hackerNews

2

Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (mathwithbaddrawings.com)

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Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies (www.aclu.org)

406 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013062100 198 comments

1

Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment (www.washingtonpost.com)

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1

MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (blog.mariadb.org)

385 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013062003 176 comments

9

Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata (www.schneier.com)

273 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013062006 88 comments

3

Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking (labs.spotify.com)

266 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013062100 79 comments

23

Facebook Blocks Log-ins from TOR Putting Thousands of Activist at Risk (arabcrunch.com)

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3

Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately (blog.torproject.org)

246 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013062006 51 comments

12

Bruce Schneier: Has U.S. started an Internet war? (edition.cnn.com)

222 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062012 110 comments

13

Containers — Not Virtual Machines — Are the Future Cloud (www.linuxjournal.com)

212 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013062009 131 comments

3

OpenStreetMap is the only global non-US maps service (wiki.openstreetmap.org)

212 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013062121 64 comments

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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy [pdf] (papers.ssrn.com)

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Partial Tesla Model S recall (www.teslamotors.com)

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8

NSA Implementing 'Two-Person' Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden (www.forbes.com)

153 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062006 120 comments

5

Show HN: Playable Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (ken-soft.com)

153 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062100 50 comments

7

TypeScript 0.9 released (blogs.msdn.com)

150 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062006 69 comments

10

Realm of Racket (nostarch.com)

146 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013062003 56 comments

14

Show HN: We're releasing SoundBrush, an app that lets you draw music (http://getsoundbrush.com)

143 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062003 63 comments

26

Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee (www.c-spanvideo.org)

133 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061921 119 comments

35

Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account (www.ripton.net)

133 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061918 119 comments

7

NSA Disruption of Stock Exchange Bomb Plot Disputed (www.wired.com)

132 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013062003 77 comments

39

Ask HN: Passive income ideas? (news.ycombinator.com)

131 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013062003 147 comments

9

Bank of America whistle-blower: “We were told to lie” (www.salon.com)

123 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062003 33 comments

9

CallDay.org by StopWatchingUs: Call your representatives about NSA surveillance (http://callday.org)

122 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062003 3 comments

4

NVidia will license their GPU cores to other hardware manufacturers (blogs.nvidia.com)

105 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013062100 67 comments

13

Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad (tamper.io)

101 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062003 76 comments

10

On Scala (www.dehora.net)

100 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013062006 91 comments

24

A London pub now accepts payment in Bitcoin (www.individualpubs.co.uk)

99 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013062000 52 comments

2

The Opa Framework for JavaScript (opalang.org)

97 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2015071303 44 comments

18

Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33 (www.rollingstone.com)

95 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062003 63 comments

19

Functional JavaScript: Closure (blog.fogus.me)

92 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062003 31 comments

19

Ink, company behind Filepicker.io, announces seed round (techcrunch.com)

86 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013062000 29 comments

23

DjangoAdmin 2.0 - rewrite of django.contrib.admin (github.com)

85 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062000 29 comments

19

Sprouts Explained (nrich.maths.org)

84 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061921 13 comments

20

Estimated Cost to Store All US Phonecalls Made in a Year (docs.google.com)

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19

How cash secretly rules surveillance policy (www.salon.com)

81 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062006 9 comments

89

Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to? (news.ycombinator.com)

75 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061906 112 comments

7

Lobster, a game programming language (strlen.com)

73 points first seen 2013061921 last seen 2014112800 19 comments

43

Snowden and the NSA reflect a millennial climate change (www.cringely.com)

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15

NSA Claims Surveillance Programs Aided Stopping Of 50 Attacks; Details Lacking (www.techdirt.com)

69 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062000 46 comments

9

Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 10th July (www.meetup.com)

64 points first seen 2013061921 last seen 2013062006 27 comments

16

Getting Docker to run on Linode (nick.stinemat.es)

63 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013062006 35 comments

44

The Mac Pro from an audio pros perspective (createdigitalmusic.com)

62 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061906 69 comments

18

FiftyThree (cdixon.org)

60 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013062003 30 comments

42

1984, Hungarian Edition (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

59 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061906 68 comments

14

Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app (http://www.radioformac.com)

58 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013062003 51 comments

13

Impending National Distraction, aka Public Relations 101 (medium.com)

57 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062000 16 comments

73

Whistleblowers are not traitors (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)

56 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061909 26 comments

20

ASCII is 50 years old (the60sat50.blogspot.fr)

55 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062000 33 comments

38

Guess You Thought I Was Someone To Mess With (georgiaweidman.com)

54 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013062100 24 comments

24

Google's VP9 web video codec enabled by default in upcoming Chrome (www.h-online.com)

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20

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress (2009) (www.nytimes.com)

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The JVM situation (groups.google.com)

46 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062000 84 comments

18

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge (www.nasa.gov)

46 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013062003 5 comments

7

Build your own Raspberry Pi Espresso Machine hack (blog.zipwhip.com)

46 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013062000 10 comments

26

Discrete Optimization course begins today (www.coursera.org)

