top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-23

Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it

https://gist.github.com/0xabad1dea/8101758

13 years ago

539 upvotes – 127 comments

Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213

13 years ago

539 upvotes – 253 comments

RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed

http://jmarbach.com/rapgenius-growth-hack-exposed

13 years ago

347 upvotes – 215 comments

AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25497013

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 281 comments

How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates - then went and played for them

http://www.citeworld.com/consumerization/22803/iron-maiden-musicmetric?page=0

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 113 comments

Cameron's Internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plan

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/12/camerons-internet-filter-goes-far-beyond-porn-and-was-always-plan

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 72 comments

Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein's lies on surveillance? Join Us

https://shameonfeinstein.org

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 61 comments

OpenEmu 1.0 Released

http://openemu.org

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 60 comments

Blackmail fail

http://gwern.net/Blackmail

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 72 comments

Knossos: Redis and Linearizability

http://aphyr.com/posts/309-knossos-redis-and-linearizability

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 11 comments

Data looks better naked

http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 48 comments

The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/us-unveils-the-case-against-kim-dotcom-revealing-e-mails-and-financial-data/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 136 comments

An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002651.html

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 28 comments

Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco

http://css-tricks.com/interviewing-front-end-engineer-san-francisco/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 183 comments

The Mathematical Hacker (2012)

http://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html#HN_Repost

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 102 comments

Geohot presents an evasi0n7 writeup

http://geohot.com/e7writeup.html

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 32 comments

Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply

http://jonathan-kim.com/2013/Gmail-No-Response/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/us/focus-on-oceans-health-as-dolphin-deaths-soar.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released

https://www.keepassx.org/news/2013/12/420

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 48 comments

The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick

http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-war-on-terrors-jedi-mind-trick/282620/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: My 10-year-old son has made a card game, which he is giving away

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6955774

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

Swiss to vote on proposals to treat bitcoin as foreign currency

http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=25521

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

PlainSite bans federal courts from accessing court data

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=1&uscourts=1

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones

http://digitaltrends.com/mobile/firefox-os-review/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 99 comments

RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship

https://blogs.rsa.com/news-media-2/rsa-response/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 61 comments

Who posts on Hacker News?

http://www.kmjn.org/notes/hacker_news_posters.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

Jack Dorsey Joins Disney’s Board Of Directors

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/23/jack-dorsey-joins-disney/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

Why the Pentagon’s many campaigns to clean up its accounts are failing

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments

What I have learned running a software consultancy over the past two years

http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/2013/12/22/lessons-learned-two-years-of-running-a-dockyard.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 45 comments

FBI agent tries to copyright torture manual, inadvertently makes it public

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/fbi-copyrighted-interrogation-manual-unredacted-secrets

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Java SE 8 Proposed Final Draft Specification — Draft 1

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/se/8/java-se-8-pfd-spec-01/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules

http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/julian-baggini-coffee-artisans/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 89 comments

FreeNAS 9.2 is out

http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/2013/12/freenas-9-2-0-release.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 49 comments

Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/10/every-space-mission-ever-flown-on-one-map/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Ditching Wordpress for Pelican

http://razius.com/articles/ditching-wordpress-and-becoming-one-of-the-cool-kids/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 82 comments

How we misprice used cars

http://priceonomics.com/how-we-misprice-used-cars/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple

https://threatpost.com/stanford-researchers-find-connecting-metadata-with-user-names-is-simple/103272

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

Teespring: How To Build A T-Shirt Company, The Hacker Way

http://blog.leanstack.io/teespring-how-to-build-a-t-shirt-company-the-hacker-way/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

The Black Car Company That People Love to Hate

http://nextcity.org/forefront/view/the-black-car-company-that-people-love-to-hate

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

Comparing the Cost of Different Multiple-return Techniques in C

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/12/23/c-return-multiple-values/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

Counting Stars on GitHub

http://adereth.github.io/blog/2013/12/23/counting-stars-on-github/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Computer Modern on the Web

http://checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Three modern organisational structures

http://swombat.com/2013/12/23/three-modern-organisational-structures

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

A Start-Up Moves Teachers Past Data Entry

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/a-start-up-moves-teachers-past-data-entry/?_r=0

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

The Great Big Porn Block is coming

http://www.sheeldz.co.uk/2013/12/blocked.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 97 comments

Perl6: Unary Sort

http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/day-23-unary-sort/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Teaching “The Odyssey” at San Quentin

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/21/teaching_the_odyssey_at_san_quentin/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

Snowden Criticizes U.S. Panel Overseeing Surveillance

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/12/22/snowden-criticizes-u-s-panel-overseeing-surveillance/?mod=WSJ_hpsMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: I'm bored with programming, what should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6952436

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 62 comments
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