top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-01-11

Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype

https://signal.org/blog/skype-partnership/

8 years ago

794 upvotes – 331 comments

Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16122999

8 years ago

709 upvotes – 82 comments

Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/protecting-our-google-cloud-customers-new-vulnerabilities-without-impacting-performance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28The+Keyword+%7C+Official+Google+Blog%29

8 years ago

465 upvotes – 129 comments

Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/dropbox-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-initial-offering

8 years ago

435 upvotes – 270 comments

YC Bio

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 144 comments

Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/steep-slopes-on-mars-reveal-structure-of-buried-ice

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 60 comments

House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 172 comments

Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]

https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf

8 years ago

301 upvotes – 61 comments

Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

https://www.maps.org/news/media/7012-press-release-pineapple-fund-offers-$4-million-matching-grant-to-maps

8 years ago

293 upvotes – 65 comments

Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/website-glitch-let-me-overstock-my-coinbase/

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 130 comments

GitHub down

https://github.com/#

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 187 comments

Spectre and the end of langsec

http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end-of-langsec

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 190 comments

The Making of Apple’s Emoji

https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 107 comments

MoneyGram Signs Deal to Work with Currency Startup Ripple

https://www.wsj.com/articles/moneygram-signs-deal-to-work-with-currency-startup-ripple-1515679285

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposition as CTO, any advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16125139

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 134 comments

The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/11/brutal-lifecycle-javascript-frameworks/

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 122 comments

Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/chinese-workers-abandon-silicon-valley-for-riches-back-home

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 319 comments

‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a15050414/incredible-hypatia-stone-contains-compounds-not-found-in-the-solar-system/

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 67 comments

Understanding the React Source Code, Part 1

https://hackernoon.com/understanding-the-react-source-code-initial-rendering-simple-component-i-80263fe46cf1

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 33 comments

South Korea justice ministry prepares to ban cryptocurrency trading

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-bitcoin-law/south-korea-justice-ministry-prepares-to-ban-cryptocurrency-trading-exchanges-raided-idUSKBN1F00B7

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 137 comments
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