top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-12-17

Instagram's Million Dollar Bug

http://www.exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php

11 years ago

1562 upvotes – 516 comments

My positive experience as a woman in tech

http://lea.verou.me/2015/12/my-positive-experience-as-a-woman-in-tech/

11 years ago

520 upvotes – 385 comments

Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.html

11 years ago

452 upvotes – 138 comments

What You Believe Affects What You Achieve

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-of-Success

11 years ago

428 upvotes – 148 comments

Why Python 3 Exists

http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists

11 years ago

418 upvotes – 266 comments

DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year

http://qz.com/574853/duckduckgo-the-search-engine-that-doesnt-track-its-users-grew-more-than-70-this-year/

11 years ago

385 upvotes – 183 comments

Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 290 comments

Show HN: Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API

https://fieldbook.com/developers

11 years ago

335 upvotes – 92 comments

Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/12/compiling-to-webassembly-its-happening/

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 216 comments

Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban

http://thephonesgsm.blogspot.com/2015/12/telegram-gains-1-million-users-after.html

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 260 comments

Unauthorized code in Juniper ScreenOS allows for administrative access

https://forums.juniper.net/t5/Security-Incident-Response/Important-Announcement-about-ScreenOS/ba-p/285554

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 95 comments

Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

http://www.ycgiftideas.com/

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 132 comments

The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/the-mystery-of-indias-deadly-exam-scam

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 173 comments

There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random()

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2015/12/theres-mathrandom-and-then-theres.html

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 106 comments

Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp for 48 Hours

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/brazils-congress-has-shut-down-whatsapp-tonight-and-the-rest-of-the-social-web-could-be-next/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 164 comments

Sheryl Sandberg Says an MBA Doesn't Matter in Tech

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-16/sheryl-sandberg-says-business-school-doesn-t-matter-in-tech

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 133 comments

The Secret Surveillance Catalogue

https://theintercept.com/surveillance-catalogue/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 65 comments

UberHop: More people in fewer cars

https://newsroom.uber.com/seattle/2015/12/more-people-in-fewer-cars/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 105 comments

Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness

http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/a-vaccine-for-depression

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 148 comments

BayesDB – a probabilistic programming platform

http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 9 comments
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