top 50% 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

Etoile: a GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C

http://etoileos.com/etoile/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995014

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 151 comments

The Other 'F Word': Brewer Responds To Starbucks Over Beer Name

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/30/258427295/the-other-f-word-brewer-responds-to-starbucks-over-beer-name

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 53 comments

What Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html#

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

The Problems With Debit And Credit Cards Are Deeper Than We Thought

http://readwrite.com/2013/12/31/atm-cards-debit-cards-credit-cards-hackers-skimmers#awesm=~orHPsFpK3uryNs

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 91 comments

Proof Market: Submit Coq proof, get paid with Bitcoin

https://proofmarket.org/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Apartment, completely unused since 1942, discovered in Paris

http://belloblog.com/2013/12/23/1942-time-capsule-apartment-discovered-in-paris/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Skype blog hacked

http://blogs.skype.com/2014/01/01/hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army-stop-spying/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 58 comments

Ruby’s GIL and transactional memory

http://www.mikeperham.com/2013/12/31/rubys-gil-and-transactional-memory/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Latvia becomes 18th state to join the eurozone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25567096

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 103 comments

Here be Fusion – A Visit to General Fusion

http://wavewatching.net/2013/12/30/here-be-fusion/?1

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/01/facebook_cleansing_how_to_delete_all_of_your_account_activity.single.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 67 comments

The Micro Python Project

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/

13 years ago

★ 21.6k C
74 upvotes – 12 comments

Tell HN: Happy New Year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994217

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Who is Co-Founding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995456

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: What are your 2014 Predictions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 61 comments
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