top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-28

A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

8 years ago

1176 upvotes – 832 comments

Effective Engineer – Notes

https://gist.github.com/rondy/af1dee1d28c02e9a225ae55da2674a6f

8 years ago

751 upvotes – 225 comments

Economics of Minecraft

https://www.alicemaz.com/writing/minecraft.html

8 years ago

642 upvotes – 112 comments

How I Find Consulting Clients

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-leads/

8 years ago

333 upvotes – 42 comments

High Sierra macOS freezing and stops

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8101384

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 327 comments

The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/addiction-inc.html

8 years ago

263 upvotes – 192 comments

Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42505261

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 126 comments

Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/27/thousands-of-major-sites-are-taking-silent-anti-ad-blocking-measures/

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 365 comments

Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Data Replication

https://bravenewgeek.com/building-a-distributed-log-from-scratch-part-2-data-replication/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 21 comments

Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/16/renowned-concussion-doctor-says-he-found-cte-in-living-nfl-player/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 205 comments

Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since the 1950s

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/nyregion/new-york-city-crime-2017.html

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 224 comments

C++17 constexpr everything, or as much as the compiler can

https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/12/27/cpp-17-constexpr-everything-as-much-as-the-compiler-can/

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 116 comments

Discretion still matters – don’t hurt your career by sharing too much

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/discretion-still-matters-dont-ruin-your-career-by-sharing-too-much

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 144 comments

My Favorite Deep Learning Papers of 2017

http://cachestocaches.com/2017/12/favorite-deep-learning-2017/

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 13 comments

DeepZip: Lossless Compression Using Recurrent Networks [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/reports/2761006.pdf

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 17 comments

The Digital Advertising Duopoly

http://avc.com/2017/12/the-digital-advertising-duopoly/

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 110 comments

Road map to clean energy using laser beam ignition of boron-hydrogen fusion

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/laser-and-particle-beams/article/road-map-to-clean-energy-using-laser-beam-ignition-of-boronhydrogen-fusion/8BE057DC1BC9E0A588FB3ABAA993078C

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 55 comments

SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber

https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-succeeds-in-tender-offer-for-large-stake-in-uber-1514483283?mod=e2twd

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 138 comments

Cracking Encrypted PDFs

https://blog.didierstevens.com/2017/12/28/cracking-encrypted-pdfs-part-3/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

The Door Problem (2014)

http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Themer – a CLI for generating themes for all your tools

https://github.com/mjswensen/themer

8 years ago

★ 5.8k TypeScript MIT
135 upvotes – 26 comments

Shenzhen Electrifies Entire Public Transit Bus Fleet

https://electrek.co/2017/12/28/shenzhen-electrifies-entire-public-transit-fleet-electric-buses/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 71 comments

PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE

https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/postgresql-benchmark-freebsd-centos-ubuntu-debian-opensuse/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 57 comments

A Tech-Driven Boom Is Coming; Please Be Patient

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tech-driven-boom-is-coming-please-be-patient-1514390400

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 123 comments

Neutrino experiment reveals inconsistency in how matter and antimatter behave

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-suggest-solution-to-mystery-of-universes-existence-20171212/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

The scrypt parameters

https://blog.filippo.io/the-scrypt-parameters

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 76 comments

WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition

http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_f8b1509f44a2e3b96999bb04d587e3ef

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 90 comments

Apollo Guidance Computer Talk

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9064-the_ultimate_apollo_guidance_computer_talk

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 18 comments

Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release

https://babeljs.io/blog/2017/12/27/nearing-the-7.0-release

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

/bin/false is not security (2005)

http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ssh-security/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos

http://niessnerlab.org/projects/thies2016face.html

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 14 comments

Google retires the Pixel C tablet as it shifts focus to the Pixelbook

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/28/google-retires-the-pixel-c-tablet-as-it-shifts-focus-to-the-pixelbook/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 128 comments

How to hand-write DNS messages

https://routley.io/tech/2017/12/28/hand-writing-dns-messages.html

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-hotel-travelopoly-1514419414

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 64 comments

New Zealand Study Provides More Support for Lead-Crime Hypothesis

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/12/new-zealand-study-provides-more-support-for-lead-crime-hypothesis/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)

https://jeremykun.com/2012/03/22/nintendo-np-hard/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

Engineering Habitats for the Moon and Mars

http://www.structuremag.org/?p=12389

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 49 comments

Skyrocketing Bitcoin Fees Hit Carders in Wallet

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/skyrocketing-bitcoin-fees-hit-carders-in-wallet/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 98 comments

Neuroscientist Ben Barres has died

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/12/neuroscientist-ben-barres-dies-at-63.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 12 comments

The Growing Peril of Index Funds: Too Much Tech

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-growing-peril-of-index-funds-too-much-tech-1514457003

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

Rails, Development, and More with David Heinemeier Hansson [audio]

https://player.fm/series/all-ruby-podcasts-by-devchattv/rr-342-rails-development-and-more-with-david-heinemeier-hansson

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prosthesis

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/12/28/ai-prosthesis-skywalker/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

Understanding image histograms with OpenCV

http://lmcaraig.com/image-histograms-histograms-equalization-and-histograms-comparison/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Crystal 0.24.1 released

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/tag/v0.24.1

8 years ago

★ 20.2k Crystal Apache-2.0
87 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How do I get it back?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16024052

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even If Theaters Aren’t Sold on It

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/business/media/moviepass-theaters-tickets.html

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 124 comments

The sorry state of OpenSSL usability

https://jameshfisher.com/2017/12/02/the-sorry-state-of-openssl-usability

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9YhFiZnHkE

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Engineers create plants that glow

http://news.mit.edu/2017/engineers-create-nanobionic-plants-that-glow-1213

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

A type of semi-transparent polymer that can be mended at room temperature

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-semi-transparent-polymer-room-temperature-small.html

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Consciousness: Where Are Words?

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/12/27/consciousness-where-are-words/

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments
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