top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-20

µBlock for Firefox

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

11 years ago

★ 63k JavaScript GPL-3.0
707 upvotes – 264 comments

Eigenvectors and eigenvalues explained visually

http://setosa.io/ev/eigenvectors-and-eigenvalues

11 years ago

523 upvotes – 52 comments

So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative

http://i.imgur.com/Ttv2cBH.png

11 years ago

475 upvotes – 82 comments

Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-nears-1-billion-investment-in-spacex-1421706642

11 years ago

474 upvotes – 227 comments

HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/healthcare.gov-sends-personal-data

11 years ago

346 upvotes – 94 comments

SpaceX Sells 10% Stake to Google, Fidelity for $1B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-20/musk-s-spacex-sells-10-stake-to-google-fidelity-for-1-billion.html?hootPostID=e032d9a22131660ad2c3ecfaa1639a46

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 154 comments

Working at Netflix

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-01-20/working-at-netflix.html

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 284 comments

The Ronco Principle

http://paulgraham.com/ronco.html

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 243 comments

Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/108642362357/coinbase-raises-75m-from-dfj-growth-usaa-nyse

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 190 comments

Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/?

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 165 comments

Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/20/stack-exchange-raises-40m-led-by-a16z-to-boost-its-programmer-forums/

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 224 comments

New police radars can 'see' inside homes

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 110 comments

India's tiger population sees 30% increase

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30896028

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 63 comments

Suspended jaccuzzi

http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc_264_e.html

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 100 comments

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet

http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/j-k-rowling-plotted-harry-potter-with-a-hand-drawn-spreadsheet.html

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 48 comments

Front End Developer – Interview Questions

https://github.com/h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions

11 years ago

★ 60.8k Nunjucks MIT
172 upvotes – 139 comments

130,000 pages of declassified US Air Force files related to UFO sightings

http://theblackvault.com/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 118 comments

U.S. judges propose updating warrants for Tor, remote searches: p338 (2014)

http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/rules/preliminary-draft-proposed-amendments.pdf

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 46 comments

LLDB debugger is coming to Windows

http://blog.llvm.org/2015/01/lldb-is-coming-to-windows.html

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 34 comments

Go Static or Go Home

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2721993

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 102 comments
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