top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-24

The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS

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

12 years ago

478 upvotes – 200 comments

A Star in a Bottle

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

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 157 comments

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

262 upvotes – 176 comments

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

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

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 116 comments

Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'

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

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 50 comments

What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced

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

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 94 comments

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive

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

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 139 comments

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

230 upvotes – 188 comments

Flappy Bird Ported to C64

http://sos.gd/flappy64/

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 84 comments

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

217 upvotes – 85 comments

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

215 upvotes – 109 comments

Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat

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

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 126 comments

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

197 upvotes – 81 comments

Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video]

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

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 71 comments

ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud

https://github.com/jewel/clearskies

12 years ago

★ 1.4k Ruby
190 upvotes – 52 comments

Rainbow Sort Visualisations

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

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 51 comments

Mt.Gox's tweets are all gone

https://twitter.com/mtgox

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

Harold Ramis dies aged 69

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

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source

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

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 59 comments

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

151 upvotes – 63 comments

The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781/the_internet_sucks_or_what_i_.php

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 107 comments

Element 14 Holding Orders Based On US Government Watch List

http://www.eevblog.com/2014/02/24/element-14-holding-orders-based-on-us-government-watch-list/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 76 comments

A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions

http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 36 comments

IBM to Acquire Cloudant

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43238.wss

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 23 comments

Are Tiny Houses the Key to Fighting Homelessness?

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/24/are-tiny-houses-the-key-to-fighting-homelessness/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 127 comments

Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]

http://web.media.mit.edu/~bates/Summary_files/BatesTalk.pdf

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 58 comments

Why Super-Fast Internet Is Coming Super Slowly

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304315004579381463769362886

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 124 comments

Q – Execute SQL on text. Supports joins across files, RPM available

http://github.com/harelba/q

12 years ago

★ 10.3k Python GPL-3.0
126 upvotes – 43 comments

Analytics at GitHub

http://johnnunemaker.com/analytics-at-github/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 16 comments

Doctored.js – A new kind of editor

http://holloway.co.nz/doctored/#

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 30 comments

Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26316265

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 50 comments

Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/when-mexican-surveillance-contractor-funds-us-political-campaigns

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

PG at Launch [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rVpAKziQJA#t=57s

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 33 comments

Comparing Haskell Web Frameworks

http://edofic.com/posts/2014-02-23-haskell-web.html

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 38 comments

Blackphone

https://store.blackphone.ch

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 98 comments

This Week in Rust

http://cmr.github.io/blog/2014/02/23/this-week-in-rust/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 69 comments

U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel – report

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/23/uk-germany-usa-spying-idUKBREA1M0IV20140223

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

SanDisk releases 128GB microSD card

http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/press-room/press-releases/2014/sandisk-introduces-worlds-highest-capacity-microsdxc-memory-card-at-128gb/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2014/02/how-google-nuked-sports-media-watch-for-a-crime-it-did-not-commit/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 46 comments

Why it's a bad idea to put a CNAME record on your root domain

http://joshstrange.com/why-its-a-bad-idea-to-put-a-cname-record-on-your-root-domain/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

Mt. Gox may have lost 750,000 bitcoins

http://two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com/post/77745633839/bitcoins-apocalyptic-moment-mt-gox-may-have-lost

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 60 comments

Anyone Who Still Thinks IPv6 Won't Happen Isn't Watching the Measurements

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140219_anyone_who_still_thinks_ipv6_wont_happen_isnt_watching_measurems/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 76 comments

On "The Future of JavaScript MVC Frameworks"

http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/02/on-future-of-javascript-mvc-frameworks.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

Meteor 0.7.1: Oplog support for complex queries, Meteor developer accounts

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/24/meteor-071-oplog-support-for-complex-queries-meteor-developer-accounts

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

The Fall Of Perl, The Web's Most Promising Language

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026446/the-fall-of-perl-the-webs-most-promising-language

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 100 comments

Decoding the term sheet

http://blog.thesecretofraisingmoney.com/termsheet/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: What can I ask potential employers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7290749

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

Why Bitcoin Matters for Africa

http://www.ariannasimpson.com/bitcoin-matters-africa/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Simple translation by email

http://blog.unbabel.com/post/77429798243/translationemail

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

Rare 'polio-like' disease reports in California

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26289614

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 51 comments
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