hackerNews

40

Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS) (foaas.com)

449 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072009 104 comments

1

“What Is That Box?” — When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company (www.readability.com)

312 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072206 92 comments

1

TCP ex Machina: Computer-generated congestion control from the authors of Mosh (web.mit.edu)

273 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2014080606 39 comments

2

The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood (www.slate.com)

261 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072300 165 comments

9

NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say (www.wired.com)

232 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072203 137 comments

1

Apple Dev Center outage (28 hours and counting) (developer.apple.com)

217 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072218 137 comments

12

Tell HN: stop complaining about Gmail ads and switch (to FastMail) (www.maxmasnick.com)

207 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072206 215 comments

6

Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi (jack.minardi.org)

192 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072218 87 comments

8

Biggest Virus Yet Found, May Be Fourth Domain of Life? (news.nationalgeographic.com)

174 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072206 66 comments

25

New NSFW content restrictions enrage Tumblr users (www.dailydot.com)

159 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072103 119 comments

7

How I Earned A Lot More on Projects by Changing My Pricing Strategy (sixrevisions.com)

150 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072218 66 comments

5

Gmail now features ads that look like emails (marketingland.com)

148 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072218 61 comments

4

Thanks For The Identity Theft, Yahoo (b0ing.me)

146 points first seen 2013072021 last seen 2013072121 58 comments

5

Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Speeders (sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)

139 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072106 138 comments

4

J.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Literary Fame (www.bloomberg.com)

136 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072203 90 comments

6

How a hobbyist game dev broke into the App Store's top 25 (www.gamasutra.com)

136 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072206 42 comments

12

Forbidden Island, U.S.A. (www.neatorama.com)

126 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072206 28 comments

19

White House silent on renewal of NSA court order (www.guardian.co.uk)

125 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072100 24 comments

16

Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10% (www.google.com)

124 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072203 288 comments

3

Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship (staff.tumblr.com)

110 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072206 61 comments

6

ClojureScript Core.async Todos (rigsomelight.com)

109 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072203 51 comments

7

Books and papers every graduate student should read (matt.might.net)

103 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072203 46 comments

55

House of Lords debates pardon for Alan Turing (bbc.co.uk)

99 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072015 145 comments

9

Cassini to image the Earth tonight (saturn.jpl.nasa.gov)

97 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072121 35 comments

10

Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit (pandodaily.com)

97 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072203 95 comments

4

Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website (www.yalelawtech.org)

94 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072118 84 comments

5

Rocket Engine Pulled From the Ocean Definitely Belonged to Apollo 11 (www.wired.com)

86 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072203 0 comments

4

Do You Google Yourself? Are You Hiring? (priceonomics.com)

84 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072206 23 comments

15

Code Search API (github.com)

76 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072112 22 comments

11

Isla: a programming language for young children (github.com)

75 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072109 70 comments

13

How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? (2009) (downloadsquad.switched.com)

74 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072118 50 comments

11

Netbeans 7.4 beta with awesome set of features (wiki.netbeans.org)

73 points first seen 2013072021 last seen 2013072206 42 comments

14

Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement (klabs.org)

67 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072118 10 comments

8

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff (www.nytimes.com)

66 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072109 62 comments

15

Rackspace releases CLI for managing cloud via Ruby (rackerlabs.github.io)

58 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072115 11 comments

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A snapshot of your computer with dd, pv and gzip - Part 1 (allgood38.github.io)

57 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072103 32 comments

17

Why I hate read receipts (arstechnica.com)

54 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072115 39 comments

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Why This Hacker Stood Up Against ‘Verbal Abuse’ in Linux Land (www.wired.com)

52 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072003 124 comments

23

Your Startup’s Office Is Missing a Room (tomtunguz.com)

52 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072106 25 comments

18

SML#: a new Standard ML family programming language (www.pllab.riec.tohoku.ac.jp)

52 points first seen 2013072015 last seen 2013072200 25 comments

46

How a Theoretical Claim About the NSA Magically Transformed Into Factual Reality (thedailybanter.com)

51 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072006 30 comments

46

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft (en.wikipedia.org)

51 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072100 23 comments

9

Twitter / paulg: We installed Nest thermostats ... (twitter.com)

51 points first seen 2013072021 last seen 2013072100 40 comments

23

Yesod in Production (joelt.io)

48 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072121 5 comments

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In Major Ruling, Court Orders Times Reporter to Testify (www.nytimes.com)

