top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-04

Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/30/apple-is-sharing-your-face-with-apps-thats-a-new-privacy-worry/

8 years ago

Books I read this year

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2017

8 years ago

Debugging an evil Go runtime bug

https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

8 years ago

Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163638317301613

8 years ago

Using Rust in Mercurial

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/OxidationPlan#

8 years ago

Reflecting on Haskell in 2017

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2018.html

8 years ago

Rocket – A Rust game running on WASM

https://aochagavia.github.io/blog/rocket---a-rust-game-running-on-wasm/

8 years ago

What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (2004)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/06/the-bell-curve

8 years ago

I tried emailing like a CEO and it made my life better

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/i-tried-emailing-like-your-boss?utm_term=.akmXrGr77w#.reA9OXO33o

8 years ago

Nations agree to ban fishing in Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/nations-agree-ban-fishing-arctic-ocean-least-16-years

8 years ago

Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2017/animated-gif-without-the-gif/

8 years ago

Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2

8 years ago

Web Assembly now supported across all browsers

https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/12/webassembly-browser-support

8 years ago

SEC Emergency Action Halts PlexCoin ICO

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-219

8 years ago

Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’

http://seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-greatest-scene-casablanca-and-la-marseillaise/

8 years ago

How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/jet-gpu-powered-fulfillment/

8 years ago

CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-04/cboe-says-it-will-start-bitcoin-futures-trading-on-dec-10

8 years ago

My offer numbers from big companies

https://us.teamblind.com/article/sharing-my-offer-numbers-from-big-companies-for-your-reference-yNgqUPQR

8 years ago

Judge orders Wyoming to return $92k seized by officers

http://fox6now.com/2017/12/01/judge-orders-wyoming-to-return-92000-seized-by-officers/

8 years ago

California updates laws around salary and criminal histories of job applicants

https://justworks.com/blog/california-ban-job-applicant-salary-criminal-history

8 years ago

Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller

http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit

8 years ago

Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-agrees-deal-with-ireland-over-15-billion-unpaid-tax-issue-1512392552

8 years ago

The European Parliament has approved budget for VLC bug bounty program

https://hackerone.com/vlc

8 years ago

People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/03/people-have-spent-over-1m-buying-virtual-cats-on-the-ethereum-blockchain/

8 years ago

Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/04/world/middleeast/saudi-missile-defense.html

8 years ago

High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables

https://tabbforum.com/opinions/high-speed-trading-lines-radios-and-cables-oh-my?print_preview=true&single=true

8 years ago

The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-trouble-with-politicians-sharing-passwords/

8 years ago

Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code

https://nickdrane.com/build-your-own-regex/

8 years ago

IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes Networking in AWS

https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s-ipvlan-overlay-free-kubernetes-networking-in-aws-95191201476e

8 years ago

Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (2013)

https://rafalcieslak.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/dynamic-linker-tricks-using-ld_preload-to-cheat-inject-features-and-investigate-programs/

8 years ago

Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals

https://gofreakingdoit.com/

8 years ago

Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/sir-andrew-wiles-on-the-struggle-beauty-rapture-of-mathematics/

8 years ago

Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts

https://echopodcasts.com

8 years ago

Nix-build freezes system on macOS High Sierra with multi-user install

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1583#issuecomment-335991581

8 years ago

★ 16.7k C++ LGPL-2.1

Serverless Aurora

https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-aurora-future-of-data/

8 years ago

The Lure of a Better Life, Amid Cold and Darkness

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/03/world/europe/norilsk-arctic.html

8 years ago

The Dark Underbelly of Women Who Code and Google Women Techmakers

https://medium.com/@marlene.jaeckel/the-empress-has-no-clothes-the-dark-underbelly-of-women-who-code-and-google-women-techmakers-723be27a45df

8 years ago

Could the Nuclear Family Be the Reason We’re All Miserable?

https://medium.com/@NSallakAnderson/pretty-birds-in-pretty-cages-could-the-nuclear-family-be-the-reason-were-all-miserable-46126d573263

8 years ago

Bat cave solves mystery of SARS virus

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9

8 years ago

Receiving and Decoding Russian Meteor-M2 satellite images in real time

http://phasenoise.livejournal.com/2017/12/04/2245.html

8 years ago

Ask HN: In your company, how important is code quality vs. getting things done

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15842758

8 years ago

Nara – the typeface that never existed (2011)

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/nara_-_the_typeface_that_never_existed

8 years ago

Apache Kafka and GDPR compliance

http://www.landoop.com/blog/2017/12/apache-kafka-gdpr-compliance/

8 years ago

Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/lost-einsteins-innovation-inequality.html

8 years ago

Malware Detection in Executables Using Neural Networks

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/malware-detection-neural-networks/

8 years ago

How to read 100 books a year (and still have a life)

https://forrestbrazeal.com/2017/12/03/how-to-read-100-books-in-a-year-and-still-have-a-life/

8 years ago

Justin Kan’s Atrium is starting a boot camp to help founders raise money

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/04/justin-kans-atrium-is-starting-a-boot-camp-to-help-founders-raise-money/

8 years ago

Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/30/reinventing-fpga-programming-wheel/

8 years ago

The Booming Server Market in the Wake of Skylake

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/12/01/booming-server-market-wake-skylake/

8 years ago

An online flea market that pays people instantly for their used goods

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-03/now-you-can-get-paid-instantly-for-your-old-rolex-with-an-app

8 years ago