top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-04-17

Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi editor

https://github.com/google/xi-editor/tree/master/doc/rope_science

9 years ago

★ 19.8kRustApache-2.0
421 upvotes – 60 comments

Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/10/18/236211811/brains-sweep-themselves-clean-of-toxins-during-sleep

9 years ago

420 upvotes – 167 comments

90% of Python in 90 Minutes (2013)

http://www.slideshare.net/MattHarrison4/learn-90

9 years ago

384 upvotes – 56 comments

PHP 7 Virtual Machine

http://nikic.github.io/2017/04/14/PHP-7-Virtual-machine.html

9 years ago

365 upvotes – 125 comments

MP3 for Image Compression (2006)

http://keyj.emphy.de/mp3-for-image-compression/

9 years ago

344 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere

https://github.com/ramon82/zuck.js

9 years ago

★ 3.7kTypeScriptMIT
339 upvotes – 58 comments

Loss of Coral Reefs Could Cost $1T

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/loss-coral-reefs-could-cost-1-trillion-globally-21347

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 131 comments

How the Airlines Became Cartels

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/how-the-airlines-became-abusive-cartels.html

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 290 comments

Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven to have no dead ends

http://svn.clifford.at/handicraft/2017/tttm/README

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 104 comments

A document to help you start a tech cooperative

https://feeltrain.com/blog/operating-agreement/

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 85 comments

Patrick Winston Explains Deep Learning

http://rodneybrooks.com/patrick-winston-explains-deep-learning/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 16 comments

The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

9 years ago

★ 96.7kPythonMIT
287 upvotes – 103 comments

RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/16/rip-turkey-1921-2017/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 259 comments

How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories

https://eklitzke.org/how-to-how-your-own-private-git-repositories

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 108 comments

Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/17/receding-glacier-causes-immense-canadian-river-to-vanish-in-four-days-climate-change

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 99 comments

Climbing the wrong hill (2009)

http://cdixon.org/2009/09/19/climbing-the-wrong-hill/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 101 comments

Miniatures: Mathematical and Algorithmic Applications of Linear Algebra [pdf]

http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~matousek/stml-53-matousek-1.pdf

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 11 comments

Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11279/intel-discontinues-the-intel-developer-forum-idf17-cancelled

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 196 comments

Intel Pulls Out of OpenStack Effort It Founded with Rackspace

http://fortune.com/2017/04/14/intel-openstack-project-rackspace/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 112 comments

The origins of XXX as FIXME

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-04-17-xxx-fixme/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 86 comments
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