top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-16

NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-phone-surveillance-likely-unconstitutional-judge

13 years ago

748 upvotes – 231 comments

A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

13 years ago

571 upvotes – 143 comments

If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/if-a-drone-strike-hit-an-american-wedding-wed-ground-our-fleet/282373/

13 years ago

480 upvotes – 354 comments

NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/16/an-nsa-coworker-remembers-the-real-edward-snowden-a-genius-among-geniuses/?partner=yahootix

13 years ago

372 upvotes – 171 comments

Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177598/sad-decline-60-minutes-continues-weeks-nsa-whitewash

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 92 comments

RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/funding/

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 126 comments

Telegram - secure, free messaging

http://telegram.org/

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 219 comments

Water seems to flow freely on Mars

http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 161 comments

Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/nsa-surveillance-critic-bruce-schneier-to-leave-post-at-bt/

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 71 comments

The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction

http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 17 comments

Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/us/politics/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-data-program.html

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 3 comments

My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS

http://vertis.io/2013/12/16/unauthorised-litecoin-mining.html

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 120 comments

Amazon's German Workers Strike

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSBRE9BF0M220131216

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 334 comments

Mozilla in 2013

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/16/mozilla-in-2013/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 81 comments

Turn O(n^2) reverse into O(n)

https://github.com/nominolo/HTTP/commit/b9bd0a08fa09c6403f91422e3b23f08d339612eb

13 years ago

★ 24 Haskell
175 upvotes – 90 comments

Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers

http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/science-that-proves-the-9-to-5-day-is-hell-for-creative-workers/282331/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 96 comments

BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS

https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 49 comments

The end of the Facebook era

http://takeaswig.com/the-end-of-the-facebook-era

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 135 comments

Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more

http://www.developereconomics.com/still-building-consumer-apps-enterprise-pays-4x/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 92 comments

FDA: Antibacterial soaps could pose health risks

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/fda-antibacterial-soap/4038907/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 66 comments
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