top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-01-02

Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/edward-snowden-whistle-blower.html

13 years ago

804 upvotes – 157 comments

“Vacations are for the weak”

http://sethbannon.com/vacations-are-for-the-weak

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 356 comments

Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00005.html

13 years ago

401 upvotes – 302 comments

Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture

http://recode.net/2014/01/01/can-do-vs-cant-do-culture/

13 years ago

342 upvotes – 129 comments

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

13 years ago

336 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999429

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 331 comments

Lock Picking – A Basic Guide

https://www.hackthis.co.uk/articles/picking-locks-a-basic-guide

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 110 comments

Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 147 comments

Gate Tower Building

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_Tower_Building

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 50 comments

Hyperloop: Not so fast

http://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/2013/11/22/hyperloop-not-so-fast/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 141 comments

Free Bootstrap Themes

http://www.blacktie.co/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 57 comments

Resolving power button issues in Mac OS X Mavericks

http://binchewer.org/blog/index.php?id=1

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 144 comments

The Saddest SaaS Pricing Pages of the Year

http://blog.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/192297/The-Saddest-SaaS-Pricing-Pages-of-the-Year

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 82 comments

Happy New Year from Y Combinator

http://blog.ycombinator.com/happy-new-year-from-y-combinator

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 12 comments

NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-seeks-to-build-quantum-computer-that-could-crack-most-types-of-encryption/2014/01/02/8fff297e-7195-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_print.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 106 comments

Jolla Outsells iPhone 5S and 5C in Finland

http://www.jollausers.com/2014/01/jolla-outsells-iphone-5s-and-5c-in-finland/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 81 comments

Ask HN: Female hacker-founder AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6998559

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 74 comments

The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist

http://carlsednaoui.com/post/70299468325/the-best-to-do-list-a-private-gist

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 90 comments

Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field

http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/10/1/80/abstract

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

Memory cache optimizations

http://blog.libtorrent.org/2013/12/memory-cache-optimizations/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 11 comments
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