2014-01-16 front | Hacker News

Stories from January 16, 2014

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

31.		Ori: A Secure Distributed File System (stanford.edu)
		87 points by ahomescu1 on Jan 16, 2014 \| 16 comments
32.		Payments startup WePay raises $15M, kills direct-to-consumer offering (venturebeat.com)
		79 points by billclerico on Jan 16, 2014 \| 55 comments
33.		Updated benchmark: capnproto-rust vs. c++ (dwrensha.github.io)
		77 points by dwrensha on Jan 16, 2014 \| 18 comments
34.		Belgian startup DPTechnics releases OpenWRT module (dptechnics.com)
		75 points by ColinWright on Jan 16, 2014 \| 23 comments
35.		The State of Hy (devport.no)
		72 points by Foxboron on Jan 16, 2014 \| 16 comments
36.		Coding Horror: The Magpie Developer (2008) (codinghorror.com)
		72 points by jalan on Jan 16, 2014 \| 73 comments
37.		Microsoft extends updates for Windows XP security products until July 14, 2015 (thenextweb.com)
		67 points by fraqed on Jan 16, 2014 \| 122 comments
38.		Why Did An Angry Man Punch Me? (siliconvalleywatcher.com)
		64 points by jamesjyu on Jan 16, 2014 \| 69 comments
39.		Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text (computerworld.com)
		66 points by JumpCrisscross on Jan 16, 2014 \| 49 comments
40.		Netflix picks up an Oscar nomination for “The Square”, a documentary (thenextweb.com)
		65 points by 0cool on Jan 16, 2014 \| 17 comments
41.		A Dive Into Plain JavaScript (adtile.me)
		63 points by jcxplorer on Jan 16, 2014 \| 19 comments
42.		Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost? (tug.org)
		60 points by alanpost on Jan 16, 2014 \| 15 comments
43.		Payments Startup Balanced (YC W11) Is Processing $370M a Year (techcrunch.com)
		65 points by steveklabnik on Jan 16, 2014 \| 41 comments
44.		Good fun with bad crypto (intrepidusgroup.com)
		58 points by lelf on Jan 16, 2014 \| 19 comments
45.		Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism (slate.com)
		56 points by Frostine on Jan 16, 2014 \| 180 comments
46.		Yahoo's COO Walks Out With $20M Stock Bonus, Plus $40M For 15 Months' Work (sfgate.com)
		55 points by ibsathish on Jan 16, 2014 \| 73 comments
47.		You can use Facebook to identify people by their email or phone number (facebook.com)
		59 points by slashdotaccount on Jan 16, 2014 \| 38 comments
48.		Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them 50GB Of Free Storage (techcrunch.com)
		50 points by wj on Jan 16, 2014 \| 63 comments
49.		How Do You Teach Kids the Value of Money? (2006) (getrichslowly.org)
		48 points by ColinWright on Jan 16, 2014 \| 84 comments
50.		A First Look at the Target Intrusion, Malware (krebsonsecurity.com)
		45 points by panarky on Jan 16, 2014 \| 14 comments
51.		Node.js, MongoDB, and you: an intro in parts (mongohq.com)
		49 points by liz_mongohq on Jan 16, 2014 \| 22 comments
52.		Inside Quizlet's incredible feedback center (quizlet.com)
		49 points by asuth on Jan 16, 2014 \| 11 comments
53.		Which programming language has the best package manager? (versioneye.com)
		48 points by reiz on Jan 16, 2014 \| 104 comments
54.		Requests for comment: MP4 Video (wikimedia.org)
		46 points by mmcclure on Jan 16, 2014 \| 20 comments
55.		[dupe] F.lux (justgetflux.com)
		46 points by satyampujari on Jan 16, 2014 \| 48 comments
56.		The Future of Music Genres Is Here (echonest.com)
		44 points by brianwhitman on Jan 16, 2014 \| 44 comments
57.		Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers (npr.org)
		43 points by justhw on Jan 16, 2014 \| 43 comments
58.		When You Get a Job Counteroffer: Should You Stay or Should You Go? (smartbear.com)
		43 points by ohjeez on Jan 16, 2014 \| 47 comments
59.		Markers of Gentrification: Mapping Rent as a Share of Income (kwelia.com)
		44 points by stathack on Jan 16, 2014 \| 17 comments
60.		The Feds Are Ready To Sell $25 Million of Bitcoin Seized From The Silk Road (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
		40 points by matthewsimon on Jan 16, 2014 \| 64 comments
		More

HN For You