top 50% 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

★ 15.6k Apache-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

Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-07/silicon-valley-is-sneaking-models-into-this-year-s-holiday-parties

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 215 comments

Ask HN: I'm a solopreneur and I feel demoralised

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869467

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 138 comments

$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology

https://ggwash.org/view/65796/the-new-i-66-tolls-offer-great-insight-into-commuter-psychology

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 279 comments

Show HN: Counting Foot Traffic Over IP Webcams

https://www.byu.io/2017/12/07/counting-people-with-ml

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

The Handled Ancient American Watermelon

https://www.rareseeds.com/art-combes-amazing-ancient-watermelon/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 19 comments

As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 165 comments

How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lenin-mushroom-hoax-russia

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

A Reply to François Chollet on Intelligence Explosion

https://intelligence.org/2017/12/06/chollet/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Tax plan impact calculator

http://taxulator.com/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: Which skills are essential for a developer to join a blockchain startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870468

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 57 comments

Qualcomm Centriq 2400: The first 10nm server processor

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2017/11/08/qualcomm-centriq-2400-worlds-first-10nm-server-processor

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 76 comments

Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains

https://nytimes.com/2017/12/07/science/brain-information-monkeys.html

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 85 comments

A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-tale-of-two-bubbles-the-dot-coms-and-bitcoin-2017-12-07?siteid=rss&rss=1

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 190 comments

Denying Dystopia: The Hope Police in Fact and Fiction

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7809

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Free Computer Science and Technology Books

https://www.bookfusion.com/books/free?category=Computers+%26+Technology

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 3 comments

Error handling in Upspin

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/12/error-handling-in-upspin.html

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Over Graphs

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01665

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 1 comments

A Peek at David Rockefeller’s Rolodex

https://www.wsj.com/articles/david-rockefellers-famous-rolodex-is-astonishing-heres-a-first-peek-1512494592

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

Deep Learning for Robotics

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdw7q8mx3x4wr0c/2017_12_xx_NIPS-keynote-final.pdf?dl=0

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Goldman Sachs Plans to Clear Bitcoin Futures When They Go Live

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-07/goldman-sachs-is-said-to-clear-bitcoin-futures-when-they-go-live

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 111 comments

New things in clang land (5.0.0)

http://www.productive-cpp.com/new-things-in-clang-land-5-0-0/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 44 comments

Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Past 16,000

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-07/bitcoin-soars-through-14-000-mark-up-more-than-40-this-month

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 118 comments

Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07047

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2017/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.14.0-released/

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

Concerns about Bitcoin's energy use are overblown

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-07/bitcoin-is-greener-than-its-critics-think

8 years ago

66 upvotes – 92 comments

General Electric to cut 12,000 jobs in power business revamp

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-jobs/general-electric-to-cut-12000-jobs-in-power-business-revamp-idUSKBN1E11GU

8 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Record low sea ice extent in the Chukchi Sea

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2017/12/record-low-extent-in-the-chukchi-sea/

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 45 comments

The PhD pioneers

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-phd-pioneers

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

The Sedona Cult of Bentinho Massaro

https://medium.com/@bescofield/tech-bro-guru-inside-the-sedona-cult-of-bentinho-massaro-a56314f830ef

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at over $14,600

https://wallmine.com/cryptocurrency/btc

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 92 comments

Infinite Loops

https://repl.it/site/blog/infinite-loops

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments
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