top 50% 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

Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more

https://dynamictyped.github.io/Griddle/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 39 comments

The button that isn’t

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/12/15/button-isnt/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 62 comments

Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping problem

http://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zombie-reaping-problem/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 69 comments

WebVR lands in Firefox Nightly

http://mozvr.com/posts/webvr-lands-in-nightly/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative

http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creative/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Native Socket.IO and Android

http://socket.io/blog/native-socket-io-and-android/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

The Cx programming language

http://cx-lang.org/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 47 comments

Darpa Unveils Upgraded Atlas Robot, Now Completely Unplugged

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged#.VL6Nx4VBEGE.hackernews

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 50 comments

Removing Fish from a Surreal Abandoned Shopping Mall

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/01/removing-fish-from-a-surreal-abandoned-shopping-mall/384569/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

The Simulated Annealing Algorithm

http://katrinaeg.com/simulated-annealing.html

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Mockups: How Apple can catch up to Yelp reviews and Google ratings overnight

http://jonsadka.com/blog/how-apple-can-catch-up-to-google-ratings-and-yelp-reviews-overnight/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 56 comments

Crunch Makes Games Worse

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150120/234443/The_Game_Outcomes_Project_Part_4_Crunch_Makes_Games_Worse.php

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 78 comments

My internship on the Khan Academy iOS team

http://www.kasrak.com/writing/khan-internship/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

With Snowden in the background, privacy takes a back seat to security

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/18/with-snowden-in-the-background-privacy-takes-a-back-seat-to-security/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 39 comments

Co-Working on Vacation: A Desk in Paradise

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/business/co-working-on-vacation-a-desk-in-paradise.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 69 comments

Optimizely Statistics Engine

https://www.optimizely.com/statistics

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 55 comments

C to Go translation tool supporting Go toolchain migration

https://github.com/rsc/c2go

11 years ago

★ 506 Go BSD-3-Clause
85 upvotes – 18 comments

Sky to block pornography by default

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30896813

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 104 comments

UBlock defaults to blocking Google Analytics tracking

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/e6707fe8b155cc92da1cb5e4aad7098b057429cd/assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt#L106

11 years ago

★ 63k JavaScript GPL-3.0
71 upvotes – 88 comments

Ethel Lang, the last Victorian, has died

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/18/ethel-lang-last-victorian-dies-victorian-values-live-on

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Baseimage-docker, fat containers and “treating containers as VMs”

http://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/baseimage-docker-fat-containers-treating-containers-vms/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Sitting for too long can kill you, even if you exercise

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sitting-for-too-long-can-kill-you-even-if-you-exercise-study-1.2918678

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Why are there never any job postings for non web positions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918776

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: My First 3D Android Game Using Unity3D – Dragon Slayer: Reign of Fire

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thoughtshastra.dragonslayer

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 40 comments

Cross-compiled Erlang, Elixir, and LFE for Embedded Devices

http://nerves-project.org/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Incorrect optimization in 1963

http://arcanesentiment.blogspot.com/2015/01/incorrect-optimization-in-1963.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments
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