top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-07-17

Dear Google Mail Team

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/DiG9qANf5PA

11 years ago

719 upvotes – 260 comments

How a car works (2012)

http://www.howacarworks.com/

11 years ago

508 upvotes – 117 comments

Homejoy says goodbye

http://blog.homejoy.com/homejoy-says-goodbye/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 399 comments

Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/teslas-model-s-gets-ludicrous-mode-will-do-0-60-in-2-8-seconds

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 286 comments

NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-new-horizons-discovers-frozen-plains-in-the-heart-of-pluto-s-heart

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 116 comments

Legends in D3

http://d3-legend.susielu.com/

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 20 comments

Artificial Killing Machine

http://hackaday.com/2015/07/16/artificial-killing-machine/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 57 comments

If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2014)

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-140130a.htm

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 210 comments

Designing a Programming Language

http://ducklang.org/designing-a-programming-language-i

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Hires Tech Team from Homejoy, Readies Leap into Home Services

http://recode.net/2015/07/17/google-hires-homejoys-technical-team-to-build-its-own-home-services-marketplace/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 57 comments

The Last Great Steam Car (2006)

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-last-great-steam-car/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 46 comments

What is the most ridiculous aircraft design?

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-most-ridiculous-aircraft-design-that-people-have-ever-seen?share=1

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 54 comments

Must Be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code

http://bholley.net/blog/2015/must-be-this-tall-to-write-multi-threaded-code.html

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 112 comments

Intro to RenderMan for Blender

https://community.renderman.pixar.com/article/906/introduction-to-prman-for-blender.html

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 71 comments

Want a better pitch? Watch Elon Musk’s presentation for the Tesla Powerwall

https://medium.com/firm-narrative/want-a-better-pitch-watch-this-328b95c2fd0b

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 37 comments

High Availability for PostgreSQL, Batteries Not Included

https://www.compose.io/articles/high-availability-for-postgresql-batteries-not-included/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 62 comments

MPs win surveillance powers legal challenge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33564442

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

How I optimised my life to make my job redundant

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/07/how-i-optimised-my-life-to-make-my-job.html

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 94 comments

The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2

https://medium.com/@chris_urmson/the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car-chapter-2-8d5e2990101b

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 84 comments

The end of capitalism has begun

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments
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