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ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking (github.com)

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Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users (www.nytimes.com)

478 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122903 244 comments

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I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil (www.jiffchat.com)

431 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122903 173 comments

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A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800,000 (failory.com)

384 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122818 245 comments

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Ask HN: Any recommended books on developing mental models? (item?id=16009028)

299 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122806 59 comments

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DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during Women's March (www.muckrock.com)

252 points first seen 2017122712 last seen 2017122806 185 comments

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Darktable 2.4.0 released (www.darktable.org)

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Show HN: Data Prism – Weekly newsletter about data science, ML, AI and analytics (dataprism.co)

222 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122806 11 comments

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Candy Japan 2017 Year in Review (www.candyjapan.com)

209 points first seen 2017122721 last seen 2017122903 96 comments

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Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (digventures.com)

196 points first seen 2017122718 last seen 2017122818 138 comments

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Not Ready for Takeoff: Face Scans at Airport Departure Gates (www.airportfacescans.com)

190 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122806 150 comments

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Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet (blog.cloudflare.com)

183 points first seen 2017122712 last seen 2017122906 96 comments

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The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on all of Amazon this holiday season (techcrunch.com)

183 points first seen 2017122715 last seen 2017122900 373 comments

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Ex-FB exec: The dopamine-driven feedback loops are destroying how society works (www.youtube.com)

182 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122706 67 comments

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How I learned to program (danluu.com)

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My Favorite Papers of 2017 (www.nicolabortignon.com)

142 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122803 16 comments

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Machine Learning for Dummies (www-01.ibm.com)

140 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122718 24 comments

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The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis (blog.alexellis.io)

131 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122809 34 comments

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Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views' (www.bloomberg.com)

131 points first seen 2017122718 last seen 2017122812 115 comments

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We’re Going to Need More Lithium (www.bloomberg.com)

125 points first seen 2017122715 last seen 2017122812 124 comments

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HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming (www.w3.org)

120 points first seen 2017122721 last seen 2017122812 41 comments

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What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills (www.cnet.com)

118 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017123000 58 comments

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DARPA's “Unhackable” Computer (www.eetimes.com)

115 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122812 51 comments

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The World's Best Film School Is Free on YouTube (www.wired.com)

113 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122800 8 comments

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Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications (arxiv.org)

113 points first seen 2017122718 last seen 2017122818 15 comments

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The Social Origins of Inventors [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)

108 points first seen 2017122718 last seen 2017122818 22 comments

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Show HN: Convert your Google Slides to high-quality animated GIFs and tweet (https://talltweets.com)

106 points first seen 2017122700 last seen 2017122806 23 comments

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Apple faces lawsuits after admitting it slows down aging iPhones (www.abc.net.au)

99 points first seen 2017122721 last seen 2017122800 81 comments

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What's Wrong with Students? (econlog.econlib.org)

92 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122718 93 comments

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The Neuroscience of Intelligence: An Interview with Richard Haier (quillette.com)

88 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122806 29 comments

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WPaxos: a wide area network Paxos protocol (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

85 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122806 18 comments

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Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis [pdf] (homepage.divms.uiowa.edu)

84 points first seen 2017122715 last seen 2017122812 56 comments

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Checklist for Plain Language (www.plainlanguage.gov)

82 points first seen 2017122700 last seen 2017122803 19 comments

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Single Board Computers Introduced in 2017 (www.eetimes.com)

82 points first seen 2017122721 last seen 2017122812 52 comments

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Cryptocurrency Analysis with Python – Buy and Hold (romanorac.github.io)

81 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122709 60 comments

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Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom (1990) [pdf] (www.swarthmore.edu)

78 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122806 11 comments

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Bitcoin is Eating Itself (medium.com)

78 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122712 73 comments

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MediaTek Launches 6-in-1 Biosensor for Smartphones (www.anandtech.com)

75 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122809 21 comments

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Power Method for Approximating Eigenvalues [pdf] (ergodic.ugr.es)

73 points first seen 2017122721 last seen 2017122815 27 comments

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The Consumerist Church of Fitness Classes (www.theatlantic.com)

71 points first seen 2017122715 last seen 2017122812 52 comments

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Hockney–Falco thesis (en.wikipedia.org)

68 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122809 20 comments

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Ask HN: What's the best way to recover from burnout? (item?id=16009836)

66 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122709 49 comments

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Long-Term Clean Energy Optimism, Short-Term Caution (about.bnef.com)

59 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122806 0 comments

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Intel Memory Encryption Technologies [pdf] (software.intel.com)

57 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122806 10 comments

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An Introduction to Microservice Based Architecture Through Story – Part 2 (medium.com)

