hackerNews

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Forced Exposure ~pj (www.groklaw.net)

1344 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082221 410 comments

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Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested (www.teslamotors.com)

796 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082403 300 comments

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"You've had your debate. There's no need to write anymore." (www.theguardian.com)

658 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082200 150 comments

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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs (www.strikemag.org)

505 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082121 341 comments

3

Bootstrap 3 released (blog.getbootstrap.com)

441 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082300 123 comments

2

Tesla Model X (www.teslamotors.com)

356 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082300 242 comments

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Loyalty and Layoffs (heartmindcode.com)

340 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082200 131 comments

6

My Final Post (www.reduser.net)

299 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082200 119 comments

6

Sayonara, V8 (groups.google.com)

290 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082200 83 comments

5

Nanomsg – MIT-licensed ZeroMQ alternative (www.freelists.org)

273 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082300 113 comments

4

Loyalty and Layoffs (gist.github.com)

272 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082018 101 comments

10

Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches (www.washingtonpost.com)

265 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082112 107 comments

3

"Journey to Justinia", or getting a 5 y/o to concentrate for 4 hours (justy.me)

264 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082200 68 comments

8

Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB? (electronics.stackexchange.com)

254 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082206 118 comments

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India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear (ireport.cnn.com)

232 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082103 181 comments

4

Scala School (twitter.github.io)

218 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2016031306 0 comments

6

Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted's Deferreds (groups.google.com)

217 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082200 61 comments

37

White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention (blogs.wsj.com)

194 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082018 116 comments

33

So that’s what I’m going to do (notch.tumblr.com)

193 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082021 42 comments

18

Ask HN: What happened to Proposition HN? ("$8000 for your side project") (news.ycombinator.com)

182 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082109 38 comments

7

New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars (www.usabilitypost.com)

181 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082200 123 comments

13

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer (www.washingtonpost.com)

177 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082106 156 comments

9

Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive (www.newscientist.com)

164 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082206 90 comments

10

Node.js incorrectly parses HTTP methods (www.chmod777self.com)

157 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082200 66 comments

14

CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup (www2.gwu.edu)

155 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082106 126 comments

19

On Hyperloop (www.leancrew.com)

151 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082103 198 comments

18

So What Exactly Did The US Government Ask Lavabit to Do? (xato.net)

151 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082100 44 comments

20

Why I Was Fired From a Tech Startup and What My Boss Had to Say About It (www.fdpod.com)

120 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082100 142 comments

15

Git Tips (adit.io)

113 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082106 22 comments

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David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't cooperate' (www.theguardian.com)

110 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082015 25 comments

11

Groupon Fires Sales Rep Who Threatened Bad Reviews for Business Owner (allthingsd.com)

104 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082106 29 comments

16

Hours until NZ spy law passed. Contact your MP. (www.crossthefloor.co.nz)

99 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082109 20 comments

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Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops (jerzygangi.com)

98 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082012 90 comments

10

How I Made My Ruby Project 10x Faster (www.adit.io)

94 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082106 56 comments

6

Windows 8 clock drifting on CPU with dynamic CPU speed (hwbot.org)

88 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082100 29 comments

71

The NSA Searches Ten Times as Much of the Internet as It Said It Does (www.theatlanticwire.com)

85 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082018 16 comments

13

Bitcoin now 'unit of account' in Germany (www.theguardian.com)

83 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082200 37 comments

20

BlinkDB: fast approximate database for big data from AMPLab (blinkdb.org)

79 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082103 4 comments

11

Security Community Raises Money for Researcher Snubbed by Facebook Bounty (www.wired.com)

78 points first seen 2013082018 last seen 2013082200 34 comments

13

Feds seized $2.9M in Bitcoin funds from Mt. Gox, court docs show (gigaom.com)

74 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082112 27 comments

7

The Cryptopocalypse (www.schneier.com)

73 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082100 21 comments

11

How to choose a payment provider for your Europe based SaaS startup (blog.gogemba.com)

70 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082100 35 comments

85

Time for Answers from the NSA (www.nationalreview.com)

67 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082015 12 comments

17

Worst timing – Google flagged us as malware on our prelaunch announcement day (wp-abtesting.com)

67 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082200 39 comments

0

Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket (medium.com)

