1176
832
A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/
8 years ago
751
225
Effective Engineer – Notes
https://gist.github.com/rondy/af1dee1d28c02e9a225ae55da2674a6f
642
112
Economics of Minecraft
https://www.alicemaz.com/writing/minecraft.html
333
42
How I Find Consulting Clients
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-leads/
319
327
High Sierra macOS freezing and stops
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8101384
263
192
The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/addiction-inc.html
245
126
Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42505261
244
365
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/
217
21
Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Data Replication
https://bravenewgeek.com/building-a-distributed-log-from-scratch-part-2-data-replication/
200
205
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/
197
224
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
182
116
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/
172
144
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
13
My Favorite Deep Learning Papers of 2017
http://cachestocaches.com/2017/12/favorite-deep-learning-2017/
153
17
DeepZip: Lossless Compression Using Recurrent Networks [pdf]
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/reports/2761006.pdf
149
110
The Digital Advertising Duopoly
http://avc.com/2017/12/the-digital-advertising-duopoly/
146
55
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
138
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
140
16
Cracking Encrypted PDFs
https://blog.didierstevens.com/2017/12/28/cracking-encrypted-pdfs-part-3/
27
The Door Problem (2014)
http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
135
26
Show HN: Themer – a CLI for generating themes for all your tools
https://github.com/mjswensen/themer
★ 5.8kTypeScriptMIT–8 years ago
134
71
Shenzhen Electrifies Entire Public Transit Bus Fleet
https://electrek.co/2017/12/28/shenzhen-electrifies-entire-public-transit-fleet-electric-buses/
132
57
PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE
https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/postgresql-benchmark-freebsd-centos-ubuntu-debian-opensuse/
130
123
A Tech-Driven Boom Is Coming; Please Be Patient
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tech-driven-boom-is-coming-please-be-patient-1514390400
127
67
Neutrino experiment reveals inconsistency in how matter and antimatter behave
https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-suggest-solution-to-mystery-of-universes-existence-20171212/
76
The scrypt parameters
https://blog.filippo.io/the-scrypt-parameters
117
90
WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition
http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_f8b1509f44a2e3b96999bb04d587e3ef
115
18
Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9064-the_ultimate_apollo_guidance_computer_talk
113
41
Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release
https://babeljs.io/blog/2017/12/27/nearing-the-7.0-release
65
/bin/false is not security (2005)
http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ssh-security/
109
14
Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos
http://niessnerlab.org/projects/thies2016face.html
128
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/
106
10
How to hand-write DNS messages
https://routley.io/tech/2017/12/28/hand-writing-dns-messages.html
103
64
Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-hotel-travelopoly-1514419414
36
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/
98
44
Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)
https://jeremykun.com/2012/03/22/nintendo-np-hard/
96
49
Engineering Habitats for the Moon and Mars
http://www.structuremag.org/?p=12389
Skyrocketing Bitcoin Fees Hit Carders in Wallet
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/skyrocketing-bitcoin-fees-hit-carders-in-wallet/
95
12
Neuroscientist Ben Barres has died
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/12/neuroscientist-ben-barres-dies-at-63.html
93
68
The Growing Peril of Index Funds: Too Much Tech
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-growing-peril-of-index-funds-too-much-tech-1514457003
92
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
88
24
Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prosthesis
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/12/28/ai-prosthesis-skywalker/
Understanding image histograms with OpenCV
http://lmcaraig.com/image-histograms-histograms-equalization-and-histograms-comparison/
87
22
Crystal 0.24.1 released
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/tag/v0.24.1
★ 20.2kCrystalApache-2.0–8 years ago
83
66
Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How do I get it back?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16024052
80
124
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
78
37
The sorry state of OpenSSL usability
https://jameshfisher.com/2017/12/02/the-sorry-state-of-openssl-usability
20
Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9YhFiZnHkE
74
32
Engineers create plants that glow
http://news.mit.edu/2017/engineers-create-nanobionic-plants-that-glow-1213
73
11
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
Consciousness: Where Are Words?
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/12/27/consciousness-where-are-words/
PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE