top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-31

Confessions of an ex-TSA agent

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/tsa-screener-confession-102912_full.html

12 years ago

819 upvotes – 192 comments

The email line that's client repellent

http://letsworkshop.com/blog/the-email-line/

12 years ago

532 upvotes – 93 comments

The Magic of strace

http://chadfowler.com/blog/2014/01/26/the-magic-of-strace/

12 years ago

531 upvotes – 99 comments

Boeing #12

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE12

12 years ago

355 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5

http://voicechatapi.com/?hn

12 years ago

303 upvotes – 100 comments

Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/30/5351052/breaking-madden-super-bowl-broncos-seahawks?resub

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 61 comments

Nightwatch.js

http://nightwatchjs.org/

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 48 comments

Printable True Bugs Wait Posters

http://natashenka.ca/posters/

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 155 comments

Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush With Other "Candy" Games

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/30/candy_crush_gets_trolled_by_developers_making_games_with_the_word_candy.html

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 77 comments

New YC Partner Investment Policy

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-yc-partner-investment-policy

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 100 comments

PayPal Mafia

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

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 63 comments

OpenSSH 6.5 Released

http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-6.5

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 42 comments

Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-released-guardian-editors-snowden-hard-drives-gchq?CMP=twt_gu

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 87 comments

Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansas

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/who-wants-competition-big-cable-tries-outlawing-municipal-broadband-in-kansas/

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7157180

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 142 comments

Moz Dumps Amazon Web Services, Citing Expense and 'Lacking' Service

http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2014/01/30/moz-dumps-amazon-web-services-citing-expense-and-lacking-service/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 127 comments

The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer

http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/01/31/the-moderately-enthusiastic-programmer/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 92 comments

Patent troll CEO explains why company wants names of EFF donors

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/podcasting-patent-trolls-ceo-explains-why-it-wants-eff-donor-names/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

Why do credit card forms ask for Visa, Mastercard, etc.?

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/51346/why-do-credit-card-forms-ask-for-visa-mastercard-etc

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 96 comments

ZX Spectrum devs claim missing royalties from Elite Systems

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/952953995/bluetooth-zx-spectrum-recreating-the-sinclair-zx-s/comments

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Dart should learn JSON while it’s still young

http://maxhorstmann.net/2014/01/31/why-dart-should-learn-json-while-its-still-young/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 54 comments

Linux 3.4+: arbitrary write with CONFIG_X86_X32 (CVE-2014-0038)

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/187

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 70 comments

Fallacies

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 94 comments

About Ukraine

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/30/9-questions-about-ukraine-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 93 comments

Living in retirement: Seven things I wish I could tell my 35-year-old self

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/retirement-rrsps/living-in-retirement-seven-things-i-wish-i-could-tell-my-35-year-old-self/article16429873/#dashboard/follows/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7156563

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

The upside to being let go by Nokia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25965140

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Dataset: Ten Years of NFL Plays Analyzed, Visualized, Quizzified

http://blog.statwing.com/dataset-ten-years-of-nfl-plays-analyzed-visualized-quizzified-downloadable/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Strangest Programming Language Feature?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature/2002154#2002154

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon to Raise Fees as Revenue Disappoints

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/technology/amazons-shares-fall-as-revenue-disappoints.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140131&_r=0

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 100 comments

Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/facebook-turns-10-the-mark-zuckerberg-interview#p3

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments

The Google technology stack (2008)

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/lecture-course-the-google-technology-stack/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Scotland's Eigg island to become completely self-sufficient in renewable energy

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/greenest-island-world-201412783012455475.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

Am I dreaming?

http://chrishateswriting.com/post/75158854851/am-i-dreaming

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

Wealth does not make you smarter

http://scripting.com/2014/01/31/beingWealthyDoesNotMakeYouSmarter.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 73 comments

How Meetup Onboards New Users

http://www.useronboard.com/how-meetup-onboards-new-users/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

Hit ’Em Where It Hurts: The solution to the higher-ed adjunct crisis

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/01/adjuncts_in_american_universities_u_s_news_should_penalize_colleges_for.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

T-Mobile, please fix your gateways

http://en.blog.viclone.com/t-mobile-usa-fix-gateways/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

This API doesn't exist outside this article?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa741307(v=VS.85).aspx#1

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments
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