top 50% 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

Bhutan's dark secret to happiness

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20150408-bhutans-dark-secret-to-happiness

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 63 comments

The school that hates rules

https://medium.com/bright/meet-the-school-that-hates-rules-d55fca40d28

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

The hidden FM radio in your pocket and why you can't use it

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/16/400178385/the-hidden-fm-radio-inside-your-pocket-and-why-you-cant-use-it/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 100 comments

Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice

https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-authoritarianism-of-millennial-social-justice-6bdb5ad3c9d3?section=suggested

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 200 comments

React Native v0.4

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/04/17/react-native-v0.4.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Container Registry

https://cloud.google.com/tools/container-registry/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 30 comments

Last Exit to Loyalty

http://tim.dreamwidth.org/1890351.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

US Navy develops cannon-launched 'swarming' drones

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32334186

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

The Steady Rise of Bike Ridership in New York

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/04/the-steady-rise-of-bike-ridership-in-new-york/390717/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 106 comments

Bill Would Legitimize White House Secrecy and Clear the Way for Anti-User Deals

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/fasttrack-bill-legitimize-white-house-secrecy-and-clear-way-anti-user

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Circuit: A Minimal Distributed Programmatic OS written in Go

http://gocircuit.github.io/circuit/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

The lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy

http://fusion.net/story/118401/meet-the-lawyer-taking-on-uber-and-the-on-demand-economy/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 67 comments

This video camera is powered by light

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/self_powered_camera/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch

http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Code Inflation [pdf]

https://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/issues/2015/04/mso2015020010.pdf

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

How ZenPayroll processes billions of dollars in annual payroll

http://stackshare.io/zenpayroll/how-zenpayroll-processes-billions-of-dollars-in-annual-payroll

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Scientists Perturbed by Loss of Stat Tool to Sift Research Fudge from Fact

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-perturbed-by-loss-of-stat-tool-to-sift-research-fudge-from-fact/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

How a Toronto professor’s research revolutionized artificial intelligence

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/04/17/how-a-toronto-professors-research-revolutionized-artificial-intelligence.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

List of screw drives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Tri-wing

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

LlamaDB: A simple SQL database written in Rust

https://github.com/nukep/llamadb/

11 years ago

★ 387 Rust
72 upvotes – 8 comments

The Future of Audacity, Interview with the Team

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/the-future-of-audacity-interview-with-the-team

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

State seizes 11-year-old, arrests his mother after marijuana school presentation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/04/17/state-seizes-11-year-old-arrests-his-mother-after-he-defends-medical-marijuana-during-a-school-presentation/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 61 comments

I found Einstein's Brain

https://medium.com/backchannel/yes-i-found-einstein-s-brain-c3834429e4d5

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Thumbnail track pad

https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/wearable-thumbnail-sensor-controls-digital-devices-0417

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Using Go's interfaces at Clever – more than just easy collaboration

http://engineering.clever.com/2015/04/17/using-gos-interfaces-at-clever---more-than-just-easy-collaboration/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/04/17/10608077.aspx

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Lucasfilm Responds to 7-Year-Old’s Request to Let Jedi Marry

http://geekdad.com/2015/04/jedi-marry

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

DocStore: Document Database for MySQL at Facebook [pdf]

https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2015/sites/default/files/slides/Facebook%20DocStore%20Percona%202015.pdf

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

About Internet.org and net neutrality

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102033678947881

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 69 comments

Writing Bug-Free C Code (1995)

https://www.duckware.com/bugfreec/index.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

The foreskin: Why is it such a secret in North America?

http://madsciencewriter.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-foreskin-why-is-it-such-secret-in.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

A taxing algorithm

http://bit-player.org/2015/a-taxing-algorithm

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment (2013)

http://www.nber.org/papers/w18871

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 38 comments

Moving from PHP to Go and Microservices

http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/04/16/arduino-web-architecture-back-to-the-future/?utm_content=buffere40c1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 61 comments

Bytecode features not available in the Java language

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23218472/472792

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments
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