660
234
Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle
https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/
8 years ago
496
65
Making a Game Boy game in 2017
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DoctorLudos/20171207/311143/Making_a_Game_Boy_game_in_2017_A_quotSheep_It_Upquot_PostMortem_part_12.php
401
94
Decentralized Web Primer
https://www.gitbook.com/book/flyingzumwalt/decentralized-web-primer/details
361
477
Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15884698
334
184
Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth
https://cardsagainsthumanityredistributesyourwealth.com/
318
233
Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste
255
210
Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/
241
148
How Duterte Turned Facebook into a Weapon, with Help from Facebook
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-07/how-rodrigo-duterte-turned-facebook-into-a-weapon-with-a-little-help-from-facebook
235
81
Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQKis2Cfpeo
227
97
Git is a purely functional data structure (2013)
https://blog.jayway.com/2013/03/03/git-is-a-purely-functional-data-structure/
225
52
Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-trnd/index.html
209
220
Police Homicides in the United States
https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/
204
Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)
http://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-methodologies-work
190
165
Don't Talk to the Police (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
31
OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20171208082238
48
Maloney Introduces Legislation to Block FCC Rollback of Net Neutrality
https://seanmaloney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/maloney-introduces-legislation-to-save-the-open-internet-block-fcc
121
The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ milliseconds is exactly 1 day
https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/939499914794594304
180
203
Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887587
161
80
Reading Simple Haskell
https://soupi.github.io/rfc/reading_simple_haskell/
160
41
The largest living thing on Earth is a fungus (2014)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141114-the-biggest-organism-in-the-world
155
26
1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
https://medium.com/4iqdelvedeep/1-4-billion-clear-text-credentials-discovered-in-a-single-database-3131d0a1ae14
154
Photo-realistic lip-sync from text
http://ritheshkumar.com/obamanet/
147
29
The Remarkable “Curvature Blindness” Illusion
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/12/08/curvature-blindness-illusion/
140
32
Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html
137
124
Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/limits-of-science/547649/?single_page=true
131
33
HP keylogger
https://zwclose.github.io/HP-keylogger/
118
78
State of Startups 2017 Survey Results
http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2017/
104
60
Spiders eat astronomical numbers of insects
http://www.springer.com/gb/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/spiders-eat-astronomical-numbers-of-insects/12139234
102
4
Lectures from Princeton on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7il1sx/sixty_free_lectures_from_princeton_on_bitcoin_and/
98
75
Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/polar-bear-starving-arctic-sea-ice-melt-climate-change-spd/
27
Volunteering helps with anxiety and stress
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a37nvk/volunteering-is-the-best-kept-secret-for-mental-health-stressweek2017
91
15
Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 2: Logical and Bitwise Operations
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2026
85
9
The Woz Wonderbook (1977) [pdf]
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/woz-wonderbook/Apple2WozWonderbook1977.pdf
84
66
A Cruise Ship Called “The World” Is a Luxury Home at Sea for the Super Rich
https://skift.com/2017/12/09/a-cruise-ship-called-the-world-is-a-luxury-home-at-sea-for-the-super-rich/amp/