758
440
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
517
130
Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/11/netflix-what-happens-when-you-press-play.html
400
55
A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/the-high-school-student-whos-building-his-own-integrated-circuits
284
408
Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/bitcoin-crypto-crashed-hard/
282
50
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
280
106
Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-bit operating system
https://harvey-os.org/
257
196
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/
253
143
On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything
http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/how-darknet-sellers-build-trust
249
28
Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/tenlesses.pdf
244
162
“Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit
https://hackernoon.com/username-or-password-is-incorrect-is-bullshit-89985ca2be48
230
80
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/
226
135
Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies
https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf
218
151
Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin
https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mmc171218/
216
62
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdvlk-radeon-vulkan&num=1
206
40
Learn CSS Grid through interactive screencasts
https://scrimba.com/g/gR8PTE
188
39
How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/12/22/nvidia-ruler/
187
86
Blink has been acquired by Amazon
https://blinkforhome.com/blogs/blink-home-security-blog/breaking-news-blink-has-been-acquired-by-amazon
185
116
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®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
181
Ask HN: How can I learn computer security?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15986100
180
45
Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers
https://stackshare.io/dubsmash/dubsmash-scaling-to-200-million-users-with-3-engineers
179
Show HN: Byte Arena – Code Your Fighter Bot
https://doc.bytearena.com
171
By ditching usernames, OKCupid is removing a crucial protective barrier
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/22/16812152/okcupid-usernames-controversy-anonymity-privacy-dating-online
168
76
Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System
http://www.urbo.com/content/this-guy-cheated-on-the-price-is-right-and-made-them-change-their-entire-system
29
Man jailed for over 5 years and fined $76K for selling VPN in southern China
http://scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2125326/man-jailed-51/2-years-fined-us76000-selling-vpn
155
92
Max Howell, author of Homebrew, on being rejected for a job at 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?srid=hosEd&share=1
152
46
Banker confessed to running a Ponzi scheme, but was he hiding a bigger crime?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-18/he-stole-100-million-from-his-clients-now-he-s-living-in-luxury-on-the-c-te-d-azur
144
Rust for Rubyists
https://matthias-endler.de/2017/rust-for-rubyists/
193
Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled amid price rout
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/22/coinbase-one-of-the-biggest-bitcoin-marketplaces-says-buying-and-selling-temporarily-disabled-amid-price-rout.html
133
156
Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies
https://thehftguy.com/2017/12/20/how-to-make-millions-by-distributing-pirated-movies/
129
146
'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-those-alien-alloys-in-the-new-york-times-ufo-story/
125
23
Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07816
122
Please Don't Show Us Another “Typical Family Earning $270,000 a Year”
http://www.slate.com/redirect/business/2017/12/why-are-sample-families-in-tax-plan-analyses-so-rich.html
120
58
Mattermark (YC S12) to shut down after selling to FullContact
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/21/mattermark-to-shut-down-after-selling-to-full-contact/
66
How the Rohingya Escaped
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/how-the-rohingya-escaped.html
113
16
Haven: Keep Watch
https://guardianproject.github.io/haven/
What Would It Take to Fix New York’s Subway?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/22/nyregion/what-would-it-take-to-fix-new-yorks-subway.html
112
On the Moral Economy of Tech (2016)
http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm
108
38
A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system
https://github.com/fireworq/fireworq
★ 2.2kGoApache-2.0–8 years ago
105
42
GitPlex – browse code in Git repository like in IDE
https://www.gitplex.com
103
107
Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-22/novogratz-shelves-hedge-fund-sees-bitcoin-dropping-to-8-000
99
Proofs of Useful Work [pdf]
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/203.pdf
97
Multiplayer Tron in the terminal
http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/
95
25
DBCLI – Modern Suite of Database CLIs
http://www.dbcli.com/
93
1
BIDS Receives Sloan Foundation Grant to Contribute to NumPy Development
https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/bids-receives-sloan-foundation-grant-contribute-numpy-development
48
AVX-512, what’s useful for us
http://obe.tv/about-us/obe-blog/item/50-avx-512-what-s-useful-for-us
88
Bitcoin Traders Claim There’s Method to Their Madness
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-22/bitcoin-traders-claim-there-s-method-to-their-madness
The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/12/21/the-big-business-of-prisoner-care-packages
85
11
Distributed count distinct vs. HyperLogLog in Postgres
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/12/22/distributed-count-vs-hyperloglog/
82
20
Delay-Tolerant Networks Might Be the Killer App Ham Radio Needs
https://faradayrf.com/delay-tolerant-networks-killer-app/
81
Bitcoin, I've Been Here Before
https://medium.com/@Wuntusk/bitcoin-ive-been-here-before-bf3279e67f27
77
57
Tar and Curl Come to Windows
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2017/12/19/tar-and-curl-come-to-windows/
How recreational marijuana in California left chemists in the dark
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/22/16808964/california-weed-laws-legal-prop-64-safe-labs
51
Technical feasibility of regulating public Blockchain explored
https://techtake.info/2017/12/22/regulating-public-blockchains/
Someone Is Selling a Genuine FBI Surveillance Van on EBay
https://www.geek.com/culture/someone-is-selling-a-genuine-fbi-surveillance-van-on-ebay-1708878/
74
34
Project Fi will take your Google Voice number
https://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2017/12/google-voice-project-fi.html
73
8
Walter Pitts pioneered neural networks. Then he lit his entire PhD on fire
http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic
71
33
Meet the Counter Strike e-sports team where everyone is over 60
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16800924/silver-snipers-senior-counter-strike-team
70
9
A RISC V Based Linear Algebra Accelerator for SoC Designs [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww5XEVGBsLw
68
52
Show HN: One year devoted to open source and I've almost made $2 – horrraaaaay
https://opencollective.com/property_web_builder
A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system