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1.
Three Years on Google App Engine (stephanbehnke.com)
331 points by indigodaddy on Dec 31, 2017 | 115 comments
2.
Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game (github.com/simon987)
224 points by ingve on Dec 30, 2017 | 35 comments
3.
A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet (atlasobscura.com)
356 points by prando on Dec 31, 2017 | 151 comments
4.
Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM (gist.github.com)
236 points by wskinner on Dec 31, 2017 | 76 comments
5.
Stanford scholar gets six-figure settlement from James Joyce Estate (2009) (stanford.edu)
126 points by walterbell on Dec 30, 2017 | 16 comments
6.
Coming Soon: Machine-Checked Proofs in Everyday Development (ccc.de)
185 points by fuklief on Dec 30, 2017 | 75 comments
7.
How Taiwan transformed its health care system (nytimes.com)
177 points by Osiris30 on Dec 30, 2017 | 87 comments
8.
Ethereum Foundation Releases Alpha Casper Proof of Stake Testnet (notes.eth.sg)
278 points by sethbannon on Dec 31, 2017 | 199 comments
9.
Nepal bans solo climbers from Mount Everest (bbc.co.uk)
171 points by sjcsjc on Dec 30, 2017 | 127 comments
10.
Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails (worrydream.com)
337 points by dasmoth on Dec 31, 2017 | 136 comments
11.
Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
350 points by freeelncer on Dec 31, 2017 | 562 comments
12.
How to draw oscilloscope lines with WebGL (m1el.github.io)
143 points by noch on Dec 30, 2017 | 20 comments
13.
How to make a rain on a windshield shader in ShaderToy [video] (youtube.com)
133 points by adamnemecek on Dec 30, 2017 | 31 comments
14.
Vandals smash beehives, killing 500k bees (latimes.com)
196 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 31, 2017 | 97 comments
15.
Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video] (ccc.de)
101 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 30, 2017 | 17 comments
16.
Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings (roulette.pizza)
127 points by rscott on Dec 31, 2017 | 97 comments
17.
ReCurta: Our goal is to build the first Curta calculator since 1972 (github.com/daeken)
80 points by 0xdada on Dec 30, 2017 | 26 comments
18.
Good books for deep hacks (begriffs.com)
296 points by signa11 on Dec 31, 2017 | 46 comments
19.
Introduction to RAW-sockets [pdf] (tu-darmstadt.de)
145 points by lainon on Dec 31, 2017 | 8 comments
20.
Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers (zabaras.com)
186 points by mubaris on Dec 31, 2017 | 32 comments
21.
How Hotmail changed Microsoft and email (arstechnica.com)
168 points by ohjeez on Dec 31, 2017 | 39 comments
22.
The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS (androidpolice.com)
158 points by platinum1 on Dec 31, 2017 | 108 comments
23.
Mathematical picture language program (pnas.org)
65 points by lainon on Dec 30, 2017 | 10 comments
24.
Tracking down the roots of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (2012) (visualthesaurus.com)
61 points by fanf2 on Dec 31, 2017 | 3 comments
25.
To Serve Man, with Software (codinghorror.com)
175 points by ingve on Dec 31, 2017 | 59 comments
26.
The curious case of high blood pressure around the world (economist.com)
91 points by known on Dec 30, 2017 | 55 comments
27.
Smalltalk’s Productivity (medium.com/smalltalk-talk)
93 points by mpweiher on Dec 31, 2017 | 79 comments
28.
The 3DO: The birth of my cynicism (gamasutra.com)
61 points by smacktoward on Dec 31, 2017 | 72 comments
29.
RaspiReader: An Open-Source Fingerprint Reader Facilitating Spoof Detection (arxiv.org)
40 points by lainon on Dec 30, 2017 | 1 comment
30.
The Economic Arctic (bloomberg.com)
45 points by hownottowrite on Dec 30, 2017 | 5 comments

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