47 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072021 31 comments

17

Narrato – a personal journal you won’t give up on (blog.narrato.co)

46 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072103 45 comments

25

Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph [pdf] (www.facebook.com)

46 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072103 5 comments

14

Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics (www.newscientist.com)

46 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072118 8 comments

20

Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing (david-smith.org)

42 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072100 22 comments

0

Github.com is down (is-it-down.com)

38 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072000 49 comments

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NSA denies my FOIA request (blog.erratasec.com)

37 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072100 3 comments

20

Italian Mafia tested drones decades before the US used them in Afghanistan (theaviationist.com)

36 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072100 11 comments

55

21 years ago one of the most active judge in mafia fight was killed (www.internazionale.it)

36 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072003 13 comments

7

Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012) (www.wired.com)

36 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072121 10 comments

24

How to Decide if a New Hire Will Be a Team Player in the Interview (www.linkedin.com)

33 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072021 53 comments

0

The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science (www.motherjones.com)

31 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072006 45 comments

83

Self-replicating alien probes could already be here (phys.org)

30 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072003 47 comments

38

Hitting China’s Wall (www.readability.com)

28 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072100 11 comments

43

Alan Turing to receive posthumous pardon (www.guardian.co.uk)

28 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072109 2 comments

37

Weak PC Market Catches Up to Microsoft (www.nytimes.com)

27 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072021 50 comments

67

Show HN: We built the easiest way to learn AngularJS (www.thinkster.io)

27 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072012 10 comments

57

Orbs CCG (YC S13) takes to Kickstarter to reinvent Magic: The Gathering (techcrunch.com)

25 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072018 21 comments

30

Federal Research Suggests New Approach to Teaching Fractions (www.edweek.org)

24 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072021 18 comments

21

The cost of hustling (blog.method.ac)

24 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072112 9 comments

35

Google Glass has new rival in GlassUp smart specs (www.itproportal.com)

23 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072100 17 comments

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The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Part 2 (500.co)

22 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072100 3 comments

0

GitHub is "experiencing major service outages" (twitter.com)

21 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072000 33 comments

0

Microsoft’s shares sink almost 10 percent (www.fixedbyvonnie.com)

20 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072003 26 comments

51

Adult Tumblr blogs now removed from every form of search possible (www.zdnet.com)

17 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072009 0 comments

30

How to use your own Docker Registry (blog.docker.io)

17 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013092003 2 comments

33

How Retail Stores Track You Using Your Smartphone (lifehacker.com)

15 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072006 7 comments

36

The word "intuitive" isn't (2008) (weblog.raganwald.com)

14 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072015 0 comments

0

How to Build a Software Consultancy in the Middle of Nowhere (marcusblankenship.com)

12 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072006 0 comments

79

How yield will transform Node.js (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

12 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072021 0 comments

38

TweetNaCL (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

12 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072106 0 comments

47

Remy: Computer-Generated TCP Congestion Control (web.mit.edu)

10 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072015 0 comments

53

Show HN: ParcelKit integrates Core Data with Dropbox Datastore API (github.com)

9 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072015 6 comments

43

Build a real time follow-me navigation system using Meteor.js (blog.mindmeld.io)

9 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072021 0 comments

56

What Actually Happens At The End Of Trading Places? (www.npr.org)

9 points first seen 2013072015 last seen 2013072100 0 comments

51

Show HN: GeoGuesser for iOS - Street View location guessing game (itunes.apple.com)

8 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072015 9 comments

71

U.S. Government Gets Approval to Keep Tracking Phone Records (allthingsd.com)

8 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072018 0 comments

41

Yes, JavaScript is a Lisp (raganwald.com)

8 points first seen 2013072015 last seen 2013072100 0 comments

54

Has Mozilla Lost Its Values? (www.iab.net)

8 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072103 6 comments

64

Application Mimetypes and Encodings (lucumr.pocoo.org)

7 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072006 0 comments

0

Grunt by Example - A Tutorial for JavaScript's Task Runner (www.brianchu.com)

7 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072003 0 comments

77

Rejuvenating the ternary conditional with optionals (mortoray.com)

7 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072012 0 comments

84

18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style | Death and Taxes (www.deathandtaxesmag.com)

7 points first seen 2013072015 last seen 2013072018 0 comments

81

Canada's Former Defence Minister Claims that Aliens Are Real (www.vice.com)

6 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072006 5 comments

74

50 Organizations Send Letter to Congress Urging Solutions to Patent Abuse (www.patentfairness.org)

6 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072012 2 comments

86

Gmail new compose now has a full-screen option (plus.google.com)

