780
472
How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consulting_1
8 years ago
362
222
Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42465516
309
102
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/
298
117
Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage
https://github.com/butor/blackbird/blob/master/README.md
270
212
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
262
26
NumPy Tricks and Pitfalls
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/vlad17/np-learn/blob/master/presentation.ipynb?flush_cache=true
253
79
Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia
http://ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-algorithmic-solution-to-insomnia.html
214
138
Ask HN: Has working remotely harmed your career growth?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994294
186
9
Keras Tutorial – Traffic Sign Recognition
https://chsasank.github.io/keras-tutorial.html
185
107
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
182
81
Writing a personal automation API
https://dev.to/anotherdevblog/every-developer-should-write-a-personal-automation-api
180
32
The strange story of “Extended Random”
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/12/19/the-strange-story-of-extended-random/
172
27
Haven: Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone into a Home Security System
https://www.wired.com/story/snowden-haven-app-turns-phone-into-home-security-system/
159
123
Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html?_r=0
157
97
Four DB2 Code Bases?
http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/12/1187/
144
103
Ask HN: Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15992664
30
Analog For The People: Synth Master Tatsuya Takahashi On Engineering Fun
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/12/22/569092364/analog-for-the-people-synth-master-tatsuya-takahashi-on-engineering-fun
143
100
At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/business/media/vice-sexual-harassment.html
140
20
Inferno OS for Raspberry Pi
https://bitbucket.org/infpi/inferno-rpi
132
55
Jsonb: Stories about performance
http://erthalion.info/2017/12/21/advanced-json-benchmarks/