hackerNews

2

Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower (www.nytimes.com)

776 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010721 0 comments

3

Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers (github.com)

527 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010718 137 comments

3

Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture (recode.net)

320 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010503 128 comments

2

Show HN: Use any text as a domain name (github.com)

244 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010500 138 comments

5

Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014 (www.openculture.com)

228 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010403 116 comments

3

Javascript patterns (shichuan.github.io)

202 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014011009 45 comments

14

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014) (item?id=6995020)

199 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014011009 276 comments

2

React: Another Level of Indirection (www.lispcast.com)

197 points first seen 2014010200 last seen 2014010403 81 comments

2

Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (arxiv.org)

197 points first seen 2014010221 last seen 2014010400 146 comments

5

Resolving power button issues in Mac OS X Mavericks (binchewer.org)

179 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010406 143 comments

3

PRNG Dual_Ec_Drbg Backdoor - Proof of Concept (blog.0xbadc0de.be)

166 points first seen 2014010200 last seen 2014010306 25 comments

53

Burn the Fucking System to the Ground (www.popehat.com)

152 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010215 101 comments

18

Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers (www.nytimes.com)

148 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010300 182 comments

19

Ask HN: Female hacker-founder AMA (item?id=6998559)

141 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010906 74 comments

10

1.85% of Steam users run Linux (www.itsmdaily.com)

135 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010309 117 comments

4

Dogs Poop in Alignment with Earth's Magnetic Field (www.frontiersinzoology.com)

130 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010403 35 comments

7

K-means Clustering 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskies (blog.revolutionanalytics.com)

130 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010403 23 comments

5

Memory cache optimizations (blog.libtorrent.org)

129 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010403 11 comments

3

OpenMW: Open Source Morrowind Engine Reimplementation (openmw.org)

116 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2021040303 41 comments

21

Xmonad — the tiling window manager that rocks (xmonad.org)

109 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2015040812 50 comments

3

The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (www.catb.org)

107 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2020042900 105 comments

13

Clojure 2013 Year in Review (stuartsierra.com)

95 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010303 18 comments

37

Brewery owner responds brilliantly to Cease-and-desist order from Starbucks (www.npr.org)

90 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010212 49 comments

11

What Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003) (www.joelonsoftware.com)

90 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010306 33 comments

27

The Problems With Debit And Credit Cards Are Deeper Than We Thought (readwrite.com)

87 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010303 87 comments

7

Google Analytics for GitHub (github.com)

84 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010900 28 comments

36

Apartment, completely unused since 1942, discovered in Paris (belloblog.com)

83 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010221 21 comments

10

Proof Market: Submit Coq proof, get paid with Bitcoin (proofmarket.org)

81 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010306 28 comments

9

Skype blog hacked (blogs.skype.com)

79 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010303 53 comments

28

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014) (item?id=6995014)

75 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010300 125 comments

40

Latvia becomes 18th state to join the eurozone (www.bbc.co.uk)

74 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010221 96 comments

8

Ruby’s GIL and transactional memory (www.mikeperham.com)

74 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010306 20 comments

17

I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity (www.slate.com)

72 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010303 59 comments

15

Here be Fusion – A Visit to General Fusion (wavewatching.net)

71 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010303 12 comments

11

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 10% market share, Windows XP falls below 30% (thenextweb.com)

70 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010306 64 comments

15

Micro Python: Source code released on Github (github.com)

68 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010303 12 comments

13

Nothing Focuses The Mind Like The Ultimate Deadline: Death (www.npr.org)

65 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010400 21 comments

61

Resolutions (www.penny-arcade.com)

65 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010303 25 comments

16

Ways to be a Better Programmer in 2014 (programming.oreilly.com)

64 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010321 17 comments

11

Elsevier’s David Tempest explains subscription-contract confidentiality clauses (svpow.com)

61 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010303 11 comments

8

AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System (1982 Video) (www.youtube.com)

61 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014060303 21 comments

47

Ask HN: Who is Co-Founding? (item?id=6995456)

58 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010215 53 comments

15

Public Domain Day 2014: The fight for the public domain is on now (everybodyslibraries.com)

58 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010306 2 comments

14

Greenwald's keynote at 30c3: priorities for privacy activists (jameso.be)

56 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010303 4 comments

17

More Than 300 Sharks In Australia Are Now On Twitter (www.npr.org)

50 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010306 25 comments

21

AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast to Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy (techcrunch.com)

49 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010303 12 comments

11

Technology and the Position of Women by John McCarthy (www-formal.stanford.edu)

45 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010321 19 comments

9

Racing the Beam (mitpress.mit.edu)

44 points first seen 2014010200 last seen 2014010300 11 comments

5

Show HN: Have a pug sent to your Snapchat every day (pug-o-matic.me)

43 points first seen 2014010200 last seen 2014010303 19 comments

19

Builder Blames Navy as Brand-New Warship Disintegrates (2011) (www.wired.com)

37 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010300 40 comments

0

The Space Monkey Upgrade Scam (www.recursiverobot.com)

33 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010206 58 comments

43

The technical pants that replaced my jeans (arstechnica.com)

31 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010218 22 comments

24

How To Launch A Startup Without Writing Code (onstartups.com)

30 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010303 10 comments

22

Brain connections may explain why girls mature faster (www.ncl.ac.uk)

28 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010209 31 comments

19

Do Not Track California Privacy Law Changes Effective Today (www.iubenda.com)

26 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010303 28 comments

21

2013: Rebuild the Engine; 2014: Step on the Gas (blog.cloudflare.com)

22 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010300 5 comments

25

What was trending on HN (February 21, 2007) (web.archive.org)

22 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010303 13 comments

26

Actually stick to your resolution this year... by filming it for the Internet (www.wired.com)

