hackerNews

7

Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation (www.theguardian.com)

1415 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013082200 448 comments

6

How Obama misled public when he said protected channels existed for Snowden (www.salon.com)

271 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013081915 111 comments

2

Chesscademy, a free chess learning site (http://chesscademy.com)

217 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013082112 66 comments

25

Amnesty International on the detention of Greenwald's partner (www.amnesty.org)

207 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081921 44 comments

3

PostgreSQL Basics by Example (darthdeus.github.io)

207 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013082100 48 comments

0

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours (www.theguardian.com)

206 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081906 79 comments

5

OpenDesk - Open Source Furniture (https://www.opendesk.cc)

187 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013082018 50 comments

1

Notch puts 0x10c on ice (www.usgamer.net)

186 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082100 107 comments

3

Goread - Open Source Google Reader clone in Go (www.goread.io)

182 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082103 67 comments

4

Open Source Google App Engine Clone (github.com)

176 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013082100 41 comments

5

Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong’ With Jobs Movie [video] (www.bloomberg.com)

170 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013082100 123 comments

29

Cameron Proves Greenwald Right (dish.andrewsullivan.com)

166 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082006 30 comments

6

I hate the Pumping Lemma (bosker.wordpress.com)

163 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013082100 48 comments

9

JVM Languages Will Never Be the Same Again [pdf] (lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at)

153 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013082006 86 comments

8

How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions (coryg89.github.io)

148 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013082006 30 comments

29

The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (github.com)

148 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081921 59 comments

6

An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About (www.nytimes.com)

147 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013082103 94 comments

2

Court Holds That Circumventing IP Address Ban Is “Access Without Authorization” (www.volokh.com)

143 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013082018 129 comments

4

Directed graph editor sample with D3.js (bl.ocks.org)

130 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013082006 21 comments

6

An open source HTML/CSS framework for prototyping native touch applications (getclank.com)

130 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013082006 32 comments

2

Update on STM (morepypy.blogspot.com)

129 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013082006 5 comments

23

SF fire chief bans helmet cameras in wake of crash (www.sfgate.com)

123 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013082003 48 comments

18

Beautiful Native Libraries (lucumr.pocoo.org)

113 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082100 30 comments

4

IronPigeon - Decentralized communication protocol for sending secure messages (github.com)

112 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013082100 41 comments

3

DSP in Go (github.com)

110 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013082100 15 comments

9

Here’s what you find when you scan the entire Internet in an hour (www.washingtonpost.com)

98 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013082003 40 comments

12

Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6 (www.sencha.com)

89 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082100 51 comments

9

How to quickly become effective when joining a new company (www.drmaciver.com)

87 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082006 26 comments

4

Rewriting a large production system in Go (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)

83 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2015042800 17 comments

12

Show HN: Xpressive - CSS3 Live Design Tool for Mac OSX (xpressive.org)

81 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013082003 23 comments

14

Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem (medium.com)

81 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013082021 61 comments

10

Sci-Fi Author Iain M. Banks Gets Asteroid Named after Him (minorplanetcenter.net)

79 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013082021 22 comments

36

Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism (www.theatlantic.com)

73 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081915 40 comments

13

Why I'm Learning Morse Code (burakkanber.com)

71 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013082003 65 comments

10

The Road to Luna - How Elementary OS's designers become developers. (elementaryos.org)

67 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013081921 68 comments

8

Understanding Slices in Go (www.goinggo.net)

67 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082021 10 comments

0

Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation (2011) (lwn.net)

66 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013081900 10 comments

14

Hacker Posts Facebook Bug Report on Mark Zuckerberg’s Wall (arabcrunch.com)

66 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013081903 41 comments

13

Knowing When It’s Time to Move On (medium.com)

59 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013082003 21 comments

12

ZeroBrane Studio – Lua IDE with code analyzer, live coding (studio.zerobrane.com)

56 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013082006 11 comments

16

Black Hole Analogue Discovered in South Atlantic (www.technologyreview.com)

