top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-07-26

The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html

12 years ago

EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techniques Unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-judge-rule-nsa-internet-backbone-spying-techniques-unconstitutional

12 years ago

“Learning to Read” excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X

http://www.smccd.net/accounts/bellr/readerlearningtoread.htm

12 years ago

How I ended up conducting successful tech interviews with just 1 question

http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/how-i-ended-up-conducting-the-most-successful-technical-interviews-with-a-single-question/

12 years ago

A Traditional City Primer

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20131204.php#.U9PdSPmSz6A

12 years ago

Ten Thousand Years

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

12 years ago

Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go

https://github.com/xiaq/elvish

12 years ago

★ 1 Go BSD-2-Clause

GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” according to Linus Torvalds

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/24/584

12 years ago

Diary of an atomic bomb technician

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n15/mike-kirby/diary

12 years ago

Mystery in the Perseus Cluster

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/24jul_perseuscluster/

12 years ago

Don't Trust Google (2002)

http://idlewords.com/2002/12/don_t_trust_google.htm

12 years ago

History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms

http://ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/History_of_Lossless_Data_Compression_Algorithms

12 years ago

How PGP Works Under the Hood

http://marcomanzoni.me/blog/how-pgp-works-under-the-hood/

12 years ago

Nigeria 'on red alert' over Ebola death in Lagos

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28498665

12 years ago

LocalForage – An asynchronous data store with a simple, localStorage-like API

http://mozilla.github.io/localForage/#localforage

12 years ago

The Mediocrity Principle

http://edge.org/response-detail/11272

12 years ago

Turn Your Old Cell Phones into Listening Devices to Stop Illegal Logging

http://makezine.com/2014/07/25/turn-your-old-cell-phones-into-diy-environmental-listening-devices-to-stop-illegal-logging/

12 years ago

The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/keyme-let-me-break-in/

12 years ago

Notes from YC Startup School Europe

http://theinflexion.com/blog/2014/07/26/notes-from-startup-school-europe-london/

12 years ago

NASA e-Book Features

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html#.U9P3VNYc2Bs

12 years ago