top 50% 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

You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement

http://zachholman.com/posts/the-basement/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 68 comments

How did Einstein Think?

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Einstein_think/index.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 72 comments

Dogs, but Not Wolves, Use Humans as Tools

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/04/30/dogs-but-not-wolves-use-humans-as-tools/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 73 comments

The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/stressed-at-work-try-a-lunchtime-walk/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 47 comments

Windows 10 upgrade to be 'free' for one year

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30924022

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 73 comments

To Be

https://to.be/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 57 comments

Startup jobs with low salary and negligible equity, what gives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923551

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 133 comments

Whatsapp Web

https://web.whatsapp.com/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 108 comments

LibreOffice Beta Available for Android

https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/libreoffice-for-android-released/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 17 comments

Debug your programs like they're closed source

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/04/20/debug-your-programs-like-theyre-closed-source/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 30 comments

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 21 comments

Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video]

http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 176 comments

Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache

http://www.shopify.com/technology/16777156-tuning-rubys-global-method-cache

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: tld-list.com – 818 Top Level Domains and Their Cheapest Registrars

http://tld-list.com

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

c. 1946: The New York subway, by Stanley Kubrick

http://mashable.com/2015/01/18/stanley-kubrick-photography/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

A woman who can't feel fear

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/20/meet-the-woman-who-cant-feel-fear/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

Anonymous programmers can be identified by analyzing coding style

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/aylin/anonymous-programmers-can-be-identified-by-analyzing-coding-style/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

Restart: Microsoft in the age of Satya Nadella

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/microsoft-nadella/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

Former Nintendo Executive Discusses Nintendo’s Culture

http://www.dromble.com/2015/01/21/former-nintendo-executive-dan-adelman-discusses-nintendos-culture-third-party-support-and-much-more/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cory-doctorow-rejoins-eff-eradicate-drm-everywhere/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

The CERT C Secure Coding Standard

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+C+Coding+Standard

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser for Windows 10

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7863331/microsoft-project-spartan-new-web-browser

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 80 comments

Securing the Unikernel

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2015/01/21/securing-the-unikernel/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Discovery: Fish Live Beneath Antarctica

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discovery-fish-live-beneath-antarctica1/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Feature Macros, an Alternative to Feature Expressions in Clojure

https://github.com/feature-macros/clojurescript/tree/feature-macros/feature-macros-demo

11 years ago

★ 22 Clojure
80 upvotes – 32 comments

Tighter Control Over Your Referrers

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/01/21/meta-referrer/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps

http://blog.tryolabs.com/2015/01/20/introducing-metamon-for-kickstarting-django-development/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Hack Reactor Acquires MakerSquare

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/coding-bootcamp-boom-continues-hack-reactor-buy/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Smarter saved cards

https://stripe.com/blog/smarter-saved-cards

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Lawyer Turned YC Partner Carolynn Levy Is Revolutionizing Startup Investing

http://abovethelaw.com/2015/01/innovation-more-than-another-app-how-wilson-lawyer-turned-yc-partner-carolynn-levy-is-revolutionizing-startup-investing

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building (2013)

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/page/Michael-Jordan/michael-jordan-not-left-building

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

Supreme Leader's Not-That-Supreme Malware

https://www.codeandsec.com/Supreme-Leaders-Not-That-Supreme-Malwares

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 0 comments

How to get started with the LLVM C API

https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2015/01/how-to-get-started-with-llvm-c-api.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Service Discovery with Mesos-DNS

http://mesosphere.com/2015/01/21/mesos-dns-service-discovery/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower (2008)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower/306810/?single_page=true

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

A Photographer Who Tinkers with Time

http://nautil.us/blog/a-photographer-who-tinkers-with-time

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

iCloud Terminal Notepad

http://www.slashie.org/articles/icloud-notepad/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Einstein for Everyone

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

Demo Days

http://blog.ycombinator.com/demo-days

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

The Apollo Saturn V LVDC circuit board

http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings_LVDC.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Don't use the mailing lists

http://blog.ironholds.org/dont-use-the-mailing-lists-a-love-letter-to-the-r-community/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

Zero-Volume Glass Klein Bottles: 3D Immersion of 4D Shape

http://www.kleinbottle.com/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments
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