55 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082018 17 comments

9

Introduction to Golang (www.altdevblogaday.com)

52 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081918 62 comments

11

The history of Unix is as much about collaboration as it is about technology (www.landley.net)

52 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013082006 4 comments

25

Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour (www.kickstarter.com)

52 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013082000 55 comments

15

Genetically modified crops pass benefits to weeds (www.nature.com)

50 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082012 45 comments

20

Quipu (en.wikipedia.org)

46 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013082000 23 comments

8

Behind The Scenes At Homejoy, A Cleaning Startup That's Really A Tech Company (techcrunch.com)

44 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013082006 29 comments

0

Girl who never ages could hold key to 'biological immortality,' researcher says (www.nydailynews.com)

41 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081906 21 comments

22

But I already wrote it (www.jefclaes.be)

38 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013082000 10 comments

30

India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years (www.nagalandpost.com)

36 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081912 54 comments

21

Fundraising tips for first-time startup founders (www.mittal.vc)

35 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013082006 19 comments

18

Python vs Go - Requests per Second (dustinrcollins.com)

34 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013081918 27 comments

20

RIP Microsoft Tag (www.facebook.com)

34 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082009 29 comments

24

With Amazing Chutzpah Google Claims It Can't Be Sued In UK Courts (searchengineland.com)

32 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081921 26 comments

11

Rejection, tragedy and billions of dollars - The story of FIFA Video Games (www.mcvuk.com)

31 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2017010409 4 comments

21

HTML5 Device Mockups (aarnis.com)

28 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013082003 7 comments

26

Growth of recursive string substitution (cp4space.wordpress.com)

28 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013082000 0 comments

15

Fastest Growing Startups Who Are Hiring Now (mattermark.com)

28 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081921 9 comments

77

Britain Detains the Partner of a Reporter Tied to Leaks (www.nytimes.com)

28 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013081918 20 comments

19

Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consumer Drones (www.indiegogo.com)

27 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013081918 23 comments

30

Interactive Big Data analysis using approximate answers (strata.oreilly.com)

26 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081921 2 comments

44

Generate Hollywood-grade technical jargon (shinytoylabs.com)

26 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081915 7 comments

68

Groupon Suspends Sales Rep While It Investigates Yelp Review Threat (allthingsd.com)

23 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081909 6 comments

24

The Hyperloop - Not just SF to LA (dojomouse.com)

21 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013081903 34 comments

0

Musk's Hyperloop math doesn't add up (greatergreaterwashington.org)

21 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081903 25 comments

46

Brazilian government statement on Greenwald's partner's detention (www.itamaraty.gov.br)

21 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013081918 0 comments

29

Show HN: sell tickets to your events or services for Bitcoins (http://cointicket.com)

20 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013082000 10 comments

0

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained in London for nine hours (www.slate.com)

20 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013081918 5 comments

34

Image processing 1,000 times faster is goal of new $5M contract (www.eecs.umich.edu)

19 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081921 4 comments

26

Upcoming 'Supervised User' Feature of Google Chrome (browserfame.com)

19 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013082000 35 comments

34

MakeGamesWithUs hacker house cracks education code (www.mercurynews.com)

19 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081921 0 comments

51

Comparative Literate Programming [Clojure core.async] (swannodette.github.io)

17 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081912 0 comments

81

Notch's Minecraft follow-up 0x10c officially dead (www.theverge.com)

16 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013081921 2 comments

74

The Thing I Didn't Build (seeing protected tweets) (www.tomscott.com)

16 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082000 5 comments

78

Señor Developer Loves So Coded 24h Ticket Rumble (eepurl.com)

16 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082003 7 comments

33

Route Selection and Cable Laying for the Transatlantic Cable System (1956) (archive.org)

12 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081921 0 comments

36

Etsy’s Device Lab (codeascraft.com)

12 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082003 2 comments

84

Tips for how to decouple your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (philipwalton.com)

