top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-29

I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military

13 years ago

910 upvotes – 475 comments

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/so-the-internets-about-to-lose-its-net-neutrality

13 years ago

554 upvotes – 262 comments

On Hacking MicroSD Cards

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

13 years ago

399 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6979277

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 121 comments

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2669690

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 52 comments

Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises N.S.A. Toolbox

http://spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 87 comments

The most Kafkaesque paragraph from today’s NSA ruling

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/27/the-most-kafkaesque-paragraph-from-todays-nsa-ruling/

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 61 comments

Girls Who Code

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/12/girls-who-code.html

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 375 comments

Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 28 comments

Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

https://www.online.citibank.co.in/customerservice/dnd-yes-relationship.htm?site=PORTAL&creative=NGX&section=CSDNDYBNR&agencyCode=XER&campaignCode=&productCode=&eOfferCode=CSDNDYBNR

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 81 comments

Uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the first world war

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21591853-century-there-are-uncomfortable-parallels-era-led-outbreak

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 124 comments

Do I Really Need a Programming Language?

http://ayudasystems.tumblr.com/post/71327185334/do-i-really-need-a-programming-language

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 142 comments

The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites

http://bsdly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-blocks-kids-access.html

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 72 comments

Announcing Ubuntu and Android dual boot developer preview

http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-ubuntu-and-android-dual-boot-developer-preview/1359

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 73 comments

React's Diff Algorithm

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/diff

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 21 comments

Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

OpenSkyscraper – an open-source clone (in progress) of SimTower

https://github.com/fabianschuiki/OpenSkyscraper/wiki

13 years ago

★ 590 C++ GPL-2.0
131 upvotes – 41 comments

OpenSSL.org hacked?

http://www.openssl.org/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 91 comments

Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?

https://panopticlick.eff.org

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2006)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 27 comments

ARIN migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL

http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-announce/2013-December/001599.html

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us

http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%

https://www.quantcast.com/rapgenius.com?country=GLOBAL&1=1

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 164 comments

Snowden’s biggest revelation: We don’t know what power is, nor do we care

http://pando.com/2013/12/29/snowdens-biggest-revelation-we-dont-know-what-power-is-anymore-nor-do-we-care/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech

http://thedatingring.tumblr.com/post/71463600468/paul-graham-isnt-keeping-women-out-of-tech-from-ycs

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 166 comments

Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/michelangelos-illustrated-grocery-list.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

British government porn filters block EFF, Linux, Amnesty and more

http://www.tgdaily.com/security-brief/83701-british-government-porn-filters-block-tech-sites

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

ObjClean

http://objclean.com/index.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

CPSC 527 or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Write a Virus

http://danieru.com/2013/12/28/cpsc-527-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-write-a-virus/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

The shok command shell

http://shok.io

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 49 comments

jQuery Deconstructed

http://www.keyframesandcode.com/resources/javascript/deconstructed/jquery/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

Concurrency Models, Rust, and Servo

http://www.lars.com/concurrency/rust/servo/2013/12/21/concurrency-rust-and-servo.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments
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