top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-01-05

Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/dutch_government_says_no_to_backdoors/

10 years ago

1144 upvotes – 99 comments

Three Years as a One-Man Startup

https://medium.com/@SteveRidout/3-years-as-a-one-man-startup-489db6e48f2a#.5x1jua8ac

10 years ago

718 upvotes – 218 comments

Magic+

https://getmagicnow.com/plus

10 years ago

687 upvotes – 462 comments

Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_that_microsoft_solitaire_was_developed_by_a/

10 years ago

666 upvotes – 145 comments

Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/01/lumosity-pay-2-million-settle-ftc-deceptive-advertising-charges

10 years ago

601 upvotes – 251 comments

Dell Computers Has Been Hacked

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2016/01/04/dell-computers-has-been-hacked/

10 years ago

537 upvotes – 209 comments

Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/bayes-s-theorem-what-s-the-big-deal/

10 years ago

400 upvotes – 259 comments

Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time

https://foragerfunds.com/bristlemouth/dick-smith-is-the-greatest-private-equity-heist-of-all-time

10 years ago

371 upvotes – 151 comments

Working fewer hours would make us more productive

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/nov/09/fewer-working-hours-doctors-eu-negotiations

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 242 comments

Kodak resurrects Super 8

http://www.kodak.com/ek/us/en/Consumer/Products/Super8/default.htm

10 years ago

278 upvotes – 198 comments

Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

http://recode.net/2016/01/05/twitter-considering-10000-character-limit-for-tweets/

10 years ago

247 upvotes – 297 comments

My simplified response to Paul Graham's simplified essay

http://blog.rongarret.info/2016/01/my-simplified-response-to-paul-grahams.html

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 204 comments

Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset

https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/05/security-notification-and-linode-manager-password-reset/

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 164 comments

Evernote’s 5% problem offers a cautionary lesson to tech companies

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/05/evernotes-5-problem-offers-a-cautionary-lesson-to-tech-companies/

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 121 comments

Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage

http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-performance.html

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 72 comments

On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture

https://tonyarcieri.com/on-the-dangers-of-a-blockchain-monoculture

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 63 comments

The Disappearance of Self in Japan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pico-iyer/disappearance-self-japan_b_8258678.html

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 137 comments

Bret Victor's Bookshelf

http://worrydream.com/Shelf2015/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 81 comments

EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and R3 Instances)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-new-year-ec2-price-reduction-c4-m4-and-r3-instances/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 97 comments

Paul Graham accidentally explained everything wrong with SV world view

http://qz.com/586563/paul-graham-just-accidentally-explained-everything-wrong-with-silicon-valleys-world-view/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 127 comments
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