top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-01-29

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd

12 years ago

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/edward-snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-prize

12 years ago

1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1/9998

12 years ago

Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/29/us-google-lenovo-idUSBREA0S1YN20140129

12 years ago

Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products

http://www.producthunt.co/#

12 years ago

Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria

http://blog.coursera.org/post/74891215298/update-on-course-accessibility-for-students-in-cuba

12 years ago

Let banks fail: Iceland’s plan looks to be working

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/01/27/let-banks-fail-icelands-plan-looks-to-be-working/

12 years ago

AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/amd-reveals-its-first-arm-processor-8-core-opteron-a1100/

12 years ago

AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

https://launchbylunch.com/posts/2014/Jan/29/aws-tips/

12 years ago

Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/court-orders-google-to-pay-1-36-of-adwords-revenue-for-infringing-patents/

12 years ago

IE7 users, we need to talk…

http://www.nursingjobs.us/blog/ie7-users-we-need-to-talk/

12 years ago

Jb’s story about how he nearly lost his Twitter handle

http://d.pr/n/KUMK

12 years ago

The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf]

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/12443/data-linkage-service-charges-2013-2014-updated/pdf/dles_service_charges__2013_14_V10_050913.pdf

12 years ago

US bans students from “blacklisted” countries from getting access to Coursera

http://hummusforthought.com/2014/01/29/us-bans-students-from-blacklisted-countries-from-getting-a-free-education/

12 years ago

Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-motorola-mobility.html

12 years ago

Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144934

12 years ago

Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call

https://soundcloud.com/jim-romenesko/sounds-from-wednesday-morning

12 years ago

SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to Wolfram Alpha

http://www.sympygamma.com/

12 years ago

The world’s rich stay rich while the poor struggle to prosper

http://www.johnkay.com/2014/01/29/9250

12 years ago

Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project

http://www.dictionarydomains.co/

12 years ago