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1.
Power Prices Go Negative in Germany (nytimes.com)
485 points by kwindla on Dec 26, 2017 | 250 comments
2.
ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking (github.com/martin-ger)
491 points by rcarmo on Dec 26, 2017 | 165 comments
3.
I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil (jiffchat.com)
447 points by niwde on Dec 26, 2017 | 176 comments
4.
A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k (failory.com)
399 points by nicoserdeir on Dec 26, 2017 | 248 comments
5.
Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (github.com/danielmiessler)
504 points by dEnigma on Dec 26, 2017 | 69 comments
6.
Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter (nycresistor.com)
237 points by Ivoah on Dec 24, 2017 | 15 comments
7.
Not Ready for Takeoff: Face Scans at Airport Departure Gates (airportfacescans.com)
191 points by driverdan on Dec 26, 2017 | 151 comments
8.
Shanghai sets population at 25M (theguardian.com)
202 points by lnguyen on Dec 26, 2017 | 219 comments
9.
Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage (npr.org)
298 points by lyk on Dec 26, 2017 | 295 comments
10.
DARPA's “Unhackable” Computer (eetimes.com)
120 points by deepnotderp on Dec 26, 2017 | 52 comments
11.
Long-Term Clean Energy Optimism, Short-Term Caution (bnef.com)
60 points by jseliger on Dec 26, 2017 | 1 comment
12.
FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults (mrsk.me)
195 points by beefhash on Dec 26, 2017 | 69 comments
13.
Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (usejournal.com)
209 points by arnklint on Dec 25, 2017 | 91 comments
14.
Quiet (techcrunch.com)
228 points by kuroshit on Dec 25, 2017 | 44 comments
15.
Intel Memory Encryption Technologies [pdf] (intel.com)
59 points by ingve on Dec 26, 2017 | 10 comments
16.
Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom (2000) [pdf] (swarthmore.edu)
81 points by Dowwie on Dec 26, 2017 | 11 comments
17.
A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute (2009) [pdf] (nanog.org)
150 points by kercker on Dec 25, 2017 | 10 comments
18.
Hockney–Falco thesis (wikipedia.org)
70 points by tosh on Dec 26, 2017 | 20 comments
19.
Decentralization Roundup for 2017 (clutchofthedeadhand.com)
197 points by hotzeplotz on Dec 25, 2017 | 46 comments
20.
Hardening C/C++ Programs – Executable-Space Protection and ASLR (productive-cpp.com)
120 points by mrich on Dec 26, 2017 | 29 comments
21.
The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis (alexellis.io)
138 points by alexellisuk on Dec 26, 2017 | 34 comments
22.
Game developer’s guide to graphical projections (medium.com/retronator-magazine)
219 points by tosh on Dec 24, 2017 | 17 comments
23.
My Favorite Papers of 2017 (nicolabortignon.com)
152 points by snickmy on Dec 26, 2017 | 16 comments
24.
Micromouse (wikipedia.org)
131 points by caiobegotti on Dec 25, 2017 | 35 comments
25.
Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited (undark.org)
120 points by QAPereo on Dec 24, 2017 | 21 comments
26.
Show HN: Convert your Google Slides to high-quality animated GIFs and tweet (talltweets.com)
115 points by amitagarwal on Dec 26, 2017 | 25 comments
27.
Sorting functions implemented in C as std qsort() format (github.com/p1v0t)
41 points by adembudak on Dec 26, 2017 | 11 comments
28.
The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005) (iwriteiam.nl)
102 points by tosh on Dec 26, 2017 | 95 comments
29.
Guidance on Performing Retrospectives (craigkerstiens.com)
37 points by lfittl on Dec 26, 2017 | 4 comments
30.
Demystifying container runtimes (lwn.net)
138 points by Tomte on Dec 24, 2017 | 11 comments

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