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1.Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it (gist.github.com)
539 points by dmix on Dec 23, 2013 | 127 comments
2.RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed (jmarbach.com)
347 points by jmarbach on Dec 23, 2013 | 215 comments
3.AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94 (bbc.co.uk)
253 points by yawz on Dec 23, 2013 | 281 comments
4.How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates - then went and played for them (citeworld.com)
227 points by SuperChihuahua on Dec 23, 2013 | 113 comments
5.Cameron's Internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plan (newstatesman.com)
216 points by r0h1n on Dec 23, 2013 | 72 comments
6.OpenEmu 1.0 Released (openemu.org)
206 points by brymaster on Dec 23, 2013 | 60 comments
7.Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein's lies on surveillance? Join Us (shameonfeinstein.org)
211 points by zmanian on Dec 23, 2013 | 61 comments
8.Blackmail fail (gwern.net)
203 points by a3voices on Dec 23, 2013 | 72 comments
9.Knossos: Redis and Linearizability (aphyr.com)
182 points by m0nastic on Dec 23, 2013 | 11 comments
10.Data looks better naked (darkhorseanalytics.com)
172 points by chethiya on Dec 23, 2013 | 48 comments
11.The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed (arstechnica.com)
170 points by shawndumas on Dec 23, 2013 | 136 comments
12.An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA (f-secure.com)
166 points by koenrh on Dec 23, 2013 | 28 comments
13.Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco (css-tricks.com)
160 points by d_j_s on Dec 23, 2013 | 183 comments
14.The Mathematical Hacker (2012) (evanmiller.org)
147 points by ColinWright on Dec 23, 2013 | 102 comments
15.Geohot presents an evasi0n7 writeup (geohot.com)
146 points by innoying on Dec 23, 2013 | 32 comments
16.Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar (nytimes.com)
112 points by mhb on Dec 23, 2013 | 31 comments
17.KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released (keepassx.org)
107 points by Mithrandir on Dec 23, 2013 | 48 comments
18.Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply (jonathan-kim.com)
113 points by hijonathan on Dec 23, 2013 | 23 comments
19.The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick (theatlantic.com)
105 points by dkasper on Dec 23, 2013 | 27 comments
20.Show HN: My 10-year-old son has made a card game, which he is giving away
103 points by gregpilling on Dec 23, 2013 | 34 comments
21.Swiss to vote on proposals to treat bitcoin as foreign currency (finextra.com)
101 points by baazaar on Dec 23, 2013 | 22 comments
22.PlainSite bans federal courts from accessing court data (plainsite.org)
97 points by thinkcomp on Dec 23, 2013 | 15 comments
23.I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones (digitaltrends.com)
95 points by msh on Dec 23, 2013 | 99 comments
24.RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship (rsa.com)
94 points by comex on Dec 23, 2013 | 61 comments
25.Who posts on Hacker News? (kmjn.org)
93 points by mjn on Dec 23, 2013 | 34 comments
26.Jack Dorsey Joins Disney’s Board Of Directors (techcrunch.com)
88 points by dko on Dec 23, 2013 | 44 comments

True/sad story. So at Sun when I was building crypto tools for Java I wanted to be able to use the RSA public key algorithm in the class loader (part of a capabilities based security system). We negotiated with RSA for a right to use their patent in Java, which proceeded right up until the final contract came back (which our lawyer signed but I did not get a chance to review) where the wording was changed to be a license to BSAFE rather than the patent. Clearly I wasn't going to put BSAFE into the JVM, I l already had an implementation of their algorithm in Java. There was never a good explanation for how the lawyer got so "confused" at the last minute and "forgot" to have these changes reveiwed by the engineer leading the project.

Given the sort of shenanigans we've been reading about I would not be surprised to hear that someone who was neither a Sun or RSADSI employee said "spike this deal".

[edit: clarity]

28.Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules (aeon.co)
84 points by jseliger on Dec 23, 2013 | 89 comments
29.Why the Pentagon’s many campaigns to clean up its accounts are failing (reuters.com)
87 points by joshuahedlund on Dec 23, 2013 | 36 comments
30.FreeNAS 9.2 is out (freenas.org)
82 points by tachion on Dec 23, 2013 | 49 comments

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