top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-01-17

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html?_r=0

9 years ago

1503 upvotes – 713 comments

RethinkDB Postmortem

https://github.com/coffeemug/defstartup/blob/master/_drafts/why-rethinkdb-failed.md

9 years ago

★ 425Ruby
948 upvotes – 267 comments

Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy

https://standardnotes.org/

9 years ago

673 upvotes – 282 comments

How much does employee turnover really cost?

https://medium.com/latticehq/how-much-does-employee-turnover-really-cost-d61df5eed151#.p105nzhlz

9 years ago

541 upvotes – 342 comments

Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)

https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob

9 years ago

515 upvotes – 253 comments

Ask HN: What is the best online resource to learn advanced SQL?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417326

9 years ago

448 upvotes – 97 comments

Mo.js: motion graphics toolbelt for the web

https://github.com/legomushroom/mojs

9 years ago

★ 18.6kCoffeeScriptMIT
406 upvotes – 62 comments

GIMP – 2016 in review

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/01/15/2016-in-review/

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 182 comments

Nylas Mail is now free

https://blog.nylas.com/nylas-mail-is-now-free-8350d6a1044d#.7cykx2z49

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 319 comments

Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp

http://pixielang.org/

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 157 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13416935

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 324 comments

Announcing Rust Language Server Alpha Release

http://www.jonathanturner.org/2017/01/rls-alpha-release.html

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 33 comments

Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram

https://engineering.instagram.com/dismissing-python-garbage-collection-at-instagram-4dca40b29172

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 85 comments

An Inferno on the Head of a Pin

https://blog.codinghorror.com/an-inferno-on-the-head-of-a-pin/

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 114 comments

Monetize Your APIs in AWS Marketplace Using API Gateway

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/monetize-your-apis-in-aws-marketplace-using-api-gateway/

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 115 comments

Yes, organic farming will kill us all

https://shift.newco.co/yes-organic-farming-will-kill-us-all-12d900979cf2#.gojjvvvs6

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 252 comments

Intel Management Engine cleaner

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/

9 years ago

★ 4.9kPythonGPL-3.0
223 upvotes – 71 comments

Authoritarians Distract Rather Than Debate

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/01/authoritarians-distract-rather-debate.html

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 151 comments

Moving beyond localStorage

https://journal.standardnotes.org/moving-beyond-localstorage-991e3695be15#.5ua9rs4vk

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 58 comments

Sublime Tutor – Interactive Sublime Text Tutor

https://sublimetutor.com/

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 64 comments
show: top 10 top 20 top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: date score comments