| 1. | | ITerm2 2.0 (iterm2.com) |
| 584 points by gnachman on July 15, 2014 | 230 comments |
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| 2. | | Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues (techcrunch.com) |
| 501 points by testrun on July 15, 2014 | 339 comments |
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| 3. | | Google+ now lets you use any name you want (plus.google.com) |
| 407 points by srathi on July 15, 2014 | 250 comments |
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| 4. | | An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I Took a Picture of This (aclu.org) |
| 382 points by jonphillips06 on July 15, 2014 | 144 comments |
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| 5. | | Announcing Project Zero (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com) |
| 360 points by newscasta on July 15, 2014 | 81 comments |
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| 6. | | Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret” (mjec.net) |
| 341 points by mlandauer on July 15, 2014 | 99 comments |
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| 7. | | Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push (techcrunch.com) |
| 323 points by benstein on July 15, 2014 | 180 comments |
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| 8. | | Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0 (blog.mozilla.org) |
| 309 points by dochtman on July 15, 2014 | 113 comments |
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| 9. | | Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? (msdn.com) |
| 296 points by shdon on July 15, 2014 | 201 comments |
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| 10. | | PDFy – Instant PDF Host (pdf.yt) |
| 244 points by ridgewell on July 15, 2014 | 98 comments |
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| 11. | | Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly (github.com/icebreaker) |
| 234 points by iamnader on July 15, 2014 | 70 comments |
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| 12. | | Patent trolls now account for 67 percent of all new patent lawsuits (washingtonpost.com) |
| 220 points by Libertatea on July 15, 2014 | 69 comments |
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| 13. | | The FCC is so swamped with net neutrality comments, it’s extending the deadline (washingtonpost.com) |
| 198 points by nazgul on July 15, 2014 | 57 comments |
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| 14. | | Show HN: Realm (YC S11), a mobile database (realm.io) |
| 188 points by bjchrist on July 15, 2014 | 96 comments |
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| 15. | | Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack (darrinhenein.com) |
| 177 points by dhenein on July 15, 2014 | 103 comments |
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| 16. | | Inverter (gorried.github.io) |
| 179 points by dgorrie on July 15, 2014 | 53 comments |
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| 17. | | The Tao of Programming (mit.edu) |
| 153 points by galapago on July 15, 2014 | 43 comments |
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| 18. | | Zinc – Rust’s safety features applied to embedded development (zinc.rs) |
| 147 points by sanxiyn on July 15, 2014 | 40 comments |
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| 19. | | Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers (wired.com) |
| 152 points by Libertatea on July 15, 2014 | 41 comments |
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| 20. | | Farnborough Airshow: The Scorpion in search of a customer (bbc.co.uk) |
| 127 points by rollthehard6 on July 15, 2014 | 95 comments |
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| 21. | | PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6 (ckon.wordpress.com) |
| 127 points by colinramsay on July 15, 2014 | 37 comments |
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| 22. | | Thread is a mesh network to connect products around the home (threadgroup.org) |
| 129 points by e15ctr0n on July 15, 2014 | 95 comments |
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| 23. | | Why Probabilistic Programming Matters (plus.google.com) |
| 119 points by shankysingh on July 15, 2014 | 51 comments |
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| 24. | | Kotlin: Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JS (kotlinlang.org) |
| 121 points by tilt on July 15, 2014 | 85 comments |
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| 25. | | Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected (scientificamerican.com) |
| 119 points by sytelus on July 15, 2014 | 63 comments |
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| 26. | | Google Shopping Express (google.com) |
| 114 points by mariusz79 on July 15, 2014 | 64 comments |
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| 27. | | World’s First Thorium Reactor Designed (itheo.org) |
| 115 points by sasoon on July 15, 2014 | 54 comments |
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| 28. | | 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings (medium.com/comedy-corner) |
| 105 points by prasoon2211 on July 15, 2014 | 33 comments |
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| 30. | | Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship (neocities.org) |
| 118 points by kyledrake on July 15, 2014 | 61 comments |
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"I lived through the McCarthy era, so I know how false accusations, surveillance, and keeping files on innocent people can destroy their careers and lives."
I'm actually rather amazed at the number of "so what?" comments I'm seeing here. I thought we were all much more conscious of how these types of programs start to spin out of control.
I've read about this happening to a guy that photographs underground missile silo's/bunkers already. That was admittedly pretty soon after 9/11, however.