Hacker News on 18 December 2017

• Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
• Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
• What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
• Update: Looking Glass Add-On
• Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county
• Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned
• Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional
• Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband
• Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms in Sleep
• A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet