top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-19

Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057287

12 years ago

Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iOS_Backdoors_Attack_Points_Surveillance_Mechanisms.pdf

12 years ago

Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/ars-editor-learns-feds-have-his-old-ip-addresses-full-credit-card-numbers

12 years ago

The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalisation of drug use

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/world-health-organization-calls-decriminalisation-drug-use

12 years ago

Sana'a

http://idlewords.com/2014/07/sana_a.htm

12 years ago

Introduction to Coreboot, an open source BIOS

http://lennartb.home.xs4all.nl/coreboot/coreboot.html

12 years ago

Conspiracy and an off-by-one error

https://gist.github.com/klaufir/d1e694c064322a7fbc15

12 years ago

How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito in the Jim Crow Era

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/07/19/332380449/how-turbans-helped-some-blacks-go-incognito-in-the-jim-crow-era

12 years ago

Linus Torvalds gives a tour of his home office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuS-3HSnpq4

12 years ago

Ignoring the amount customers confirm is no security bug according to PayPal

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jul/85

12 years ago

U.S. Senator blasts Microsoft's H-1B push as it lays off 18,000 workers

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249837/U.S._Senator_blasts_Microsoft_s_H_1B_push_as_it_lays_off_18_000_workers

12 years ago

Escher: A language for programming in metaphors

https://github.com/gocircuit/escher

12 years ago

★ 729 Go Apache-2.0

MiniLock – File encryption software that does more with less

http://minilock.io/

12 years ago

Executive Order 12333: The Reagan rule that lets the NSA spy on Americans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-executive-order-12333-the-reagan-rule-that-lets-the-nsa-spy-on-americans/2014/07/18/93d2ac22-0b93-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html

12 years ago

The Middle East Friendship Chart

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/07/17/the_middle_east_friendship_chart.html

12 years ago

Squatter doesn't sit well with Airbnb host

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Squatters-don-t-sit-well-with-Airbnb-hosts-5631952.php

12 years ago

Azure Machine Learning: A Brief Introduction

https://projectbotticelli.com/knowledge/brief-introduction-to-microsoft-azure-ml?

12 years ago

Computer memory that can store about 1TB on device the size of a postage stamp

http://www.kurzweilai.net/rices-silicon-oxide-memories-catch-manufacturers-eye

12 years ago

Interactive real-time raytracing in WebGL

http://www.jonathan-olson.com/tesserace/tests/3d.html

12 years ago

Dungeons and Dragons Saved My Life

http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/07/dungeons-dragons-saved-my-life.html

12 years ago

HSTS for new TLDs

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/07/06/newtlds.html

12 years ago

HOPE X Streaming Live

http://hope.net/stream.html

12 years ago

Trnio – Turn your iPhone into a 3D scanner

http://www.trnio.com

12 years ago

HTML Canvas in the terminal

https://github.com/madbence/node-drawille-canvas

12 years ago

★ 386 JavaScript

ECryptfs Security Audit

https://defuse.ca/audits/ecryptfs.htm

12 years ago

AnimGIFs need a better codec

https://pornel.net/efficient-gifs

12 years ago

Don’t Blame Malaysia Airlines

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/opinion/malaysia-airlines-flight-17-the-ukraine-wars-victim.html

12 years ago

Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057442

12 years ago

Apple's 1986 Clothing Collection

http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/3900/apples-1986-clothing-collection

12 years ago

Oregon geologist says Curiosity's images show Earth-like soils on Mars

http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2014/7/oregon-geologist-says-curiositys-images-show-earth-soils-mars

12 years ago