top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-21

Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/microsoft-hands-on

11 years ago

946 upvotes – 372 comments

A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs

http://priceonomics.com/a-designers-war-on-misleading-parking-signs/

11 years ago

624 upvotes – 190 comments

A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS

https://www.airpair.com/aws/posts/building-a-scalable-web-app-on-amazon-web-services-p1?wed

11 years ago

542 upvotes – 129 comments

What is the best hard drive?

http://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive

11 years ago

446 upvotes – 140 comments

The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

https://www.4chan.org/news?all#118

11 years ago

411 upvotes – 288 comments

Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920613

11 years ago

401 upvotes – 112 comments

An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra

http://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/

11 years ago

371 upvotes – 51 comments

Emacs Is My New Window Manager

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 162 comments

How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact

http://time.com/3674807/john-oliver-net-neutrality-civil-forfeiture-miss-america/

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 112 comments

An experimental real world adblock

http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 141 comments

Retiring Python as a Teaching Language

http://prog21.dadgum.com/203.html

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 235 comments

Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications

http://martyjs.org/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 93 comments

The rise of fake engine noise

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks-are-built-on-lies-the-rise-of-fake-engine-noise/2015/01/21/6db09a10-a0ba-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 292 comments

Being a good networker pays off, but it requires skill as well as shamelessness

http://www.economist.com/node/21639500/print

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 90 comments

Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack on Tor?

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7867471/fbi-found-silk-road-2-tor-anonymity-hack

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 85 comments

Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent metals

http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metals-85592/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 64 comments

Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp

http://pgloader.io/

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 23 comments

WhatsApp doesn't understand the web

http://andregarzia.com/posts/en/whatsappdoesntunderstandtheweb/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 126 comments

Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/is-simcity-homelessness-a-bug-or-a-feature

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Run SSH and HTTP(S) on the same port

https://github.com/jamescun/switcher?readme

11 years ago

★ 902 Go
165 upvotes – 65 comments
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