top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-12-08

Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/08/criticizing-red-light-cameras-is-not-a-punishable-offense-oregon-concedes

8 years ago

518 upvotes – 311 comments

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

8 years ago

516 upvotes – 385 comments

macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

https://twitter.com/BenoitLetondor/status/939127296266588160

8 years ago

424 upvotes – 261 comments

Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/08/sources-apple-is-acquiring-music-recognition-app-shazam/

8 years ago

419 upvotes – 292 comments

Japan eyes startup visa program

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Japan-eyes-startup-visa-program-to-lure-foreign-businesses

8 years ago

372 upvotes – 213 comments

Modern Front-end in Rails

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/evil-front-part-1

8 years ago

355 upvotes – 143 comments

Learn to sell

http://blairreeves.me/2017/12/06/learn-to-sell/

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 148 comments

Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/02/mozillas-revenue-increased-significantly-in-2016/

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 148 comments

Clojure 1.9 is now available

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/clojure19

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 119 comments

Looking Forward to 2018

https://letsencrypt.org//2017/12/07/looking-forward-to-2018.html

8 years ago

269 upvotes – 60 comments

A Spectator Who Threw a Wrench in the Waymo/Uber Lawsuit

https://www.wired.com/story/eric-swildens-uber-waymo-lawsuit-patent/

8 years ago

260 upvotes – 83 comments

Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sales from a few customers

http://blog.secondmeasure.com/2017/12/07/whales/

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 155 comments

Microsoft leaks TLS private key for cloud ERP product

https://medium.com/matthias-gliwka/microsoft-leaks-tls-private-key-for-cloud-erp-product-10b56f7d648

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 44 comments

IPFS Pubsub: Distributed named pubsub channels based in the IPFS Cloud

https://ipfs.io/blog/25-pubsub/

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15878575

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 71 comments

Bookbinding: A Tutorial (1995)

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 41 comments

The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 313 comments

Lisp at the Frontier of Computation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 138 comments

Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR

http://resumeskills.us/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 181 comments

Pioneer: a game of lonely space adventure

https://pioneerspacesim.net

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 45 comments
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