62 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082015 70 comments

12

Where to host .NET applications? (seroter.wordpress.com)

59 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082112 59 comments

25

Two Root Causes Of My Recent Depression (www.feld.com)

58 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082100 38 comments

9

Hacker Scouts is served Cease and Desist letter from Boy Scouts of America (hacker-scouts.org)

57 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082103 37 comments

28

Germany Sets Standard for Bitcoin Regulation (bitcoinmagazine.com)

55 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082012 69 comments

68

Hacker News Tech Hiring Trends (www.ryan-williams.net)

54 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082006 39 comments

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Automation Myths: Why the NSA Can't Replace 90% of Its System Administrators (programming.oreilly.com)

54 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082100 16 comments

13

Nmap 6.40 Released – New scripts, new signatures, better performance (seclists.org)

51 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082106 0 comments

19

Designing integer hash functions (gist.github.com)

49 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082021 13 comments

24

Is the cryptopocalypse nigh? (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

48 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082100 4 comments

19

Paranoid Browsing (github.com)

48 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082100 21 comments

16

Running Headless Selenium with Chrome (www.chrisle.me)

44 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082100 15 comments

39

Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy - Salon.com (www.salon.com)

44 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 21 comments

27

Zillow buys NYC real estate site StreetEasy for $50M (venturebeat.com)

43 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082100 8 comments

24

Log4r for Ruby on Rails: Scalable and Robust Logging for Web Applications (blog.mmlac.com)

40 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082206 21 comments

20

Teach Yourself a New Programming Language in 21 Minutes (Or 2-3 Years) (heartmindcode.com)

40 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082103 15 comments

66

Everybody does not need to learn to code. (www.slate.com)

38 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 68 comments

18

Watch a Nearby Nova Explosion With Your Own Eyes Tonight (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

38 points first seen 2013082018 last seen 2013082112 6 comments

24

Bootstrap 3 Grid Introduction (www.helloerik.com)

37 points first seen 2013082018 last seen 2013082106 8 comments

14

Our very real liability as Twitter app developers (peternixey.com)

34 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082021 29 comments

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Recent reports on our whitehat program (www.facebook.com)

34 points first seen 2013082018 last seen 2013082103 38 comments

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OctoTales: Balanced [video] (github.com)

33 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082100 6 comments

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"I can’t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Assange." (www.newyorker.com)

32 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 12 comments

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Yahoo’s email service is now closed in China (www.techinasia.com)

28 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082021 5 comments

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David Miranda detention legally sound, says Scotland Yard (www.bbc.co.uk)

28 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082103 14 comments

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The Problem with Delhi's Rich Kids (blogs.wsj.com)

27 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082006 19 comments

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Hey Sales Guy - Stop Pissing Off The Engineers (blog.aha.io)

25 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 23 comments

0

Windows 8 banned by world’s top benchmarking and overclocking site (www.extremetech.com)

20 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082003 3 comments

20

Mobile-Payment Startups No Match for PayPal (www.bloomberg.com)

17 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082012 11 comments

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Changing IP address to access public website ruled violation of US law (arstechnica.com)

16 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082103 0 comments

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Russian riot police detain eight Pastafarians during pasta procession in Moscow (www.rawstory.com)

15 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 5 comments

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Why “open always wins” isn’t the point (www.webdirections.org)

15 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082021 0 comments

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Sovereign: build and maintain your own private cloud with Ansible (github.com)

14 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013110303 0 comments

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Obama Asks Supreme Court for Warrantless Cellphone Searches (www.washingtonpost.com)

13 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082021 0 comments

46

Dev Tools with Free for Open Source Plans (www.scantosecure.com)

11 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 11 comments

0

PHP JSON removed in PHP 5.5 (iteration99.com)

11 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 5 comments

0

Ask HN: My Nursing Reference App is Helping Poor Clinics, Losing Money (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082009 7 comments

0

Whiteboard Coding Tips for Interviews (dev.hubspot.com)

11 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082012 2 comments

89

Get skills. Be awesome. DIY for kids (diy.org)

11 points first seen 2013082018 last seen 2013082021 4 comments

76

Intro To Clojure Macros (deliberate-software.com)

10 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082103 6 comments

69

Pros and Cons of Flat Design (designmodo.com)

