top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-12-07

The Big Vitamin D Mistake

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28768407/

8 years ago

756 upvotes – 440 comments

A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/12/webextension-tree-style-tab/

8 years ago

507 upvotes – 215 comments

I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/07/amazon-wants-a-key-to-your-house-i-did-it-i-regretted-it/

8 years ago

478 upvotes – 389 comments

Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/05/radical-diet-can-reverse-type-2-diabetes-new-study-shows?CMP=share_btn_fb

8 years ago

423 upvotes – 260 comments

Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/07/patreons-new-service-fee-spurs-concern-that-creators-will-lose-patrons/?hn=1

8 years ago

410 upvotes – 305 comments

Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/technology/coinbase-bitcoin.html

8 years ago

388 upvotes – 347 comments

Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match

https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 197 comments

Uber paid 20-year-old Florida man to keep data breach secret

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-cyber-payment-exclusive/exclusive-uber-paid-20-year-old-florida-man-to-keep-data-breach-secret-sources-idUSKBN1E101C

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 95 comments

Introduction to R Programming

https://cecilialee.github.io/blog/2017/12/05/intro-to-r-programming.html

8 years ago

307 upvotes – 136 comments

Qt 5.10 released

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/12/07/qt-5-10-released/

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 224 comments

Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/google-shuts-down-the-apps-section-of-the-chrome-web-store/

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 136 comments

Insomnia REST Client

https://insomnia.rest/

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 109 comments

IBM scientists demonstrate 10x faster large-scale machine learning using GPUs

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/12/10x-faster-using-gpu/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=AI&utm_content=nips2017

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 40 comments

Quantum Computing Explained

http://www.clerro.com/guide/580/quantum-computing-explained

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 48 comments

The Merge

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 177 comments

Kata Containers – The speed of containers, the security of VMs

https://katacontainers.io

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 75 comments

Kubeflow – Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes

https://github.com/google/kubeflow

8 years ago

★ 15.6kApache-2.0
203 upvotes – 34 comments

Coinbase down for maintenance

https://www.coinbase.com/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 239 comments

Moving the NYT Games Platform to Google Cloud With Zero Downtime

https://open.nytimes.com/play-by-play-moving-the-nyt-games-platform-to-gcp-with-zero-downtime-cf425898d569

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 59 comments

Decoding an air conditioner control's checksum with differential cryptanalysis

http://www.righto.com/2017/12/decoding-air-conditioner-controls.html

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 13 comments
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