2023
874
Firefox is on a slippery slope
https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html
8 years ago
1214
217
Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/norway-votes-decriminalise-drugs-offer-treatment-instead-jail-time/
602
324
Amazon's Fake Review Problem
http://www.brianbien.com/amazons-fake-review-problem/
581
338
REST is the new SOAP
https://medium.com/@pakaldebonchamp/rest-is-the-new-soap-97ff6c09896d
430
43
In B-Flat
http://www.inbflat.net
409
272
The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
407
221
Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis? (2016)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/why-arent-any-bankers-in-prison-for-causing-the-financial-crisis/496232/?single_page=true
382
159
CDC gets list of forbidden words
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html
295
301
Statistics, we have a problem
https://medium.com/@kristianlum/statistics-we-have-a-problem-304638dc5de5
267
280
Stuff You Can't Say in Silicon Valley
https://elaineou.com/2017/11/24/stuff-you-cant-say-in-silicon-valley/
251
62
Uber Accused of Espionage, Bribery, Hacking, in Former Employee's Letter
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/ric-jacobs-uber-letter-allegations-waymo
225
30
Attention Is All You Need
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7181-attention-is-all-you-need
220
38
Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04741
215
84
WebAssembly Raytracer
https://sniklaus.com/blog/raytracer
214
171
As the U.S. Retreats, Canada Doubles Down on Net Neutrality
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/12/canadanetneutrality/
189
226
Her six-hour commute each day seems crazy, but her affordable rent is not
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-commute-cherry-20171216-story.html
177
53
The Emacs Calculator (2009)
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2009/06/23/
145
56
World's steepest funicular railway opens in Switzerland
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/high-point_world-s-steepest-funicular-railway-opens-in-switzerland/43758880
142
45
Uber used undercover agents, court letter says
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42376515
141
102
Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2017/12/15/elon-musks-ideas-about-transportation-are-boring/
137
50
MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/msu-scholars-find-21-trillion-in-unauthorized-government-spending-defense-department-to-conduct/
129
66
Clean – A functional programming language
http://clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean
125
115
Tesla Tells New Taxi, Uber Drivers Not to Use Its Superchargers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-15/tesla-tells-new-taxi-uber-drivers-not-to-use-its-superchargers
123
20
Heinz Wolff has died
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42378765
113
51
Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
108
94
Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/12/15/traffic-engineers-epic-fail
106
78
Luxembourg challenges EU order to recover tax from Amazon
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-amazon-luxembourg-taxavoidance/luxembourg-challenges-eu-order-to-recover-tax-from-amazon-idUSKBN1E917S
100
The Case Against Reading Everything
https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-against-reading-everything/
98
13
A workshop for scientific computing in Python
https://github.com/Andrewnetwork/WorkshopScipy
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