hackerNews

1

Metadata doesn't matter? Six months of phone meta-data, visualised (www.zeit.de)

550 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070400 72 comments

1

"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

427 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070300 352 comments

1

Startup investing trends (www.paulgraham.com)

357 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070300 143 comments

1

New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations (gigaom.com)

270 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070203 52 comments

2

Firefox OS devices officially launch (blog.mozilla.org)

253 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070303 187 comments

15

Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him (www.nytimes.com)

220 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070203 73 comments

7

The Rise Of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business (www.forbes.com)

198 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070212 74 comments

6

Germany's Greens say Snowden should get safe haven in Europe (news.yahoo.com)

196 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070221 53 comments

2

German Supreme Prosecution Service investigates now against NSA (translate.google.com)

179 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070121 40 comments

2

Show HN: Nightweb, the anonymous P2P social network, now runs on the desktop (https://nightweb.net)

177 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070206 62 comments

7

Germany Minister of Justice demands immediate response to US spying on Germany (translate.google.com)

167 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070200 19 comments

6

Algorithms (compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu)

166 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070300 13 comments

4

NSA officially confirms PRISM (www.nsa.gov)

155 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070118 162 comments

3

Omni: The "Oculus Rift" of 3D Treadmills (www.kickstarter.com)

153 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070221 111 comments

10

EU threatens to cancel upcoming free trade agreement with the USA (translate.google.com)

137 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070200 135 comments

7

Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken: chicken chicken programming language (torso.me)

137 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070300 69 comments

5

Lessig's Response to: "Why is Larry Lessig plugging Palantir?" (lessig.tumblr.com)

132 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070209 63 comments

19

Julian Assange: Edward Snowden is ‘marooned in Russia’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

130 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070121 96 comments

8

AlloyUI (alloyui.com)

124 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070203 22 comments

6

When Are the Intelligent Aliens? (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

115 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070203 92 comments

9

Playing dirty - how my competitors bought my appstore reviews (www.neotokyo.vg)

109 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070300 52 comments

13

Misinformation on NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials (www.washingtonpost.com)

104 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070206 25 comments

12

Study material for tech interviews (http://www.geeksforgeeks.org)

99 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070203 17 comments

9

A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time (searchengineland.com)

97 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070212 48 comments

8

Do not expose your users to tracking. Use share links not java scripts (www.garron.me)

93 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070203 58 comments

9

TCP simultaneous open and peer to peer networking (rachelbythebay.com)

89 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070300 49 comments

11

Delightful Puzzles (gurmeet.net)

88 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070203 7 comments

9

Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django & Rails applications in seconds. (http://www.runkite.com)

85 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070200 24 comments

12

Things I Do With My Raspberry Pi (magnatecha.com)

78 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070206 48 comments

11

Learn java in Minutes (learnxinyminutes.com)

73 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070209 49 comments

0

Deleted Article by The Guardian (pastebin.com)

68 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070100 8 comments

18

Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent (supmua.org)

67 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070121 30 comments

11

PuTTY Tray (puttytray.goeswhere.com)

67 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070300 48 comments

22

Nicole Wong, former top lawyer for Google and Twitter, is the new deputy US CTO (qz.com)

65 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070121 10 comments

28

Why do Americans not drive diesels? (www.bbc.com)

64 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2015032600 147 comments

10

CSS Loaders and Spinners (codepen.io)

64 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070221 22 comments

17

A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings (www.linkedin.com)

64 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070221 24 comments

14

CoderPad (coderpad.io)

62 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070212 42 comments

35

What it really means to be a “junior” developer. (medium.com)

60 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070203 56 comments

18

RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC (blog.twelephone.com)

58 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070200 40 comments

13

Paul Graham’s Prescription For VCs: Move Fast, Take Less Equity (techcrunch.com)

58 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070203 19 comments

5

On Medium (www.tbray.org)

57 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070203 54 comments

16

How to Build a HUD for your Car (bwongtech.blogspot.com)

53 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070200 17 comments

16

First Firefox OS phone comes out in Spain for 69 euro (incl 30 euro credit) (news.cnet.com)

51 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070221 25 comments

17

Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

49 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070121 38 comments

20

The Interlisp Programming Environment (1981) [pdf] (www.ics.uci.edu)

49 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070121 9 comments

40

The End of Car Culture (www.nytimes.com)

49 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070121 66 comments

78

Ask HN: I am 35 years old with no degree – can I still program? (news.ycombinator.com)

48 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070121 55 comments

22

Show HN: an API to extract text from a PDF (stamplin.com)

47 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070121 31 comments

52

Booz Allen Hamilton hiring quantum information physicist (www.clearancejobs.com)

47 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070115 18 comments

20

Bitcoin: Argentinean fever for the digital money machine (translate.google.com)

46 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070203 6 comments

19

Practicing privacy: Encryption (matt.might.net)

45 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070121 17 comments

16

Show HN : Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular (geekuillaume.github.io)

41 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070121 17 comments

21

Superconductor – real-time data visualization using WebCL, WebGL, Web Workers (superconductor.github.io)

40 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070121 14 comments

21

Memory and Native Code Performance (www.infoq.com)

38 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070200 15 comments

38

Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints (www.nytimes.com)

28 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070121 13 comments

30

Objective-C Lessons from Go (mackross.net)

27 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070206 6 comments

88

How the Bitcoin 1% manipulate the currency, deceive its user community (blog.p2pfoundation.net)

26 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070109 28 comments

26

Statement by EU Rep Catherine Ashton on the alleged surveillance of EU premises (www.consilium.europa.eu)

26 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070121 4 comments

62

Reddit co-founder: Tech companies can help fight NSA snooping [video] (www.rawstory.com)

