top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-01-16

OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138972987203440&w=2

12 years ago

825 upvotes – 407 comments

Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_briefed.html

12 years ago

537 upvotes – 140 comments

UTF-8 Everywhere

http://www.utf8everywhere.org/

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 149 comments

Tell HN: Server Status

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069013

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 120 comments

NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweep

12 years ago

272 upvotes – 73 comments

Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/us/obamas-path-from-critic-to-defender-of-spying.html

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 186 comments

Value is created by doing

http://blog.samaltman.com/value-is-created-by-doing

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 106 comments

The iPod of Prison

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/the-ipod-of-prison-sony-radio.html

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 92 comments

World’s most photographed places

http://www.sightsmap.com/

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 50 comments

Rdio is Now Free on the Web

http://blog.rdio.com/us/2014/01/keep-the-music-playing-rdio-is-now-free-on-the-web.html

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 103 comments

WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js

12 years ago

★ 1.9k
157 upvotes – 89 comments

Secret State of North Korea [video]

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365155890/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 92 comments

The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS

http://gigaom.com/2014/01/14/the-search-for-the-lost-cray-supercomputer-os/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: An Open-Source Data Science Curriculum

https://github.com/datasciencemasters/go/

12 years ago

★ 26k Unlicense
135 upvotes – 43 comments

Tcl the misunderstood (2006)

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

What's expected of us

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/full/436150a.html

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 57 comments

Frere-Jones is suing Hoefler for half of preeminent digital type foundry

http://qz.com/167993/frere-jones-is-suing-hoefler-for-his-half-of-the-worlds-preeminent-digital-type-foundry/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

Same word. Different places? Different meanings

http://sivers.org/quality

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 49 comments

Coding tip: Leave your code in a broken state

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MichaelMahemoff/posts/LQUV9bBd8dL

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 61 comments

Why Real Estate Tech Is So Attractive For Founders

http://blog.ezliu.com/why-real-estate-tech-is-so-attractive-for-founders/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 112 comments
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