top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-04-04

Get your own USB PID

http://pid.codes/

11 years ago

528 upvotes – 50 comments

The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1284-the-truth-about-the-bitcoin-foundation/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 266 comments

IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

http://ipfs.io/

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 74 comments

If a Caller Says, 'I Am with the IRS,' He's Not

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/03/397092679/if-a-caller-says-i-am-with-the-irs-hes-not

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 124 comments

Obama signs executive order allowing government to seize hackers assets

https://rare.us/story/obama-just-signed-an-executive-order-that-lets-the-government-seize-suspected-hackers-money-and-stuff/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 110 comments

Some thoughts after (almost) a year of real Xamarin use

http://www.estaun.net/blog/some-thoughts-after-almost-a-year-of-real-xamarin-use/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 109 comments

Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.0.0/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 62 comments

Migrating from Heroku to AWS using Docker

http://blog.doordash.com/post/115409532041/migrating-from-heroku-to-aws-using-docker

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 54 comments

Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 42 comments

The lack of HTTPS at Amazon: identifying items purchased via information leakage

http://smerity.com/articles/2015/amazon_information_leakage.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Tor Project Launches Summer of Privacy

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/TorSoP

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 8 comments

Cheese changed the course of Western civilization

http://qz.com/371839/cheese-changed-the-course-of-western-civilization/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

Steven Weinberg: Science books for the general reader

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/03/steven-weinberg-13-best-science-books-general-reader

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Estonia's e-residency program expands abroad

https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/apply-2/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 54 comments

x86 Disassembly

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 28 comments

Georgia: Why so many counties?

http://jimcofer.com/personal/2011/05/18/georgia-why-so-many-counties/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 42 comments

Edelson’s Class-Action Privacy Suits Could Make Him Tech’s Least Friended Man

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 91 comments

The Digital Music Industry Is Inept (2012)

http://www.bennjordan.com/blog/?p=499

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

GNU Recutils – Tools and libraries to access plain-text databases

http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

The Last Man to Beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. Still Regrets It

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/sports/the-last-man-to-beat-floyd-mayweather-jr-still-regrets-it.html?smid=fb-nytimes&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&bicmp=AD&smtyp=aut&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments
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