757
511
Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1194583
8 years ago
604
71
Introducing the GoodWatch
https://goodwatch.org/posts/introducing-the-goodwatch/
429
247
MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike
https://www.wired.com/story/mobilecoin-cryptocurrency/
374
264
AIM will be discontinued today
https://help.aol.com/articles/aim-discontinued
359
82
Net Neutrality Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Was Written by Comcast Attorney
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/14/that-net-neutrality-op-ed-in-the-wall-street-journal-was-written-by-a-comcast-attorney/
350
229
Overcoming Us vs. Them
http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/why-your-brain-hates-other-people-rp
274
128
Canadian government gag order in CIA brainwashing case
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-government-gag-order-mk-ultra-1.4448933
265
123
Ask HN: Writing cover letters for tech jobs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934135
255
105
Perkeep – Open-source data modeling, storing, search, sharing and synchronizing
https://perkeep.org/
244
62
Metal Gear Solid V – Graphics Study
http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2017/12/15/mgs-v-graphics-study/
230
252
Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying government order
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4446492/norway-switches-off-fm-radio-but-this-station-is-defying-government-order-1.4446857
216
English rivers polluted by neonicotinoids, first tests reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/13/english-rivers-polluted-by-powerful-insecticides-first-tests-reveal
212
37
Essential Image Optimization
https://images.guide/
200
73
3D scatterplot of an image
https://alexander.engineering/imagescatter/
197
112
Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/
184
New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-model-warns-about-crispr-gene-drives-in-the-wild-20171116/
168
122
Nike’s Two Hour Marathon Attempt
https://www.wired.com/story/nike-breaking2-marathon-eliud-kipchoge/
156
40
Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42308341
154
221
Coinbase Wants Wall Street to Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-15/coinbase-wants-wall-street-to-resolve-its-bitcoin-trust-issues
6
Chalkdust – A magazine for the mathematically curious
http://chalkdustmagazine.com/
153
75
FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
http://www.foldingtext.com/
143
209
BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Starting with Bitcoin Cash
https://blog.bitpay.com/multiple-blockchains/
135
9
Anatomy of a Haskell-Based Application, Revisited
https://tech-blog.capital-match.com/posts/3-anatomy-of-haskell-web-app.html
130
32
Exploring Physics with Geometric Algebra, Book I [pdf] (2016)
http://peeterjoot.com/archives/math2015/gabookI.pdf
120
19
The Puzzle of a Lifetime
https://kotaku.com/the-puzzle-of-a-lifetime-1821235999
119
41
The Ethereum-blockchain size will not exceed 1TB anytime soon
https://dev.to/5chdn/the-ethereum-blockchain-size-will-not-exceed-1tb-anytime-soon-58a
117
16
Archive.org is asking for donations
https://archive.org/
114
78
Fox-IT hit by cyber attack
https://www.fox-it.com/en/insights/blogs/blog/fox-hit-cyber-attack/
108
196
Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Combat Sex Discrimination
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-14/microsoft-intern-s-rape-claim-highlights-struggle-to-combat-sex-discrimination
106
27
The United States of Toxins
https://priceonomics.com/the-united-states-of-toxins/
100
94
Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/
99
23
AlphaGo Teach – Find new and creative ways of playing Go
https://alphagoteach.deepmind.com/
97
52
Hackers invade safety system, halt plant operations in ‘watershed’ cyberattack
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/world/crime-legal-world/hackers-invade-safety-system-halt-mideast-plant-operations-watershed-cyberattack/
96
90
Tesla largely responsible for slide in U.S. home solar sales
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-solar/tesla-largely-responsible-for-slide-in-u-s-home-solar-sales-report-idUSKBN1E915A
92
Inside America’s Growing Bulletproof Clothing Industry
https://www.racked.com/2017/12/14/16738162/bulletproof-clothing
91
29
RESTyped: End-To-end Typing for REST APIs with TypeScript
https://blog.falcross.com/introducing-restyped-end-to-end-typing-for-rest-apis-with-typescript/
88
The Last JSON Spec
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/12/14/RFC-8259-STD-90
85
87
How Hard Is It to Generate a 10X Return on an Investment?
https://bettereveryday.vc/how-hard-is-it-to-generate-a-10x-return-on-an-investment-9c1656d6c3af
83
Intel i7 loop performance anomaly (2013)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/12/03/intel-i7-loop-performance-anomaly
80
4
What's in an Emacs Lambda?
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/12/14/
79
18
An 8th Planet Is Found Orbiting a Distant Star, with A.I.’s Help
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/science/eight-planets-star-system.html
13
Grasp – JavaScript structural search, replace, and refactor
http://www.graspjs.com/
77
DHS proposes to repeal Work Authorization to Spouses(H4) of H1B visa holders
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201710&RIN=1615-AC15
76
31
Type Erasure in Swift
https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2017-12-08-type-erasure-in-swift.html
44
The science that’s never been cited
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0
64
US woman accused of laundering Bitcoin for Islamic State
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42362478
74
Don’t keep cell phones next to your body, California Health Department warns
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/dont-keep-cell-phones-next-to-your-body-california-health-department-warns/
Fourteen Years of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05078
67
Decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of startup Moeco
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/pied-pipers-decentralized-internet-is-planned-for-dubai-courtesy-of-startup-moeco/
66
Starbucks cafe's wi-fi made computers mine crypto-currency
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42338754
65
56
Microsoft forced users to install a password manager with a critical flaw
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/microsoft-is-forcing-users-to-install-a-critically-flawed-password-manager/
German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-military-helicopter/german-military-kicks-off-heavy-lift-helicopter-competition-source-idUSKBN1E91EN?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
Litecoin founder talks about cryptocurrency risks
https://viraldocks.com/litecoin-founder-cryptocurrency-risks/
63
58
Show HN: MyTwoCents – browser extension to put a comment section on any website
https://mytwocentscomments.website/
61
8
Introducing Vireo: A Lightweight and Versatile Video Processing Library
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2017/introducing-vireo.html
60
Generic Programming Made Easy in F#
https://www.demystifyfp.com/fsharp/blog/generic-programming-made-easy