top 50% 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

SDF – Public Access Unix System

https://sdf.org/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 51 comments

Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26038/the-blood-of-the-crab/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 141 comments

Portugal Pushes Law to Partially Ban DRM, Allow Circumvention

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170411/08055537122/portugal-pushes-law-to-partially-ban-drm-allow-circumvention.shtml

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

https://github.com/lmatteis/torrent-peek/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 1kCApache-2.0
184 upvotes – 33 comments

Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History

http://time.com/4739562/nintendo-switch-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-launch-sales/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 149 comments

The 6-Hour Workday Saves Money

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-17/how-the-six-hour-workday-actually-saves-money

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 37 comments

Sleeping tactics and f.lux

http://youexec.com/articles/sleeping-tactics

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 48 comments

The Hotel Industry’s Plan to Combat Airbnb

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/technology/inside-the-hotel-industrys-plan-to-combat-airbnb.html

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 348 comments

Deep Patient Predicts Patients Future from Health Records

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep26094

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 29 comments

Simplifying Firefox Release Channels

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/simplifying-firefox-release-channels/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 59 comments

Scientists Aging Faster Than Other Workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/science/ranks-of-scientists-aging-faster-than-other-workers.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 73 comments

Phishing with Unicode Domains

https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 25 comments

Statement concerning the arrest of Dmitry Bogatov

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170417

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 5 comments

One Night in Rio: Vacation Photos from Plan9

https://arcan-fe.com/2017/04/17/one-night-in-rio-vacation-photos-from-plan9/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 7 comments

Nvidia's Hackintosh Support Is an Insurgency Against Apple's Computers

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nvidia-titan-xp-hackintosh

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

Government auction of wireless airwaves will shape the future of the Internet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/13/the-government-just-wrapped-a-major-auction-thatll-shape-the-future-of-the-internet/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 60 comments

80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWYTeggKeL8xBitA8uQWAaNDWfFrUHXAxBXkvmnisdDw7

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 83 comments

Sam Altman at the Family, Paris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSNjIAfm88

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 50 comments

AI can predict heart attacks more accurately than doctors

https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/16/ai-can-predict-heart-attacks-more-accurately-than-doctors/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Exercise for Aging Muscles

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/well/move/the-best-exercise-for-aging-muscles.html?mabReward=A6&recp=2&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=1

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 53 comments

25 is ‘golden age’ for the ability to make random choices

http://exactlyscience.com/archives/11998.html

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Sharing bikes in Shanghai

https://projectgus.com/2017/04/sharing-bikes-in-shanghai/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Vivaldi makes History

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-makes-history/?hl=en-us&version=1.8.770.56&os=W10.0.14393

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hl/papers/silt-sosp2011.pdf

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Oracle buys Wercker

http://blog.wercker.com/oracle

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Lies About Logs

https://honeycomb.io/blog/2017/04/lies-my-parents-told-me-about-logs/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Understanding Homoiconicity through Clojure macros

https://medium.com/@theburningmonk/understanding-homoiconicity-through-clojure-macros-eeb8c1f25369

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 3 comments

The Independence Game

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheIndependenceGame.html

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

A point and click engine in PICO-8, inspired by the SCUMM engine

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29176

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments
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