top 50% 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

Ways That Startup Lawyers Overcharge

https://medium.com/entrepreneur-advice/4e8aff11668e

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 63 comments

There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

https://lessaccounting.com/blog/service-business-37signals/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

Firefox Developer Tools: Break on DOM Events, Edit as HTML, Codemirror

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/firefox-developer-tools-episode-27-edit-as-html-codemirror-more/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 28 comments

Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties?

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per-year-from-android-patent-royalties-2013-11

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 82 comments

Abandoning segmented stacks in Rust

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/006314.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 32 comments

Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/tesla-lost-38m-in-third-quarter-stock-tumbles-over-12-percent/

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 96 comments

Using Snap.svg to animate SVG icons

http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedSVGIcons/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Want: The airbag scarf that replaces a bulky bicycle helmet, inflates in 100ms

http://sub.garrytan.com/want-the-airbag-scarf-that-replaces-a-bulky-bicycle-helmet-inflates-in-100ms-to-save-your-noggin

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 120 comments

Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains

http://lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

How the Terrible, Insufferable Six-Day Water Fast Made Me a New Man

http://www.gq.com/life/fitness/201311/six-day-water-fast-diet?printable=true

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far

http://pandoralive.info/?p=2227

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Internet Archive's S.F. office damaged in fire

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Internet-Archive-s-S-F-office-damaged-in-fire-4960703.php

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Theremin I/O

http://theremin.io

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

Bitcoin price reaches a record high for the first time since April

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/05/bitcoin-price-reaches-a-record-high-for-the-first-time-since-april/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

Little-known directives of Angular.js

http://codetunes.com/2013/little-known-angular-directives/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

Mozilla anti-cookie tool plans crumbling

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Mozilla-anticookie-tool-plans-crumbling-4958045.php

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 52 comments

2012, My Year of Code

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/11/2012-my-year-of-code.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Meteor in Production

http://blog.geekli.st/post/66118889218/meteor-in-production

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 32 comments

Finding the right CDN for our startup

http://robin.userapp.io/post/66094840975/finding-the-right-cdn-for-our-startup-maxcdn

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 62 comments

Tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-size planets in our galaxy

http://www.kurzweilai.net/tens-of-billions-of-potentially-habitable-earth-size-planets-in-our-galaxy-say-astronomers

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Resize images using the FFT

https://code.google.com/p/fftresize/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Crunchbase admits it may need to learn more about Creative Commons

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/05/crunchbase-people-plus/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

How to Pretend You Know UX When You Don't

http://thehipperelement.com/post/66097606120/10-ways-to-pretend-you-know-ux-when-you-dont

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Open-sourcing my rejected iOS app, In-Stock

http://alpblog.heroku.com/in-stock/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Now there’s a bug bounty program for the whole Internet

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/now-theres-a-bug-bounty-program-for-the-whole-internet/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments
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