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December 2017 Archive
631.
‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (2015) (quantamagazine.org)
160 points by 18nleung on Dec 5, 2017 | 28 comments
632.
Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform (en.liberapay.com)
160 points by cdancette on Dec 8, 2017 | 24 comments
633.
Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? (nytimes.com)
159 points by Jerry2 on Dec 4, 2017 | 194 comments
634.
Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996) (nextcomputers.org)
159 points by mattl on Dec 20, 2017 | 155 comments
635.
Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater (nytimes.com)
159 points by prostoalex on Dec 23, 2017 | 123 comments
636.
How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding (washingtonpost.com)
159 points by smacktoward on Dec 18, 2017 | 108 comments
637.
Hacker News Transparency (hn.0x2237.club)
159 points by staunch on Dec 27, 2017 | 83 comments
638.
“Did you copy/paste the info? Facebook seems to read all pasteboard data” (twitter.com)
159 points by uptown on Dec 30, 2017 | 45 comments
639.
Japanese startup Ispace raises $90M, targets landing on moon surface by 2020 (bloomberg.com)
159 points by lnguyen on Dec 13, 2017 | 40 comments
640.
How to scam and get 67k all 5 Star reviews on the app store (reddit.com)
159 points by knes on Dec 30, 2017 | 36 comments
641.
Clever ideas that failed (2010) (yacoset.com)
159 points by walrus on Dec 25, 2017 | 24 comments
642.
Can You Think Yourself into a Different Person? (2015) (mosaicscience.com)
158 points by LearnerHerzog on Dec 21, 2017 | 113 comments
643.
The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS (androidpolice.com)
158 points by platinum1 on Dec 31, 2017 | 108 comments
644.
Ed Lee, 65, SF mayor who had a close relationship with the tech world, has died (techcrunch.com)
158 points by doppp on Dec 12, 2017 | 85 comments
645.
This Dumb Industry: Wilson Boxes (shamusyoung.com)
158 points by smacktoward on Dec 5, 2017 | 77 comments
646.
High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables (tabbforum.com)
158 points by deegles on Dec 4, 2017 | 49 comments
647.
Automakers: Don't Ask Customers What They Want (roadandtrack.com)
157 points by csours on Dec 11, 2017 | 201 comments
648.
Four DB2 Code Bases? (perspectives.mvdirona.com)
157 points by fanf2 on Dec 23, 2017 | 97 comments
649.
The Cost Savings Of Netflix's Internal Spot Market (highscalability.com)
157 points by yarapavan on Dec 5, 2017 | 84 comments
650.
Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files (intoli.com)
157 points by foob on Dec 21, 2017 | 25 comments
651.
How Easy and Cheap It Is to Manipulate Reddit Discussions (medium.com)
157 points by coinmall on Dec 1, 2017 | 5 comments
652.
UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program (newsweek.com)
156 points by n-exploit on Dec 25, 2017 | 170 comments
653.
The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords (troyhunt.com)
156 points by robin_reala on Dec 4, 2017 | 64 comments
654.
Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time (bbc.com)
156 points by tuxguy on Dec 15, 2017 | 40 comments
655.
An Open Letter from Freelancers at Nautilus Magazine (nwu.org)
156 points by danso on Dec 13, 2017 | 39 comments
656.
A TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture (github.com)
156 points by rhakmi on Dec 3, 2017 | 38 comments
657.
No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because it is interesting (code.likeagirl.io)
155 points by CodeLikeAGirl on Dec 13, 2017 | 173 comments
658.
What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley (medium.com)
155 points by backpropaganda on Dec 17, 2017 | 160 comments
659.
Dude, You Broke the Future [video] (media.ccc.de)
155 points by bostik on Dec 29, 2017 | 125 comments
660.
Max Howell, author of Homebrew, on being rejected for a job at Google (quora.com)
155 points by ksourav on Dec 22, 2017 | 92 comments