1209
508
Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
http://ohshitgit.com/
8 years ago
642
156
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
540
348
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
http://woz.posthaven.com/what-orms-have-taught-me-just-learn-sql
393
383
Update: Looking Glass Add-On
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/
380
198
Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2017/12/17/rape-kit-detroit/953083001/
362
126
Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned
http://andrewchen.co/professional-blogging/
349
257
Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/12/17/why-you-cant-cash-out-pt-1-why-bitcoins-price-is-largely-fictional/
346
206
Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband
https://www.wired.com/story/koch-brothers-are-cities-new-obstacle-to-building-broadband
334
113
Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms in Sleep
http://npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/18/571120472/older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep
279
210
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet
https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
265
26
Building a Poor Man’s Deep Learning Camera in Python
https://www.makeartwithpython.com/blog/poor-mans-deep-learning-camera/
256
115
Can People Choose to Change Their Personality Traits? (2015) [pdf]
http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/Hudson%20and%20Fraley%20-%20Volitional%20personality%20trait%20change%20-%20JPSP2015.pdf
248
145
Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/complete-design-silicon-quantum-computer-chip-unveiled
224
88
Improving my productivity using Pomodoro: takeaways after 2 years of practice
http://mehdi.cherti.name/improving-my-productivity-using-pomodoro-takeaways-after-2-years-of-practice.html
221
20
Elasticsearch For Beginners: Indexing your Gmail Inbox
https://github.com/oliver006/elasticsearch-gmail
★ 2k Python – 8 years ago
215
170
Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/16/modern-life-lonely-isolation-hardwired-lives
174
50
How traders 'pump and dump' cryptocurrencies
http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-traders-pump-and-dump-cryptocurrencies-2017-11
173
Moving from Disqus to Schnack
https://blog.webkid.io/moving-from-disqus-to-schnack/
171
90
What are the complex numbers, really?
http://robjlow.blogspot.com/2017/06/what-is-this-thing-called-i.html
169
29
Hybridizer: High-Performance C# on GPUs
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/hybridizer-csharp/
165
28
Math behind rotation in MS Paint (2011)
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/47255/math-behind-rotation-in-ms-paint
163
44
How do Ruby and Python profilers work?
https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/17/how-do-ruby---python-profilers-work-/
159
108
How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-china-got-a-us-senator-to-do-its-political-bidding/2017/12/17/8eee82c6-e1dc-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html?utm_term=.24c2a532b45c
151
58
Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/12/kubernetes-19-workloads-expanded-ecosystem.html
147
51
Overture JS – A powerful basis for building web applications
http://overturejs.com/
133
70
XMR mining app, built with Vue.js, D3 and CoinHive
https://github.com/bradoyler/xmr-miner
★ 507 JavaScript – 8 years ago
131
Land Registry data reveals London’s secret tunnels
https://whoownsengland.org/2017/12/15/how-land-registry-data-reveals-londons-secret-tunnels/
129
110
The Real Danger to Civilization Isn't AI. It's Runaway Capitalism
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway
128
85
China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/17001/china-blocks-foreign-companies-from-mapping-its-roads-for-self-driving-cars
125
Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts
http://dustingmixon.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/partisan-gerrymandering-with-geographically-compact-districts/
216
Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-17/bitcoin-heads-to-bigger-wall-street-stage-as-cme-debuts-futures
122
64
Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz
https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/18/project-management-as-code-with-graphviz/
121
17
Exploiting Windows 10 in a Local Network with WPAD/PAC and JScript
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/12/apacolypse-now-exploiting-windows-10-in_18.html
117
Kernel debugging for newbies
http://www.alexlambert.com/2017/12/18/kernel-debugging-for-newbies.html
116
31
Colly – Scraping Framework for Golang
https://github.com/gocolly/colly
★ 25.2k Go Apache-2.0– 8 years ago
114
Intel vs GlobalFoundries at the leading edge
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7191-iedm-2017-intel-versus-globalfoundries-leading-edge.html
111
Since 1700, Wine Glasses Have Gotten 7 Times Bigger
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wine-glasses-growth-history
107
Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15951647
106
3
Keras and deep learning on the Raspberry Pi
https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/12/18/keras-deep-learning-raspberry-pi/
103
42
Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/why-trying-new-things-is-so-hard.html?
102
2
Dynamic Tracing a Pony and Python Program with DTrace
https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/12/dynamic-tracing-a-pony---python-program-with-dtrace/
100
69
Bundle Phobia: find the cost of adding an npm package to your bundle
https://bundlephobia.com/?source=hnews
97
Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/18/interstellar-object-oumuamua-covered-in-thick-crust-of-carbon-rich-gunk
94
What I Look for In Tech Startups
http://blog.capitalandgrowth.org/chris-devore/
91
93
Bitcoin Climbs as Futures Debut Fails to Incite Attack by Shorts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/bitcoin-climbs-as-futures-debut-fails-to-ignite-attack-by-shorts
87
12
The simple process of re-identifying patients in public health records
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-simple-process-of-re-identifying-patients-in-public-health-records
86
207
Casualties of the Cashless Society: Those Who Get Seasonal Tips
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/style/seasonal-tips-cash-free-payments.html
A Small Fintech Stock Surged 2,400% After Announcing It’s a Crypto Company
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/fintech-mircocap-stock-jumps-2-400-after-touting-crypto-link
22
Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history
84
52
A Look at the Internals of 'Tiered JIT Compilation' in .NET Core
http://www.mattwarren.org/2017/12/15/How-does-.NET-JIT-a-method-and-Tiered-Compilation/
83
49
Show HN: Cr – Runs your tasks at maximum concurrency
https://github.com/cirocosta/cr
★ 690 Go – 8 years ago
82
Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political version)
https://medium.com/@nimishgautam/things-you-cant-say-in-silicon-valley-non-political-version-174ea277736d
81
8
The Indie Web movement (2013)
https://www.wired.com/2013/08/indie-web/
