World Wide News: December 2017

Sunday, 31 December 2017

New top story on Hacker News: AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion

New top story on Hacker News: Humans are Liars

New top story on Hacker News: Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid

Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid
4 by dankohn1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: UK threatens to tax Facebook and Google if they dont do more to combat extremism

UK threatens to tax Facebook and Google if they dont do more to combat extremism
4 by SirLJ | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion

AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion
2 by DyslexicAtheist | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Humans are Liars

Humans are Liars
3 by tckr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid

New top story on Hacker News: UK threatens to tax Facebook and Google if they dont do more to combat extremism

New top story on Hacker News: Infographic: The Everything Bubble Is Ready to Pop

Infographic: The Everything Bubble Is Ready to Pop
5 by kensoh | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Infographic: The Everything Bubble Is Ready to Pop

New top story on Hacker News: To Serve Man, with Software

To Serve Man, with Software
10 by ingve | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: An open letter to less experienced developers

An open letter to less experienced developers
6 by PaulRobinson | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: An open letter to less experienced developers

New top story on Hacker News: To Serve Man, with Software

New top story on Hacker News: 130M-year-old nest of perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs discovered in China

130M-year-old nest of perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs discovered in China
3 by ShubhamBadal | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers – Full Course

Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers – Full Course
8 by mubaris | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers – Full Course

New top story on Hacker News: Americans Are Having Less Sex – And Researchers Are Blaming Netflix

Americans Are Having Less Sex – And Researchers Are Blaming Netflix
6 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Americans Are Having Less Sex – And Researchers Are Blaming Netflix

New top story on Hacker News: Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails

New top story on Hacker News: Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM

New top story on Hacker News: Telegram shuts down major Iranian anti government channel

New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

New top story on Hacker News: Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails

Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails
13 by dasmoth | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM

Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM
4 by wskinner | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Telegram shuts down major Iranian anti government channel

Telegram shuts down major Iranian anti government channel
10 by chvid | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations

Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations
57 by mpweiher | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices
10 by se7entime | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Whole of England to be mapped with lasers

Whole of England to be mapped with lasers
50 by dmmalam | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Ghost in the MP3 (2014)

The Ghost in the MP3 (2014)
24 by Tomte | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Ghost in the MP3 (2014)

New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
8 by lainon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Good books for deep hacks

Good books for deep hacks
4 by signa11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to RAW-sockets [pdf]

Introduction to RAW-sockets [pdf]
31 by lainon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Stanford scholar gets six-figure settlement from James Joyce Estate (2009)

Stanford scholar gets six-figure settlement from James Joyce Estate (2009)
76 by walterbell | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Coming Soon: Machine-Checked Proofs in Everyday Development

Coming Soon: Machine-Checked Proofs in Everyday Development
96 by fuklief | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites

Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites
112 by throwaway13337 | 60 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Brittleness comes from “One Thing”

Brittleness comes from “One Thing”
95 by gmays | 22 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Amazon Flywheel (2016)

The Amazon Flywheel (2016)
16 by gmays | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
293 by kawera | 134 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to make a rain on a windshield shader in ShaderToy [video]

How to make a rain on a windshield shader in ShaderToy [video]
39 by adamnemecek | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time

Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
573 by dgellow | 130 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Name to a number

Name to a number
23 by Tomte | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A history of S_IFMT

A history of S_IFMT
87 by vletrmx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Mathematical picture language program

Mathematical picture language program
14 by lainon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How Taiwan transformed its health care system

How Taiwan transformed its health care system
85 by Osiris30 | 28 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Cleanup at the slaughterhouse

Cleanup at the slaughterhouse
67 by SQL2219 | 33 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to draw oscilloscope lines with WebGL

How to draw oscilloscope lines with WebGL
100 by noch | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The curious case of high blood pressure around the world

The curious case of high blood pressure around the world
62 by known | 21 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: First 100 miles on my E-Bike

First 100 miles on my E-Bike
192 by yilunzh | 204 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Measuring up to Heisenberg (and since)

Measuring up to Heisenberg (and since)
19 by ColinWright | 16 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]

Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]
51 by DyslexicAtheist | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ReCurta: Our goal is to build the first Curta calculator since 1972

ReCurta: Our goal is to build the first Curta calculator since 1972
25 by 0xdada | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game

Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game
112 by ingve | 12 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Nepal bans solo climbers from Mount Everest

Nepal bans solo climbers from Mount Everest
125 by sjcsjc | 72 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: RaspiReader: An Open-Source Fingerprint Reader Facilitating Spoof Detection

RaspiReader: An Open-Source Fingerprint Reader Facilitating Spoof Detection
22 by lainon | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Many Lives of Herbert O. Yardley (1981) [pdf]

The Many Lives of Herbert O. Yardley (1981) [pdf]
9 by jpelecanos | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Bluetooth Low Energy WarDriving 101

Bluetooth Low Energy WarDriving 101
83 by infosecrf | 18 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [video]

Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [video]
90 by teamhappy | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Creating believable crowds in Planet Coaster

Creating believable crowds in Planet Coaster
165 by tnolet | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to test a random number generator (2010)

How to test a random number generator (2010)
63 by Cieplak | 30 comments on Hacker News.