top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-19

Matter.js – A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web

http://brm.io/matter-js/

11 years ago

545 upvotes – 62 comments

The Best Entrepreneur I Know

http://donpottinger.net/blog/2015/01/19/the-best-entrepreneur-i-know.html

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 60 comments

The Whole Haystack: The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/whole-haystack

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 162 comments

N.S.A. Tapped into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/world/asia/nsa-tapped-into-north-korean-networks-before-sony-attack-officials-say.html

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 149 comments

Python Tips and Traps

https://www.airpair.com/python/posts/python-tips-and-traps

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 45 comments

Path Tracing 3D Fractals

http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/2015/01/path-tracing-3d-fractals/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 17 comments

Node.js and io.js – Very different in performance

http://geekregator.com/2015-01-19-node_js_and_io_js_very_different_in_performance.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: What's the best way to write an API spec?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912897

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 56 comments

Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-recovery-for-amazon-ec2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 49 comments

Chiptune

http://chiptune.com/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 29 comments

Slow-motion video of raindrops reveals how rain gets its distinctive smell

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/16/slow-mo-video-of-raindrops-reveals-how-rain-gets-its-distinctive-smell/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 20 comments

Hacked. A Short Story

http://kukuruku.co/hub/infosec/hacked-a-short-story-of-a-hack

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 46 comments

Gnome Wayland porting – the endgame

http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/01/19/gnome-wayland-porting-the-endgame/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: The Silicon C++14 Web Framework

https://github.com/matt-42/silicon

11 years ago

★ 1.7k C++ MIT
140 upvotes – 37 comments

LZHAM – Lossless compression with faster decompression than LZMA

https://code.google.com/p/lzham/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 36 comments

Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/629259/6fc0d45326725ba5/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 108 comments

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

http://fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 13 comments

Explore the ownership system in Rust

http://nercury.github.io/rust/guide/2015/01/19/ownership.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 43 comments

The Groovy project is looking for a new home

http://glaforge.appspot.com/article/the-groovy-project-is-looking-for-a-new-home

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 68 comments

Lightbot: A simple programming game

http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments
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