top 10 hacker news stories for 2014-01-05

NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/04/nsa-spying-bernie-sanders-members-congress

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 63 comments

What "viable search engine competition" really looks like

http://blog.nullspace.io/building-search-engines.html

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 99 comments

Fukushima Emergency

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fukushima.asp

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 45 comments

Paths to being a kernel hacker

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/01/04/4-paths-to-being-a-kernel-hacker/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pill For That

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/04/259552442/want-perfect-pitch-you-could-pop-a-pill-for-that?sc=ipad&f=1001

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 46 comments

An open letter to hobbyists by Bill Gates (1976)

http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/gates1976.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" still worth reading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7014299

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 46 comments

A Public Statement Regarding Ubiquitous Encryption on the XMPP Network

https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto/blob/master/manifesto.txt

13 years ago

★ 100
34 upvotes – 11 comments

Lolmythesis Tumblr: College students summarize their thesis in one sentence

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/31/lolmythesis_tumblr_college_students_summarize_their_thesis_in_one_sentence.html

13 years ago

31 upvotes – 6 comments

Arabic Natural Language Processing

http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/arabic.shtml

13 years ago

21 upvotes – 0 comments
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