top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-19

Google Maps' Moat

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

8 years ago

1960 upvotes – 609 comments

WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-whatsapp-privacy-france/french-privacy-watchdog-raps-whatsapp-over-facebook-data-sharing-idUSKBN1EC285

8 years ago

795 upvotes – 408 comments

A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms

https://twitter.com/Hellchick/status/942863353403150336

8 years ago

580 upvotes – 398 comments

Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains

https://www.janbambas.cz/firefox-57-delays-requests-tracking-domains/

8 years ago

472 upvotes – 261 comments

120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/12/19/120m-american-households-exposed-in-massive-consumerview-database-leak/#412ed5e37961

8 years ago

465 upvotes – 157 comments

iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-and-battery-age/

8 years ago

456 upvotes – 259 comments

Dynamicland

https://dynamicland.org/

8 years ago

446 upvotes – 117 comments

New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird-releases-and-new-thunderbird-staff/

8 years ago

432 upvotes – 125 comments

Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin

https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/were-planning-to-launch-estcoin-and-that-s-only-the-start-310aba7f3790

8 years ago

341 upvotes – 183 comments

The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-google-facebook-duopoly-threatens-diversity-of-thought-1513642519

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 216 comments

Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?

https://tomassetti.me/introduction-to-webassembly/

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 248 comments

The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DougPearson/20171212/311570/Post_Mortem_The_Death_of_Flash_and_Rewriting_14_Million_Lines_of_Code.php

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 198 comments

Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-human-like-speech.html

8 years ago

290 upvotes – 54 comments

Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units

http://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-big-battery-outsmarts-lumbering-coal-units-after-loy-yang-trips-70003/

8 years ago

267 upvotes – 84 comments

In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/health/16iodine.html

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 197 comments

Building a Home Aquaponics System: The Basics

https://www.thissmarthouse.net/building-a-stylish-home-aquaponics-system/

8 years ago

254 upvotes – 74 comments

I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15962146

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 306 comments

How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 295 comments

What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/business/electric-car-adoption.html

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 452 comments

How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm

https://konghq.com/blog/how-to-design-a-scalable-rate-limiting-algorithm/#.WjlcxXHbXuU.hackernews

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 33 comments

How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job

http://hackcareer.com/side-project/

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 82 comments

Image text recognition APIs showdown

https://dataturks.com/blog/compare-image-text-recognition-apis.php

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 77 comments

There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions

https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 142 comments

The Screenless Office

http://screenl.es/

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 138 comments

The Neural Network Zoo

http://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 9 comments

Microsoft Moves to End Secrecy in Sexual Harassment Claims

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/microsoft-sexual-harassment-arbitration.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 102 comments

BMW delivers its 100,000th electrified vehicle this year

https://electrek.co/2017/12/18/bmw-hq-giant-batteries-100000th-ev/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 63 comments

Internal Emails Show Twitter Struggled to Interpret Its Rules Unverifying Trolls

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/internal-emails-show-twitter-struggled-to-interpret-its-own

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: All Politicians in Switzerland

https://politiker-politicien-politici.ch/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 52 comments

Unravelling Konami's Arcade DRM

http://mon.im/2017/12/konami-arcade-drm.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

Philosophy Needs a New Definition

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/philosophy-needs-a-new-definition/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-northkorea/u-s-blames-north-korea-for-wannacry-cyber-attack-idUSKBN1ED00Q

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 109 comments

Where’s the Next Silicon Valley? VC Is Betting on the Midwest

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/wheres-the-next-silicon-valley-this-vc-is-betting-on-the-midwest

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 304 comments

Inside the World's Only Watch Design University

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/inside-the-worlds-only-watch-design-university

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 4 comments

Bitcoin exchange Youbit shuts after second hack attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42409815

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 83 comments

Improving app security and performance on Google Play for years to come

http://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/improving-app-security-and-performance.html

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

New York City Moves to Create Accountability for Algorithms

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-moves-to-create-accountability-for-algorithms

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments
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