top 50% 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

In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579319373775553890?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLE_Video_Third&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304549504579319373775553890.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hps_MIDDLE_Video_Third&fpid=2,7,121,122,201,401,641,1009

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 95 comments

Node.js and the Road Ahead

http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/16/nodejs-road-ahead/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 45 comments

Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/nimrod

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 83 comments

Adventures in Wearable Electronics – Making a Light-up Dress

http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2014/01/15/adventures-in-wearable-electronics-light-up-dress/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 30 comments

Happy 25th Tcl

http://blog.tkdocs.com/2014/01/happy-25th-tcl.html

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

.NET Fiddle adds F#

http://dotnetfiddle.net/AT4DxW

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 71 comments

Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs, Now Devoid of Life

http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/January-2014/In-Photos-Eero-Saarinens-Bell-Labs/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 48 comments

No more time limits on Spotify

http://news.spotify.com/uk/2014/01/15/no-more-time-limits-on-spotify-freeyourmusic/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 96 comments

Coming to an office near you

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594298-effect-todays-technology-tomorrows-jobs-will-be-immenseand-no-country-ready

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Ori: A Secure Distributed File System

http://ori.scs.stanford.edu/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Obama Is Announcing His NSA Reforms Tomorrow - Use This Scorecard To Judge Them

https://thedaywefightback.org/obama-scorecard/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 92 comments

Judge rules TSA no-fly procedures unconstitutional

http://boingboing.net/2014/01/15/judge-rules-tsa-no-fly-procedu.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Payments startup WePay raises $15M, kills direct-to-consumer offering

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/16/wepay-15-million-series-c/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 55 comments

Updated benchmark: capnproto-rust vs. c++

http://dwrensha.github.io/capnproto-rust/2014/01/15/benchmark-update.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Belgian startup DPTechnics releases OpenWRT module

https://dptechnics.com/shop/?q=blog/belgian-startup-dptechnics-releases-openwrt-module

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Coding Horror: The Magpie Developer (2008)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/the-magpie-developer.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 73 comments

The State of Hy

http://fox.devport.no/?p=82

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Microsoft extends updates for Windows XP security products until July 14, 2015

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/01/15/microsoft-extends-updates-windows-xp-security-products-july-14-2015/#!sj2X7

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 122 comments

Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245438/Evan_Schuman_Starbucks_caught_storing_mobile_passwords_in_clear_text_?taxonomyId=17&pageNumber=1

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 49 comments

Payments Startup Balanced (YC W11) Is Processing $370M a Year

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/balanced/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

Netflix picks up an Oscar nomination for “The Square”, a documentary

http://thenextweb.com/media/2014/01/16/netflix-picks-oscar-nomination-square-documentary-egyptian-revolution/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Did An Angry Man Punch Me?

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2014/01/why_did_an_angry_man.php

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 69 comments

A Dive Into Plain JavaScript

http://blog.adtile.me/2014/01/16/a-dive-into-plain-javascript/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost?

https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2014-January/thread.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

You can use Facebook to identify people by their email or phone number

https://www.facebook.com/recover/initiate

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

Good fun with bad crypto

https://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2014/01/good-fun-with-bad-crypto/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_texas_public_schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 180 comments

Yahoo's COO Walks Out With $20M Stock Bonus, Plus $40M For 15 Months' Work

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Yahoo-s-COO-Walks-Out-With-20-Million-Stock-5146449.php

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 73 comments

Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them 50GB Of Free Storage

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/15/box-refreshes-its-ios-apps-gives-users-who-download-the-new-code-50gb-of-free-storage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 63 comments

Inside Quizlet's incredible feedback center

http://quizlet.com/inside-quizlet/quizlets-incredible-feedback-center

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Node.js, MongoDB, and you: an intro in parts

http://blog.mongohq.com/node-js-mongodb-and-you-an-intro-in-parts/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments
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