Hacker News on 7 January 2014

• The Rise and Rise of Television Torture
• Python code to solve xkcd 1313 by Peter Norvig
• The new Photosynth
• Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
• Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
• CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
• Scaling Mercurial at Facebook
• Ask PG: Postmortem of the outage?
• Will Work for Food and Lodging
• We've Open-Sourced Everything