top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-26

Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155

8 years ago

★ 70.5k PHP MIT
504 upvotes – 69 comments

ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking

https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

8 years ago

★ 5.1k C MIT
491 upvotes – 165 comments

Power Prices Go Negative in Germany

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/business/energy-environment/germany-electricity-negative-prices.html

8 years ago

485 upvotes – 250 comments

I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil

https://www.jiffchat.com/m/2ZUaCkOed9+sHn4FHOS+PC2TGvE_vfjTVtKvyYvWbAE=

8 years ago

447 upvotes – 176 comments

A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k

https://failory.com/battle-scars

8 years ago

399 upvotes – 248 comments

Ask HN: Any recommended books on developing mental models?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16009028

8 years ago

350 upvotes – 61 comments

How I learned to program

https://danluu.com/learning-to-program/

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 100 comments

Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/18/571689807/cities-with-uber-have-lower-rates-of-ambulance-usage

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 295 comments

Show HN: Data Prism – Weekly newsletter about data science, ML, AI and analytics

http://dataprism.co/

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 11 comments

Ex-FB exec: The dopamine-driven feedback loops are destroying how society works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78oMjNCAayQ

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 85 comments

Shanghai sets population at 25M

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/26/chinas-shanghai-sets-population-25-million--big-city-disease

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 219 comments

FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.txt

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 69 comments

Not Ready for Takeoff: Face Scans at Airport Departure Gates

https://www.airportfacescans.com/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 151 comments

Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet/

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 116 comments

My Favorite Papers of 2017

http://www.nicolabortignon.com/my-favorite-4-papers-of-2017/

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 16 comments

Machine Learning for Dummies

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=IMM14209USEN

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 25 comments

A link between polygamy and war

https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21732695-plural-marriage-bred-inequality-begets-violence-link-between-polygamy-and-war

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 106 comments

The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis

https://blog.alexellis.io/the-state-of-netbooting-raspberry-pi/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 34 comments

The World's Best Film School Is Free on YouTube

https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-film-school/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 9 comments

DARPA's “Unhackable” Computer

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332764

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 52 comments

Hardening C/C++ Programs – Executable-Space Protection and ASLR

http://www.productive-cpp.com/hardening-cpp-programs-executable-space-protection-address-space-layout-randomization-aslr/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Convert your Google Slides to high-quality animated GIFs and tweet

https://talltweets.com

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 25 comments

Bitcoin forks and airdrops

https://btcdiv.com

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 71 comments

Bitcoin is Eating Itself

https://medium.com/@dgenr8/bitcoin-is-eating-itself-bda69493c938

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 133 comments

A $47B Emergency-Response Network That’s Already Obsolete

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-47-billion-network-thats-already-obsolete/492764/?single_page=true

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 23 comments

The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005)

http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HaCAR_CDR.html

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 95 comments

Ask HN: What's the best way to recover from burnout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16009836

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 84 comments

What's Wrong with Students?

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/12/whats_wrong_wit_24.html

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 100 comments

The Neuroscience of Intelligence: An Interview with Richard Haier

http://quillette.com/2017/12/24/neuroscience-intelligence-interview-richard-haier/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Damned with Praise: The Meaning of Kendrick Lamar

https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/04/damned-praise?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/themeaningofkendricklamardamnedwithpraise

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

Checklist for Plain Language

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/resources/checklists/checklist/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Cryptocurrency Analysis with Python – Buy and Hold

https://romanorac.github.io/cryptocurrency/analysis/2017/12/25/cryptocurrency-analysis-with-python-part2.html

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 67 comments

Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom (2000) [pdf]

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/self-determination.pdf

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

MediaTek Launches 6-in-1 Biosensor for Smartphones

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12153/mediatek-launches-sensio-mt6381-biosensor

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

Critique My Plan: API Key for Authentication

https://dev.to/imthedeveloper/critique-my-plan-api-key-for-authentication-26i5

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 73 comments

Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04692

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 57 comments

Hockney–Falco thesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2%80%93Falco_thesis

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Toward better CPU load estimation

https://lwn.net/Articles/741171/

8 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

China’s New Lenders Collect Invasive Data and Offer Billions

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/business/china-online-lending-debt.html

8 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a post-nuptial agreement

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/7m7i5x/my_31f_husband_36m_of_3_years_came_into_a_lot_of/

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 145 comments
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