11 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013081921 0 comments

0

Why I'll never take a normal cab again (sg.posthaven.com)

11 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013081921 9 comments

89

Explaining the Hyperloop, in Basic Terms (medium.com)

10 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013081903 4 comments

65

What the U.S. used to do in space... load it with shrapnel (www.wired.com)

8 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

0

Hack4good to make the world a better place (hack4good.io)

8 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013081921 3 comments

57

Trash Into Gas, Efficiently? An Army Test May Tell (www.nytimes.com)

7 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081909 0 comments

0

Why medium.com? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081903 5 comments

69

Dropbox faces growing competition in cloud storage wars (www.ft.com)

7 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081909 2 comments

0

Show HN: We're building a better way to pay your bills (http://beta.cloudbill.com)

7 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081909 10 comments

0

Ask PG: Can we have collapsable comment threads? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081903 2 comments

58

A semantic responsive grid system built in SCSS (www.profoundgrid.com)

6 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081915 0 comments

0

Everything is Free. Be Happy. (www.mahdiyusuf.com)

6 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013081915 0 comments

59

The first hires at Google, Amazon and Subway look back (online.wsj.com)

6 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

79

Snowden case: Brazil 'concerned' after UK detention (www.bbc.co.uk)

6 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013081921 0 comments

69

Javascript asynchronous problems (www.codingjohnson.com)

6 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013082000 6 comments

0

Ask HN: crypto communities. (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013081900 last seen 2013081900 0 comments

53

Teaching Physics with Angry Birds (iopscience.iop.org)

5 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081912 0 comments

80

MIT "encryption broken" article not accurate (crypto.stackexchange.com)

5 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081912 0 comments

85

Need a referral for good lawyer for E-2 visa. Has one? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013081918 3 comments

0

Fooling the AppStore one code-chunk at a time. (www.theregister.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013081918 0 comments

0

A new formula for starting a startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013081912 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Ace of spades, jack of all trades or something else? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013081915 last seen 2013081915 2 comments

73

Show HN: FitDishes - nutrition-oriented local search (www.fitdishes.com)

3 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081906 6 comments

0

Dota 2 Beta Is Over (www.dota2.com)

3 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081903 0 comments

0

Ask HN: As an investor where do I start to invest in companies on YCombinator? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081903 0 comments

0

Cheat: interactive cheatsheets on the command-line (github.com)

3 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081903 0 comments

0

Django: serving hashed static files with Nginx (blogs.skicelab.com)

3 points first seen 2013081903 last seen 2013081903 0 comments

70

Apple/Google/Microsoft/Nokia - Want to own mobile? (blog.vishalshah.org)

3 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081909 0 comments

87

The joy and pain of using a static site generator for private and client work (screamingatmyscreen.com)

3 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081909 0 comments

0

Cheat Sheet for Running and Starting a Business (James Altucher) (www.facebook.com)

3 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081906 0 comments

0

Show HN: Lurk for Reddit [promo codes] (rinik.net)

3 points first seen 2013081906 last seen 2013081906 0 comments

0

A/B Testing for Ad Publishers (www.adpushup.com)

3 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081909 0 comments

0

Girl Who Never Ages Could Unravel Secret to Eternal Youth (abcnews.go.com)

3 points first seen 2013081909 last seen 2013081909 0 comments

0

Greenwald: Brazil's intervention kept my partner from being charged (dissenter.firedoglake.com)

3 points first seen 2013081912 last seen 2013081912 0 comments

0

Using OpenSSL from Python with python-cffi (unchainyourbrain.com)

3 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013081918 0 comments

0

Security Researcher Hacks Mark Zuckerberg’s Wall To Prove His Exploit Works (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2013081918 last seen 2013081918 0 comments

0

Partner of The Guardian’s NSA leaks reporter is detained for 9 hours at airport (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013081921 0 comments

0

Open Data Apps Challenge - Govt of India (data.gov.in)

3 points first seen 2013081921 last seen 2013081921 0 comments