The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2015

1

What should I do about YouTube? zoekeating.tumblr.com · radley · 23 Jan 2015

1.4k pts 290 comments

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Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development medium.com · maxidog · 13 Jan 2015

1.2k pts 278 comments

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YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video youtube-eng.blogspot.com · derpenxyne · 27 Jan 2015

1k pts 393 comments

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Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles wired.com · vesinisa · 21 Jan 2015

946 pts 372 comments

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Intel Compute Stick intel.com · stickhandle · 7 Jan 2015

929 pts 335 comments

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Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha blog.rust-lang.org · steveklabnik · 9 Jan 2015

894 pts 243 comments

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Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind bemyeyes.org · khebbie · 15 Jan 2015

827 pts 160 comments

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Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster aadrake.com · wglb · 18 Jan 2015

812 pts 309 comments

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What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps howtogeek.com · ds · 12 Jan 2015

740 pts 384 comments

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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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Firefox Hello mozilla.org · ajankovic · 28 Jan 2015

713 pts 225 comments

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What Doesn't Seem Like Work? paulgraham.com · achariam · 16 Jan 2015

712 pts 321 comments

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µBlock for Firefox github.com · aerique · 20 Jan 2015

707 pts 264 comments

14

Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter eff.org · sinak · 24 Jan 2015

700 pts 105 comments

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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EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance eff.org · CapitalistCartr · 26 Jan 2015

678 pts 151 comments

17

Don't Talk to Corp Dev paulgraham.com · _pius · 12 Jan 2015

674 pts 200 comments

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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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Io.js 1.0.0 iojs.org · elisee · 14 Jan 2015

634 pts 186 comments

20

A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn johnskylar.com · timr · 9 Jan 2015

629 pts 393 comments

21

A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs priceonomics.com · mhb · 21 Jan 2015

624 pts 190 comments

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Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user github.com · stkhlm · 15 Jan 2015

603 pts 268 comments

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

24

SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time” vine.co · ggonweb · 16 Jan 2015

598 pts 271 comments

25

Je Suis Charlie charliehebdo.fr · drallison · 7 Jan 2015

586 pts 270 comments

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EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying eff.org · declan · 29 Jan 2015

582 pts 64 comments

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Elon Musk AMA reddit.com · kfinley · 6 Jan 2015

569 pts 152 comments

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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DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD digitalocean.com · barium · 14 Jan 2015

552 pts 196 comments

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Screw motivation, what you need is discipline wisdomination.com · lukasLansky · 31 Jan 2015

551 pts 116 comments

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Scroll Slow. Have Fun scrollslowhavefun.com · drinchev · 8 Jan 2015

548 pts 141 comments

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Can't you just turn up the volume? medium.com · varunsrin · 7 Jan 2015

545 pts 152 comments

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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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Introducing React Native [video] youtube.com · arasmussen · 29 Jan 2015

542 pts 184 comments

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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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Deploying Tor Relays blog.mozilla.org · leo2urlevan · 28 Jan 2015

541 pts 89 comments

37

CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow openwall.com · martius · 27 Jan 2015

531 pts 241 comments

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‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8 krita.org · buovjaga · 16 Jan 2015

524 pts 197 comments

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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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Eigenvectors and eigenvalues explained visually setosa.io · vicapow · 20 Jan 2015

523 pts 52 comments

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Obama calls for municipal broadband vox.com · davmre · 14 Jan 2015

520 pts 275 comments

42

Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future medium.com · dirtyaura · 1 Jan 2015

514 pts 170 comments

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Inkscape 0.91 release inkscape.org · p4bl0 · 29 Jan 2015

511 pts 122 comments

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Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers sandstorm.io · reinhardt1053 · 30 Jan 2015

509 pts 184 comments

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How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections eff.org · fortmeaded · 15 Jan 2015

505 pts 173 comments

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Awk in 20 Minutes ferd.ca · craigkerstiens · 15 Jan 2015

504 pts 85 comments

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But Where Do People Work in This Office? mattblodgett.com · strangetimes · 15 Jan 2015

502 pts 312 comments

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We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub blogs.msdn.com · taspeotis · 11 Jan 2015

493 pts 220 comments

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“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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Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan spiegel.de · Libertatea · 27 Jan 2015

489 pts 191 comments

51

A Teenager’s View on Social Media medium.com · nicksergeant · 7 Jan 2015

488 pts 282 comments

52

Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham googleblog.blogspot.com · twrkit · 27 Jan 2015

486 pts 276 comments

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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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

55

A better pull request developer.atlassian.com · kannonboy · 22 Jan 2015

479 pts 161 comments

56

Secure Secure Shell stribika.github.io · padraic7a · 6 Jan 2015

478 pts 180 comments

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Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative paperwork.rocks · DieBuche · 25 Jan 2015

477 pts 134 comments

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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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Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX wsj.com · Kopion · 20 Jan 2015

474 pts 227 comments

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Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles dev.stephendiehl.com · tenslisi · 5 Jan 2015

472 pts 47 comments