top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-15

Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

http://www.bemyeyes.org/

11 years ago

827 upvotes – 160 comments

Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

11 years ago

★ 4.7k
603 upvotes – 268 comments

How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/verizon-and-turn-break-browser-privacy-protections

11 years ago

505 upvotes – 173 comments

Awk in 20 Minutes

http://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

11 years ago

504 upvotes – 85 comments

But Where Do People Work in This Office?

http://www.mattblodgett.com/2015/01/but-where-do-people-work-in-this-office.html

11 years ago

502 upvotes – 312 comments

Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/defense-in-silk-road-trial-says-mt-gox-ceo-was-the-real-dread-pirate-roberts?utm_source=mbtwitter

11 years ago

480 upvotes – 231 comments

Google Glass sales halted

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30831128

11 years ago

444 upvotes – 262 comments

A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod?#A_Localization_Horror_Story:_It_Could_Happen_To_You

11 years ago

438 upvotes – 249 comments

Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever

http://jlongster.com/Presenting-The-Most-Over-Engineered-Blog-Ever

11 years ago

378 upvotes – 80 comments

Italia Startup Visa

http://italiastartupvisa.mise.gov.it/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 209 comments

RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing

http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-prepares-bankruptcy-filing-1421279360

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 222 comments

Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/elon-musk-will-build-a-hyperloop-track-for-ultra-high-speed-transport-tests/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 77 comments

SpaceX Has Pinpointed the Problem That Caused the Falcon9 to Crash Land

http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-problem-falcon9-crash-landing-2015-1

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 103 comments

How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 189 comments

Against DNSSEC

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 144 comments

Unprecedented Level of Human Harm to Sea Life Is Forecast

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/science/earth/study-raises-alarm-for-health-of-ocean-life.html

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 49 comments

132-year-old rifle found propped against a national park tree

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/14/the-mystery-of-the-132-year-old-winchester-rifle-found-propped-against-a-national-park-tree/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

Google discloses another Windows security issue after deadline exceeded

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=128

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn

http://duoco.de

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 96 comments

Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/activist-pulls-off-clever-wi-fi-honeypot-to-protest-surveillance-state/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 29 comments
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