HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership (bloomberg.com)

124 points by 1337biz on Aug 5, 2013 | 30 comments

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First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released (wired.com)

124 points by shard on Aug 13, 2013 | 15 comments

663.

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

123 points by thejerz on Aug 19, 2013 | 95 comments

664.

Building a Software Company in Rwanda, 3 Years Later (blog.textit.in)

123 points by nicpottier on Aug 28, 2013 | 78 comments

665.

Destructuring Assignment in ECMAScript 6 (fitzgeraldnick.com)

123 points by mnemonik on Aug 15, 2013 | 56 comments

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"Accidentally" Freelance (notes.unwieldy.net)

123 points by endtwist on Aug 1, 2013 | 55 comments

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Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software (newsroom.ucla.edu)

123 points by fdb on Aug 5, 2013 | 45 comments

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John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) (blogs.uw.edu)

123 points by hypr_geek on Aug 20, 2013 | 42 comments

669.

An attempt to create the highest resolution real-time map of global temperature (blog.forecast.io)

123 points by rjsamson on Aug 28, 2013 | 39 comments

670.

Funniest reviews (amazon.com)

123 points by tonteldoos on Aug 16, 2013 | 36 comments

671.

The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal” (chrisnorstrom.com)

123 points by ChrisNorstrom on Aug 28, 2013 | 24 comments

672.

fish shell (fishshell.com)

122 points by atldev on Aug 16, 2013 | 75 comments

673.

The parody shirt the NSA doesn’t want you to wear (salon.com)

122 points by tchalla on Aug 31, 2013 | 54 comments

674.

One Second on the Internet (onesecond.designly.com)

122 points by airguitardesign on Aug 6, 2013 | 49 comments

675.

Beautiful Native Libraries (lucumr.pocoo.org)

122 points by obilgic on Aug 19, 2013 | 30 comments

676.

The Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less (online.wsj.com)

121 points by sonabinu on Aug 22, 2013 | 119 comments

677.

Intro to CoffeeScript (aseemk.com)

121 points by aseemk on Aug 5, 2013 | 89 comments

678.

Show HN: Do you read on the toilet? This web app is for you. (backlabel.gr)

121 points by fotism on Aug 11, 2013 | 68 comments

679.

Technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air (nottingham.ac.uk)

121 points by Shivetya on Aug 12, 2013 | 67 comments

680.

For Medical Tourists, Simple Math (nytimes.com)

121 points by scottkduncan on Aug 3, 2013 | 60 comments

681.

AnsibleWorks Raises $6M (techcrunch.com)

121 points by tomaac on Aug 13, 2013 | 58 comments

682.

Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard (boostedboards.posthaven.com)

121 points by skdoo on Aug 27, 2013 | 48 comments

683.

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

121 points by obilgic on Aug 19, 2013 | 41 comments

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NSA revelations of privacy breaches 'tip of the iceberg' according to Senators (theguardian.com)

121 points by sinak on Aug 17, 2013 | 21 comments

685.

How to build a procedural city in WebGL (learningthreejs.com)

121 points by jetienne2 on Aug 8, 2013 | 19 comments

686.

The 1975 Buffett memo that saved the Washington Post's pension (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

120 points by peter123 on Aug 16, 2013 | 108 comments

687.

1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Nanotechnology. (smithsonianmag.com)

120 points by abolishme on Aug 23, 2013 | 80 comments

688.

The Great App.net Mistake (wired.com)

120 points by sylvinus on Aug 20, 2013 | 65 comments

689.

Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page (en.wikipedia.org)

120 points by eshvk on Aug 6, 2013 | 55 comments

690.

Android is better (paulstamatiou.com)

120 points by PStamatiou on Aug 12, 2013 | 40 comments