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Top of Month - Jan 2014

1. Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
   (19 Jan 2014 | 1591 points | Comments)

2. Light Table is now open source
   (8 Jan 2014 | 1256 points | Comments)

3. Quick tip for developers who use OS X
   (13 Jan 2014 | 1145 points | Comments)

4. How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
   (29 Jan 2014 | 1043 points | Comments)

5. Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize
   (29 Jan 2014 | 1028 points | Comments)

6. You might not need jQuery
   (30 Jan 2014 | 994 points | Comments)

7. Gmail was down
   (24 Jan 2014 | 971 points | Comments)

8. Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
   (21 Jan 2014 | 917 points | Comments)

9. OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on
   (16 Jan 2014 | 825 points | Comments)

10. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent
    (31 Jan 2014 | 819 points | Comments)

11. Debunking Princeton
    (23 Jan 2014 | 812 points | Comments)

12. Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
    (2 Jan 2014 | 804 points | Comments)

13. How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages
    (23 Jan 2014 | 797 points | Comments)

14. Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
    (19 Jan 2014 | 775 points | Comments)

15. Fired? Speak No Evil
    (3 Jan 2014 | 726 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again
    (15 Jan 2014 | 717 points | Comments)

17. Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still cannot help me
    (3 Jan 2014 | 700 points | Comments)

18. What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
    (21 Jan 2014 | 688 points | Comments)

19. Google to Acquire Nest
    (13 Jan 2014 | 684 points | Comments)

20. An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow
    (10 Jan 2014 | 681 points | Comments)

21. Building an open source Nest
    (17 Jan 2014 | 662 points | Comments)

22. Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
    (24 Jan 2014 | 644 points | Comments)

23. Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)
    (17 Jan 2014 | 638 points | Comments)

24. Female Founders
    (10 Jan 2014 | 620 points | Comments)

25. 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..
    (29 Jan 2014 | 617 points | Comments)

26. Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides
    (10 Jan 2014 | 597 points | Comments)

27. Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
    (14 Jan 2014 | 597 points | Comments)

28. A member of our community is missing, help find him
    (13 Jan 2014 | 594 points | Comments)

29. For the Love of Money
    (19 Jan 2014 | 576 points | Comments)

30. Square thinks I don’t exist
    (28 Jan 2014 | 567 points | Comments)

31. Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only
    (25 Jan 2014 | 556 points | Comments)

32. Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers
    (1 Jan 2014 | 552 points | Comments)

33. Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA
    (16 Jan 2014 | 537 points | Comments)

34. King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard?
    (24 Jan 2014 | 533 points | Comments)

35. The email line that's client repellent
    (31 Jan 2014 | 532 points | Comments)

36. The Magic of strace
    (31 Jan 2014 | 531 points | Comments)

37. The Rise and Rise of Television Torture
    (7 Jan 2014 | 524 points | Comments)

38. How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
    (22 Jan 2014 | 506 points | Comments)

39. Revolution in Kiev
    (26 Jan 2014 | 496 points | Comments)

40. If you move your mouse continually the query may not fail. Do not stop moving
    (4 Jan 2014 | 493 points | Comments)

41. Why I'm Betting On Julia
    (23 Jan 2014 | 493 points | Comments)

42. 2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor
    (21 Jan 2014 | 490 points | Comments)

43. “Vacations are for the weak”
    (2 Jan 2014 | 486 points | Comments)

44. Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
    (29 Jan 2014 | 478 points | Comments)

45. How Radians Work in 30 Seconds
    (19 Jan 2014 | 474 points | Comments)

46. Software in 2014
    (9 Jan 2014 | 471 points | Comments)

47. US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by patent troll
    (14 Jan 2014 | 468 points | Comments)

48. The Day We Fight Back
    (10 Jan 2014 | 460 points | Comments)

49. Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant
    (4 Jan 2014 | 451 points | Comments)

50. 4K is for programmers
    (10 Jan 2014 | 449 points | Comments)

