top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-19

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/facebook-buying-whatsapp-for-16b-in-cash-and-stock-plus-3b-in-rsus/

12 years ago

1129 upvotes – 802 comments

AI

http://blog.samaltman.com/ai

12 years ago

616 upvotes – 311 comments

WebGL Water

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

12 years ago

467 upvotes – 131 comments

The future of Fiber

https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

12 years ago

449 upvotes – 282 comments

“Facebook turned me down” (2009)

https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383

12 years ago

388 upvotes – 191 comments

Machines are better referees than humans but we’ll be sued if we use them

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/02/18/machines-are-better-referees-than-humans-but-well-be-sued-if-we-use-them/

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 61 comments

Redesigned Python.org

http://www.python.org/

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 125 comments

Putin on the Ritz

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/595-Putin-on-the-Ritz.html

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 85 comments

Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp

http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 82 comments

WRT120N fprintf Stack Overflow

http://www.devttys0.com/2014/02/wrt120n-fprintf-stack-overflow/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 42 comments

Life of Brian (Krebs)

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/596-Life-of-Brian.html

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 50 comments

Levels of Excellence

http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/levels-of-excellence/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 44 comments

How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user

http://blog.includesecurity.com/2014/02/how-i-was-able-to-track-location-of-any.html

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 70 comments

Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal

http://pando.com/2014/02/19/court-documents-reveal-steve-jobs-blistering-threat-to-ceo-who-wouldnt-join-wage-fixing-cartel/

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 113 comments

Making ActiveRecord 2x faster

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2014/02/19/adequaterecord-pro-like-activerecord.html

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 44 comments

UK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal Under Terrorism Law

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/19/uk-court-david-miranda-detention-legal-terrorism-law/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 132 comments

This App Trains You to See Farther

http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mobile/science/health/med-tech/this-app-trains-you-to-see-farther-16506910

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 72 comments

Sta.li: Static Linux

http://sta.li

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 98 comments

Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-announces-first-partners-to-ship-ubuntu-phones-around-the-globe/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook

http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2014/02/facebook/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 84 comments
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