The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2015
We track 782 stories from January 2015, averaging 225 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 40 stories. Together they drew 73,826 comments, 94 per story on average.
1
What should I do about YouTube?
zoekeating.tumblr.com · radley · 23 Jan 2015
1.4k pts
290 comments
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2
Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development
medium.com · maxidog · 13 Jan 2015
1.2k pts
278 comments
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3
YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
youtube-eng.blogspot.com · derpenxyne · 27 Jan 2015
1k pts
393 comments
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4
Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
wired.com · vesinisa · 21 Jan 2015
946 pts
372 comments
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6
Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha
blog.rust-lang.org · steveklabnik · 9 Jan 2015
894 pts
243 comments
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7
Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind
bemyeyes.org · khebbie · 15 Jan 2015
827 pts
160 comments
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8
Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster
aadrake.com · wglb · 18 Jan 2015
812 pts
309 comments
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9
What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps
howtogeek.com · ds · 12 Jan 2015
740 pts
384 comments
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10
Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC
storehouse.co · davidbarker · 12 Jan 2015
735 pts
112 comments
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12
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
paulgraham.com · achariam · 16 Jan 2015
712 pts
321 comments
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14
Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter
eff.org · sinak · 24 Jan 2015
700 pts
105 comments
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15
Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
makezine.com · zaaaaz · 14 Jan 2015
697 pts
144 comments
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16
EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance
eff.org · CapitalistCartr · 26 Jan 2015
678 pts
151 comments
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18
A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building
stories.californiasunday.com · samclemens · 5 Jan 2015
673 pts
177 comments
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20
A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
johnskylar.com · timr · 9 Jan 2015
629 pts
393 comments
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21
A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs
priceonomics.com · mhb · 21 Jan 2015
624 pts
190 comments
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22
Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
github.com · stkhlm · 15 Jan 2015
603 pts
268 comments
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23
How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire
brookeallen.com · chl · 8 Jan 2015
599 pts
328 comments
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24
SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”
vine.co · ggonweb · 16 Jan 2015
598 pts
271 comments
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26
EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying
eff.org · declan · 29 Jan 2015
582 pts
64 comments
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28
Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
MucuMare · 6 Jan 2015
563 pts
525 comments
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29
DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
digitalocean.com · barium · 14 Jan 2015
552 pts
196 comments
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30
Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
wisdomination.com · lukasLansky · 31 Jan 2015
551 pts
116 comments
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31
Scroll Slow. Have Fun
scrollslowhavefun.com · drinchev · 8 Jan 2015
548 pts
141 comments
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32
Can't you just turn up the volume?
medium.com · varunsrin · 7 Jan 2015
545 pts
152 comments
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33
Matter.js – A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
brm.io · brbcoding · 19 Jan 2015
545 pts
62 comments
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34
Introducing React Native [video]
youtube.com · arasmussen · 29 Jan 2015
542 pts
184 comments
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35
A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS
airpair.com · jkresner · 21 Jan 2015
542 pts
129 comments
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36
Deploying Tor Relays
blog.mozilla.org · leo2urlevan · 28 Jan 2015
541 pts
89 comments
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37
CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow
openwall.com · martius · 27 Jan 2015
531 pts
241 comments
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38
‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8
krita.org · buovjaga · 16 Jan 2015
524 pts
197 comments
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39
PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech
blog.the-ebook-reader.com · notsony · 26 Jan 2015
524 pts
177 comments
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40
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues explained visually
setosa.io · vicapow · 20 Jan 2015
523 pts
52 comments
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41
Obama calls for municipal broadband
vox.com · davmre · 14 Jan 2015
520 pts
275 comments
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42
Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future
medium.com · dirtyaura · 1 Jan 2015
514 pts
170 comments
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44
Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers
sandstorm.io · reinhardt1053 · 30 Jan 2015
509 pts
184 comments
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45
How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
eff.org · fortmeaded · 15 Jan 2015
505 pts
173 comments
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47
But Where Do People Work in This Office?
mattblodgett.com · strangetimes · 15 Jan 2015
502 pts
312 comments
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48
We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub
blogs.msdn.com · taspeotis · 11 Jan 2015
493 pts
220 comments
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49
“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”
github.com · xvirk · 16 Jan 2015
491 pts
129 comments
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50
Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan
spiegel.de · Libertatea · 27 Jan 2015
489 pts
191 comments
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51
A Teenager’s View on Social Media
medium.com · nicksergeant · 7 Jan 2015
488 pts
282 comments
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52
Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham
googleblog.blogspot.com · twrkit · 27 Jan 2015
486 pts
276 comments
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53
I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure
aclu.org · tellarin · 25 Jan 2015
485 pts
227 comments
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54
Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts
motherboard.vice.com · jordn · 15 Jan 2015
480 pts
231 comments
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55
A better pull request
developer.atlassian.com · kannonboy · 22 Jan 2015
479 pts
161 comments
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56
Secure Secure Shell
stribika.github.io · padraic7a · 6 Jan 2015
478 pts
180 comments
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57
Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative
paperwork.rocks · DieBuche · 25 Jan 2015
477 pts
134 comments
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58
So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
i.imgur.com · in3xes · 20 Jan 2015
475 pts
82 comments
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59
Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
wsj.com · Kopion · 20 Jan 2015
474 pts
227 comments
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60
Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles
dev.stephendiehl.com · tenslisi · 5 Jan 2015
472 pts
47 comments
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