51. Academic Torrents
    (30 Jan 2014 | 448 points | Comments)

52. Python code to solve xkcd 1313 by Peter Norvig
    (7 Jan 2014 | 447 points | Comments)

53. The new Photosynth
    (7 Jan 2014 | 445 points | Comments)

54. We spent a week making Trello boards load fast
    (22 Jan 2014 | 445 points | Comments)

55. Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down
    (17 Jan 2014 | 439 points | Comments)

56. Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
    (7 Jan 2014 | 429 points | Comments)

57. US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests
    (27 Jan 2014 | 411 points | Comments)

58. The Great Firewall of Yale
    (14 Jan 2014 | 409 points | Comments)

59. Blackphone
    (15 Jan 2014 | 408 points | Comments)

60. Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move
    (2 Jan 2014 | 401 points | Comments)

61. Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
    (7 Jan 2014 | 399 points | Comments)

62. Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked
    (1 Jan 2014 | 398 points | Comments)

63. Super successful companies
    (15 Jan 2014 | 397 points | Comments)

64. Fake Name Generator
    (21 Jan 2014 | 397 points | Comments)

65. Your best passive income? (2014)
    (21 Jan 2014 | 395 points | Comments)

66. We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared
    (28 Jan 2014 | 388 points | Comments)

67. India Manages to Free Itself of Polio
    (12 Jan 2014 | 380 points | Comments)

68. The descent to C
    (28 Jan 2014 | 377 points | Comments)

69. Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End
    (23 Jan 2014 | 372 points | Comments)

70. Public speaking is tough
    (14 Jan 2014 | 371 points | Comments)

71. CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
    (7 Jan 2014 | 370 points | Comments)

72. Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
    (23 Jan 2014 | 369 points | Comments)

73. Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death
    (3 Jan 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

74. Rosetta: ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation
    (20 Jan 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

75. New Year, New CEO for GitHub
    (21 Jan 2014 | 365 points | Comments)

76. Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet
    (18 Jan 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

77. Success at Work, Failure at Home
    (18 Jan 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

78. Scaling Mercurial at Facebook
    (7 Jan 2014 | 360 points | Comments)

79. Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules
    (14 Jan 2014 | 360 points | Comments)

80. Eve Online wages largest war in its 10 year history
    (28 Jan 2014 | 360 points | Comments)

81. Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products
    (29 Jan 2014 | 360 points | Comments)

82. Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria
    (29 Jan 2014 | 359 points | Comments)

83. Intel's "cripple AMD" function (2009)
    (20 Jan 2014 | 356 points | Comments)

84. Show HN: Random Street View
    (27 Jan 2014 | 356 points | Comments)

85. Boeing #12
    (31 Jan 2014 | 355 points | Comments)

86. Facebook can now read your texts
    (28 Jan 2014 | 354 points | Comments)

87. Awful app review trend among Turkish users
    (12 Jan 2014 | 352 points | Comments)

88. Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
    (27 Jan 2014 | 352 points | Comments)

89. What are the lesser known but useful data structures?
    (18 Jan 2014 | 347 points | Comments)

90. Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture
    (2 Jan 2014 | 342 points | Comments)

91. Today my startup failed
    (21 Jan 2014 | 342 points | Comments)

92. Rust 0.9 released
    (9 Jan 2014 | 340 points | Comments)

93. Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins
    (9 Jan 2014 | 339 points | Comments)

94. Let banks fail: Iceland’s plan looks to be working
    (29 Jan 2014 | 338 points | Comments)

95. How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
    (2 Jan 2014 | 336 points | Comments)

96. The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
    (1 Jan 2014 | 335 points | Comments)

97. Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699
    (8 Jan 2014 | 335 points | Comments)

98. Why 'Her' will dominate UI design even more than 'Minority Report'
    (14 Jan 2014 | 334 points | Comments)

99. I never finish anyth
    (17 Jan 2014 | 334 points | Comments)

100. Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator
     (23 Jan 2014 | 334 points | Comments)