518
311
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
516
385
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
424
261
macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
https://twitter.com/BenoitLetondor/status/939127296266588160
419
292
Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/08/sources-apple-is-acquiring-music-recognition-app-shazam/
372
213
Japan eyes startup visa program
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Japan-eyes-startup-visa-program-to-lure-foreign-businesses
355
143
Modern Front-end in Rails
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/evil-front-part-1
329
148
Learn to sell
http://blairreeves.me/2017/12/06/learn-to-sell/
312
Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/02/mozillas-revenue-increased-significantly-in-2016/
298
119
Clojure 1.9 is now available
http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/clojure19
269
60
Looking Forward to 2018
https://letsencrypt.org//2017/12/07/looking-forward-to-2018.html
260
83
A Spectator Who Threw a Wrench in the Waymo/Uber Lawsuit
https://www.wired.com/story/eric-swildens-uber-waymo-lawsuit-patent/
238
155
Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sales from a few customers
http://blog.secondmeasure.com/2017/12/07/whales/
210
44
Microsoft leaks TLS private key for cloud ERP product
https://medium.com/matthias-gliwka/microsoft-leaks-tls-private-key-for-cloud-erp-product-10b56f7d648
209
37
IPFS Pubsub: Distributed named pubsub channels based in the IPFS Cloud
https://ipfs.io/blog/25-pubsub/
205
71
Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15878575
203
41
Bookbinding: A Tutorial (1995)
http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/
313
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
202
138
Lisp at the Frontier of Computation [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw
191
181
Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR
http://resumeskills.us/
184
45
Pioneer: a game of lonely space adventure
https://pioneerspacesim.net
183
88
NYC Subway travel time map
http://subway.nateparrott.com/
179
52
Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models
https://github.com/apple/turicreate
★ 11.1k C++ BSD-3-Clause– 8 years ago
171
68
A Hacker Writes a Children's Book
http://arthur-johnston.com/hacker_writes_a_childrens_book/
168
My Quadriplegic Husband and Me
https://catapult.co/stories/what-the-world-gets-wrong-about-my-quadriplegic-husband-and-me
167
161
Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API
https://ipdata.co
Jailed for a Text: China’s Censors Are Spying on Mobile Chat Groups
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jailed-for-a-text-chinas-censors-are-spying-on-mobile-chat-groups-1512665007
160
24
Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform
https://en.liberapay.com/
50
Wes McKinney, the developer of Pandas
https://qz.com/1126615/the-story-of-the-most-important-tool-in-data-science/
154
126
Nvidia Announces “Titan V” Video Card: GV100 for $3000
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12135/nvidia-announces-nvidia-titan-v-video-card-gv100-for-3000-dollars
151
123
Bitcoin mining and energy consumption
https://blog.bitcoin.org.hk/bitcoin-mining-and-energy-consumption-4526d4b56186
58
Interview with Xavier Leroy
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~popl-interviews/leroy.html
14
Flare: Clojure Dynamic Neural Net Library
https://aria42.com/blog/2017/11/Flare-Clojure-Neural-Net
146
169
Emergency rooms are monopolies
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/12/4/16679686/emergency-room-facility-fee-monopolies
55
Goldman Traders Are Caught Up in a Bizarre, Tense Hedge Fund Battle
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-07/goldman-traders-caught-up-in-bizarre-tense-hedge-fund-battle
Reading Information Aloud to Yourself Improves Memory: Study
http://neurosciencenews.com/memory-reading-aloud-8084/
137
118
Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be
https://theoutline.com/post/2592/bitcoin-is-none-of-the-things-it-was-supposed-to-be
38
The GNUnet System
https://gnunet.org/grothoff2017habilitation
12
BrewChain – NodeJS blockchain implementation
http://www.darrenbeck.co.uk/blockchain/nodejs/nodejscrypto/
116
99
Why Are Data Science Leaders Running for the Exit?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-data-science-leaders-running-exit-edward-chenard
32
Rendering AJAX-crawling pages
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/12/rendering-ajax-crawling-pages.html
115
65
Android vulnerability allows attackers to modify apps
https://www.guardsquare.com/en/blog/new-android-vulnerability-allows-attackers-modify-apps-without-affecting-their-signatures
112
21
Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (1987)
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/commodore/BrainSim/
110
95
Newman's Own faces mammoth tax bill after lawmakers fail to spare the foundation
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/newmans-own-tax-bill-congress-212925
109
35
Some Wall Street banks won't offer access to the first Bitcoin futures market
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/12/07/wall-street-banks-hit-pause-button-on-bitcoin.html
108
20
The Last Death-Defying Honey Hunter of Nepal
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/honey-hunters-bees-climbing-nepal/
105
101
Go 1.10 Beta 1 is released
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/SCPpL9PqVbs
103
Please invest responsibly – an important message from the Coinbase team
https://blog.coinbase.com/please-invest-responsibly-an-important-message-from-the-coinbase-team-bf7f13a4b0b1
19
Bicycle Built for 2,000 (2009)
http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/info.html
64
How Australian Tech Companies Can Think About Silicon Valley
https://muru-d.com/blog/article/how-australian-tech-companies-can-think-about-silicon-valley/
96
22
Jaron Lanier on dystopia, empathy, and the future of the internet
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/8/16751596/jaron-lanier-dawn-of-the-new-everything-vr-interview
Hedge funds embrace machine learning up to a point
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21732147-investing-more-artificial-intelligence-need-not-mean-less-human
48
Stopify – An experimental, web-based code editor
http://www.stopify.org/
94
4
Finally .. My Face Is Out in the Open
https://mosuleye.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/finally-my-face-is-out-in-the-open/
93
Disco – A plug-and-play secure protocol and a cryptographic library in Golang
http://www.discocrypto.com/#/
104
What's Happening with Bitcoin Prices
https://medium.com/@kristopolous/heres-what-s-happening-with-bitcoin-a4a11e0f835b
91
39
Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird
https://blog.startuppulse.net/why-do-fads-fade-the-inevitable-death-of-flappy-bird-1bbda20478e0
86
Apple’s widened ban on templated apps wiping small businesses from the App Store
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/08/apples-widened-ban-on-templated-apps-is-wiping-small-businesses-from-the-app-store/
84
Creating a Christmas card on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe
http://www.righto.com/2017/12/creating-christmas-card-on-vintage-ibm_7.html
74
White House scraps proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/363956-trump-admin-scraps-obama-era-proposal-requiring-airlines-to-disclose
Polygon Shredder
https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/polygon-shredder/
76
Ask HN: What should I know before I invest fully in CSS grid?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15880697
75
2
Chronicler of Islamic State 'killing machine' goes public
https://apnews.com/cdc0567f7bf34958b914b15869392a84?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
