610
394
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
586
257
How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/14/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/
411
160
Galileo navigation satellite system goes live
http://www.dw.com/en/galileo-navigation-satellite-system-goes-live/a-36422029
303
64
Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies
https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs
★ 9.8k – 9 years ago
266
108
Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13202132
259
56
God's Number is 20 (2010)
http://cube20.org/
254
156
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
251
78
Shopify has paid over $300k in security exploit bounties
https://hackerone.com/shopify-scripts
247
159
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/
233
155
Germany's New Crowdfunded Train
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/12/locomore-germany-crowdfunded-train/510752/
226
94
Haiku booting in UEFI mode
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/jessicah/2016-12-15_uefi_progress_update
200
82
Chinese smiths forge a large flange on the street [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sXmKHGqfFlc
190
63
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
184
144
I have no side code projects to show
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-side-code-projects-show-you-ezekiel-buchheit
164
44
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
154
198
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
148
53
No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161215-proton-decay-grand-unification/
146
40
Intel X86 Encoder Decoder
https://intelxed.github.io/
136
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/
133
152
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/
132
89
Amazon drivers pushed to the limit as holiday deliveries reach a frenzy
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-drivers-20161218-story.html
128
65
The Next Five Years of ClojureScript
http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/12/13/the-next-five-years-of-clojurescript
119
36
Qualcomm Demos 48-Core Centriq 2400 Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10918/qualcomm-demos-48core-centriq-2400-server-soc-in-action-begins-sampling
112
Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-pilot-wave-theory?share=1
116
41
How Albuquerque helped its homeless population and saved money in the process
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/what-works-albuquerque-homeless-solution-housing-policy-214527
84
Uber is stubbornly refusing to apply for a $150 permit for its self-driving cars
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/16/13990318/uber-refusing-permit-self-driving-car-california-dmv
24
Henry Heimlich has died
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/17/505986552/dr-heimlich-creator-of-live-saving-maneuver-dies
109
62
Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/12/23/virtual-currencies-bitcoin-being-monitored-us-government-532063.html
106
25
Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
101
34
Sxc – An s-expression based language source transpiler for C
https://github.com/burtonsamograd/sxc
★ 216 C – 9 years ago
95
30
Thoughts on “Dependency hell is NP-complete”
https://thefeedbackloop.xyz/thoughts-on-dependency-hell-is-np-complete/
93
46
What Hardware startups can learn from Pebble
https://blog.bolt.io/what-hardware-startups-can-learn-from-pebble-3742e2819a45#.upowlcfyh
90
107
Uber continues self-driving vehicle testing in SF in defiance of DMV
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/16/uber-continues-self-driving-vehicle-testing-in-sf-in-defiance-of-dmv/
86
37
The Linux Credit Card
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/offerings/linux-credit-card
85
35
Traditional JavaScript benchmarks
http://benediktmeurer.de/2016/12/16/the-truth-about-traditional-javascript-benchmarks/
81
A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro
https://www.macstories.net/stories/one-year-of-ipad-pro/
72
68
Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabic in Latin Script
https://github.com/samihasan/eskendereyya
★ 81 MIT– 9 years ago
71
20
Tsunami warning issued after magnitude 7.9 quake hits east of Papua New Guinea
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-papua-quake-idUSKBN1460CF