top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-09

Reform Government Surveillance

http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/

13 years ago

657 upvotes – 212 comments

OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again

http://sivers.org/milt

13 years ago

578 upvotes – 63 comments

Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/governments-admit-they-carry-out-false-flag-terror/

13 years ago

447 upvotes – 134 comments

Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/edward-snowden-voted-guardian-person-of-year-2013?CMP=twt_gu

13 years ago

427 upvotes – 89 comments

President Obama calls on every American to learn code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XvmhE1J9PY&list=TL6euzOUWjLwl8_6zUc-uxbfDbAZw-8RhW

13 years ago

356 upvotes – 426 comments

Archive.org donations matched 3:1 until 2014

http://archive.org/donate/?

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 27 comments

Your location history

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/

13 years ago

284 upvotes – 157 comments

The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/the-mozilla-developer-network-has-a-new-face/

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 90 comments

Facebook's AI lab

https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10151728212367143

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 91 comments

Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive site

https://github.com/guardian/frontend

13 years ago

★ 5.8k Scala
237 upvotes – 49 comments

I Spent A Month Living In A Romanian Sexcam Studio

http://m.vice.com/read/bucharest-webcam-studios-america-outsourcing-sex-trade?utm_source=vicetumblrus

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 185 comments

Spy agencies in covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online gaming

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 123 comments

'The Mother of All Demos' Is 45 Years Old, Doesn't Look a Day Over 25

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-mother-of-all-demos-is-45-years-old-doesnt-look-a-day-over-25/282152/

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 59 comments

NSA surveillance: tech companies demand sweeping changes to US laws

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-surveillance-tech-companies-demand-sweeping-changes-to-us-laws

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 62 comments

Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 159 comments

The main trick in machine learning

http://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/12/the-main-trick-in-machine-learning/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 71 comments

Vagrant 1.4

http://www.vagrantup.com/blog/vagrant-1-4.html

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 61 comments

Today's Google Doodle: Grace Hopper

https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2013/grace-hoppers-107th-birthday-5447077240766464.3-hp.gif

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 72 comments

Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays

http://lightpack.tv/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 43 comments

TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users

https://whispersystems.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 66 comments

Learn to code like it's 1996

http://www.defmacro.org/2013/12/09/learn-to-code.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 57 comments

Protesters block Google bus in S.F. Mission

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-google-bus-in-s-f-mission/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 172 comments

Absurdly High Valuations

http://blog.42floors.com/absurdly-high-valuations/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 81 comments

Apache Kafka 0.8.0 released

http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 51 comments

Apple Tells Gliph to Remove App's Bitcoin Transfer Function

http://www.coindesk.com/apple-gliph-remove-app-bitcoin-transfer/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 96 comments

The Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From The Dead

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/12/the-brilliant-foursquare-hack/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 50 comments

Employee Retention

http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-retention

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 90 comments

Free Mathematics Books

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 34 comments

CheapAir accepts Bitcoin

http://www.cheapair.com/blog/travel-news/book-your-flights-on-cheapair-with-bitcoin-virtual-currency/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 98 comments

What Gives Gold that Mellow Glow? (2006)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 23 comments

BBC-News/Imager.js

https://github.com/BBC-News/Imager.js

13 years ago

★ 3.8k JavaScript Apache-2.0
109 upvotes – 19 comments

60fps scrolling using pointer-events: none

http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/pointer-events-60fps

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence'

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-interview-underlying-incompetence

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

Internet horror stories: How ISPs screwed over users

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/internet-horror-stories-how-isps-screwed-over-ars-readers/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 75 comments

Marvin Minsky – The beauty of the Lisp language

http://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/44

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

How LinkedIn screwed up our friendship

http://kirillzubovsky.com/linkedin-screwed-up-our-friendship/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 59 comments

Google employee shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle

http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: MightyName.com – Search over 4.7M available English .com domains

http://www.mightyname.com/_hn

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-there-wont-be-a-third-.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Best Practices For Making Things Happen

http://www.jasonshen.com/2013/17-essential-best-practices-for-making-things-happen/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

A Battery Breakthrough that Proved Too Good to Be True

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522361/the-sad-story-of-the-battery-breakthrough-that-proved-too-good-to-be-true/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router

https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/09/choosing-go-for-a-new-project/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 96 comments

Plain English explanation of Big O

http://stackoverflow.com/a/487278

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

How Apple’s Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square’s Card Reader

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/the-new-square-reader-a-look-at-how-gadget-guts-are-designed/?cid=co15491064

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

A Seed VC’s Decision Tree

http://robgo.org/2013/10/29/a-seed-vcs-decision-tree/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Stop Being Cute and Clever

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/12/9/stop-being-clever/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

A new theoretical model suggests quantum entanglement helps hold DNA together

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/419590/quantum-entanglement-holds-dna-together-say-physicists/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Most frequently enabled Emacs packages

http://adereth.github.io/blog/2013/12/08/most-frequently-enabled-emacs-packages/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 38 comments

Edit a Google doc with vim

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5888/edit-a-google-doc-with-vim

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Run-ahead transfer prediction in the Mill CPU architecture

http://ootbcomp.com/docs/prediction/index.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

How to do a startup in your spare time

http://blog.bellebethcooper.com/how-to-do-a-startup-in-your-spare-time

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

Putin dissolves state news agency, tightens grip on Russia media

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/us-russia-media-idUSBRE9B80I120131209

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

Advanced Regular Expression Tips and Techniques

http://pypix.com/tools-and-tips/advanced-regular-expression-tips-techniques/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments
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