top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-21

Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx

13 years ago

392 upvotes – 187 comments

Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded

http://www.dw.de/snowden-ally-appelbaum-claims-his-berlin-apartment-was-invaded/a-17315069

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 108 comments

A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS

http://erik.io/blog/2013/06/08/a-basic-guide-to-when-and-how-to-deploy-https/

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 134 comments

How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency

http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-dogecoin-changed-my-perspective-on-cryptocurrency

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 166 comments

An update on Truecrypt

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/12/an-update-on-truecrypt.html

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 44 comments

Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/acoustic_crypta.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 40 comments

Having a Servant Is Not a Right

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/opinion/having-a-servant-is-not-a-right.html?hp&rref=opinion

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 228 comments

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/sicm/book-Z-H-5.html#%_chap_Temp_2

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Vector - A High-Level Programming Language for GPU Computing

http://zhehaomao.com/project/2013/12/20/vector.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 54 comments

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 22 comments

Architectures that will inspire your programming

http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.in/2013/12/the-four-architectures-that-will.html

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 22 comments

A Brief History of NSA Backdoors

http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/70646748808/a-brief-history-of-nsa-backdoors

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

What Google would have looked like in the 1960s

http://www.masswerk.at/google60/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS supports TRIM on SSD drives

http://www.leaseweblabs.com/2013/12/ubuntu-14-04-lts-supports-trim-ssd-drives/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 76 comments

Erlang: The Written History

http://www.josetteorama.com/erlang-the-written-history/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Google streetview world coverage

http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/streetview_landing/streetview-map.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

France's Carmat implants its first artificial heart in human

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/carmat-implant-idUSL6N0JZ3SF20131220?feedType=RSS&virtualBrandChannel=11563

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/12/when-you-criticize-someone-you-make-it-harder-for-them-to-change/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Without morality, the market economy will destroy itself

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/21/morality-capitalism-missing-link-marketplace

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 117 comments

Rapid AngularJS Prototyping Without Real Backend

http://www.codeorbits.com/blog/2013/12/20/rapid-angularjs-prototyping-without-real-backend/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments
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