Hacker News on 24 February 2014

• The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
• A Star in a Bottle
• Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying
• Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?
• Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'
• What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced
• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive
• Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
• Flappy Bird Ported to C64
• Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21