For the best experience on desktop, install the Chrome extension to track your reading on news.ycombinator.com
Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | history | 2017-12-30register
Stories from December 30, 2017
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.
Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time (mnesty.com)
738 points by dgellow on Dec 30, 2017 | 157 comments
2.
LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police (kansas.com)
446 points by mcone on Dec 30, 2017 | 822 comments
3.
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life (ltse.com)
403 points by kawera on Dec 30, 2017 | 183 comments
4.
Creating believable crowds in Planet Coaster (gamasutra.com)
239 points by tnolet on Dec 30, 2017 | 17 comments
5.
Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
558 points by avinassh on Dec 30, 2017 | 129 comments
6.
Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret (nytimes.com)
324 points by QAPereo on Dec 29, 2017 | 266 comments
7.
Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [video] (ccc.de)
147 points by teamhappy on Dec 30, 2017 | 75 comments
8.
First 100 miles on my E-Bike (yilunzh.com)
246 points by yilunzh on Dec 30, 2017 | 243 comments
9.
Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25 (kroy.io)
409 points by robbiet480 on Dec 30, 2017 | 132 comments
10.
Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments (theintercept.com)
289 points by user982 on Dec 30, 2017 | 112 comments
11.
Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites (fakespot.com)
143 points by throwaway13337 on Dec 30, 2017 | 84 comments
12.
Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science (github.com/ossu)
264 points by lainon on Dec 30, 2017 | 66 comments
13.
‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana (theroot.com)
209 points by srameshc on Dec 30, 2017 | 103 comments
14.
Brittleness comes from “One Thing” (asmartbear.com)
109 points by gmays on Dec 30, 2017 | 32 comments
15.
The Internet I Knew (2014) (flowerhack.dreamwidth.org)
200 points by luu on Dec 30, 2017 | 115 comments
16.
Name to a number (afp.com)
40 points by Tomte on Dec 30, 2017 | 4 comments
17.
A history of S_IFMT (lubutu.com)
94 points by vletrmx on Dec 30, 2017
18.
Gridcoin: Rewarding Scientific Distributed Computing (gridcoin.us)
134 points by trueduke on Dec 29, 2017 | 55 comments
19.
People Walked Differently in Medieval Times (mentalfloss.com)
187 points by kawera on Dec 30, 2017 | 123 comments
20.
IKEA Effect (wikipedia.org)
256 points by 0x54MUR41 on Dec 30, 2017 | 118 comments
21.
Bluetooth Low Energy WarDriving 101 (davidsopas.com)
95 points by infosecrf on Dec 30, 2017 | 25 comments
22.
WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition (cnn.io)
117 points by emacsgifs on Dec 28, 2017 | 90 comments
23.
The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook (wsj.com)
138 points by mef on Dec 30, 2017 | 65 comments
24.
Cleanup at the slaughterhouse (bloomberg.com)
76 points by SQL2219 on Dec 30, 2017 | 64 comments
25.
Not Explicit (boats.gitlab.io)
147 points by kawera on Dec 29, 2017 | 32 comments
26.
Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (slatestarcodex.com)
270 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 30, 2017 | 177 comments
27.
Fixie tries (cipht.net)
81 points by luu on Dec 30, 2017 | 5 comments
28.
Reductio ad absurdum – writing a single-instruction C compiler [video] (youtube.com)
59 points by icebraining on Dec 29, 2017 | 14 comments
29.
Kodi for the Xbox One (kodi.tv)
67 points by fraqed on Dec 29, 2017 | 29 comments
30.
Show HN: Simple Gameboy Emulator (github.com/sacert)
82 points by sacert on Dec 29, 2017 | 23 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search:

HN For You