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December 2017 Archive
31.
How to get your first 100k active users (blog.winnie.com)
693 points by annekate on Dec 12, 2017 | 147 comments
32.
Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin (steamcommunity.com)
675 points by tsneed290 on Dec 6, 2017 | 395 comments
33.
How to Read Mathematics (people.vcu.edu)
663 points by ColinWright on Dec 12, 2017 | 138 comments
34.
Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle (danluu.com)
660 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 9, 2017 | 234 comments
35.
Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games (google.github.io)
657 points by ingve on Dec 17, 2017 | 90 comments
36.
E Pur Si Muove (blog.samaltman.com)
647 points by firloop on Dec 14, 2017 | 827 comments
37.
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (righto.com)
642 points by dvt on Dec 18, 2017 | 156 comments
38.
Economics of Minecraft (alicemaz.com)
642 points by scribu on Dec 28, 2017 | 112 comments
39.
HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important (troyhunt.com)
639 points by f2n on Dec 13, 2017 | 288 comments
40.
Django 2.0 released (docs.djangoproject.com)
635 points by webiad on Dec 2, 2017 | 170 comments
41.
Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research (theconversation.com)
624 points by versteegen on Dec 13, 2017 | 171 comments
42.
I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty (medium.com)
624 points by GregoryVPerry on Dec 24, 2017 | 152 comments
43.
Internet Chemotherapy (ghostbin.com)
616 points by signa11 on Dec 17, 2017 | 135 comments
44.
Introducing the GoodWatch (goodwatch.org)
604 points by limmeau on Dec 15, 2017 | 71 comments
45.
Amazon's Fake Review Problem (brianbien.com)
602 points by doglet on Dec 16, 2017 | 324 comments
46.
Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback
594 points by smortaz on Dec 14, 2017 | 268 comments
47.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
592 points by whoishiring on Dec 1, 2017 | 985 comments
48.
Computer latency: 1977-2017 (danluu.com)
588 points by kens on Dec 24, 2017 | 161 comments
49.
REST is the new SOAP (medium.com)
581 points by sidcool on Dec 16, 2017 | 338 comments
50.
A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms (twitter.com)
580 points by emsy on Dec 19, 2017 | 398 comments
51.
Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting (krebsonsecurity.com)
574 points by pjc50 on Dec 29, 2017 | 617 comments
52.
Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? (theguardian.com)
572 points by benbreen on Dec 6, 2017 | 518 comments
53.
Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview (keyvalues.com)
572 points by lynnetye on Dec 12, 2017 | 125 comments
54.
Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox (thewaltdisneycompany.com)
566 points by mxfh on Dec 14, 2017 | 348 comments
55.
Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
558 points by avinassh on Dec 30, 2017 | 129 comments
56.
Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps (washingtonpost.com)
556 points by lisper on Dec 4, 2017 | 141 comments
57.
Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society (theverge.com)
555 points by SREinSF on Dec 11, 2017 | 231 comments
58.
How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf] (blackhat.com)
543 points by danjoc on Dec 27, 2017 | 107 comments
59.
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (woz.posthaven.com)
540 points by ausjke on Dec 18, 2017 | 348 comments
60.
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
539 points by dennybritz on Dec 6, 2017 | 270 comments