top 50% 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

To Get a Home in San Francisco, First Get a $200,000-a-Year Job

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/to-get-a-home-in-san-francisco-first-get-a-200000-a-year-job-1375/?mod=WSJBlog

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 167 comments

Elm 0.12.3 – Hardware accelerated 3D rendering with WebGL

http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.3.elm

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 37 comments

The pitfalls of allowing file uploads on your website

http://blog.detectify.com/post/86298380233/the-pitfalls-of-allowing-file-uploads-on-your-website

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dear-google-parody-not-trademark-infringement

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Starting An Airline

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/startup/index.page

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 68 comments

Unions and Airlines (2010)

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 72 comments

Uncss – Find unused CSS

http://davidwalsh.name/uncss

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

Sacked Google worker awarded €110,000 for unfair dismissal

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/sacked-google-worker-awarded-110-000-for-unfair-dismissal-1.1802900

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent development and deployment

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/docker-lightweight-linux-containers-consistent-development-and-deployment

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

For Workers, Less Flexible Companies

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/business/for-workers-less-flexible-companies.html?hp

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Disneyland's original prospectus (1953)

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/20/disneylandprospectus.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Convert your iOS App into a PSD file

https://github.com/vpdn/MMLayershots

12 years ago

★ 996 Objective-C MIT
81 upvotes – 9 comments

Why is San Francisco public transportation so bad?

http://www.alexmedearis.com/why-is-san-franciscos-public-transportation-so-bad/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 110 comments

The Inside Story of Oculus Rift

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

OPW Linux kernel intern develops QR code for Oops messages

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/773488-opw-intern-develops-qr-code-for-linux-kernel-oops-messages

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

You are what you document

http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2014/05/you-are-what-you-document.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Everything Is Broken – The Message

https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 2 comments
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