top 50% 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

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

The Last Great Steam Car (2006)

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

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 46 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

Feds bust through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/feds-bust-through-huge-tor-hidden-child-porn-site-using-questionable-malware/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 136 comments

Delays have hampered the ability of journalists to use FOIA as a tool

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/when_the_documentary_filmmaker_laura.php

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Termux – Terminal emulator and Unix environment for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 28 comments

Zynga Analytics at its Peak

http://blog.amplitude.com/2015/06/24/zynga-analytics-at-its-peak/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-American Movies

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/afrostream-is-netflix-for-african-and-african-american-movies/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 128 comments

Easily debugging Meteor.js

http://joshowens.me/easily-debugging-meteor-js/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

U.S. judge says Internet streaming service should be treated like cable

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/17/us-filmon-copyright-ruling-idUSKCN0PR02620150717

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerful telescope in history

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/17/the-square-kilometre-array-radio-silence-in-western-australia-for-most-powerful-telescope-in-history

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

New Electric Car Company Emerges: Faraday Future

http://wot.motortrend.com/1507_new_california_based_electric_car_company_emerges_faraday_future.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Machine Learning in Python?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9902524

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 46 comments

Unsanctioned Web Tracking

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/unsanctioned-tracking/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Error Handling in Nodejs

https://www.joyent.com/developers/node/design/errors

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Two Dots Too Many (2008)

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Is physics moving forward?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9902790

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 71 comments

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

The information that companies share with employees is becoming a bigger issue

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/employees-wise-up/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team

https://medium.com/@Mediauras/my-two-years-as-an-anthropologist-on-the-photoshop-team-e700acb7d3d5

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

LinkedIn and Censorship in China

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2015/jul/linkedin-technological-and-financial-giants-morally-pygmies

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

'Massive leap' wins engineering award

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33552037

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

NASA Technical Standard: Crimping, Cables, Harnesses, and Wiring (2011) [pdf]

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/87394.pdf

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

EnChroma: Color for the Color Blind

http://enchroma.com

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

PEP 0448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0448/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/world/stowaway-crime-scofflaw-ship.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

A fast Lisp interpreter in Dart

http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp-en.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Smart Bed Startup Luna Joins YC S15, Has Raised $1.3M in Private Funding

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/luna-joins-y-combinator/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

New in the Wolfram Language: MailReceiverFunction

http://blog.wolfram.com/2015/07/16/new-in-the-wolfram-language-mailreceiverfunction/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

Ripping music and films illegal again in UK after High Court overturns new law

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33566933

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 59 comments

Counting hash collisions with the birthday paradox

http://matt.might.net/articles/counting-hash-collisions/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

FastMail gains push notifications in iOS Mail.app, joining only Yahoo and iCloud

http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/07/17/push-email-now-available-in-ios-mail/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 64 comments

Bernoulli: Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (1738) [pdf]

http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/GraduateTheoryUCSB/Bernoulli.pdf

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 17 comments

BASIC, Second Edition (1964) [pdf]

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 16 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments