556
141
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
511
255
Books I read this year
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2017
498
48
Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/
468
200
Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163638317301613
341
147
Using Rust in Mercurial
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/OxidationPlan#
330
190
Reflecting on Haskell in 2017
http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2018.html
329
55
Rocket – A Rust game running on WASM
https://aochagavia.github.io/blog/rocket---a-rust-game-running-on-wasm/
314
224
What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (2004)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/06/the-bell-curve
309
145
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
293
28
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
259
138
Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2017/animated-gif-without-the-gif/
258
Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2
240
106
Web Assembly now supported across all browsers
https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/12/webassembly-browser-support
220
133
SEC Emergency Action Halts PlexCoin ICO
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-219
207
86
Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’
http://seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-greatest-scene-casablanca-and-la-marseillaise/
203
44
How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/jet-gpu-powered-fulfillment/
198
222
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
193
288
My offer numbers from big companies
https://us.teamblind.com/article/sharing-my-offer-numbers-from-big-companies-for-your-reference-yNgqUPQR
186
159
Judge orders Wyoming to return $92k seized by officers
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/01/judge-orders-wyoming-to-return-92000-seized-by-officers/
236
California updates laws around salary and criminal histories of job applicants
https://justworks.com/blog/california-ban-job-applicant-salary-criminal-history
172
38
Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller
http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit
171
184
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
168
36
The European Parliament has approved budget for VLC bug bounty program
https://hackerone.com/vlc
165
98
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/
194
Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/04/world/middleeast/saudi-missile-defense.html
158
49
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
156
64
The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-trouble-with-politicians-sharing-passwords/
148
34
Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code
https://nickdrane.com/build-your-own-regex/
144
56
IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes Networking in AWS
https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s-ipvlan-overlay-free-kubernetes-networking-in-aws-95191201476e
142
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/
128
109
Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals
https://gofreakingdoit.com/
120
18
Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/sir-andrew-wiles-on-the-struggle-beauty-rapture-of-mathematics/
116
92
Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts
https://echopodcasts.com
Nix-build freezes system on macOS High Sierra with multi-user install
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1583#issuecomment-335991581
★ 16.7kC++LGPL-2.1–8 years ago
114
62
Serverless Aurora
https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-aurora-future-of-data/
112
The Lure of a Better Life, Amid Cold and Darkness
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/03/world/europe/norilsk-arctic.html
103
5
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
102
105
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
96
40
Bat cave solves mystery of SARS virus
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9
95
6
Receiving and Decoding Russian Meteor-M2 satellite images in real time
http://phasenoise.livejournal.com/2017/12/04/2245.html
94
91
Ask HN: In your company, how important is code quality vs. getting things done
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15842758
85
17
Nara – the typeface that never existed (2011)
https://www.typotheque.com/articles/nara_-_the_typeface_that_never_existed
84
46
Apache Kafka and GDPR compliance
http://www.landoop.com/blog/2017/12/apache-kafka-gdpr-compliance/
73
Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/lost-einsteins-innovation-inequality.html
81
43
Malware Detection in Executables Using Neural Networks
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/malware-detection-neural-networks/
79
68
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/
69
14
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/
66
Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/30/reinventing-fpga-programming-wheel/
24
The Booming Server Market in the Wake of Skylake
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/12/01/booming-server-market-wake-skylake/
63
45
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
High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables