top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-24

The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS

https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-new-textsecure/

12 years ago

A Star in a Bottle

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all

12 years ago

Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/24/us-eu-brazil-idUSBREA1N0PL20140224

12 years ago

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21947452/why-is-printing-b-dramatically-slower-than-printing

12 years ago

Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'

http://notebooks.jsvine.com/reverse-engineering-xkcd-frequency/

12 years ago

What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced

http://www.elezea.com/2014/02/lorem-ipsum-gone-wrong/

12 years ago

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

12 years ago

Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/24/nokia-announces-the-x-its-first-android-phone/

12 years ago

Flappy Bird Ported to C64

http://sos.gd/flappy64/

12 years ago

Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/02/24/ruby-2-1-1-is-released/

12 years ago

Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/

12 years ago

Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=462

12 years ago

Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

https://code.facebook.com/posts/729709347050548/under-the-hood-building-and-open-sourcing-flint/

12 years ago

ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud

https://github.com/jewel/clearskies

12 years ago

★ 1.4k Ruby

Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video]

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2014/02/starting-to-demo-the-wolfram-language/

12 years ago

Rainbow Sort Visualisations

http://ljs.io/projects/rainbow/

12 years ago

Mt.Gox's tweets are all gone

https://twitter.com/mtgox

12 years ago

Harold Ramis dies aged 69

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/26327020

12 years ago

Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingTheNewRoslynpoweredNETFrameworkReferenceSource.aspx

12 years ago

What Linux can learn from Solaris performance and vice-versa

http://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/what-linux-can-learn-from-solaris-performance-and-viceversa

12 years ago