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Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents (www.bbc.co.uk)

331 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122409 197 comments

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Papercraft with Blender (matiasmorant.wordpress.com)

328 points first seen 2017122412 last seen 2017122606 48 comments

3

Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam (grasshoppermouse.github.io)

300 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122615 96 comments

3

How to arbitrage Bitcoin (github.com)

285 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122500 111 comments

3

NumPy Tricks and Pitfalls (nbviewer.jupyter.org)

253 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122600 24 comments

3

Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia (ilya.sukhar.com)

237 points first seen 2017122412 last seen 2017122600 75 comments

12

Text-only news sites are making a comeback (www.poynter.org)

237 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122512 99 comments

17

Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications (twitter.com)

234 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122506 118 comments

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Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain (medium.com)

228 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122421 182 comments

1

The Effect of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing on American Mortality Patterns [pdf] (www.keithameyers.com)

209 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122603 113 comments

2

Open Source .NET – 3 years later (www.mattwarren.org)

204 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122515 174 comments

8

Keras Tutorial – Traffic Sign Recognition (chsasank.github.io)

180 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122500 9 comments

2

In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliver Packages (www.wsj.com)

180 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122518 105 comments

16

Ask HN: Has working remote harmed your career growth? (item?id=15994294)

171 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122415 109 comments

16

Every developer should write a personal automation API (dev.to)

166 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122418 72 comments

2

How to Print Integers Really Fast (www.pvk.ca)

163 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122518 44 comments

5

Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater (www.nytimes.com)

153 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122500 112 comments

5

Four DB2 Code Bases (perspectives.mvdirona.com)

150 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122500 95 comments

11

Record high wind production in Germany [live] (www.electricitymap.org)

145 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122509 131 comments

4

Synth Master Tatsuya Takahashi on Engineering Fun (www.npr.org)

142 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122503 29 comments

24

At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment (www.nytimes.com)

137 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122500 100 comments

24

A preview of the U.S. without pensions (www.mercurynews.com)

137 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122600 207 comments

10

Inferno OS for Raspberry Pi (bitbucket.org)

132 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122521 18 comments

9

Jsonb: Stories about performance (erthalion.info)

130 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122503 49 comments

14

Google hires a key Apple chip designer (www.engadget.com)

120 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122421 69 comments

14

How the 18th-Century Gay Bar Survived and Thrived in a Deadly Environment (www.atlasobscura.com)

115 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122700 12 comments

31

Nova – A Cosplay that took me two Years (www.kamuicosplay.com)

113 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122509 19 comments

18

Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report (thehill.com)

112 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122506 61 comments

13

Untangling Jenkins (www.conjur.org)

111 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122703 39 comments

5

Reasoning About Program Behavior Algebraically [pdf] (dev.stephendiehl.com)

109 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122600 11 comments

6

Busting myths about BigQuery (cloud.google.com)

105 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122503 37 comments

23

Ask HN: Is it too late to find a mentor after 30 for a software developer? (item?id=15994193)

102 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122418 55 comments

11

A desperate middle-class homelessness – living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara (www.latimes.com)

99 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122500 187 comments

21

Computer Vision by Andrew Ng - 11 Lessons Learned (www.kdnuggets.com)

98 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122418 9 comments

13

Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe (mentalfloss.com)

95 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122503 92 comments

9

The LION Way: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization [pdf] (intelligent-optimization.org)

82 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122503 8 comments

17

Apple-centric guide to improve privacy and security for the Average Joe (gacallea.github.io)

81 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122500 8 comments

19

Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain (www.bloomberg.com)

79 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122500 31 comments

23

In Malaysia, Nutritionists Take Money from Food Giants (www.nytimes.com)

75 points first seen 2017122400 last seen 2017122418 32 comments

6

Direct-to-consumer companies bypass traditional retailers via online stores (www.economist.com)

75 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122503 37 comments

32

Show HN: Nymph – A slightly different version of C (github.com)

72 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122409 12 comments

28

Apple could have designed iPhone CPUs that didn't require throttling (www.marketwatch.com)

70 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122421 111 comments

12

UK Cops Want to Use AI to Spot Porn, But It Mistakes Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com)

67 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122512 76 comments

72

Why you can’t cash out pt 2: Bitcoin and KYC/AML (davidgerard.co.uk)

65 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122406 57 comments

13

GitHub Game Off 2017 Winners (200+ New Games Including Source Code) (github.com)

65 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122503 9 comments

15

Karnaugh map (en.wikipedia.org)

65 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122518 21 comments

19

Wal-Mart Suspends a Controversial Shoplifting Punishment (www.msn.com)

63 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122503 72 comments

30

Pineapple Fund spent $1100 in Bitcoin tx fee and is switching to Bitcoin Cash (www.reddit.com)

60 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122415 23 comments

16

A Backlash Against Piped Music (www.citylab.com)

59 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122506 49 comments

13

Devcards aims to provide a visual REPL experience for ClojureScript (github.com)

