top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-04-17

The Fuck – Correct your previous console command

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

11 years ago

★ 96.7k Python MIT
438 upvotes – 165 comments

RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing

http://rob.conery.io/2015/04/17/rethinkdb-2-0-is-amazing/

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 203 comments

x*sin(y)

https://www.google.com/?q=x*sin(y)

11 years ago

329 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9392780

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 173 comments

Ask HN: What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393213

11 years ago

325 upvotes – 67 comments

WikiLeaks publishes 30,000 leaked Sony documents

https://wikileaks.org/sony

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 278 comments

Chord progressions of 25,000 songs

http://amitkohli.com/?p=246

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 108 comments

PEP 492 – Coroutines with async and await syntax

http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 126 comments

A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport

http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/a-quic-update-on-googles-experimental.html

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 123 comments

Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text

http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 133 comments

Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#introduction

11 years ago

★ 24.5k Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0
227 upvotes – 102 comments

The death of optimizing compilers [pdf]

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015%2E04%2E16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 216 comments

Female Chimps Seen Making, Wielding Spears

http://news.discovery.com/animals/female-chimps-seen-making-wielding-spears-150414.htm

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 99 comments

A Million Lines of Bad Code

http://varianceexplained.org/programming/bad-code/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 121 comments

Rust Priorities after 1.0

http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/priorities-after-1-0/1901

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 102 comments

Chris Dodd's Email Reveals What MPAA Really Thinks of Fair Use

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150416/17252230680/chris-dodds-email-reveals-what-mpaa-really-thinks-fair-use-extremely-controversal.shtml

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 22 comments

Fixing Italy, a little bit at a time

http://blog.therealitaly.com/2015/04/16/fixing-italy-a-little-bit-at-a-time/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 54 comments

Making Plutonium-238 in large enough quantities is an ongoing challenge

http://www.popsci.com/nasa-can-make-3-more-nuclear-batteries-and-thats-it

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 88 comments

Bloomberg Terminals Suffer Widespread Failures

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/business/dealbook/bloomberg-terminals-outage.html?_r=0

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 66 comments

Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown/39841

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 109 comments
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