Hacker News on 5 January 2014

• NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress
• What "viable search engine competition" really looks like
• Fukushima Emergency
• Paths to being a kernel hacker
• Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pill For That
• An open letter to hobbyists by Bill Gates (1976)
• Ask HN: Is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" still worth reading?
• A Public Statement Regarding Ubiquitous Encryption on the XMPP Network
• Lolmythesis Tumblr: College students summarize their thesis in one sentence
• Arabic Natural Language Processing