top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-21

Chrome is Not the Standard

http://www.chriskrycho.com/2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.html

8 years ago

807 upvotes – 451 comments

Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself

https://engineering.instagram.com/let-your-code-type-hint-itself-introducing-open-source-monkeytype-a855c7284881

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 229 comments

Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-the-facebook-team-helping-regimes-that-reach-out-and-crack-down

8 years ago

419 upvotes – 237 comments

Rust in 2017: what we achieved

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/12/21/rust-in-2017.html

8 years ago

403 upvotes – 41 comments

Racing for Realism

https://renderman.pixar.com/stories/cars-3

8 years ago

396 upvotes – 150 comments

Start your open-source career

https://blog.algolia.com/start-your-open-source-career/

8 years ago

364 upvotes – 69 comments

Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-is-setting-up-a-cryptocurrency-trading-desk

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 466 comments

Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games

https://torrentfreak.com/gamers-want-dmca-exemption-for-abandoned-online-games-171221/

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 75 comments

SQL Injection Wiki

https://sqlwiki.netspi.com/

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 35 comments

Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/crypto-craze-sees-long-island-iced-tea-rename-as-long-blockchain

8 years ago

316 upvotes – 248 comments

A Letter from the Publisher of Nautilus

http://m.nautil.us/blog/a-letter-from-the-publisher-of-nautilus

8 years ago

313 upvotes – 145 comments

Show HN: Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents

https://github.com/zhoubear/open-paperless

8 years ago

★ 2.5k Python
285 upvotes – 96 comments

Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds for Loot Boxes

https://kotaku.com/apple-says-itunes-apps-must-now-disclose-odds-for-loot-1821497923

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 123 comments

Building a Distributed Log from Scratch, Part 1: Storage Mechanics

http://bravenewgeek.com/building-a-distributed-log-from-scratch-part-1-storage-mechanics/

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 8 comments

Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money

https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/21/sam-altman-too-many-y-combinator-companies-raise-money/

8 years ago

269 upvotes – 158 comments

Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP Plan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/tax-free-bitcoin-to-ether-trading-in-u-s-to-end-under-gop-plan

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 175 comments

Romanian Hackers Infiltrated 65% of DC Outdoor Surveillance Cameras

http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_910710e71e532e73a80deb1294a2db7c

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 80 comments

Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life

http://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=572538593

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 291 comments

Nvidia’s New Policy Limits GeForce Data Center Usage

https://wirelesswire.jp/2017/12/62708/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 145 comments

Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-wrinkle-in-famed-fluid-equations-20171221/

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 120 comments

Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016)

http://libdill.org/index.html

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 50 comments

Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twelve-days-in-xinjiang-how-chinas-surveillance-state-overwhelms-daily-life-1513700355

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 129 comments

Five years with Rust

http://words.steveklabnik.com/five-years-with-rust

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 69 comments

The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a14453949/the-only-mclaren-f1-technician-in-north-america/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 87 comments

Mastodon makes the Internet feel like home again

https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 121 comments

Intermediate Vim tips

https://kinbiko.com/vim/my-shiniest-vim-gems/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 77 comments

Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2017/1221.html

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 63 comments

Blizzard's Battle.net Updater Installs Root Certificate

https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/7lb8vq/hey_blizzard_whats_the_deal_with_this_sneaky_root/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 75 comments

IPhones start slowing down after a year

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/20/16803190/iphone-slowdown-is-needed-but-also-a-problem

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 223 comments

Can You Think Yourself into a Different Person? (2015)

https://mosaicscience.com/story/neuroplasticity

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 113 comments

Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files

https://intoli.com/blog/analyzing-one-million-robots-txt-files/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 25 comments

How Does the Flu Kill People?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-the-flu-actually-kill-people/

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 73 comments

MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency IOTA

https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/iota-response/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

Brain inflammation sows the seeds of Alzheimer’s

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/brain-inflammation-sows-the-seeds-of-alzheimer-s

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 78 comments

How Cuts in Basic Subway Upkeep Can Make NYC Commutes Miserable

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/nyregion/system-failure-new-york-subway-maintenance-misery.html?mabReward=CTM3&recid=0y1C7Vbd7V6qb02UQ5zYHiw4x64&recp=3&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 201 comments

The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile

http://blog.jqueryui.com/2017/12/the-future-of-jquery-ui-and-jquery-mobile/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 93 comments

Earthworms can reproduce in Mars soil simulant

https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/Earthworms-can-reproduce-in-Mars-soil-simulant.htm

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 75 comments

Macchiato – A way to build Node web applications using ClojureScript

https://macchiato-framework.github.io/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 66 comments

Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler

https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/12/21/v-linc-custom-walker

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 19 comments

Genetic Algorithms for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06567

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 44 comments

Massgate – The central server for the game World in Conflict

https://github.com/ubisoftinc/massgate

8 years ago

★ 1.1k C++ GPL-2.0
118 upvotes – 41 comments

Molly Houses: Gay Bars in 18th-Century Britain

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/regency-gay-bar-molly-houses

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 12 comments

When should behaviour outside a community have consequences inside it?

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50099.html

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 283 comments

Why Don’t Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are?

https://eand.co/what-do-you-call-a-world-that-cant-learn-from-itself-58ae28cefd23

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 193 comments

Self-Driving Ubers Driving in Bike Lanes

https://driverlessratings.com/news/self-driving-ubers-crossing-bike-lanes

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 119 comments

More Gotchas of Defer in Go, Part II

https://blog.learngoprogramming.com/5-gotchas-of-defer-in-go-golang-part-ii-cc550f6ad9aa

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 53 comments

Advanced Image Manipulation and Data Extraction

https://blog.algorithmia.com/advanced-image-manipulation-and-data-extraction/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Resources for learning about boot loaders?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981575

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

The sunk cost fallacy: Devs describe how it almost destroyed them

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/310063/The_sunk_cost_fallacy_Devs_describe_how_it_almost_destroyed_them.php

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Call options used to bet that Bitcoin will go over $50K next year

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-million-dollar-bet-that-bitcoin-will-hit-50-000-1513809578

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 150 comments

Bindgen – Rust tool for generating C bindings

https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/21/bindgen-is-awesome/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 6 comments

Fungi Saved the World (2014)

http://feedthedatamonster.com/home/2014/7/11/how-fungi-saved-the-world

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 12 comments

Deep Learning Hardware Limbo

http://timdettmers.com/2017/12/21/deep-learning-hardware-limbo/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

Kowloon Walled City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

Max Howell's take on getting rejected by Google

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejecting-Max-Howell-the-author-of-Homebrew-for-not-being-able-to-invert-a-binary-tree/answer/Max-Howell?guest=1&share=1

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 69 comments

The Art of Conducting

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-art-of-conducting/

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Bitcoin Billionaires May Have Found a Way to Cash Out

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-21/bitcoin-billionaires-may-have-found-a-way-to-cash-out

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 70 comments

Top Single-Board Computers Introduced this Year

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332763&_mc=RSS_EET_EDT&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments

Senators blast DHS facial scanning at airports

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/366076-senators-blast-dhs-face-scans-in-airports

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments
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