45 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062000 18 comments

5

Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor (9muses.se)

42 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013062006 56 comments

24

New Dropbox Homepage (www.dropbox.com)

41 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061915 41 comments

14

Genetic Algorithm For (XKCD) Knapsack Problem (kataklinger.com)

41 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013062006 24 comments

77

Rsync.net Warrant Canary (2006) (rsync.net)

40 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061906 45 comments

10

Low batteries on your Tesla? Swap ‘em out. (blog.sfgate.com)

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Nuke plants to keep PDP-11 UNTIL 2050 (www.theregister.co.uk)

39 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013062000 48 comments

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A sustainable start-up (www.economist.com)

39 points first seen 2013061921 last seen 2013062015 16 comments

25

Internationalizing 99designs (99designs.com)

31 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062000 7 comments

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Introduction to Parallel Python with IPCluster and Wakari (www.wakari.io)

30 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013062000 15 comments

0

Facebook is down (news.ycombinator.com)

30 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061912 21 comments

0

Hacker School Soylent (www.cookingfor20.com)

25 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 25 comments

0

DjangoAdmin2.0 - djangoadmin.org (www.djangoadmin.org)

24 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 4 comments

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Geologists find fault system that could be first signs of future supercontinent (www.wired.co.uk)

24 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061915 4 comments

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Surprising turns in magnetic thin films could lead to better data storage (web.mit.edu)

24 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013062000 3 comments

45

Racket v5.3.5 (blog.racket-lang.org)

22 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061915 3 comments

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Show HN: BoundIt CAPTCHA: highlight objects in photos to prove you're human (http://www.boundit.co)

21 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061921 35 comments

0

Why You Don’t Invite Your Mother to the Office (medium.com)

21 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061912 4 comments

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How Spreedly Raised $300K in 10 Days on AngelList (exitevent.com)

19 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061912 6 comments

0

Come support the Practical Flask book on Kickstarter (robert.io)

18 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 7 comments

42

Who Is the Target of NSA Surveillance? (chronicle.com)

18 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061921 0 comments

37

Using Ember.js and Stripe Checkout (hawkins.io)

17 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061915 2 comments

82

Your 4th Amendment has just been destroyed. (jonathanturley.org)

16 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061909 5 comments

60

Privacy, Search Engines, and Government Monitoring (blog.blekko.com)

15 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061915 5 comments

0

Bicycle helmets haven't changed since their introduction (www.bicycling.com)

14 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 21 comments

0

Stack - Rack for PHP (stackphp.com)

12 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

50

The End of Google+ Games (www.insidesocialgames.com)

12 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013061921 10 comments

54

Git workflow cheatsheet (www.marvinlabs.com)

11 points first seen 2013061921 last seen 2013062003 0 comments

0

Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage - ship your HDDs to Google (developers.google.com)

10 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 9 comments

0

Network effects are not everything (www.nirandfar.com)

9 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

72

Amazon’s Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing (www.wired.com)

9 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061915 0 comments

0

Elon Musk announces secret Model S battery swap feature. (twitter.com)

9 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 2 comments

0

Bugfixes as therapy (zachholman.com)

9 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

63

Snowden versus the dragons (blogs.reuters.com)

9 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013061921 0 comments

0

General Alexander: NSA to implement two-man rule for sysadmins (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 5 comments

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Russia blast: Multiple explosions rock arsenal storing ‘13mln’ shells (rt.com)

8 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061915 0 comments

90

Ask HN: could an EC2 microinstance handle being on TechCrunch or front page HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061912 16 comments

85

Surprise HN: Google Drive can't re-sync your files (productforums.google.com)

8 points first seen 2013061921 last seen 2013062000 0 comments

0

Elon Musk to demonstrate Tesla battery swapping tech on June 20th (www.theverge.com)

7 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

0

The largest artificial neural network is at Stanford, not Google (www.popsci.com)

7 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

63

Obama Invokes Cold-War Security Powers to Unmask Chinese Telecom Spyware (2011) (www.bloomberg.com)

7 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

79

Physicists craft ever more mind-boggling visions of reality (www.aeonmagazine.com)

7 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061909 2 comments

0

The California Public Records Act is threatened by stealth amendments (www.firearmspolicy.org)

7 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

Feds Must Produce NSA Dragnet Records for Criminal Defense (www.courthousenews.com)

7 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

62

Stephen Kaplitt: Cease and Desist Response Letter (www.scribd.com)

7 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061915 0 comments

83

Get a Python subprocess' output without buffering (gist.github.com)

7 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

75

Ask HN: Technical founders: What percentage of your day is coding? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013062403 8 comments

75

Here's How Often Google and Facebook Say Yes to Government Snoops (www.motherjones.com)

6 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

67

Check out the full Bank of America whistleblower details (affidavits) (www.salon.com)

6 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

90

Free ebook on Open Access | The MIT Press by Peter Suber (mitpress.mit.edu)

6 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

Inside HyperLevelDB (hackingdistributed.com)

