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1.
Making a Game Boy game in 2017 (gamasutra.com)
496 points by doppp on Dec 9, 2017 | 65 comments
2.
Decentralized Web Primer (gitbook.com)
401 points by xwvvvvwx on Dec 9, 2017 | 94 comments
3.
Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle (danluu.com)
660 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 9, 2017 | 234 comments
4.
OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8) (undeadly.org)
190 points by ezequiel-garzon on Dec 9, 2017 | 31 comments
5.
Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) (cnn.com)
225 points by curtis on Dec 9, 2017 | 52 comments
6.
Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests (scientificamerican.com)
255 points by nradov on Dec 9, 2017 | 210 comments
7.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf] (bitcoin.org)
516 points by sova on Dec 8, 2017 | 385 comments
8.
The largest living thing on Earth is a fungus (2014) (bbc.com)
160 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 9, 2017 | 41 comments
9.
Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 2: Logical and Bitwise Operations (loper-os.org)
91 points by erikj on Dec 9, 2017 | 15 comments
10.
Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people [video] (youtube.com)
235 points by bringtheaction on Dec 9, 2017 | 81 comments
11.
The Woz Wonderbook (1977) [pdf] (digibarn.com)
85 points by signa11 on Dec 9, 2017 | 9 comments
12.
Capgras syndrome gives us a unique insight into the digital age (2016) (nautil.us)
53 points by dnetesn on Dec 9, 2017 | 15 comments
13.
Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding? (theatlantic.com)
137 points by Hooke on Dec 9, 2017 | 124 comments
14.
The Cajun Navy and the Vigilante Future of Disaster Relief (gq.com)
77 points by ycombonator on Dec 9, 2017 | 74 comments
15.
Git is a purely functional data structure (2013) (jayway.com)
227 points by eisokant on Dec 9, 2017 | 97 comments
16.
‘Their Spirits Were Trapped in Those Masks’ (topic.com)
49 points by samclemens on Dec 9, 2017 | 11 comments
17.
Bicycle Built for 2,000 (2009) (bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com)
101 points by cribbles on Dec 8, 2017 | 19 comments
18.
How Duterte Turned Facebook into a Weapon, with Help from Facebook (bloomberg.com)
241 points by anigbrowl on Dec 9, 2017 | 148 comments
19.
Show HN: Hazmat Math – Elliptic curve arithmetic for Cryptography.io objects (github.com/tuxxy)
33 points by tuxmascot on Dec 9, 2017 | 6 comments
20.
Reading Simple Haskell (soupi.github.io)
161 points by Tehnix on Dec 9, 2017 | 80 comments
21.
Photo-realistic lip-sync from text (ritheshkumar.com)
154 points by giacaglia on Dec 9, 2017 | 52 comments
22.
Spiders eat astronomical numbers of insects (springer.com)
104 points by deegles on Dec 9, 2017 | 60 comments
23.
BrewChain – NodeJS blockchain implementation (darrenbeck.co.uk)
123 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 8, 2017 | 12 comments
24.
State of Startups 2017 Survey Results (firstround.com)
118 points by redm on Dec 9, 2017 | 78 comments
25.
Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (1987) (fourmilab.ch)
112 points by ingve on Dec 8, 2017 | 21 comments
26.
Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform (liberapay.com)
160 points by cdancette on Dec 8, 2017 | 24 comments
27.
‘Shared Space’ Design: Road Signs Suck. What If We Got Rid of Them All? (99percentinvisible.org)
47 points by misnamed on Dec 9, 2017 | 45 comments
28.
Website Meta Language (2006) (thewml.org)
28 points by Tomte on Dec 9, 2017 | 11 comments
29.
Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?
361 points by graniter on Dec 9, 2017 | 477 comments
30.
Jaron Lanier on dystopia, empathy, and the future of the internet (theverge.com)
96 points by uptown on Dec 8, 2017 | 22 comments

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