Hacker News on 9 February 2014

• Girls and Software
• Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
• Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
• That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter
• Flappy Bird by the Numbers
• The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield
• When Random Isn't Random Enough: Lessons from an Online Poker Exploit
• Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science
• Tex – Show off your best scientific illustration
• Debian 7.4 Released