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December 2017 Archive
91.
A beginner’s guide to getting started in the cryptocurrency world (blog.goodaudience.com)
453 points by sherm8n on Dec 10, 2017 | 200 comments
92.
I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil (jiffchat.com)
447 points by niwde on Dec 26, 2017 | 176 comments
93.
LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police (kansas.com)
446 points by mcone on Dec 30, 2017 | 822 comments
94.
Dynamicland (dynamicland.org)
446 points by Pulcinella on Dec 19, 2017 | 117 comments
95.
Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 (twistlock.com)
444 points by Da5hes on Dec 29, 2017 | 121 comments
96.
Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational (minnenratta.wordpress.com)
442 points by kuahyeow on Dec 29, 2017 | 218 comments
97.
Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships (sfchronicle.com)
442 points by badrot on Dec 2, 2017 | 179 comments
98.
Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive (robert.ocallahan.org)
441 points by jonchang on Dec 3, 2017 | 300 comments
99.
Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler (parceljs.org)
435 points by KeitIG on Dec 5, 2017 | 163 comments
100.
New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff (blog.mozilla.org)
432 points by discreditable on Dec 19, 2017 | 125 comments
101.
Haemophilia A trial results 'mind-blowing' (bbc.com)
431 points by colmvp on Dec 14, 2017 | 126 comments
102.
Ruby 2.5.0 Released (ruby-lang.org)
431 points by phereford on Dec 25, 2017 | 108 comments
103.
Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity (pineapplefund.org)
430 points by apo on Dec 13, 2017 | 213 comments
104.
In B-Flat (inbflat.net)
430 points by sdenton4 on Dec 16, 2017 | 43 comments
105.
MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike (wired.com)
429 points by golangnews on Dec 15, 2017 | 247 comments
106.
Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself (engineering.instagram.com)
427 points by ambivalence on Dec 21, 2017 | 229 comments
107.
MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch (wired.com)
426 points by platinumrad on Dec 1, 2017 | 162 comments
108.
macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team” (twitter.com)
424 points by fofolo on Dec 8, 2017 | 262 comments
109.
Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows (theguardian.com)
423 points by lxm on Dec 7, 2017 | 260 comments
110.
PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com)
420 points by pvsukale3 on Dec 6, 2017 | 46 comments
111.
Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say (techcrunch.com)
419 points by rbanffy on Dec 8, 2017 | 292 comments
112.
Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda (bloomberg.com)
419 points by _jgvg on Dec 21, 2017 | 237 comments
113.
We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill (eff.org)
412 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 20, 2017 | 175 comments
114.
Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python (github.com)
412 points by jre on Dec 17, 2017 | 41 comments
115.
A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree (flightradar24.com)
411 points by Jamie452 on Dec 13, 2017 | 95 comments
116.
Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons (techcrunch.com)
410 points by slyall on Dec 7, 2017 | 305 comments
117.
AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012 (arstechnica.com)
410 points by Deinos on Dec 1, 2017 | 104 comments
118.
The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program (nytimes.com)
409 points by farseer on Dec 16, 2017 | 272 comments
119.
Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25 (blog.kroy.io)
409 points by robbiet480 on Dec 30, 2017 | 132 comments
120.
Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf] (learningsys.org)
408 points by andrew3726 on Dec 10, 2017 | 47 comments