top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-20

Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-ads-age-discrimination-targeting

8 years ago

1186 upvotes – 786 comments

Magic Leap One

https://www.magicleap.com/?utm_source=reveal&utm_medium=TW&utm_campaign=WTDO

8 years ago

1115 upvotes – 623 comments

We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/urgent-we-only-have-hours-left-stop-nsa-expansion-bill

8 years ago

412 upvotes – 175 comments

US Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih.html?_r=0

8 years ago

394 upvotes – 112 comments

Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably

https://stripe.com/blog/operating-kubernetes

8 years ago

357 upvotes – 100 comments

Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create One User Experience

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-said-to-have-plan-to-combine-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps

8 years ago

350 upvotes – 262 comments

Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer

https://tyil.nl/articles/funding-yourself-as-free-software-developer.html

8 years ago

343 upvotes – 105 comments

Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42423627

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 427 comments

Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase

https://blog.coinbase.com/buy-sell-send-and-receive-bitcoin-cash-on-coinbase-65f1b2c7214b

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 277 comments

Hundreds ‘Rickrolled’ in Campus Prank at Cornell

http://cornellsun.com/2017/11/10/hundreds-rickrolled-in-mysterious-campus-prank-at-cornell/

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 101 comments

Implementing Malloc: Students and Systems Programming [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bryant/pubdir/sigcse18.pdf

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 56 comments

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ahead of launch

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-sets-up-at-cape-canaveral-ahead-of-launch/

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 234 comments

Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/berlin-bike-revolution/548297/

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 184 comments

Artists and writers whose works enter the public domain in 2018

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2018

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 54 comments

DAWN: Tools for AI and Data Product Development

http://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps

https://termipal.sh

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 54 comments

Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/12/19/How-To-Sell-Bitcoin-in-Canada

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 113 comments

Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/google-will-turn-on-native-ad-blocking-in-chrome-on-february-15/

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 176 comments

Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42425857

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 193 comments

OpenRailwayMap

http://www.openrailwaymap.org/mobile.php?

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 58 comments

I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

https://hackernoon.com/i-hacked-hq-trivia-but-heres-how-they-can-stop-me-68750ed16365

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 50 comments

How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money

http://d-cal.com/2017/12/20/how-a-pr-agency-stole-our-kickstarter-money/

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 113 comments

Guide to Serverless Architecture

https://www.simform.com/serverless-architecture-guide/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

Uber dealt blow after EU court classifies it as transport service

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-court/uber-dealt-blow-after-eu-court-classifies-it-as-transport-service-idUSKBN1EE0W3

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 3 comments

Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996)

http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=582

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 155 comments

Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

https://palant.de/2017/12/20/taking-a-break-from-adblock-plus-development

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 119 comments

Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 70 comments

The ABC conjecture has still not been proved

https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-abc-conjecture-has-still-not-been-proved/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 55 comments

Haiku Project

https://www.haiku-os.org

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 64 comments

Netstat without netstat

https://staaldraad.github.io/2017/12/20/netstat-without-netstat/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 26 comments

OpenBSD 6.2 and CDE

http://jamesdeagle.blogspot.com/2017/12/openbsd-62-cde.html

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Retrotechnology – PC desktop screenshots from 1983-2005

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 58 comments

Simulating Chutes and Ladders in Python

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/12/18/simulating-chutes-and-ladders/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 16 comments

Litecoin price, tweets, and conflict of interest

https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/7kzw6q/litecoin_price_tweets_and_conflict_of_interest/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 43 comments

Stats without Tears (2016)

https://brownmath.com/swt/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 19 comments

I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 62 comments

Open Beta of Texpad 1.8, macOS LaTeX editor with integrated realtime typesetting

https://www.texpad.com/news/macos-v1.8-open-beta

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

LiteDB – A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a Single Data File

https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB#litedb---a-net-nosql-document-store-in-a-single-data-file

8 years ago

★ 9.3kC#MIT
116 upvotes – 52 comments

GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/gop-net-neutrality-bill-would-allow-paid-fast-lanes-and-preempt-state-laws/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 141 comments

Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework

https://cafbit.com/post/tokio_internals/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 64 comments

This is not a new year’s resolution

https://crystal-lang.org/2017/12/19/this-is-not-a-new-years-resolution.html

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

On Writing Short Papers

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2017/12/on_writing_short_papers.html

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

CS349D Cloud Computing Technology, Autumn 2017

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs349d/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

AT&T giving $1000 bonus to all its employees because of tax reform

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171220005943/en/Tax-Reform-ATT-Plans-Increase-U.S.-Capital

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 106 comments

The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/apollo-triumph/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Cryptocurrency portfolio app on Blockstack

https://coinsapp.co

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

D’s Newfangled Name Mangling

https://dlang.org/blog/2017/12/20/ds-newfangled-name-mangling/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Pass-Thru Income Deduction

https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/pass-thru-income-deduction-dozen-things-every-business-owner-must-know/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 90 comments

A Brainfuck interpreter inside a single printf statement

https://github.com/HexHive/printbf

8 years ago

★ 693Brainfuck
82 upvotes – 20 comments

Regex Parser in C Using Continuation Passing

http://www.theiling.de/cnc/date/2017-12-19.html

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

2012 Wine bug "Drawing in Photoshop CS5 is almost impossible" now fixed

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29871

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 79 comments

What Elon Musk Doesn't Get About Urban Transit

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/what-elon-musk-doesnt-get-about-urban-transit/548843/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 132 comments

Uber Is a Taxi Service, the E.C.J. Says, in Major Setback to Firm

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/business/uber-europe-ecj.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Italian family's inability to feel pain spurs research for chronic patients

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/12/19/italian-familys-inability-feel-pain-lead-relief-chronic-sufferers/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

https://postmancollections.com

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

A Common Lisp REPL on Android

http://kvardek-du.kerno.org/2017/12/a-lisp-repl-in-your-pocket.html

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple Confirms It Degrades Your Old iPhone

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2017/12/20/apple-iphone-kill-switch-ios-degrade-cripple-performance-battery/?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix&yptr=yahoo#34b4faa316a8

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

China's Yanlong: a small nuclear reactor strictly for district heating

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/10/china-looks-to-nuclear-option-to-ease-winter-heating-woes.html

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 60 comments
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