top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-01

Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306

8 years ago

854 upvotes – 487 comments

After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/after-37-years-voyager-has-fired-up-its-trajectory-thrusters/

8 years ago

740 upvotes – 260 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15824597

8 years ago

592 upvotes – 983 comments

A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages

http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/a-map-showing-how-much-time-it-takes-to-learn-foreign-languages-from-easiest-to-hardest.html

8 years ago

508 upvotes – 436 comments

iOS 11 Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of iOS Security

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/11/ios-11-horror-story-the-rise-and-fall-of-ios-security/

8 years ago

466 upvotes – 181 comments

MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch

https://www.wired.com/story/macos-update-undoes-apple-root-bug-patch/

8 years ago

426 upvotes – 162 comments

AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-never-blocked-apps-fails-to-mention-how-it-blocked-facetime/

8 years ago

410 upvotes – 104 comments

Writing a C Compiler, Part 1

https://norasandler.com/2017/11/29/Write-a-Compiler.html

8 years ago

369 upvotes – 60 comments

Linux Journal Ceases Publication

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 51 comments

The Great American Single-Family Home Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/economy/single-family-home.html

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 542 comments

Seed funding has declined

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/30/theres-an-implosion-of-early-stage-vc-funding-and-no-ones-talking-about-it/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 136 comments

Advances in number theory inspired by physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/secret-link-uncovered-between-pure-math-and-physics-20171201/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 69 comments

500 Startups still owes money to its latest group of startups

https://www.axios.com/500-startups-still-owes-money-to-its-latest-group-of-startups-2511194808.html

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 73 comments

Never edit a method, always rewrite it?

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/11/30/never-edit-a-method-always-rewrite-it

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15823597

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 118 comments

A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh

http://rickcarlino.com/2017/11/27/keeping-a-developer-journal-with-jrnl-sh-html.html

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 69 comments

Checklist for Python libraries APIs

http://python.apichecklist.com

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 20 comments

Three Uber security managers resign after CEO criticizes practices

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-executives/three-uber-security-managers-resign-after-ceo-criticizes-practices-idUSKBN1DV5SD?il=0

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 94 comments

Uber's use of encrypted messaging may set legal precedents

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-waymo-evidence/ubers-use-of-encrypted-messaging-may-set-legal-precedents-idUSKBN1DU099

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 130 comments

The Lego Storage Guide

http://brickarchitect.com/guide/

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 49 comments

Why your programmers just want to code

https://medium.com/maker-to-manager/why-your-programmers-just-want-to-code-36da9973388e

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 126 comments

Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth

https://electrek.co/2017/11/30/google-is-officially-100-sun-and-wind-powered-3-0-gigawatts-worth/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 33 comments

How Easy and Cheap It Is to Manipulate Reddit Discussions

https://medium.com/@coinmallio/how-easy-and-cheap-it-is-to-manipulate-reddit-discussions-4139a488542

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 5 comments

The Old-School Fire Effect and Bare-Metal Programming

http://www.hanshq.net/fire.html

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 27 comments

GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities in 2019

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/2017/11/30/gm-will-put-self-driving-car-fleets-raod/108164014/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 212 comments

A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-deaths-the-end.html

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 120 comments

Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Reconsidered

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/special-reports/borderline-personality-disorder-treatment-resistance-reconsidered

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 178 comments

Ask HN: What coding challenge sites should I try next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15826781

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 63 comments

Tezos founders push for legal bailout from Swiss foundation

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-tezos-lawsuits-exclusive/exclusive-tezos-founders-push-for-legal-bailout-from-swiss-foundation-idUSKBN1DV4K0

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 88 comments

Ways to fix statistics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07522-z

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 52 comments

DOJ: We Want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma Machine, Wu-Tang Album, and $7.3M

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/feds-seek-forfeiture-of-shkrelis-stuff-wu-tang-album-a-picasso-and-more/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 121 comments

New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct from Downtown Rats

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2017/11/new-york-city-has-genetically-distinct-uptown-and-downtown-rats/547088/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 66 comments

Afghan girls win European prize for solar-powered farming robot

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-girls-science/afghan-girls-win-european-prize-for-solar-powered-farming-robot-idUSKBN1DU1R2

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 47 comments

Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition

http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/why-a-hedge-fund-started-a-video-game-competition

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 58 comments

Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Officials Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/technology/dji-china-data-drones.html?_r=0

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 72 comments

Bucket Stream: Finding S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs

https://github.com/eth0izzle/bucket-stream

8 years ago

★ 1.8kPythonMIT
122 upvotes – 48 comments

Alpine Linux 3.7.0 Released

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.7.0-released.html

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 73 comments

Perl 6 Advent Calendar

https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/the-grinch-of-perl-6-a-practical-guide-to-ruining-christmas/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 81 comments

Hundreds of Fossilized Pterosaur Eggs Uncovered in China

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/science/pterosaur-eggs.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 19 comments

Reducing Chrome crashes caused by third-party software

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/reducing-chrome-crashes-caused-by-third.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Build Better GraphQL APIs: Thinking in Graphs

https://graphqlme.com/2017/11/11/build-better-graphql-apis-thinking-in-graphs/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Neural Network Dynamics

http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/11/30/model-based-rl/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 6 comments

Amazon is in exploratory talks with generic-drug makers

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/amazon-holding-exploratory-talks-with-generic-drug-makers.html

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 74 comments

Pride, Prejudice

https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/130

8 years ago

★ 185
95 upvotes – 24 comments

How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency

http://jshakespeare.com/how-slack-hooks-users-through-artificial-urgency

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Merchant.js, a state framework for creating idle games

https://github.com/Flaque/merchant.js

8 years ago

★ 646JavaScriptMIT
86 upvotes – 29 comments

Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/uber-investor-shervin-pishevar-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 105 comments

Old Calculator Web Museum

http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Startup books and podcasts: making the most of a longer commute

https://hackernoon.com/startup-books-and-podcasts-making-the-most-of-a-longer-commute-4321fdd96c0f

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

PwC Hong Kong first Big Four firm to accept bitcoin

http://economia.icaew.com/en/news/december-2017/pwc-hong-kong-first-big-four-firm-to-accept-bitcoin

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 139 comments

Congress Shouldn't Turn the Copyright Office into a Copyright Court

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/creating-copyright-court-copyright-office-wrong-move

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Listen Notes Podcast Search API

https://www.listennotes.com/developers

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

The legacies of 1917

http://www.eurozine.com/the-legacies-of-1917/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments
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