top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-11

Exercism – Level up your programming skills

http://exercism.io

8 years ago

795 upvotes – 94 comments

Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society

8 years ago

555 upvotes – 231 comments

The Case for Learned Index Structures

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208

8 years ago

398 upvotes – 66 comments

HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42309371

8 years ago

368 upvotes – 57 comments

Design Principles

https://principles.design/

8 years ago

361 upvotes – 74 comments

Estonia, the Digital Republic

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/estonia-the-digital-republic

8 years ago

351 upvotes – 110 comments

Homebrew 1.4.0

https://brew.sh/2017/12/11/homebrew-1.4.0/

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 210 comments

Apple Buys Shazam to Boost Apple Music

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/apple-buys-early-iphone-app-hit-shazam-to-boost-apple-music

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 156 comments

Donald Knuth's Christmas Lecture: A Conjecture That Had To Be True [video]

http://scpd.stanford.edu/free-stuff/live-webinars-lectures/donald-knuths-annual-christmas-lecture

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 25 comments

Tech luminaries call net neutrality vote an 'imminent threat'

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16754040/steve-wozniak-vint-cerf-internet-pioneer-net-neutrality-letter-senate

8 years ago

279 upvotes – 154 comments

A computer science study plan

https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

8 years ago

★ 343kCC-BY-SA-4.0
270 upvotes – 53 comments

An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)

https://logicmag.io/01-interview-with-an-anonymous-data-scientist/

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 103 comments

A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies

https://github.com/CirclesUBI/docs/blob/master/Circles.md

8 years ago

★ 350CC-BY-SA-4.0
258 upvotes – 283 comments

NASA to test prototype Kilopower nuclear reactor

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ON-NASA-to-test-prototype-Kilopower-reactor-1711174.html

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: LibreRead 1.0 – Self-Hosted Free Ebook Reader

https://libreread.org

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 83 comments

Does Life End at 35? (2013)

https://web.archive.org/web/20131101195131/http://kzhu.net/does-life-end-at-35.html

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 85 comments

Bitcoin Futures Start with a Bang as Rally Trips Circuit Breaker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-10/bitcoin-futures-trading-opens-bringing-crypto-to-wall-street

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 211 comments

Quantum Development Kit preview

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/?p=73792

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Fully online CS degrees?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899383

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Sandglass – Distributed, scalable, persistent time-sorted message queue

https://github.com/celrenheit/sandglass

8 years ago

★ 1.5kGoApache-2.0
188 upvotes – 68 comments

Soylent’s Next Chapter

http://blog.soylent.com/post/168437321722/soylents-next-chapter

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 143 comments

AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gydydm/gal-gadot-fake-ai-porn

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 105 comments

The Things We Carry

http://www.hillarypredko.com/kipple/1-the-things-we-carry/

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 50 comments

Automakers: Don't Ask Customers What They Want

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a12469411/dont-ask-november-2017/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 201 comments

I had a boss who stood up for me against sexist office jerks

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/i-had-a-boss-who-stood-up-for-me-against-sexist-office-jerks/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 33 comments

Nintendo’s Resurgence

https://www.theringer.com/2017/12/7/16746390/nintendo-2017-switch-snes-classic-wii-u

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 152 comments

Kenya is using the earth's heat to power the country

https://spectra.mhi.com/Kenya_is_using_the_Earths_heat_to_power_the_country

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 61 comments

Yahoo Finance has added over 100 cryptocurrency quote pages

https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 132 comments

How to Know If an Idea Is Worth Pursuing

https://www.indiehackers.com/@thwiv/how-to-know-if-an-idea-is-worth-pursuing-75501f81ad

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

New Teams Features

https://keybase.io/blog/new-team-features

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 18 comments

WebAssembly, an executable format for the web

https://blog.octo.com/en/webassembly-an-executable-format-for-the-web/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search

https://assassinationfiles.net/index.html

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 80 comments

FCC Chair Ajit Pai “jokes” about being a Verizon shill

https://gizmodo.com/leaked-video-shows-fcc-chair-ajit-pai-roasting-himself-1821134881

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 67 comments

Exploring ZFS ZIL with Intel Optane and NAND

https://www.servethehome.com/exploring-best-zfs-zil-slog-ssd-intel-optane-nand/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 43 comments

High Performance Z80 Emulation

https://floooh.github.io/2017/12/10/z80-emu-evolution.html

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 14 comments

The Mill CPU Architecture – Threading [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KQnrOEoWEY

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 50 comments

Trial shows Huntington's drug could slow progress of disease

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/11/excitement-as-huntingtons-drug-shown-to-slow-progress-of-devastating-disease

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 13 comments

Claiming our lives back from social media addiction

https://www.iafrikan.com/2017/12/11/social-networking-sites-may-be-controlling-your-mind/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: How to approach testing in Golang?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15895173

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

A learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/12/04/robots-see-into-their-future/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 10 comments

How ISIS Produced Its Cruel Arsenal at Scale

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/world/middleeast/isis-bombs.html

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

6-year-old made $11M in one year reviewing toys on YouTube

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/11/6-year-old-made-11-million-in-one-year-reviewing-toys-on-you-tube/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 112 comments

Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua

https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/14

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: What are some sabbatical programs for working software engineers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900584

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

BlueSteal: Popping GATT Safes

https://www.twosixlabs.com/bluesteal-popping-gatt-safes/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: How do you stay focused while programming/working?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899901

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Make Stronger Offers to Engineering Candidates and Boost Your Closes

http://firstround.com/review/make-stronger-offers-to-engineering-candidates-and-boost-your-closes/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 156 comments

Turbolinks: SPA-like Experience without the SPA-framework Hassle

https://goiabada.blog/can-you-build-a-single-page-application-without-a-front-end-framework-6799cee03750

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 95 comments

Calls for Twitch to police 'sexual streaming'

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42222939

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 79 comments

Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/12/06/apple-terminate-music-downloads/

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 74 comments

30 seconds of code: Curated list of useful JavaScript snippets

https://github.com/Chalarangelo/30-seconds-of-code

8 years ago

★ 127.5kJavaScriptCC-BY-4.0
75 upvotes – 27 comments
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