675
395
Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin
http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613
8 years ago
572
518
Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it
539
270
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815
527
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
513
277
Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15862494
420
46
PostgreSQL Exercises
https://pgexercises.com/
397
285
Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/business/oliver-schmidt-volkswagen.html
376
238
3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices
http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/12/05/in-first-3-d-printed-objects-connect-to-wifi-without-electronics/
322
117
PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem
https://gocardless.com/blog/incident-review-api-and-dashboard-outage-on-10th-october/
317
380
The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than double that of veterans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/06/why-are-americas-farmers-killing-themselves-in-record-numbers
288
83
Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database
http://syncfree.github.io/antidote/
273
107
Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music
https://classicalmusiconly.com
263
59
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor
241
25
Writing a C Compiler, Part 2
https://norasandler.com/2017/12/05/Write-a-Compiler-2.html
239
63
Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/12/05/mozilla-files-cross-complaint-against-yahoo-holdings-and-oath/
145
How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/05/how-not-to-store-your-bitcoins/
229
ReactOS 0.4.7 released
https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-047-released
212
5
Some SpiderMonkey Optimizations in Firefox Quantum
https://jandemooij.nl/blog/2017/12/06/some-spidermonkey-optimizations-in-firefox-quantum/
208
115
About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331
196
140
Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/
170
87
Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/06/us-embassy-attack-cuba-brain-abnormalities-victims
169
110
Regarding the NiceHash security breach
https://www.nicehash.com/
101
How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn It into a Sponge
https://daily.jstor.org/build-a-city-that-doesnt-flood/
165
142
Ask HN: Who hires mathematicians?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15863010
149
Down with Determinants (1995)
http://www.axler.net/DwD.html
55
What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?
https://dave.cheney.net/2017/12/04/what-have-we-learned-from-the-pdp-11
205
Show HN: Effects of House and Senate Bill on California Residents
http://flu.io/2018-tax-bills/
132
16
Learning with Privacy at Scale
https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/12/06/learning-with-privacy-at-scale.html
131
75
A Final Farewell
https://getfinal.com/company-news/2017/12/06/a-final-farewell/
125
105
Apple Introduces Search Ads Basic
https://searchads.apple.com/basic/
89
Power9 to the People
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/12/05/power9-to-the-people/
123
159
New Remote-First Formula and Updated Salary Calculator
https://open.buffer.com/salary-formula
122
85
“I Don't Like Your Examples” (2000)
http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/feuerstein_1000.html
118
141
Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Blaze-UPenn-Statement-Voting-Machines-11-29.pdf
166
IOTA Surges Past Ripple
https://blocksyn.com/iota-surges-past-ripple/
112
39
Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust
https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox
★ 1.5kRustApache-2.0–8 years ago
104
143
Cinemark announces $8.99/mo. subscription to fill more seats, take on MoviePass
http://beta.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cinemark-movie-club-20171205-story.html
96
90
Simplistic programming is underrated
https://lemire.me/blog/2017/12/06/simplistic-programming-is-underrated/
95
40
Mega Benchmark: Cost of AWS vs. GCE vs. IBM vs. Hetzner for Machine Learning
https://rare-technologies.com/machine-learning-hardware-benchmarks/?from=hn
22
Parsons code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code
76
8
Off-Main-Thread painting
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/off-main-thread-painting/
4
Block-Sparse GPU Kernels
https://blog.openai.com/block-sparse-gpu-kernels/
73
93
The days of .dev domains for testing code are over
https://medium.engineering/use-a-dev-domain-not-anymore-95219778e6fd
71
9
Historic NASA Project Files and Software Appear in Amiga 2500 EBay Listing
https://hothardware.com/news/nasa-data-and-fallen-astronauts-software-appear-on-amiga-2500-ebay-listing
103
Integration tests are a symptom of poor design
https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/unit-tests/1726369154062608/
70
19
Gopass – 1k stars later
https://www.justwatch.com/blog/post/gopass-1k-stars-later/
Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust