top 50% 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

★ 425 Ruby
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

★ 18.6k CoffeeScript MIT
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

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

Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram

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

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 85 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

★ 4.9k Python GPL-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

The fivethirtyeight R package

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/the-fivethirtyeight-r-package.html

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 71 comments

Being a Data Scientist: My Experience and Toolset

https://jeffersonheard.github.io/2017/01/being-a-data-scientist-my-experience-and-toolset/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 48 comments

Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118052-female-shark-learns-to-reproduce-without-males-after-years-alone/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 50 comments

Screwdriver: Yahoo's Continuous Delivery Build System for Dynamic Infrastructure

https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/155765242061/open-sourcing-screwdriver-yahoos-continuous

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 58 comments

Opera 12.15 source code

https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues/1238

9 years ago

★ 1.9k C++ GPL-3.0
148 upvotes – 86 comments

What is logic?

https://aeon.co/essays/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-logic

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 65 comments

Theresa May: UK must leave European single market

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38641208

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 309 comments

Facebook to Open Startup Garage at Station F in Paris

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/facebook-to-open-startup-garage-at-station-f-in-paris/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 59 comments

Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2873.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

The World’s Most Innovative Economies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-17/sweden-gains-south-korea-reigns-as-world-s-most-innovative-economies

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 114 comments

New York Times Study Calls for Rapid Change in Newsroom

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/business/new-york-times-newsroom-report-2020.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 129 comments

One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/17/listen-with-your-eyes-one-in-five-of-us-may-hear-flashes-of-light-synaesthesia

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 110 comments

Ask HN: With such fast changes in technology, how do you update your skillset?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13416033

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 88 comments

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998’s Thief: The Dark Project (2011)

http://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple’s UK App Store prices will rise 25% following Brexit currency fluctuations

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14293940/uk-app-store-price-increase-brexit

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 91 comments

LocalForage – A fast and simple storage library for JavaScript

https://github.com/localForage/localForage

9 years ago

★ 25.7k JavaScript Apache-2.0
108 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: ChatSecure iOS v4.0 – OMEMO and Signal Protocol

https://chatsecure.org/blog/chatsecure-v4-released/?hn=true

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-steals-900-gb-of-cellebrite-data

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 14 comments

At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be a Job Killer

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-chief-predicts-artificial-intelligence-wont-be-a-job-killer-1484669444

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 190 comments

In Colorado, self-harm is leading cause of death in new mothers

http://www.cuanschutztoday.org/colorado-self-harm-leading-cause-death-new-mothers/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 56 comments

WhatsApp Security Vulnerability

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/whatsapp_securi.html

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 69 comments

A distributed and coordination-free log management system

https://github.com/oklog/oklog

9 years ago

★ 2.9k Go Apache-2.0
100 upvotes – 25 comments

Loading Chrome Extensions in Brave

https://blog.brave.com/loading-chrome-extensions-in-brave/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

Blockchain could save investment banks up to $12B a year: Accenture

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-blockchain-accenture-idUSKBN1511OU

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 81 comments

Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon (2002)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/some-funny-things-happened-on-the-way-to-the-moon

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Why was the Zimmerman Telegram so important?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38581861

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 80 comments

One Man’s Quest to Hack His Own Genes

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603217/one-mans-quest-to-hack-his-own-genes/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Why is the community so negative towards blockchain technology?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13420454

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 95 comments

Windows Subsystem for Linux Distribution Switcher

https://github.com/RoliSoft/WSL-Distribution-Switcher

9 years ago

★ 1.6k Python MIT
85 upvotes – 14 comments
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