top 50% 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

Nordic.js: A two-day conference all about JS in Stockholm 18-19 September 2014

http://nordicjs.com/

12 years ago

Google brings Chrome apps to Android and iOS

http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/01/28/google-brings-chrome-apps-android-ios-lets-developers-submit-google-play-apples-app-store/#!tE8F0

12 years ago

Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity

http://theconversation.com/drilling-surprise-opens-door-to-volcano-powered-electricity-22515

12 years ago

Metered Billing (beta)

https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=10817

12 years ago

DataHand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand

12 years ago

Facebook's new optical storage solution [video]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152128660097200

12 years ago

The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-2-teenagers-who-run-the-wildly-popular-twitter-feed-historyinpics/283291/?utm_content=buffer32d49&utm_source=twitter.com

12 years ago

California regulator seeks to shut down 'learn to code' bootcamps

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/29/california-regulator-seeks-to-shut-down-learn-to-code-bootcamps/

12 years ago

State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter

http://twitter.github.io/interactive/sotu2014/#p1

12 years ago

Ask Google to choose your next domain

http://rvmenu.com/ask-google#.Uulj3Z5gnPE.hackernews

12 years ago

Use Bootstrap, Nobody will Notice

http://strapfork.com/

12 years ago

JSON Mail Access Protocol Specification (JMAP)

http://jmap.io/

12 years ago

Announcing Guides

https://github.com/blog/1769-announcing-guides

12 years ago

Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2

https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar

12 years ago

★ 946 C BSD-3-Clause

Open Dylan's Call for Help

http://opendylan.org/news/2014/01/28/call-for-help.html

12 years ago

Post mortem: Thanks and lessons learned

http://elnorr.com/2014/01/27/post-mortem-thanks-lessons-learned/

12 years ago

Even Akamai screws up their SSL certs

https://www.akamai.com/

12 years ago

The World's Worst Penetration Test Report by #ScumbagPenTester

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/the-worlds-worst-penetration-test-report-by-scumbagpentester-58747

12 years ago

Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/29528135.cms

12 years ago

Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/01/ola-mundo-announcing-stack-overflow-in-portuguese/

12 years ago

Irish Company Locates Office In Ireland

http://blog.tito.io/posts/irish-company-locates-office-in-ireland/

12 years ago

My first six weeks working at Stack Overflow

http://www.jonhmchan.com/blog/2014/1/16/my-first-six-weeks-working-at-stack-overflow

12 years ago

With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds

https://www.flydata.com/blog/posts/with-amazon-redshift-ssd-querying-a-tb-of-data-took-less-than-10-seconds

12 years ago