top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-23

Debunking Princeton

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mike-develin/debunking-princeton/10151947421191849

12 years ago

812 upvotes – 145 comments

How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages

http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/

12 years ago

797 upvotes – 470 comments

Why I'm Betting On Julia

http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-betting-on-julia.html

12 years ago

493 upvotes – 252 comments

Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/us/politics/watchdog-report-says-nsa-program-is-illegal-and-should-end.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes

12 years ago

372 upvotes – 128 comments

Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter

http://arcticstartup.com/2014/01/23/linda-liukas-programming-book-for-children-has-huge-first-day-on-kickstarter

12 years ago

369 upvotes – 217 comments

Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/23/startup-developing-hivaids-vaccine-is-2nd-nonprofit-accepted-into-y-combinator/

12 years ago

334 upvotes – 130 comments

Emacs, naked

http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 194 comments

Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/another-google-privacy-flaw/

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 131 comments

HTTP Security headers you should be using

http://ibuildings.nl/blog/2013/03/4-http-security-headers-you-should-always-be-using

12 years ago

278 upvotes – 61 comments

Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304632204579337043662898228

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 123 comments

Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/lenovo-buys-ibm-server-business-for-2-3-billion/

12 years ago

258 upvotes – 202 comments

Google outed me

http://www.zdnet.com/google-outed-me-7000025416/

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 225 comments

Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/strangelove-for-real.html

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 133 comments

React: Finally, a great server/client web stack

http://eflorenzano.com/blog/2013/01/23/react-finally-server-client/

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 131 comments

Tarkovsky Films Free Online (2010)

http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 52 comments

TigerDirect.com Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments

http://www.tigerdirect.com/bitcoin/

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 161 comments

Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard

http://minuum.com/model-your-users-algorithms-behind-the-minuum-keyboard/

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 92 comments

The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/using-computer-drug-war-decade-dangerous-excessive-punishment-consequences/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 84 comments

If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS vaccine for free

http://www.fastcompany.com/3025372/if-the-immunity-project-crowdfunds-this-synthetic-aids-vaccine-theyll-offer-it-free-to-every

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 40 comments

How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff)

http://levels.io/100-to-0-things/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 170 comments

Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY14/Q2/default.aspx

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 181 comments

Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern

http://chadfowler.com/blog/2014/01/22/the-crunch-mode-antipattern/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 63 comments

The Free HIV/AIDS Vaccine

https://pledge.immunityproject.org/the-free-hiv-aids-vaccine

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 1 comments

Donut math: how donut.c works (2011)

http://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story “Absurd”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/snowden-calls-russian-spy-story-absurd.html#entry-2000000002587790

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 74 comments

Reverse Engineering Strike Commander

http://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_engineering_strike_commander/index.php

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 18 comments

Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.”

http://keionline.org/node/1910

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 160 comments

Mastering Vim in Vim

http://nerds.weddingpartyapp.com/tech/2013/11/17/mastering-vim-in-vim/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 33 comments

Django 1.7 alpha 1 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/jan/22/django-17-alpha-1-released/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Verizon rescinds service to Samsung Chromebook 3G owners

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chromebook-central/ip9eVs-p0N0

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 62 comments

Tell HN: Planned Maintenance Jan 23 1-5 AM PST

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7106458

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Do you cold call?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7110588

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

A keyboard that rises up from flat touch screens

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57569078-94/a-keyboard-that-rises-up-from-flat-touch-screens/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107626

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 98 comments

Verizon says it received over 321,000 legal orders for user data in 2013

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/verizon-says-it-received-over-321000-legal-orders-for-user-data-in-2013/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Should I remind users that their card is about to be charged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7108168

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 69 comments
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