing.html

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 144 comments

Lifestyle programming

http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/11/06/lifestyle-programming/

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 51 comments

After traffic stop, man forced to have x-ray, enema, anal probes and colonoscopy

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 243 comments

Google Apps drop support for IE9

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/11/google-drops-support-for-ie9.html

13 years ago

251 upvotes – 179 comments

What Long Hours Really Mean

http://wearemammoth.com/2013/11/long-hours

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 219 comments

USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information”

http://www.weblaws.org/blog/2013/11/usps-zip-codes-are-commercially-sensitive-trade-secrets/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 138 comments

Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death

http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/killing-arafat/swiss-forensic-report-arafat-death-201311671255163780.html

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 139 comments

Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf]

https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 59 comments

Float Label Pattern

http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/float-label-pattern/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 33 comments

Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/11/05/mozilla-otoy-and-autodesk-work-to-deliver-high-performance-games-and-applications-on-the-web/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 77 comments

The Monster Truck Madness 2 website has been taken down

http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/?hn

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 114 comments

Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

http://www.gofundme.com/HelpUsHelpMolly

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 75 comments
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