21 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010221 8 comments

57

Yes, That Picture of the Moon and the Andromeda Galaxy Is About Right (www.slate.com)

21 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010212 0 comments

20

Happy Re/new Year (recode.net)

21 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010303 10 comments

14

How to Value Your Startup Business (redrocketvc.blogspot.com.ar)

20 points first seen 2014010200 last seen 2014010215 9 comments

38

Computer Chips That Work Like a Brain Are Coming (www.wired.com)

18 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010215 7 comments

33

GED test overhauled; some states opt for new exam (bigstory.ap.org)

18 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010300 0 comments

30

The Importance of Sequential Testing (www.austinrochford.com)

17 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010300 6 comments

32

B5500 Emulation Project (retro-b5500.blogspot.com)

16 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010303 0 comments

25

Sqwiggle: Someone is watching you (www.chriskranky.com)

15 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010303 20 comments

60

Ask HN: How do you deal with being a solo founder? (item?id=6997569)

15 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010218 14 comments

0

Navy's $670M Fighting Ship 'Not Expected to Be Survivable,' Pentagon Says (www.wired.com)

15 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010215 4 comments

0

The 1969 male worker median salary was $35,567 (in 2012 dollars). Today: $33,904 (talkingpointsmemo.com)

14 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010209 12 comments

53

NSA spyware gives agency full access to the iPhone -- report (news.cnet.com)

13 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010303 0 comments

66

NSA intercepts computer shipments to install malware. (www.economist.com)

12 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010212 0 comments

50

Erlang is slow: and other rubbish (kivikakk.ee)

12 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010300 2 comments

0

C# for Systems Programming (joeduffyblog.com)

11 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010203 2 comments

0

What If the 21st Century Begins in 2014? (mobile.bloomberg.com)

10 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010215 7 comments

81

Ask HN: Changing habits (item?id=6996543)

9 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010909 10 comments

74

GNU Octave 3.8 (www.gnu.org)

8 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010209 0 comments

58

Proprietary Trading Goes Under Cover: Michael Lewis (2010) (www.bloomberg.com)

8 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010215 0 comments

56

Web Payments (web-payments.org)

8 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010215 0 comments

82

Ask HN: Burned out on software development & looking for an offline job? (item?id=6995588)

8 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010909 7 comments

0

Lotus: Ruby full stack web framework (lucaguidi.com)

7 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010206 4 comments

57

Spy Kids: We're Snooping on Students to Stop Them From Snooping on Each Other (www.sfweekly.com)

7 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010303 0 comments

84

Show HN: I made a tool that adds two-step verification to websites or apps (item?id=6998638)

7 points first seen 2014010221 last seen 2014010300 5 comments

64

California legislator launches country's first crowdsourced bill (america.aljazeera.com)

6 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010218 0 comments

77

GVM: Go Version Manager (github.com)

6 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010221 0 comments

0

Apple says it never worked with NSA on iPhone hacks (www.reuters.com)

5 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010209 0 comments

0

Show HN: Find out who in your Google contacts was affected by the Snapchat leak (github.com)

5 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010212 0 comments

63

5 Things I've Learned about Data Science (arcolano.com)

5 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010221 0 comments

78

The 124 states of America (www.washingtonpost.com)

5 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010221 0 comments

90

Ask HN: Is there a browser extension for tagging HN users? (item?id=6995893)

4 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010209 2 comments

0

A new Dual EC DRBG flaw (lwn.net)

4 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010206 0 comments

0

The top four tech legal cases to watch in 2014 (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010206 0 comments

0

How I setup Hosts with Puppet and a Git Repository (dracoblue.net)

4 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010206 0 comments

0

Official Skype account on Twitter hacked by Syrian Electronic Army (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010209 0 comments

0

The Quest for a Natural Sugar Substitute (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010212 0 comments

0

Why don’t economists like Bitcoin? (www.theverge.com)

4 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010215 0 comments

84

FrogPad 2, one handed keyboard rises from the depths of Vaporware and stickers (www.frogpad2.com)

4 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010221 2 comments

0

Orange to take legal action after report of spying via its cable (www.reuters.com)

3 points first seen 2014010200 last seen 2014010200 0 comments

0

Package manager for Elm released, making it easy to share libraries (elm-lang.org)

3 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010203 0 comments

0

Python is the Language of the Year (sites.google.com)

3 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010203 0 comments

0

The public has spoken: I'm building an Imperial March app (todo.ricklubbers.nl)

3 points first seen 2014010203 last seen 2014010203 0 comments

0

Coinbase account deletion is bullshit (www.reddit.com)

3 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010206 0 comments

0

Data URI scheme (en.wikipedia.org)

3 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010209 0 comments

0

A Pocket Guide to Master Every Day’s Typographic Adventures (www.typogui.de)

3 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010209 0 comments

0

How Will New York City's Tech Industry Fare Under Mayor de Blasio? (mashable.com)

3 points first seen 2014010209 last seen 2014010209 0 comments

0

Mac Pro/OS X 4K Display Compatibility 'Like the Wild West' (www.macrumors.com)

3 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010212 0 comments

0

Free Embeddable Chat - Built With AngularContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1JS (www.hashworld.co)

3 points first seen 2014010212 last seen 2014010212 0 comments

0

Resolutions (www.penny-arcade.com)

3 points first seen 2014010215 last seen 2014010215 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Please help me curate datasets on Africa by sharing some sources (item?id=6998420)

3 points first seen 2014010218 last seen 2014010218 0 comments

30

Publisher Advocate – Embedly (item?id=6996291)

0 points first seen 2014010206 last seen 2014010218 0 comments

45

Help us fight online fraud. Lead product marketing at Sift Science (item?id=6998715)

0 points first seen 2014010221 last seen 2014010303 0 comments