top 20 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

Codefights

http://www.codefights.com

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 84 comments

LowDB – A flat JSON file database

https://github.com/typicode/lowdb?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email

12 years ago

★ 22.5k JavaScript MIT
148 upvotes – 70 comments

Ftrace: The hidden light switch

http://lwn.net/Articles/608497/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 10 comments

This Is Your Brain on Silence

http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-your-brain-on-silence

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 71 comments

At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/fashion/at-burning-man-the-tech-elite-one-up-one-another.html?ref=fashion

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 57 comments

Gamma error in picture scaling (2007)

http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Dune Genesis (1980)

http://moodleshare.org/mod/page/view.php?id=2453

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 72 comments

Metaballs and Marching Squares

http://jamie-wong.com/2014/08/19/metaballs-and-marching-squares

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Product Hunt iOS App

http://www.producthunt.com/apps/ios

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework

http://www.airpair.com/js/javascript-framework-comparison

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 90 comments
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