55 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122806 6 comments

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UK minister to tell universities to stop 'no-platforming' speakers (www.theguardian.com)

52 points first seen 2017122700 last seen 2017122700 46 comments

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Apache vs Nginx: Practical Considerations (2015) (www.digitalocean.com)

46 points first seen 2017122700 last seen 2017122715 8 comments

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The Background for CAR and CDR (www.howardism.org)

43 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2021122809 17 comments

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RIP Bob Givens, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry Artist (en.wikipedia.org)

43 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122706 3 comments

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Can Programming Be Liberated, Period? (2008) [pdf] (www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)

42 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122721 41 comments

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Shen Programming Language for Android (chatolab.wordpress.com)

41 points first seen 2017122721 last seen 2017122809 8 comments

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Sorting functions implemented in C as std qsort() format (github.com)

39 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122806 10 comments

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Researchers describe first-ever hybrid bird species from the Amazon (phys.org)

38 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122800 4 comments

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How to Emulate the “super” Keyword in C++ (www.fluentcpp.com)

38 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122806 15 comments

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China Snares Innocent and Guilty Alike to Build World’s Biggest DNA Database (www.wsj.com)

36 points first seen 2017122712 last seen 2017122809 7 comments

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Guidance on Performing Retrospectives (www.craigkerstiens.com)

33 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122800 4 comments

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Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (github.com)

32 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2022081721 3 comments

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My Internet Mea Culpa: I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were (medium.com)

30 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122712 20 comments

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Why does my stack have an extra 4 bytes? (nikhilism.com)

29 points first seen 2017122700 last seen 2017122721 0 comments

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We Need More Best Practices in GraphQL (graphqlme.com)

29 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122806 0 comments

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VS Code Live Share: Real-time collaborative development (code.visualstudio.com)

28 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122800 0 comments

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Make Your Build Better with Mage (blog.gopheracademy.com)

26 points first seen 2017122700 last seen 2017122715 2 comments

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An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking) (developers.google.com)

25 points first seen 2017122712 last seen 2017122712 33 comments

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Calif's hidden homeless: Teachers, chefs, nurses live in cars bc of house prices (www.dailymail.co.uk)

24 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122709 14 comments

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The new predatory capitalism (prospect.org)

22 points first seen 2017122700 last seen 2017122700 2 comments

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SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a post-nuptial agreement (www.reddit.com)

19 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122706 11 comments

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Go Experience Report: Generics in Kubernetes (medium.com)

17 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122721 5 comments

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What STEM Students Need to Know (www.wsj.com)

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IBM Raises the Bar with a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer (www.technologyreview.com)

16 points first seen 2017122703 last seen 2017122706 3 comments

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Ditch React. Ditch Angular. Go Vanilla with Zam (http://zamjs.com)

15 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122706 22 comments

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Physicists Demonstrate How to Reverse of the Arrow of Time (www.technologyreview.com)

14 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122712 0 comments

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Proofing Spirits with a Homemade Electrobalance (blog.qqrs.us)

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OpenAPI Directory (github.com)

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Alleged: BCH Insider Trading Discovered via CoinBase with Potential 8X Return (www.forbes.com)

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Consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be hard to spot, until it's too late (boingboing.net)

11 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122709 0 comments

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Ask HN: Rebol/Red parse is great. Has it been re-implemented in other languages? (item?id=16010971)

10 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122718 7 comments

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Ask HN: Is Farnam Street membership worth it? (item?id=16012521)

9 points first seen 2017122721 last seen 2017122803 0 comments

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Outperforming Rust with Functional Programming (blog.vmchale.com)

8 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122715 2 comments

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Swift vs. OCaml – Does reference counting use less memory than tracing GC? (flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com)

8 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122712 0 comments

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Amazon is Planning a Push into Digital Advertising in 2018 (www.cnbc.com)

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Rethinking how the US grows beef (arstechnica.com)

7 points first seen 2017122709 last seen 2017122712 2 comments

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Ask HN: Any YouTube channel/video on leadership? (item?id=16009124)

5 points first seen 2017122706 last seen 2017122706 0 comments

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Employers Are Looking foContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1r Job Candidates in the Wrong Places (www.theatlantic.com)

5 points first seen 2017122712 last seen 2017122712 0 comments

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How to use PostgreSQL to streamline Python code (opensource.com)

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Tesla to make pickup truck after Model Y crossover (www.reuters.com)

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A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom (1994) (www.farnamstreetblog.com)

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Concise (Post-Christmas) Cryptography Challenges (blog.cloudflare.com)

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