Hacker News on 9 January 2012

• A simple guide for getting started with git
• The New Web Typography
• Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supply backdoors for government?
• Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th
• Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
• In 1951 there was a children's U-238 Atomic Energy Lab playset for $50
• Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes
• Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA
• The $40 Standup Desk
• UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed