top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-01-01

Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers

https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764

13 years ago

★ 1.2k Python
552 upvotes – 136 comments

Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

http://www.snapchatdb.info

13 years ago

398 upvotes – 213 comments

The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

13 years ago

335 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Use any text as a domain name

http://github.com/amoffat/hash-n-slash

13 years ago

★ 310 JavaScript
261 upvotes – 141 comments

Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searches at Border

https://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/court-rules-no-suspicion-needed-laptop-searches-border

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 178 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995020

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 287 comments

What Snowden really revealed

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/what-snowden-really-revealed-20131228113515573236.html

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 54 comments

Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014

http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/isaac-asimov-predicts-what-the-world-will-look-in-2014.html

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 116 comments

React: Another Level of Indirection

http://www.lispcast.com/react-another-level-of-indirection

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 82 comments

Javascript patterns

http://shichuan.github.io/javascript-patterns/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 45 comments

Optimal Characters Per Line

http://mikeyanderson.com/optimal_characters_per_line

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 104 comments

Burn the Fucking System to the Ground

http://www.popehat.com/2013/12/23/burn-the-fucking-system-to-the-ground/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 115 comments

Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor: a proof of concept

http://blog.0xbadc0de.be/archives/155

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 27 comments

Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/us/colorado-stores-throw-open-their-doors-to-pot-buyers.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993981

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 43 comments

All Things Digital shutting down

http://allthingsd.com/20131231/you-say-goodbye-and-we-say-hello/?

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 36 comments

1.85% of Steam users run Linux

http://www.itsmdaily.com/2014/01/01/1-85-steam-users-run-linux/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 119 comments

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 12 comments

Clojure 2013 Year in Review

http://stuartsierra.com/2014/01/01/clojure-2013-year-in-review

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

“The Robot and the Baby” by John McCarthy

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 28 comments
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