top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-20

Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03554.html

13 years ago

1056 upvotes – 140 comments

Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220

13 years ago

899 upvotes – 320 comments

Letter From A Psychopath

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/dh5l3q?share

13 years ago

383 upvotes – 330 comments

What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

http://thebillfold.com/2013/12/what-happens-when-one-of-your-coworkers-dies/

13 years ago

369 upvotes – 196 comments

Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/12/canada-lifts-all-restrictions-prostitution-2013122015318412319.html

13 years ago

303 upvotes – 213 comments

“WarGames” Magazine Identified

http://mw.rat.bz/wgmag/

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 77 comments

Regex Golf

http://regex.alf.nu/

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 169 comments

N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/world/nsa-dragnet-included-allies-aid-groups-and-business-elite.html?smid=tw-bna

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 113 comments

Why am I here?

http://sivers.org/here

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 103 comments

Google Bus blocked, window smashed in West Oakland

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/20/18748143.php

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 319 comments

Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-cryptanalysis-contest

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 130 comments

Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone

https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/Gnq8cdq7VHi

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 53 comments

Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

http://goawaycameron.co.uk/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 157 comments

Origami - Design prototyping with Quartz Composer

http://facebook.github.io/origami/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 17 comments

After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source

https://github.com/ChrisZieba/LogicPull

13 years ago

★ 407 JavaScript
144 upvotes – 57 comments

GnuPG - 16 Years of protecting privacy

http://blog.gnupg.org/20131220-gnupg-turned-0x10.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 48 comments

Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/us/under-seattle-a-big-object-blocks-bertha-what-is-it.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 71 comments

Gap between asm.js and native gets narrower with float32 optimizations

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/gap-between-asm-js-and-native-performance-gets-even-narrower-with-float32-optimizations/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 114 comments

Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/clearer-conditionals-using-de-morgans-laws/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 78 comments

Web Domain White Elephant Exchange

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Exiey9n6VdyVtr74yWlIa1hXeplm-5D_A5Vw07jcRJk/viewform

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 97 comments

Browser Extension Password Managers Exposing Passwords Everywhere

http://isecpartners.github.io/whitepapers/passwords/2013/11/05/Browser-Extension-Password-Managers.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 87 comments

Deconstructing Functional Programming [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons?utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=QCon_EarlyAccessVideos&utm_campaign=QConSanFrancisco2013

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 109 comments

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video)

http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Abuckminsterfuller&sort=-publicdate

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

2013: A Year of Open Source at Facebook

https://code.facebook.com/posts/604847252884576/2013-a-year-of-open-source-at-facebook/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 43 comments

The React tutorial rewritten in Om

https://github.com/jalehman/react-tutorial-om

13 years ago

★ 204 Clojure
97 upvotes – 34 comments

Cards Stolen in Target Breach Flood Underground Markets

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/cards-stolen-in-target-breach-flood-underground-markets/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 83 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (2011)

http://blog.smartbear.com/careers/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-super-productive-programmer/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

Majority of published scientific data not recoverable 20 years later

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/12/19/Researchers-say-valuable-scientific-data-disappearing-at-alarming-rate/UPI-70701387491288/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

New APIs to release code on Heroku

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/12/20/programmatically_release_code_to_heroku_using_the_platform_api

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Beware of Coinbase. They Reversed My BTC Sale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939307

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

The invisible hand that pushed Apple up and down for six years

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/16/apple-odd-lot-hft/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

Why Rust ditched pure functions

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.rust.devel/3674/focus=3855

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_next_silicon_valley/2013/12/silicon_valley_s_invasion_of_san_francisco_not_quite_the_ayn_rand_nightmare.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 86 comments

A Tiny Speaker Printed on a Single Sheet of Paper

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/a-tiny-speaker-made-out-of-paper/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Chuck Moore: Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip?utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=videos_homepage&utm_campaign=videos_row1#.UrMEcjUlt_s.reddit

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Tim Draper Wants To Split California, Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/tim-draper-six-californias-secede-silicon-valley-ballot-initiative/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 88 comments

On the matter of strlcpy/strlcat acceptance by industry

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=138733933417096&w=2

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

IDEas: Tools for Coders

http://omegaortega.com/ideas-tools-for-coders/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 56 comments

Stomp The Heck Out Of Your Customer's Main Objection

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/sco_reminder

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/20/backed-by-steve-blank-more-startup-genome-founders-launch-next-gen-benchmarking-tool-for-startups/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments
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