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Top of Month - Jul 2013

1. XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
   (31 Jul 2013 | 1688 points | Comments)

2. I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
   (24 Jul 2013 | 1542 points | Comments)

3. “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
   (7 Jul 2013 | 1310 points | Comments)

4. Do Things that Don't Scale
   (14 Jul 2013 | 1275 points | Comments)

5. Ubuntu Edge
   (22 Jul 2013 | 1188 points | Comments)

6. Doug Engelbart has died
   (3 Jul 2013 | 1178 points | Comments)

7. Victory Lap for Ask Patents
   (22 Jul 2013 | 1075 points | Comments)

8. Quine Relay
   (15 Jul 2013 | 983 points | Comments)

9. Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
   (1 Jul 2013 | 954 points | Comments)

10. Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online
    (9 Jul 2013 | 868 points | Comments)

11. Restore the Fourth
    (4 Jul 2013 | 772 points | Comments)

12. Forgotten Employee (2002)
    (23 Jul 2013 | 747 points | Comments)

13. The Drone that Killed my Grandson
    (18 Jul 2013 | 708 points | Comments)

14. Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat
    (29 Jul 2013 | 682 points | Comments)

15. Obama Promises Disappear from Web
    (26 Jul 2013 | 657 points | Comments)

16. I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume
    (12 Jul 2013 | 643 points | Comments)

17. Psd.rb
    (30 Jul 2013 | 629 points | Comments)

18. Lockdown
    (3 Jul 2013 | 625 points | Comments)

19. The Future of Programming
    (30 Jul 2013 | 614 points | Comments)

20. Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize
    (11 Jul 2013 | 601 points | Comments)

21. The Forbidden Island
    (19 Jul 2013 | 597 points | Comments)

22. A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95
    (24 Jul 2013 | 596 points | Comments)

23. Feds, We Need Some Time Apart
    (11 Jul 2013 | 587 points | Comments)

24. Google Chromecast
    (24 Jul 2013 | 578 points | Comments)

25. Tell-all telephone – Six months of phone metadata visualized
    (1 Jul 2013 | 568 points | Comments)

26. Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks
    (20 Jul 2013 | 564 points | Comments)

27. Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use
    (5 Jul 2013 | 555 points | Comments)

28. Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
    (3 Jul 2013 | 537 points | Comments)

29. How Google is Killing Organic Search
    (1 Jul 2013 | 535 points | Comments)

30. Cello: Higher level programming in C
    (15 Jul 2013 | 535 points | Comments)

31. Prism Break
    (9 Jul 2013 | 534 points | Comments)

32. Never Trust Facebook
    (1 Jul 2013 | 533 points | Comments)

33. The slippery slope
    (23 Jul 2013 | 520 points | Comments)

34. DecryptoCat
    (4 Jul 2013 | 516 points | Comments)

35. Use "Amazon 1 Button" Chrome extension to sniff all HTTPS websites
    (12 Jul 2013 | 516 points | Comments)

36. U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
    (3 Jul 2013 | 497 points | Comments)

37. Why I cancelled my TechEd talks
    (24 Jul 2013 | 495 points | Comments)

38. Linus on "acting professionally"
    (16 Jul 2013 | 488 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: I'm quadriplegic – can you help me with my security?
    (16 Jul 2013 | 486 points | Comments)

40. EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
    (16 Jul 2013 | 486 points | Comments)

41. Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)
    (19 Jul 2013 | 486 points | Comments)

42. Riding the New Silk Road
    (21 Jul 2013 | 486 points | Comments)

43. Releases – a workflow for shipping software to end users
    (2 Jul 2013 | 485 points | Comments)

44. Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home
    (1 Jul 2013 | 483 points | Comments)

45. Should I use a carousel?
    (10 Jul 2013 | 483 points | Comments)

46. Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans
    (23 Jul 2013 | 482 points | Comments)

47. White Coke
    (17 Jul 2013 | 478 points | Comments)

48. Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours
    (10 Jul 2013 | 477 points | Comments)

49. Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case
    (16 Jul 2013 | 477 points | Comments)

50. Effeckt.css
    (18 Jul 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

51. Practical Typography
    (24 Jul 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

52. How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
    (11 Jul 2013 | 470 points | Comments)

53. Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy
    (26 Jul 2013 | 466 points | Comments)

54. Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud
    (17 Jul 2013 | 464 points | Comments)

55. Final Term - Terminal Emulator
    (8 Jul 2013 | 461 points | Comments)

56. Why mobile web apps are slow
    (9 Jul 2013 | 458 points | Comments)

57. "Nothing like this will be built again"
    (8 Jul 2013 | 452 points | Comments)

58. Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney
    (2 Jul 2013 | 448 points | Comments)

59. "Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23
    (1 Jul 2013 | 445 points | Comments)

60. Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google
    (12 Jul 2013 | 442 points | Comments)

61. The NSA slide you haven’t seen
    (10 Jul 2013 | 440 points | Comments)

62. Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF
    (15 Jul 2013 | 438 points | Comments)

63. Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
    (8 Jul 2013 | 435 points | Comments)

64. HTTP 2.0
    (9 Jul 2013 | 434 points | Comments)

65. Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income
    (11 Jul 2013 | 432 points | Comments)

66. Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. How Did We Get Here?
    (10 Jul 2013 | 429 points | Comments)

67. Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File
    (8 Jul 2013 | 427 points | Comments)

68. Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted
    (5 Jul 2013 | 426 points | Comments)

69. Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go
    (26 Jul 2013 | 426 points | Comments)

70. Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi
    (11 Jul 2013 | 423 points | Comments)

71. Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey
    (16 Jul 2013 | 423 points | Comments)

72. Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden
    (6 Jul 2013 | 422 points | Comments)

73. Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway
    (5 Jul 2013 | 419 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers
    (30 Jul 2013 | 417 points | Comments)

75. Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now
    (24 Jul 2013 | 413 points | Comments)

76. Python Tools for Visual Studio
    (2 Jul 2013 | 412 points | Comments)

77. As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
    (25 Jul 2013 | 407 points | Comments)

78. Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Sheremetyevo airport
    (12 Jul 2013 | 404 points | Comments)

79. Enough with the JavaScript already
    (15 Jul 2013 | 402 points | Comments)

80. Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
    (30 Jul 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

81. Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft
    (15 Jul 2013 | 394 points | Comments)

82. Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years
    (18 Jul 2013 | 393 points | Comments)

83. Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
    (29 Jul 2013 | 391 points | Comments)

84. Google Reader is dead
    (2 Jul 2013 | 388 points | Comments)

85. EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements
    (5 Jul 2013 | 387 points | Comments)

86. Join the largest online protest since SOPA to stop NSA spying
    (4 Jul 2013 | 386 points | Comments)

87. Shit for Making Websites
    (9 Jul 2013 | 384 points | Comments)

88. A few words on Doug Engelbart
    (4 Jul 2013 | 382 points | Comments)

89. MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response
    (30 Jul 2013 | 381 points | Comments)

90. Canada's Start-up Visa
    (22 Jul 2013 | 376 points | Comments)

91. Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right
    (18 Jul 2013 | 375 points | Comments)

92. Secret government: America against democracy
    (9 Jul 2013 | 374 points | Comments)

93. Restore the Fourth
    (3 Jul 2013 | 372 points | Comments)

94. Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is
    (28 Jul 2013 | 369 points | Comments)

95. Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
    (12 Jul 2013 | 368 points | Comments)

96. Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality
    (30 Jul 2013 | 366 points | Comments)

97. Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?
    (17 Jul 2013 | 362 points | Comments)

98. New Course: The Design of Everyday Things
    (25 Jul 2013 | 362 points | Comments)

99. Update on Novena Open Laptop
    (6 Jul 2013 | 361 points | Comments)

100. Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident
     (9 Jul 2013 | 360 points | Comments)