58 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122515 4 comments

18

VA’s foray into Internet of Things faced ‘catastrophic failure’ (www.mystatesman.com)

55 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122518 33 comments

37

Theranos Secures $100M in New Funding from Fortress Capital (fortune.com)

53 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122421 41 comments

17

A Sex Pistols Concert Film Languished for Four Decades (www.nytimes.com)

51 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122418 16 comments

34

Every company was once a single person with an idea (innovationanarchy.com)

50 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122503 13 comments

25

Energy Efficiency: A New Concern for Application Software Developers (cacm.acm.org)

49 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122509 7 comments

19

Designing Fast and Programmable Routers [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

49 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122518 0 comments

20

The Californian Ideology (1995) (www.metamute.org)

48 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122412 81 comments

25

The Unix Koans of Master Foo (rationalfiction.io)

47 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2017122418 4 comments

22

Going blind and learning to love audiobooks (www.audible.com)

44 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122618 30 comments

26

Stopping Plastic Pollution with the Power of Bubbles (www.hakaimagazine.com)

41 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122606 3 comments

30

Why Not Build Your Own Self-Driving Car? (www.zeroequalsfalse.press)

37 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122415 20 comments

29

Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain (hackernoon.com)

37 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2021061606 35 comments

29

A Spare and Simple Life – Historic Environment Scotland (blog.historicenvironment.scot)

34 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122615 4 comments

19

Cicero's Periodic Sentence (2012) (www.catskill-merino.com)

33 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122518 4 comments

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Why Bitcoin will fail (meaningofstuff.blogspot.com)

29 points first seen 2017122412 last seen 2017122418 34 comments

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A Sex Pistols Concert Film Languished for Four Decades (mobile.nytimes.com)

27 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122406 4 comments

50

Is Java worth learning? (item?id=15997887)

27 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122500 34 comments

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Best Tech Books of 2017 (www.technologyreview.com)

26 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122412 5 comments

14

After the Fire: HP Archivist Pledges to Rebuild What She Can (www.spectrum.ieee.org)

24 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122515 12 comments

23

Carve your own spoon (2014) (www.theguardian.com)

22 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122518 6 comments

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Any resources for designing the syntax for a programming language? (item?id=15997190)

21 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122500 16 comments

30

Building shells with a grain of salt (www.cipht.net)

20 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122509 0 comments

47

Get that job at Google (2008) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

20 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122503 0 comments

31

Command-line tool that reads a file and injects them as env vars (cyberark.github.io)

19 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122509 10 comments

75

Ask HN: What were the most important new programming languages released in 2017? (item?id=15993836)

18 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122406 28 comments

28

Genealogy records reveal how a harmful mutation can hide from natural selection (www.theatlantic.com)

18 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122506 0 comments

34

Show HN: Live Reloading WebGL Shaders (github.com)

17 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2017122506 2 comments

25

Illustrations from the Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678) (publicdomainreview.org)

17 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122803 0 comments

19

Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)

17 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122621 0 comments

20

Net Neutrality: Time to Use Mesh Networks to Build Your Own Internet? (www.inverse.com)

15 points first seen 2017122415 last seen 2022011703 0 comments

20

A Fish That Took a Century to Name (nautil.us)

14 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122706 0 comments

26

Elektra 0.8.21 and Book released (www.libelektra.org)

13 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122606 0 comments

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Russian submarines have stepped up activity around vital undersea data cables (www.washingtonpost.com)

10 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122403 4 comments

39

RediSQL, Redis with SQL capabilities reach v0.3 with JSON modules and FTS (github.com)

9 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122421 4 comments

44

Diary Days from Christmas Past (publicdomainreview.org)

8 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122415 0 comments

59

Days after iPhone battery fiasco, lawsuits against Apple begin to mount (arstechnica.com)

8 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122509 0 comments

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I've used Amazon's text-to-speech API to create voice-over for my video (www.youtube.com)

7 points first seen 2017122403 last seen 2017122406 5 comments

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73% of developers who don't use AI plan to learn how in 2018 (www.techrepublic.com)

7 points first seen 2017122409 last seen 2017122409 3 comments

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AF_UNIX comes to Windows (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

6 points first seen 2017122412 last seen 2017122412 0 comments

66

Topological quantum computer (en.wikipedia.org)

6 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122421 0 comments

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Quantum Neuron: a building block for machine learning on quantum computers [pdf] (arxiv.org)

4 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122500 0 comments

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Pineapple Fund Just Gifted $1M in Bitcoin to Internet Archive (twitter.com)

3 points first seen 2017122418 last seen 2017122418 0 comments

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Income tax department sends notices to 500K HNIs involved in Bitcoin Trading (inc42.com)

3 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122500 0 comments

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Charter promises Internet service to family–then says it’ll cost $16,000 (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2017122421 last seen 2017122421 0 comments

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The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a QA Lead – Come Join Us (www.themuse.com)

0 points first seen 2017122406 last seen 2018051509 0 comments