top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-27

Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers

https://cs007.blog/

8 years ago

1089 upvotes – 343 comments

Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

8 years ago

★ 24.3kJupyter NotebookMIT
937 upvotes – 84 comments

Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/asking-members-to-support-its-journalism-no-prizes-no-swag-the-guardian-raises-more-reader-revenue-than-ad-dollars/

8 years ago

841 upvotes – 350 comments

Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

http://www.business-review.eu/news/certain-facebook-users-in-romania-see-content-related-to-street-protests-reviewed-under-community-standards-153255

8 years ago

828 upvotes – 350 comments

American Equity

http://blog.samaltman.com/american-equity

8 years ago

509 upvotes – 535 comments

Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts

http://www.gjermundbjaanes.com/understanding-ethereum-smart-contracts/

8 years ago

476 upvotes – 158 comments

A Year in Computer Vision

http://www.themtank.org/a-year-in-computer-vision

8 years ago

450 upvotes – 87 comments

Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 211 comments

Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

http://www.business-review.eu/news/certain-facebook-users-in-romania-see-content-related-to-street-protests-reviewed-under-community-standards-153255

8 years ago

395 upvotes – 1 comments

Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/business/laptops-not-during-lecture-or-meeting.html

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 226 comments

The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV

https://masonsimon.com/2017/11/26/the-best-monitor-for-programming-a-cheap-40-4k-tv/

8 years ago

285 upvotes – 213 comments

Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-amazon-sumerian/

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 118 comments

Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/business/dealbook/time-inc-meredith-corporation-koch-brothers.html

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 144 comments

When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 231 comments

Apple Power Macintosh G5: Flame On

http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/2017/11/apple-power-macintosh-g5-flame-on.html

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 166 comments

Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42065650

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 179 comments

Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created New Currency to Pay Creators

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-27/video-startup-can-t-outspend-youtube-so-it-created-a-new-currency-to-pay-creators

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 104 comments

Potential impact of the Intel ME vulnerability

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/49611.html

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 59 comments

Population-based training of neural networks

https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-networks/

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 22 comments

What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today

https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/stanford-research-on-effects-of-radioactivity-from-bikini-atoll-nuclear-tests-on-coral-and-crab-dna-48459144020c

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 100 comments

AWS Media Services – Process, Store, and Monetize Cloud-Based Video

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-media-services-process-store-and-monetize-cloud-based-video/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 71 comments

Crush, Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 40 comments

A handy guide to financial support for open source

https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

8 years ago

★ 7.6kCC0-1.0
175 upvotes – 51 comments

SpaceX raises another $100M

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000118141217000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 104 comments

Strongbox: a secret manager for AWS

https://schibsted.github.io/strongbox/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 55 comments

VPN DNS leak test

https://www.dnsleaktest.com/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 44 comments

Quantum A.I. Publications

https://research.google.com/pubs/QuantumAI.html

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 79 comments

Vitalik Unveils Ethereum 2.0 Roadmap

https://medium.com/@Cobinhood/vitalik-unveils-ethereum-2-0-roadmap-conference-notes-505270a48674

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Ondevice SSH – Terminal emulator for devices without public IP address

https://ondevice.io

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 89 comments

Rails 5.2

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/11/27/Rails-5-2-Active-Storage-Redis-Cache-Store-HTTP2-Early-Hints-Credentials/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

What AlphaGo Zero teaches us about what’s going wrong with innovation

http://timharford.com/2017/11/what-alphago-zero-teaches-us-about-whats-going-wrong-with-innovation/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 112 comments

Inside Docker's “FROM scratch”

https://embano1.github.io/post/scratch/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

SCP-3008: An endless Ikea game

https://nmkd.itch.io/scp-3008

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 20 comments

Initial Coin Offerings Horrify a Former S.E.C. Regulator

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/business/initial-coin-offering-critic.html?hpw&rref=technology&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 187 comments

Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/facebook-ai-suicide-prevention/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 146 comments

Spaniards face ham shortage as Chinese market gets taste for jamón ibérico

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/26/spaniards-face-ham-shortage-as-chinese-market-gets-taste-for-jamon-iberico

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 149 comments

Formula 1 e-sports now more exciting than the real thing

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/11/formula-1-esports-now-more-exciting-than-the-real-thing-and-thats-a-problem/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 92 comments

U.S. government once wanted to plan false flag attacks with Soviet aircraft

http://www.newsweek.com/us-soviet-aircraft-jfk-docs-cover-operations-717460?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 101 comments

Love Your Bugs

http://akaptur.com/blog/2017/11/12/love-your-bugs/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 18 comments

How a Radio Shack Robbery Could Spur a New Era in Digital Privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/us/politics/supreme-court-fourth-amendment-privacy-cellphones.html

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 48 comments

Comcast Hints at Plan for Paid Fast Lanes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-quietly-drops-promise-not-to-charge-tolls-for-internet-fast-lanes/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 123 comments

Stacks-cli: Analyze a website’s stack from the terminal

https://github.com/WeiChiaChang/stacks-cli

8 years ago

★ 2kJavaScriptMIT
116 upvotes – 16 comments

Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/timed-toilet-breaks-impossible-targets-11587888

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 133 comments

The impossibility of intelligence explosion

https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 140 comments

Tumblr CEO David Karp is stepping down from the company

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/27/16705748/tumblr-ceo-david-karp-founder-resignation-verizon-yahoo-oath

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer

https://medium.com/@lydiahallie/advice-from-a-19-y-o-girl-software-developer-88737bcc6be5

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 124 comments

A basic income could boost the US economy by $2.5 trillion

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/a-basic-income-could-boost-the-us-economy-by-2-5-trillion?utm_content=buffer6b70b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 158 comments

The End of Moore’s Law

https://rodneybrooks.com/the-end-of-moores-law/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

Airbnb’s Money-Laundering Problem

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-airbnbs-russian-money-laundering-problem

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Unified GAN for Image-to-Image translation

https://github.com/yunjey/StarGAN

8 years ago

★ 5.2kPythonMIT
90 upvotes – 21 comments
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