top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-01-21

Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29

13 years ago

Tron Legacy (2010)

http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=254f1

13 years ago

Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34196/design-question-why-was-chosen-to-represent-the-home-directory

13 years ago

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

http://www.utsalumni.org/news/how-one-man-escaped-from-a-north-korean-prison-camp-3549/

13 years ago

Programmer Interrupted

http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/

13 years ago

What we discovered about InstallMonetizer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711

13 years ago

Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson

http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/responsive-web-design

13 years ago

Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093721

13 years ago

Taking payments online in Europe in 2013

http://jamesmaskell.co.uk/2013/online-payments-in-2013/

13 years ago

When Haskell Is Not faster than C

http://jacquesmattheij.com/when-haskell-is-not-faster-than-c

13 years ago

The End of Ragequitting

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/01/the-end-of-ragequitting.html

13 years ago

Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/ortiz_says_suicide_will_not_change_handling_cases

13 years ago

New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

13 years ago

Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet

http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/01/17/carmen-ortizs-sordid-rap-sheet/

13 years ago

Show HN: The top free PSDs on dribbble in one place

http://freethroww.com

13 years ago

Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2010/10/20/being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-to-want-to-kill-yourself/

13 years ago

Ludde's FPGA NES

http://fpganes.blogspot.se/2013/01/luddes-fpga-nes.html

13 years ago

My iOS 7 Wishlist

http://tomdale.net/2013/01/my-ios-7-wishlist/

13 years ago

Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads

https://engineering.gosquared.com/optimising-nginx-node-js-and-networking-for-heavy-workloads

13 years ago

Why doesn't `kill -9` always work?

http://www.noah.org/wiki/Kill_-9_does_not_work

14 years ago