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1.		Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year (exstreamist.com)
		758 points by joeyespo on Dec 22, 2017 \| 440 comments
2.		A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits (ieee.org)
		400 points by rbanffy on Dec 22, 2017 \| 55 comments
3.		On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything (nautil.us)
		253 points by rbanffy on Dec 22, 2017 \| 143 comments
4.		Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-bit operating system (harvey-os.org)
		280 points by floren on Dec 22, 2017 \| 106 comments
5.		Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf] (tamu.edu)
		249 points by samasblack on Dec 22, 2017 \| 28 comments
6.		Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money (venturebeat.com)
		269 points by chasedehan on Dec 21, 2017 \| 158 comments
7.		A Zero-Math Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods (medium.com/benpshaver)
		282 points by rbanffy on Dec 22, 2017 \| 50 comments
8.		Blink has been acquired by Amazon (blinkforhome.com)
		187 points by uptown on Dec 22, 2017 \| 86 comments
9.		Show HN: Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents (github.com/zhoubear)
		285 points by zhoubear on Dec 21, 2017 \| 96 comments
10.		Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs (arxiv.org)
		125 points by adulau on Dec 22, 2017 \| 23 comments
11.		How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up (nvidia.com)
		188 points by bcaulfield on Dec 22, 2017 \| 39 comments
12.		Proofs of Useful Work [pdf] (iacr.org)
		99 points by pmuk on Dec 22, 2017 \| 38 comments
13.		FCC Fines Sinclair Broadcast Group $13.4M for Running Sponsored Content as News (variety.com)
		230 points by Deinos on Dec 22, 2017 \| 80 comments
14.		Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations (quantamagazine.org)
		240 points by digital55 on Dec 21, 2017 \| 120 comments
15.		BIDS Receives Sloan Foundation Grant to Contribute to NumPy Development (bids.berkeley.edu)
		93 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 22, 2017 \| 1 comment
16.		Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies (dev.by)
		226 points by anorsich on Dec 22, 2017 \| 135 comments
17.		Nvidia’s New Policy Limits GeForce Data Center Usage (wirelesswire.jp)
		242 points by gone35 on Dec 21, 2017 \| 145 comments
18.		Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart (nytimes.com)
		185 points by hvo on Dec 22, 2017 \| 116 comments
19.		Learn CSS Grid through interactive screencasts (scrimba.com)
		206 points by judofyr on Dec 22, 2017 \| 40 comments
20.		Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate (heavybit.com)
		50 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 22, 2017 \| 11 comments
21.		Show HN: Byte Arena – Code Your Fighter Bot (bytearena.com)
		179 points by netgusto on Dec 22, 2017 \| 40 comments
22.		Triggering Video Playback with Bots and Crawlers (mux.com)
		42 points by urlgrey on Dec 22, 2017 \| 4 comments
23.		AVX-512, what’s useful for us (obe.tv)
		93 points by rbultje on Dec 22, 2017 \| 48 comments
24.		Technical feasibility of regulating public Blockchain explored (techtake.info)
		76 points by alokashtikar on Dec 22, 2017 \| 51 comments
25.		Distributed count distinct vs. HyperLogLog in Postgres (citusdata.com)
		85 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 22, 2017 \| 11 comments
26.		A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system (github.com/fireworq)
		108 points by y_uuki on Dec 22, 2017 \| 38 comments
27.		Advanced Image Manipulation and Data Extraction (algorithmia.com)
		103 points by mikeyanderson on Dec 21, 2017 \| 20 comments
28.		A RISC V Based Linear Algebra Accelerator for SoC Designs [video] (youtube.com)
		70 points by rbanffy on Dec 22, 2017 \| 9 comments
29.		Haven: Keep Watch (guardianproject.github.io)
		113 points by runesoerensen on Dec 22, 2017 \| 16 comments
30.		Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion [pdf] (microsoft.com)
		32 points by mpweiher on Dec 22, 2017 \| 4 comments
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