top 50% 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

Inactivity 'kills more than obesity'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 122 comments

Octopress 3.0 is coming

http://octopress.org/2015/01/15/octopress-3.0-is-coming/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

Elon Musk donates $10M to keep AI beneficial

http://futureoflife.org/misc/AI

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 146 comments

SNB Unexpectedly Gives Up Cap on Franc, Lowers Deposit Rate

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-15/snb-unexpectedly-gives-up-cap-on-franc-lowers-deposit-rate.html

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Timeline.com

http://timeline.com/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 54 comments

How India's Patent Office Destroyed Gilead's Global Game Plan

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-15/how-indias-patent-office-destroyed-gileads-global-game-plan

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 69 comments

SEO penalties of moving our blog to a subdomain

https://iwantmyname.com/blog/2015/01/seo-penalties-of-moving-our-blog-to-a-subdomain.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Clojure?

http://blog.venanti.us/why-clojure/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 74 comments

Sandstorm raises $1.3M, paying forward crowdfunds

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-01-15-sandstorm-1.3M-seed-round-pay-it-forward.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 9 comments

Quantifying the Clickbait and Linkbait in BuzzFeed Article Titles

http://minimaxir.com/2015/01/linkbait/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Why we prefer founding CEOs (2010)

http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_we_prefer_founding_ceos

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Jetpack, a FreeBSD Jail/ZFS-based container runtime

https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack

11 years ago

★ 529 Go
96 upvotes – 23 comments

Monument Valley in Numbers

http://blog.monumentvalleygame.com/blog/2015/1/15/monument-valley-in-numbers

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

Parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-couple-want-free-range-kids-but-not-all-do/2015/01/14/d406c0be-9c0f-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html?tid=hybrid_sidebar_alt1_strip_2

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 102 comments

MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month

http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/01/14/myspace-still-reaches-50-million-people-each-month/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

Patent reform advocates are launching a ‘super-coalition’ to whack patent trolls

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/01/15/patent-reform-advocates-are-launching-a-super-coalition-to-whack-patent-trolls/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

China to create $6.5B venture capital fund to support start-ups

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/us-china-venturecapital-idUSKBN0KO05Q20150115

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

The Mathematics Community and the NSA [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/201502/rnoti-p165.pdf

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 41 comments

Data-Oriented Hash Table

http://www.reedbeta.com/blog/2015/01/12/data-oriented-hash-table/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Plus, Minus: A Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Orthogonal

http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/00/PM.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 4 comments

Undercover Agent Reveals How He Helped the FBI Trap Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-trial-undercover-dhs-fbi-trap-ross-ulbricht

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Harvard Admission Exam (1869) [pdf]

https://www.peterkrantz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/harvard-admission-1899.pdf

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 63 comments

Bigger Settlement Said to Be Reached in Silicon Valley Antitrust Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/technology/silicon-valley-antitrust-case-settlement-poaching-engineers.html?ref=business&_r=0

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

How speedy is SPDY? [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/nsdi14_slides_wang.pdf

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

How to Make a Bouncing Ball Game for Nintendo DS

http://ekid.nintendev.com/bouncy/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Newer TCP implementations

http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/current/html/newtcps.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Remarq.io – Beautiful documents for consultants

http://www.remarq.io/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

The Code We Can't Control

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/01/black_box_society_by_frank_pasquale_a_chilling_vision_of_how_big_data_has.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 41 comments

OpenZFS Device Removal

http://blog.delphix.com/alex/2015/01/15/openzfs-device-removal/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

The Cathedral of Computation

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-cathedral-of-computation/384300/?single_page=true

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Photos from Chicago's Gangster Past, Minus the Romance

http://www.citylab.com/crime/2015/01/unrestricted-access-to-images-of-chicagos-criminal-history/384225/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

An Interview with Sue Black

http://zidilife.com/get-one-life-make/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

BitCannon – A torrent index archiving, browsing, and backup tool

http://bitcannon.io

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

The Frink programming language

http://ncreep.github.io/language_perils/blog/2015-01-08-hello-frink.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Tech Startups Should Look at Go

http://startupedmonton.tumblr.com/post/107921476571/why-tech-startups-should-look-at-go

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 107 comments
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