top 50% 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

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

Path Tracing 3D Fractals

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

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 17 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

Shellfire – A repository of namespaced, composable shell function libraries

https://github.com/shellfire-dev/shellfire

11 years ago

★ 1.2k Shell
123 upvotes – 27 comments

To Be More Creative, Cheer Up

http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/to-be-more-creative-cheer-up-rd

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

Genetic Algorithm Walkers

http://rednuht.org/genetic_walkers/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 74 comments

College Students Prefer Reading Print Books to E-Readers

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120765/naomi-barons-words-onscreen-fate-reading-digital-world

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 112 comments

Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/opinion/sunday/why-some-teams-are-smarter-than-others.html

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 89 comments

How We Failed at OpenStack

https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

Ice Balls

http://the-tusk.com/2015/01/09/ice-balls/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Kim Dotcom hasn’t been extradited 3 years after the US smashed Megaupload

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/why-kim-dotcom-hasnt-been-extradited-3-years-after-the-us-smashed-megaupload/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 36 comments

WebGL Path Tracing

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

How Browserify Works

http://benclinkinbeard.com/posts/how-browserify-works/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

Choose your reading carefully

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/jan/19/three-thousand-books-choose-reading-carefully

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 88 comments

Surviving Anxiety

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/surviving_anxiety/355741/?single_page=true

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 87 comments

Striking parallels between mathematics and software engineering

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/striking-parallels-between-mathematics-and-software-engineering.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

QBasic game programming

https://balau82.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/nostalgia-trip-qbasic-game-programming/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

Decoding UTF-8 with Parser Combinators

https://ianthehenry.com/2015/1/17/decoding-utf-8/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

Why the Facebook App Is Rated Below 2 Stars

http://blog.testmunk.com/why-the-facebook-app-is-rated-below-2-stars/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

Ex'Tax – The big idea

http://www.ex-tax.com/big-idea/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 87 comments

Hex Invaders

http://www.hexinvaders.com

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Using Go to improve your Ruby application's performance

https://antoine.finkelstein.fr/go-in-ruby/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

Extracting text from an image using Ocropus

http://www.danvk.org/2015/01/09/extracting-text-from-an-image-using-ocropus.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Hand-picked space wallpapers for desktop and mobile

http://psiupuxa.com

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Richest 1% to own more than rest of world, Oxfam says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30875633

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 96 comments

After Gmail blocked in China, Microsoft's Outlook hacked, says GreatFire

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/19/us-microsoft-china-idUSKBN0KS12520150119?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Psyop Mistakes?

http://www.psywarrior.com/PSYOPMistakes.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light

http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3987

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Web scraping with Ruby

https://www.chrismytton.uk/2015/01/19/web-scraping-with-ruby/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Corporate Learning at Scale: Lessons from a Large Online Course at Google [pdf]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/42855.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

20-ton magnet heads to New York

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2015/20-ton-magnet-heads-to-new-york

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Finding the distance from camera to object in image

http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/01/19/find-distance-camera-objectmarker-using-python-opencv/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Hand Ciphers

http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/handciphers.htm

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 1 comments

Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (1963)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10.4290&rep=rep1&type=pdf

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 20 comments

How Stevie Wonder Helped Create Martin Luther King Day

https://medium.com/cuepoint/how-stevie-wonder-helped-create-martin-luther-king-day-807451a78664

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

Local MirageOS Development with Xen and Virtualbox

http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/01/19/mirageos-xen-virtualbox/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 1 comments

What the Web Said Yesterday

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments

Review of the Model S 85

http://shiftinglanes.com/2015/01/tesla-model-s-review/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Nooot – Share text using the key phrase, access it from anywhere

http://nooot.co

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: AvatarPicker – User-friendly, in-page gravatar alternative

https://www.avatarpicker.com/

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: How do we find an investor in the EU/UK for something very technical?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912332

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 37 comments

Aol Is Restructuring, Layoffs and Site Closures Likely

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/19/aol-is-restructuring-layoffs-and-site-closures-likely/

11 years ago

40 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: My son wants to make side money programming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8911509

11 years ago

39 upvotes – 56 comments
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