2014-01-23 front | Hacker News

Stories from January 23, 2014

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

1.		Debunking Princeton (facebook.com)
		812 points by friggeri on Jan 23, 2014 \| 145 comments
2.		Why I'm Betting On Julia (evanmiller.org)
		493 points by mistermcgruff on Jan 23, 2014 \| 252 comments
3.		Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End (nytimes.com)
		372 points by weu on Jan 23, 2014 \| 128 comments
4.		Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter (arcticstartup.com)
		369 points by vesterinen on Jan 23, 2014 \| 217 comments
5.		Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator (venturebeat.com)
		334 points by playhard on Jan 23, 2014 \| 130 comments
6.		Emacs, naked (bzg.fr)
		294 points by bzg on Jan 23, 2014 \| 194 comments
7.		Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information (shkspr.mobi)
		287 points by edent on Jan 23, 2014 \| 131 comments
8.		HTTP Security headers you should be using (ibuildings.nl)
		278 points by relaxnow on Jan 23, 2014 \| 61 comments
9.		Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion (nytimes.com)
		258 points by rickdale on Jan 23, 2014 \| 202 comments
10.		Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club (wsj.com)
		267 points by sama on Jan 23, 2014 \| 123 comments
11.		Google outed me (zdnet.com)
		246 points by Sanddancer on Jan 23, 2014 \| 225 comments
12.		Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True (newyorker.com)
		241 points by route66 on Jan 23, 2014 \| 133 comments
13.		Tarkovsky Films Free Online (2010) (openculture.com)
		231 points by nsns on Jan 23, 2014 \| 52 comments
14.		React: Finally, a great server/client web stack (eflorenzano.com)
		233 points by julien on Jan 23, 2014 \| 131 comments
15.		TigerDirect.com Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments (tigerdirect.com)
		213 points by peter123 on Jan 23, 2014 \| 161 comments
16.		Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard (minuum.com)
		207 points by wxs on Jan 23, 2014 \| 92 comments
17.		The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs (wired.com)
		204 points by adamnemecek on Jan 23, 2014 \| 84 comments
18.		If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS vaccine for free (fastcompany.com)
		169 points by ph0rque on Jan 23, 2014 \| 40 comments
19.		Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter (microsoft.com)
		163 points by harryzhang on Jan 23, 2014 \| 181 comments
20.		How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff) (levels.io)
		165 points by pieterhg on Jan 23, 2014 \| 170 comments
21.		Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern (chadfowler.com)
		158 points by chadfowler on Jan 23, 2014 \| 63 comments
22.		The Free HIV/AIDS Vaccine (immunityproject.org)
		138 points by josephwegner on Jan 23, 2014 \| 1 comment
23.		Donut math: how donut.c works (2011) (a1k0n.net)
		121 points by shrikant on Jan 23, 2014 \| 22 comments
24.		Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story “Absurd” (newyorker.com)
		114 points by nmc on Jan 23, 2014 \| 74 comments
25.		Reverse Engineering Strike Commander (fabiensanglard.net)
		112 points by signa11 on Jan 23, 2014 \| 18 comments
26.		Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.” (keionline.org)
		108 points by tchalla on Jan 23, 2014 \| 160 comments
27.		Mastering Vim in Vim (weddingpartyapp.com)
		104 points by gmccreight2 on Jan 23, 2014 \| 33 comments
28.		Verizon rescinds service to Samsung Chromebook 3G owners (groups.google.com)
		96 points by nashashmi on Jan 23, 2014 \| 62 comments
29.		Django 1.7 alpha 1 released (djangoproject.com)
		98 points by streeter on Jan 23, 2014 \| 22 comments
30.		Tell HN: Planned Maintenance Jan 23 1-5 AM PST
		91 points by kogir on Jan 23, 2014 \| 54 comments
		More

HN For You