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1.
Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations (ohshitgit.com)
1209 points by adishaporwal on Dec 18, 2017 | 508 comments
2.
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (righto.com)
642 points by dvt on Dec 18, 2017 | 156 comments
3.
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (woz.posthaven.com)
540 points by ausjke on Dec 18, 2017 | 348 comments
4.
Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms in Sleep (npr.org)
334 points by jaytaylor on Dec 18, 2017 | 113 comments
5.
Design of a silicon quantum computer chip (unsw.edu.au)
248 points by breck on Dec 18, 2017 | 145 comments
6.
Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband (wired.com)
346 points by xbmcuser on Dec 18, 2017 | 206 comments
7.
Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county (freep.com)
380 points by MilnerRoute on Dec 18, 2017 | 198 comments
8.
Update: Looking Glass Add-On (blog.mozilla.org)
393 points by runesoerensen on Dec 18, 2017 | 383 comments
9.
Can People Choose to Change Their Personality Traits? (2015) [pdf] (illinois.edu)
256 points by kierkegaard7 on Dec 18, 2017 | 115 comments
10.
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (staltz.com)
279 points by staltz on Dec 18, 2017 | 210 comments
11.
Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car experiment (theverge.com)
148 points by sundaeofshock on Dec 17, 2017 | 139 comments
12.
Artwork Personalization at Netflix (medium.com/netflix-techblog)
127 points by dingdongding on Dec 17, 2017 | 68 comments
13.
Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional (davidgerard.co.uk)
349 points by davidgerard on Dec 18, 2017 | 257 comments
14.
Elixir multiple processes: Basics (whatdidilearn.info)
131 points by ck3g on Dec 17, 2017 | 27 comments
15.
We need internet that isn't owned by big telecom (vice.com)
253 points by BravoCo on Dec 17, 2017 | 101 comments
16.
More than half of all private wealth has been inherited in most of Europe (twitter.com/mfratzscher)
213 points by doener on Dec 17, 2017 | 212 comments
17.
How do Ruby and Python profilers work? (jvns.ca)
163 points by ingve on Dec 18, 2017 | 44 comments
18.
XMR mining app, built with Vue.js, D3 and CoinHive (github.com/bradoyler)
133 points by bradoyler on Dec 18, 2017 | 70 comments
19.
Hackers shut down plant by targeting its safety system (engadget.com)
102 points by jbuzbee on Dec 17, 2017 | 26 comments
20.
Bundle Phobia: find the cost of adding an npm package to your bundle (bundlephobia.com)
100 points by orf on Dec 18, 2017 | 69 comments
21.
Hybridizer: High-Performance C# on GPUs (nvidia.com)
169 points by benaadams on Dec 18, 2017 | 29 comments
22.
A Look at the Internals of 'Tiered JIT Compilation' in .NET Core (mattwarren.org)
84 points by matthewwarren on Dec 18, 2017 | 52 comments
23.
Overture JS – A powerful basis for building web applications (overturejs.com)
147 points by fanf2 on Dec 18, 2017 | 51 comments
24.
Dynamic Tracing a Pony and Python Program with DTrace (wallaroolabs.com)
102 points by scottlf on Dec 18, 2017 | 2 comments
25.
Kernel debugging for newbies (alexlambert.com)
117 points by alambert on Dec 18, 2017 | 29 comments
26.
Exploiting Windows 10 in a Local Network with WPAD/PAC and JScript (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
121 points by runesoerensen on Dec 18, 2017 | 17 comments
27.
At the Solstice, in Praise of Darkness (nytimes.com)
50 points by prismatic on Dec 17, 2017 | 18 comments
28.
Show HN: Darkwire.io – instant encrypted web chat (Socket.io and Web Crypto API) (darkwire.io)
118 points by alanfriedman on Dec 17, 2017 | 47 comments
29.
Inside the Home of Instant Pot (nytimes.com)
151 points by greeneggs on Dec 17, 2017 | 197 comments
30.
Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem (kubernetes.io)
151 points by el_duderino on Dec 18, 2017 | 58 comments

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