top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-12-22

Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

http://exstreamist.com/report-kids-in-netflix-only-homes-are-being-saved-from-230-hours-of-commercials-a-year/

8 years ago

Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/11/netflix-what-happens-when-you-press-play.html

8 years ago

A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/the-high-school-student-whos-building-his-own-integrated-circuits

8 years ago

Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/bitcoin-crypto-crashed-hard/

8 years ago

A Zero-Math Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods

https://medium.com/@benpshaver/a-zero-math-introduction-to-markov-chain-monte-carlo-methods-dcba889e0c50

8 years ago

Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-bit operating system

https://harvey-os.org/

8 years ago

I got locked out of my Google account for a month

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/that-time-i-got-locked-out-of-my-google-account-for-a-month/

8 years ago

On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything

http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/how-darknet-sellers-build-trust

8 years ago

Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/tenlesses.pdf

8 years ago

“Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit

https://hackernoon.com/username-or-password-is-incorrect-is-bullshit-89985ca2be48

8 years ago

FCC Fines Sinclair Broadcast Group $13.4M for Running Sponsored Content as News

http://variety.com/2017/politics/news/sinclair-fcc-fine-sponsor-violation-1202647175/

8 years ago

Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf

8 years ago

Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin

https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mmc171218/

8 years ago

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdvlk-radeon-vulkan&num=1

8 years ago

Learn CSS Grid through interactive screencasts

https://scrimba.com/g/gR8PTE

8 years ago

How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/12/22/nvidia-ruler/

8 years ago

Blink has been acquired by Amazon

https://blinkforhome.com/blogs/blink-home-security-blog/breaking-news-blink-has-been-acquired-by-amazon

8 years ago

Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/well/move/why-sitting-may-be-bad-for-your-heart.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=Well&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

8 years ago

Ask HN: How can I learn computer security?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15986100

8 years ago

Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers

https://stackshare.io/dubsmash/dubsmash-scaling-to-200-million-users-with-3-engineers

8 years ago