top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-12-23

How I went from programming to consulting (2012)

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consulting_1

8 years ago

780 upvotes – 472 comments

Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42465516

8 years ago

362 upvotes – 222 comments

Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam

https://grasshoppermouse.github.io/2017/12/05/academic-success-is-either-a-crapshoot-or-a-scam/

8 years ago

309 upvotes – 102 comments

Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage

https://github.com/butor/blackbird/blob/master/README.md

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 117 comments

Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 212 comments

NumPy Tricks and Pitfalls

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/vlad17/np-learn/blob/master/presentation.ipynb?flush_cache=true

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 26 comments

Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia

http://ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-algorithmic-solution-to-insomnia.html

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: Has working remotely harmed your career growth?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994294

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 138 comments

Keras Tutorial – Traffic Sign Recognition

https://chsasank.github.io/keras-tutorial.html

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 9 comments

In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliver Packages

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-final-holiday-push-ups-grabs-its-accountants-to-deliver-packages-1514040922

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 107 comments
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