25 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070112 8 comments

31

Dylan Hack-a-thon: July 13-14, 2013 (opendylan.org)

21 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070121 3 comments

29

Usenix ATC best student paper award on distributed storage (www.stanford.edu)

21 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070206 2 comments

24

Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones (blog.mozilla.org)

19 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070203 2 comments

32

Sparse matrix multiplication using SQL (notes.mindprince.in)

18 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070121 6 comments

40

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Can't Tell You About NSA Abuses (theatlantic.com)

16 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070200 0 comments

82

New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies (www.guardian.co.uk)

15 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

27

First official Brain-Computer Interface journal coming in January 2014 (neurogadget.com)

15 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070200 5 comments

65

How long can Edward Snowden stay in the Moscow airport? (travel.stackexchange.com)

12 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070106 5 comments

55

Ask HN: Best online CS degree program? (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070115 7 comments

87

Show HN: Weekend Project - Hacking the Square Reader (andybromberg.com)

11 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

70

Why Germany Should Offer Snowden Asylum (nationalinterest.org)

11 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070115 3 comments

51

India’s new surveillance network will make the NSA green with envy (qz.com)

10 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070106 0 comments

85

EU Officials Furious at NSA Spying in Brussels and Germany (www.spiegel.de)

10 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070115 0 comments

40

Show HN: hubot-control - webapp for managing hubots (github.com)

10 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070200 12 comments

81

It is hopeless, but I still can't accept it (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070121 34 comments

52

Girls' Legos Are A Hit, But Why Do Girls Need Special Legos? (www.npr.org)

9 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070109 9 comments

49

Show HN: Grrrid, an RSS reader focused on images (http://grrrid.com)

9 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070115 20 comments

0

Take back control II (christian.hofstaedtler.name)

9 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070109 7 comments

0

Holy Light: A Vim plugin to change the background depending on the ambient light (github.com)

9 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070121 2 comments

68

Ask HN: Why programmers should use Vim? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070200 13 comments

41

Ternary operator is twice as slow as an if-else block? (stackoverflow.com)

8 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070106 2 comments

0

Washington Post releases four new slides from NSA's Prism presentation (www.guardian.co.uk)

7 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070106 0 comments

72

Ask PG: How will crowd-funding affect YC and the VC industry? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070118 2 comments

64

Inconsistency-tolerant logics (en.m.wikipedia.org)

6 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070106 0 comments

62

Selling Haitian Coffeee to American Hipsters (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070106 0 comments

81

Google Reader open source alternative and Feature list (gist.github.com)

6 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070109 2 comments

64

Understanding Common Factor Attacks: An RSA-Cracking Puzzle (www.loyalty.org)

6 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070115 0 comments

63

Foxconn to speed up robot deployment; 20,000 robots already in its factories (www.itworld.com)

6 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070118 0 comments

65

Man sticks finger in a saw to demonstrate his safety invention [video] (www.minds.com)

6 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070118 5 comments

0

HN Suggestion: Can we please set links to open in a a new tab by default? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070103 3 comments

0

NSA: Spying unacceptable for France, will affect transatlantic negotiations (translate.google.com)

5 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070103 0 comments

71

The forgotten streams of New York (narrative.ly)

5 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

73

China's 'Shadow Banking' And How It Threatens The Economy (www.npr.org)

5 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070115 0 comments

80

Blackberry's Future (www.mondaynote.com)

5 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070115 4 comments

71

Show HN: A minimal feed reader that uses ML to streamline your reading list (http://readuction.com)

5 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070200 0 comments

0

Can we make ourselves happier? (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070100 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Why are you still working for the NSA? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070106 3 comments

0

Kepler-70b (most hot known planet, also made of metal) (en.wikipedia.org)

4 points first seen 2013070106 last seen 2013070106 0 comments

66

Gastroenterology cam: do we really "digest" processed food? (www.stefanibardin.net)

4 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

81

I18n is a hard and largely unsolved problem (wilmsmann.fullmontymedia.com)

4 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

83

OpenGL Vertex Buffer Object demo in Python/Pygame (jason-spashett.blogspot.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

88

We need a Rapid Response Internet Task Force (sina.is)

4 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Good technology podcasts? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070112 4 comments

0

How to Write a Personal Story (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2013070115 last seen 2013070115 0 comments

0

Job Title Key to Inner Access Held by Snowden (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070121 0 comments

0

Physicists create tabletop antimatter gun (phys.org)

3 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070100 0 comments

0

Parallella's hardware sources open-sourced (www.parallella.org)

3 points first seen 2013070100 last seen 2013070100 0 comments

0

SaaS - what to focus on during closed beta (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013070103 last seen 2013070103 0 comments

78

Obama pledges $7 billion to upgrade power in Africa (www.cp-africa.com)

3 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070112 3 comments

0

Life's soundtrack (shadyacres.tumblr.com)

3 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070109 0 comments

0

CEO pay basically not tied to any kind of reality at all (report) (venturebeat.com)

3 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070109 0 comments

0

Why web apps should use Elasticsearch (www.slant.co)

3 points first seen 2013070109 last seen 2013070109 0 comments

0

The #Hustle - My Startup has 30 Days to Live (mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com)

3 points first seen 2013070112 last seen 2013070112 0 comments

0

XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes For Big Data (highscalability.com)

3 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070121 0 comments

0

Firefox v25 completely breaks plugins.clickToPlay option (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

3 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070121 0 comments

0

Design Trend: Long Shadow Design (web3canvas.com)

3 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070121 2 comments

0

How to Buy an Email List (ryanluedecke.com)

3 points first seen 2013070121 last seen 2013070121 0 comments

33

Automation Engineer at Perfect Audience – High Volume, 100% uptime (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2013070118 last seen 2013070203 0 comments