756
440
The Big Vitamin D Mistake
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28768407/
8 years ago
507
215
A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/12/webextension-tree-style-tab/
478
389
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/
423
260
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
410
305
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
388
347
Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/technology/coinbase-bitcoin.html
358
197
Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match
https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match
336
95
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
307
136
Introduction to R Programming
https://cecilialee.github.io/blog/2017/12/05/intro-to-r-programming.html
275
224
Qt 5.10 released
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/12/07/qt-5-10-released/
268
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/
256
109
Insomnia REST Client
https://insomnia.rest/
236
40
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
232
48
Quantum Computing Explained
http://www.clerro.com/guide/580/quantum-computing-explained
222
177
The Merge
http://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge
208
75
Kata Containers – The speed of containers, the security of VMs
https://katacontainers.io
203
34
Kubeflow – Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes
https://github.com/google/kubeflow
★ 15.6kApache-2.0–8 years ago
200
239
Coinbase down for maintenance
https://www.coinbase.com/
180
59
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
174
13
Decoding an air conditioner control's checksum with differential cryptanalysis
http://www.righto.com/2017/12/decoding-air-conditioner-controls.html
143
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
137
138
Ask HN: I'm a solopreneur and I feel demoralised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869467
279
$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
https://ggwash.org/view/65796/the-new-i-66-tolls-offer-great-insight-into-commuter-psychology
133
27
Show HN: Counting Foot Traffic Over IP Webcams
https://www.byu.io/2017/12/07/counting-people-with-ml
19
The Handled Ancient American Watermelon
https://www.rareseeds.com/art-combes-amazing-ancient-watermelon/
125
165
As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety
122
54
How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lenin-mushroom-hoax-russia
115
85
A Reply to François Chollet on Intelligence Explosion
https://intelligence.org/2017/12/06/chollet/
114
80
Show HN: Tax plan impact calculator
http://taxulator.com/
111
57
Ask HN: Which skills are essential for a developer to join a blockchain startup?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870468
104
76
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
99
Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains
https://nytimes.com/2017/12/07/science/brain-information-monkeys.html
94
190
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
89
Denying Dystopia: The Hope Police in Fact and Fiction
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7809
3
Free Computer Science and Technology Books
https://www.bookfusion.com/books/free?category=Computers+%26+Technology
88
26
Error handling in Upspin
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/12/error-handling-in-upspin.html
1
Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Over Graphs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01665
22
A Peek at David Rockefeller’s Rolodex
https://www.wsj.com/articles/david-rockefellers-famous-rolodex-is-astonishing-heres-a-first-peek-1512494592
81
5
Deep Learning for Robotics
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdw7q8mx3x4wr0c/2017_12_xx_NIPS-keynote-final.pdf?dl=0
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
44
New things in clang land (5.0.0)
http://www.productive-cpp.com/new-things-in-clang-land-5-0-0/
73
118
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
70
38
Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07047
69
24
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2017/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.14.0-released/
66
92
Concerns about Bitcoin's energy use are overblown
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-07/bitcoin-is-greener-than-its-critics-think
36
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
65
45
Record low sea ice extent in the Chukchi Sea
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2017/12/record-low-extent-in-the-chukchi-sea/
The PhD pioneers
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-phd-pioneers
41
The Sedona Cult of Bentinho Massaro
https://medium.com/@bescofield/tech-bro-guru-inside-the-sedona-cult-of-bentinho-massaro-a56314f830ef
Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at over $14,600
https://wallmine.com/cryptocurrency/btc
15
Infinite Loops
https://repl.it/site/blog/infinite-loops
Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section