top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-12-17

Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/business/economy/universal-basic-income-finland.html

9 years ago

610 upvotes – 394 comments

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/14/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/

9 years ago

586 upvotes – 257 comments

Galileo navigation satellite system goes live

http://www.dw.com/en/galileo-navigation-satellite-system-goes-live/a-36422029

9 years ago

411 upvotes – 160 comments

Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies

https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs

9 years ago

★ 9.8k
303 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13202132

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 108 comments

God's Number is 20 (2010)

http://cube20.org/

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 56 comments

Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711909-what-martin-luther-did-catholic-church-needs-be-done-business-gurus-management

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 156 comments

Shopify has paid over $300k in security exploit bounties

https://hackerone.com/shopify-scripts

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 78 comments

SQL Server on Linux public preview

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/11/16/announcing-sql-server-on-linux-public-preview-first-preview-of-next-release-of-sql-server/

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 159 comments

Germany's New Crowdfunded Train

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/12/locomore-germany-crowdfunded-train/510752/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 155 comments

Haiku booting in UEFI mode

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/jessicah/2016-12-15_uefi_progress_update

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 94 comments

Chinese smiths forge a large flange on the street [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sXmKHGqfFlc

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Learn how to build a small Twitter clone in 7 days

http://www.trysparkschool.com/?utm_source=hacker_news&utm_campaign=twitter_clone_clicks&utm_medium=post

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 63 comments

I have no side code projects to show

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-side-code-projects-show-you-ezekiel-buchheit

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 144 comments

Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’

http://www.nature.com/news/three-minutes-with-hans-rosling-will-change-your-mind-about-the-world-1.21143

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 44 comments

The worrying implications of China's social-credit project

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21711902-worrying-implications-its-social-credit-project-china-invents-digital-totalitarian

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 198 comments

No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161215-proton-decay-grand-unification/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 53 comments

Intel X86 Encoder Decoder

https://intelxed.github.io/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 44 comments

Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/12/13/venezuela-follows-indias-example-and-voids-half-of-its-cash/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 152 comments
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