top 10 hacker news stories for 2014-08-21

Why Racket? Why Lisp?

http://practicaltypography.com/why-racket-why-lisp.html

12 years ago

418 upvotes – 280 comments

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit?printable=true

12 years ago

383 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

http://whiteboardfox.com/

12 years ago

309 upvotes – 140 comments

DocumentDB

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/documentdb/

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 164 comments

Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/32-node-raspberry-pi-cassandra-cluster

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 55 comments

The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free EBooks

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/the-harvard-classics-download-all-51-volumes-as-free-ebooks.html

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 48 comments

Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success

http://experiment.com/u/aAcR2Q?helloHN

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 60 comments

Serendipity – When 2 people listen to the same song at the same time

http://kylemcdonald.net/serendipity/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 67 comments

RTFM 0day in iOS apps

http://algorithm.dk/posts/rtfm-0day-in-ios-apps-g-gmail-fb-messenger-etc

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end

http://duojs.org/

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 100 comments
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