top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-01-13

WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages

9 years ago

1332 upvotes – 321 comments

There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'

https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/

9 years ago

1018 upvotes – 408 comments

VR

https://blog.ycombinator.com/vr/

9 years ago

1008 upvotes – 550 comments

Affordable Care

http://blog.samaltman.com/affordable-care

9 years ago

720 upvotes – 1014 comments

Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveillance-powers-his-way-out

9 years ago

589 upvotes – 294 comments

Feeling safer online with Firefox

http://blog.astithas.com/2017/01/feeling-safer-online-with-firefox.html

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 97 comments

Nintendo Switch

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/switch/index.html

9 years ago

375 upvotes – 416 comments

The Sound of Silence

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-sound-of-silence

9 years ago

344 upvotes – 158 comments

App.net is shutting down

http://blog.app.net/2017/01/12/app-net-is-shutting-down/

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 187 comments

Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview

https://cloud.google.com/security/security-design/

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 52 comments

#define CTO OpenAI

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/define-cto-openai

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 42 comments

UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

https://unblockoz.org

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 118 comments

Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xcode lead Chris Lattner

https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/13/why-chris-lattner-left-apple/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 104 comments

Portal for Apple II

http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/portal/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 36 comments

How Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38574003

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 67 comments

Adobe angers Chrome users by bundling browser plugin with security update

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/adobe-angers-chrome-users-by-bundling-browser-plugin-with-security-update/

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 40 comments

Regaining control of your attention

https://backchannel.com/how-i-got-my-attention-back-c7fc9297d347#.3j04ooh2p

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 125 comments

Systemd Sucks, Long Live Systemd

https://naftuli.wtf/2017/01/12/systemd-is-awful/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 262 comments

Five big mysteries about CRISPR’s origins

http://www.nature.com/news/five-big-mysteries-about-crispr-s-origins-1.21294

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 33 comments

Rasa: Extremely modular text editor built in Haskell

https://github.com/ChrisPenner/rasa

9 years ago

★ 626HaskellGPL-3.0
189 upvotes – 59 comments
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