10 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082100 2 comments

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John Kerry: "The Internet Makes It Much Harder To Govern" (thestateweekly.com)

10 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082103 5 comments

0

Abolish the NSA and give Edward Snowden a Parade (www.techdirt.com)

9 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

38

Ancient map traced back to 16th century origins (www.smh.com.au)

9 points first seen 2013082018 last seen 2013082100 0 comments

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Britons Question Whether Detention of Reporter’s Partner Was Terror-Related (www.nytimes.com)

9 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082100 0 comments

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CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup (www.foreignpolicy.com)

8 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082000 0 comments

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If Windows releases were houses ... (twitter.com)

8 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

0

How to Work with Designers: A Cheat Sheet for Engineers and PMs (medium.com)

8 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 0 comments

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Ask HN: Is there a site like HN for musicians? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082006 6 comments

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Teleborder (YC S13) Uses SaaS To Cut Through Immigration Red Tape (m.techcrunch.com)

7 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082009 0 comments

0

Hack on github.com with Kyle Neath (gist.github.com)

7 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 0 comments

87

Ask HN: How to clone Stripe webhooks (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082803 0 comments

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The Dirtiest Lunar Mystery Of All (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

7 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082103 0 comments

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California to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners (www.bbc.co.uk)

7 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082021 0 comments

0

Amazon Down? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 8 comments

80

Unsexy sells itself [video] (9slides.com)

6 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082009 2 comments

76

Congress tells Mozilla that blocking 3rd party cookies endangers children (stanford.edu)

6 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082015 0 comments

83

Heights of Mountains, Lengths of Rivers – Comparative maps (2009) (www.davidrumsey.com)

6 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

0

Startup Bro Apologizes For San Francisco Rant (sfist.com)

6 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

0

How the NSA could stop sucking and be awesome instead. (teddziuba.com)

6 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

0

White House was given 'heads-up' over David Miranda detention in UK (www.theguardian.com)

6 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082015 0 comments

79

HTML video still can't beat GIF (pornel.net)

5 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 3 comments

88

Essential practices for women in technology (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082009 0 comments

0

Show HN: Encrypted private bookmarks for incognito mode on Firefox and Chrome (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 0 comments

0

In Silicon Valley, age can be a curse (www.sfgate.com)

5 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Why torture yourself with Objective-C? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082009 7 comments

0

Was the nine-hour detention of David Miranda lawful? (jackofkent.com)

5 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

83

Advanced Linux Programming (www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com)

5 points first seen 2013082015 last seen 2013082018 0 comments

0

Should I tell the founder his top employees are lazy and liars? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013082018 last seen 2013082018 14 comments

84

Ported Firefox CSS parser to C# (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013082021 last seen 2013082103 0 comments

76

London Underground Journeys Visualized in realtime (brunoimbrizi.com)

4 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

0

Windows 8 distorts RTC, giving misleading benchmark results (hwbot.org)

4 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082000 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How can we make the ubuntu edge campaign achieve its target? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082003 2 comments

0

Ask HN: New founder in need of advice (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 6 comments

0

Amazon down (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 0 comments

0

NYC Founder Institute Q&A (blog.nextjump.com)

4 points first seen 2013082006 last seen 2013082006 0 comments

78

FAA releases guidelines for intentionally flying your UAV into the ground (www.faa.gov)

4 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

86

Amazon.com website goes offline (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

82

Effective Java Reloaded [video] (www.infoq.com)

4 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082015 0 comments

0

Jakob Böhme (rotten.com)

4 points first seen 2013082012 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

71

Rearview: Real-Time Monitoring & Alerting for Graphite (steveakers.com)

3 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Know a decent Gmail library for Node? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082000 0 comments

0

What Will the European Startup Scene look like in 2025 (www.rudebaguette.com)

3 points first seen 2013082000 last seen 2013082000 0 comments

0

Google Glass can do AR, a 2 week hack [video] (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

0

Roll Your Own Recurring Billing With Rails (big-elephants.com)

3 points first seen 2013082003 last seen 2013082003 0 comments

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Drone Distribution Networks Held Back By Regulators (singularityhub.com)

3 points first seen 2013082009 last seen 2013082012 0 comments

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Chinese hackers gain access to the most expensive U.S. weapons system ever built (www.dailydot.com)