6 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 4 comments

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Hacker Who Exposed Rape Case Could Get More Jail Time Than Rapists [petition] (act.watchdog.net)

6 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

New GitHub file size limits (github.com)

6 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

75

Verizon iPad SIM card deactivation (macmavenconsulting.com)

6 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061912 2 comments

84

Flames in Microgravity (science.nasa.gov)

6 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

77

GitRec: Your personalized GitHub repo recommender (blog.mortardata.com)

6 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

80

What Happens When You Light a Fire in Space (www.theatlantic.com)

6 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061915 0 comments

0

AMD's first ARM processor (www.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do you manage older employees who report to you? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 3 comments

0

G+ Team Finds Link Tag Fetches CSS 4x Faster (Median) than XHR (plus.google.com)

5 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

0

These words will make you a terrorist (according to NSA) (www.businessinsider.com)

5 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

82

Increase website speed by lazy-loading images (planet.io)

5 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

San Francisco’s Gender, Sexual Preference, Income, Ethnicity, Marital Status (thefrontsteps.com)

5 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 2 comments

0

Performance Profiling Python Part 1 [video] (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

5 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

Stop Watching Us Call Day (callday.org)

5 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

89

YAML Remote Code Execution in Puppet (puppetlabs.com)

5 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

78

Brooklyn's New "Tech Triangle" (gothamist.com)

5 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

0

Show HN: The most popular books on StackOverflow (http://moststacked.com)

5 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

86

Web Tableaus (frankchimero.com)

5 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

88

Google Asks Secret Court for Permission to Publish NSA Request Data (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013061918 0 comments

89

The Latest to Disclose Government Requests, Yahoo Reveals the Least (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013061918 0 comments

0

The real reason to fight nuclear power has nothing to do with health risks (qz.com)

5 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013061918 0 comments

90

Ask HN: Remember if a user has completed a first-use feature tour? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013061918 last seen 2013061921 2 comments

0

Practical Flask Book Project (www.kickstarter.com)

4 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

0

Turn mailing list sign-ups immediately into paying customers (42insights.com)

4 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

0

Is your movie and music preference related? (notes.variogr.am)

4 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

0

Tesla to demo battery swap tech on Thursday night (gigaom.com)

4 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

0

Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking (labs.spotify.com)

4 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

78

The Watchers (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061909 2 comments

0

GE Announces “Predictivity” Platform (allthingsd.com)

4 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

The 9 Characteristics that Make Bitcoin Money (www.thegenesisblock.com)

4 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

4 mics and a computer to produce 3-D model of room (phys.org)

4 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

Heroku founders start Heavybit, a community for developer-focused companies (gigaom.com)

4 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

Ask HN: has anyone else found it hard to get attention for their new startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061912 4 comments

0

Heroku founder launches heavybit industries for developer-focused startups (www.heavybit.com)

4 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

87

The new MacBook Air is the future of the iPad (virtualpants.com)

4 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013061918 2 comments

0

A New Kind of Type System (mcdirmid.github.io)

3 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

0

Boston Bombing Investigation Reveals Government Surveillance of Phone Calls (www.thenewamerican.com)

3 points first seen 2013061900 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

0

Fall of the Titans: China is the new home of the world's fastest computer (www.economist.com)

3 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

0

Ask HN: I've started an OSS decentralized search engine a while ago / need help (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

0

What are the biggest misconceptions about angel investing? (www.quora.com)

3 points first seen 2013061903 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

86

Maker of 'Candy Crush Saga' plans IPO (online.wsj.com)

3 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

Can These iPad Apps Teach Your Kid to Code (allthingsd.com)

3 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

Don't Unit-Test Methods (kaczanowscy.pl)

3 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

Don't Try To Know Everyone (smitpatel.com)

3 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

The Web Cookie Is Dying. Here’s The Creepier Technology That Comes Next (www.forbes.com)

3 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

A near-perfect oninput shim for IE 8 and 9 (benalpert.com)

3 points first seen 2013061906 last seen 2013061906 0 comments

0

Show HN: social polling made beautiful (itunes.apple.com)

3 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 3 comments

0

Show HN: Iframely - self-hosted embeds gateway (MIT) (github.com)

3 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

LCPP – A Lua C Preprocessor (blog.praty.net)

3 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

Tesla Battery Swapping Tech For Long Trips Without Charging Stops (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

0

Onion Pi turns Raspberry Pi into Tor proxy and wireless access point (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2013061909 last seen 2013061909 0 comments

85

Facebook suffers sitewide downtime (allthingsd.com)

3 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061915 0 comments

0

Two accelerators find signs of a particle that nobody can explain (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013061912 0 comments

67

How to ensure freelance transaction is safe on both sides? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013061912 last seen 2013062000 4 comments

0

Ask HN: Twitter Accounts worth Following? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013061915 last seen 2013061915 0 comments

0

Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data (techcrunch.com)

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0

Dim lighting sparks creativity (news.ycombinator.com)