top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-05-20

Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email

12 years ago

806 upvotes – 226 comments

Level3 is without peer, now what to do?

http://www.cringely.com/2014/05/06/14890/

12 years ago

781 upvotes – 382 comments

Using the wrong dictionary

http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionar

12 years ago

635 upvotes – 138 comments

New DuckDuckGo design

https://duckduckgo.com/whatsnew

12 years ago

614 upvotes – 214 comments

When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick

https://speakerdeck.com/ange/when-aes-equals-episode-v

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 34 comments

China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/20/us-microsoft-china-idUSBREA4J07Q20140520

12 years ago

286 upvotes – 142 comments

Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/20/5734102/surface-pro-3-features-pricing-announcement

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 315 comments

Questions for Donald Knuth

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.mc_id=Author_Knuth_20Questions

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 58 comments

Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful

https://www.igvita.com/2015/05/20/script-injected-async-scripts-considered-harmful/

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 56 comments

The desktop and the developer

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/31714.htm

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 301 comments

Erlang and code style

https://medium.com/p/b5936dceb5e4

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 57 comments

How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/how-a-raccoon-became-an-aardvark.html

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 93 comments

Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999)

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/mig.html

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 54 comments

808 Cube

http://www.808cube.com/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 43 comments

This png encrypts to the same image

https://i.imgur.com/WRxFKdq.png

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 37 comments

Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/space-hackers-prepare-to-reboot-35-year-old-spacecraft

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 50 comments

As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/312158516/increasing-court-fees-punish-the-poor

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 49 comments

Try-catch speeding up my code?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8928403/try-catch-speeding-up-my-code

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 59 comments

The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

http://russolsen.com/blog/2012/08/09/the-best-programming-advice-i-ever-got/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 50 comments

Thoughts on Martini – Introducing Negroni

http://codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martini/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments
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