6 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072009 0 comments

76

Star Wars home of Anakin Skywalker threatened by dune (www.bbc.co.uk)

6 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072012 3 comments

0

Disney's Crazy Invention Lets You Feel Phantom Objects Floating In Air (www.fastcodesign.com)

6 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072009 0 comments

79

I started a side project last year that has over 1K users – now what? (petercorsaro.com)

6 points first seen 2013072015 last seen 2013072021 6 comments

64

How Interval Training Can Make You Incredibly Efficient at Work (dealbook.nytimes.com)

6 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072100 0 comments

75

CERN experiments put Standard Model to stringent test (press.web.cern.ch)

5 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072003 0 comments

79

How An Engineering Toy For Girls Went From Kickstarter To Bestseller (readwrite.com)

5 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072003 0 comments

0

What Really Makes Free Mobile Apps So Profitable? (blog.converser.io)

5 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072003 3 comments

87

Microsoft attacks iPad to unload Surface RT inventory (news.cnet.com)

5 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072009 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do you manage your photos? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072006 4 comments

68

Ask HN: Best way to find a better job without contacts (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013082315 6 comments

0

Ex-CIA chief accuses Huawei of industrial espionage (www.telegraph.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072006 0 comments

0

WhatTheBit: Google fired 5,383 Motorola Mobility employees in Q2 (www.androidbeat.com)

5 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072006 0 comments

0

Ask HN: It felt like dying (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072009 3 comments

64

Gunpoint (indy game) successful - author quits day job (www.pentadact.com)

5 points first seen 2013072021 last seen 2013072100 0 comments

82

Close Encounters of the Turd Kind in NASA's Apollo 10 Transcripts (laughingsquid.com)

4 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072003 0 comments

0

Ask HN: which linux is better for web devs? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072000 4 comments

78

Guaranteeing memory safety in Rust [slides] (smallcultfollowing.com)

4 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072003 0 comments

89

What kind of queries are bad for MySQL? (www.mysqlperformanceblog.com)

4 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072006 0 comments

0

Writing Documentation (stormpath.com)

4 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072003 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How could I automate the process of cleaning up my folder structure? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072003 4 comments

69

Create A Lexical Analyzer With Python (caisbalderas.com)

4 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072009 2 comments

81

Beat the Series A Crunch, Sell Your Team on DeveloperAuction (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072012 0 comments

83

Renewing Authority to Collect Telephony Metadata (www.dni.gov)

4 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072012 0 comments

86

Things I learned in my 1st year of self employment (joshrives.com)

4 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072012 0 comments

0

Mark Zuckerberg Spied on for Privacy Documentary (www.telegraph.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072009 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What is the best program to produce graphs? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072009 4 comments

0

Offer HN : MVP for 200$ (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072009 3 comments

0

Microsoft responds to Apple Dev Center outage (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2013072009 last seen 2013072009 0 comments

73

Cute 1.8″ LCDs for your Microcontroller Projects (georgeinenglish.com)

4 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072015 0 comments

0

Apple Said to Buy HopStop, Pushing Deeper Into Maps (mobile.bloomberg.com)

4 points first seen 2013072012 last seen 2013072012 0 comments

89

Using flash cards to improve your programming skills (peterevjan.com)

4 points first seen 2013072015 last seen 2013072018 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Any cool innovation in e-commerce startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013072015 last seen 2013072015 0 comments

0

This Is What Fracking Really Looks Like (www.slate.com)

4 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072018 2 comments

62

Meet Mikey. A better way to find things in your Gmail. (chrome.google.com)

4 points first seen 2013072018 last seen 2013072021 5 comments

0

What to do? Technical interview where interviewer stubbornly gets Big-O wrong. (www.reddit.com)

3 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072000 0 comments

0

Why Microsoft's Surface RT Failed (mashable.com)

3 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072000 2 comments

0

Notes on "Do Things That Don't Scale" (startups.mheroin.com)

3 points first seen 2013072000 last seen 2013072000 0 comments

0

How my startup Shopstarter helps funded Kickstarters (mashable.com)

3 points first seen 2013072003 last seen 2013072003 0 comments

89

Snowden Standoff Threatens Obama-Putin Moscow Summit (www.bloomberg.com)

3 points first seen 2013072006 last seen 2013072009 0 comments

0

Jeff Bezos' hobby: Scavenging NASA debris from the ocean floor (www.latimes.com)