top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-31

IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability

https://siguza.github.io/IOHIDeous/

8 years ago

497 upvotes – 112 comments

A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps

8 years ago

356 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041245

8 years ago

350 upvotes – 562 comments

Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails

http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/

8 years ago

337 upvotes – 136 comments

Three Years on Google App Engine

https://blog.stephanbehnke.com/3-years-on-google-app-engine-an-epic-review/

8 years ago

331 upvotes – 115 comments

Good books for deep hacks

https://begriffs.com/posts/2017-04-13-longterm-computing-reading.html

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 46 comments

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt

https://blog.stephanbehnke.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-job-hunt-in-toronto/

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 227 comments

Ethereum Foundation Releases Alpha Casper Proof of Stake Testnet

http://notes.eth.sg/MYEwhswJwMzAtADgCwEYBM9kAYBGJ4wBTETKdGZdXAVmRvUQDYg=?view

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 199 comments

Towards a bra-free Instagram experience

https://medium.com/@laurenhallden/towards-a-bra-free-instagram-experience-3e43273b611f

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 216 comments

AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/872276-ai-assisted-fake-porn-are-being-used-by-people-on-reddit-for-self-completion/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 122 comments

Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM

https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/464c11307cabc80171c90397d4ec34ef

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 76 comments

Vandals smash beehives, killing 500k bees

http://beta.latimes.com/food/sns-dailymeal-1865007-vandals-smash-beehives-kill-bees-wild-hill-honey-iowa-123017-20171230-story.html

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 97 comments

Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers

https://www.zabaras.com/statisticalcomputing

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 32 comments

To Serve Man, with Software

https://blog.codinghorror.com/to-serve-man-with-software/

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 59 comments

How Hotmail changed Microsoft and email

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/how-hotmail-changed-microsoft-and-email-forever/

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 39 comments

The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/30/pixelbook-used-test-googles-fuchsia-os/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 108 comments

Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air

http://www.caltech.edu/news/engineers-create-stable-plasma-ring-open-air-80367

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

Introduction to RAW-sockets [pdf]

http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/6243/1/TR-18.pdf

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 8 comments

The One Product You Should Buy Online: Eyeglasses

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-one-product-you-should-buy-online_us_598e1777e4b0ed1f464c0aac

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 97 comments

Guys, unless you are really hot you are just wasting your time on Tinder

https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 124 comments

A basic income experiment in Kenya

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/kenya-village-disproving-biggest-myth-about-basic-income-2017-12

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 148 comments

Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings

https://roulette.pizza

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 97 comments

Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms

https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/pen-plotter-1

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 12 comments

RAM-less Buffers

https://emsea.github.io/2017/12/31/register-buffer/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

http://www.introtcs.org/public/index.html

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 3 comments

Serverless Computing in 2018

https://medium.com/@elliot_f/how-serverless-computing-will-change-the-world-in-2018-7818fc06b447

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 76 comments

Wav2letter: Automatic Speech Recognition Toolkit from Facebook AI Research

https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter

8 years ago

★ 6.4k C++
116 upvotes – 5 comments

The CIA’s Insectothopter

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/meet-the-cias-insectothopter

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

Smalltalk’s Productivity

https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/smalltalk-s-proven-productivity-fe7cbd99c061

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 79 comments

DHS weighs major change to H-1B foreign tech worker visa program

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article192336839.html

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 107 comments

130M-year-old nest of dinosaur eggs discovered in China

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/130-million-year-old-nest-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-eggs-discovered-china-1653174

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Keynesian Economics Is Hot Again

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-10/keynesian-economics-is-hot-again

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 83 comments

Telegram shuts down major Iranian anti government channel

https://mobile.twitter.com/durov/status/947179988213624832

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Humans are Liars

https://coderbyheart.com/humans-are-liars/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments
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