top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-12-14

F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html

8 years ago

3384 upvotes – 1431 comments

Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kSuQyW5DTnkVaZEjGYCkfOxvzCqGEFzWBy4e9Uedd9k/preview?imm_mid=0f9b7e&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20171213&slide=id.g183f28bdc3_0_90

8 years ago

1656 upvotes – 120 comments

How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay

https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/

8 years ago

701 upvotes – 310 comments

E Pur Si Muove

http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove

8 years ago

647 upvotes – 827 comments

Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927132

8 years ago

594 upvotes – 268 comments

Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-twenty-first-century-fox-inc-spinoff-certain-businesses-52-4-billion-stock/

8 years ago

566 upvotes – 348 comments

Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California

https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/now-that-the-fcc-has-repealed-net-neutrality-lets-adopt-it-in-california-fa3bd02101ee

8 years ago

457 upvotes – 191 comments

Haemophilia A trial results 'mind-blowing'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42337396

8 years ago

431 upvotes – 126 comments

Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis515/linalg.pdf

8 years ago

339 upvotes – 59 comments

2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-14/2017-was-bad-for-facebook-2018-will-be-worse

8 years ago

302 upvotes – 239 comments

Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-revamps-video-ads-amid-publisher-concerns-1513269992

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 252 comments

Tiny Titan

http://tinytitan.github.io/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 65 comments

Using loaded dice to cheat at Settlers of Catan, and p-values to avoid suspicion

https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-cheat-at-settlers-of-catan-by-loading-the-dice-and-prove-it-with-p-values.html

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 103 comments

My name is Ivan and I want to make the best photo editor

https://blog.photopea.com/creating-photopea.html

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 80 comments

Communicating Advanced Mathematics to Kids

https://blogs.ams.org/matheducation/2017/12/11/communicating-advanced-mathematics-to-kids/

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 53 comments

Layman's Guide to Elliptic-Curve Digital Signatures (2014)

https://www.royalfork.org/2014/09/04/ecc/

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 21 comments

Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud

https://investors.etsy.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2017/12-14-2017-130416690

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

HTML 5.2 Recommendation

https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 181 comments

Nuclear Test Films Declassified and Uploaded

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/62-rare-nuclear-test-films-have-been-declassified-and-u-1821302584

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 84 comments

Y Combinator announces growth program for later-stage startups

https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/14/y-combinator-announces-growth-program-for-later-stage-startups/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 38 comments
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