543
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How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-17/materials/eu-17-Goryachy-How-To-Hack-A-Turned-Off-Computer-Or-Running-Unsigned-Code-In-Intel-Management-Engine-wp.pdf
8 years ago
495
394
India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year
https://qz.com/1152683/indian-it-layoffs-in-2017-top-56000-led-by-tcs-infosys-cognizant/
335
14
Learning from Scratch by Thinking Fast and Slow
https://davidbarber.github.io/blog/2017/11/07/Learning-From-Scratch-by-Thinking-Fast-and-Slow-with-Deep-Learning-and-Tree-Search/
307
25
Operating System Design Book Series
http://www.fysnet.net/osdesign_book_series.htm
294
349
Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a380/airbus-ready-to-axe-a380-if-fails-to-win-emirates-deal-sources-idUSKBN1EL11L
282
59
34th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams
http://streaming.media.ccc.de
265
62
No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-user-identities-web-trackers-exploit-browser-login-managers/
263
202
DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during Women's March
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/nov/20/dc-lrad/
247
169
From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-to-thought-showers-how-business-bullshit-took-over
234
74
Darktable 2.4.0 released
https://www.darktable.org/2017/12/darktable-240-released/
218
77
ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge
https://blog.tindie.com/2017/12/esp8266-epaper-display/
216
69
A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/26/a-history-of-the-silmarils-in-the-fifth-age/
105
Candy Japan 2017 Year in Review
https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/2017-year-in-review
207
100
A pattern language for microservices
http://microservices.io/patterns/
205
145
Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)
https://digventures.com/2015/12/these-32-symbols-are-found-in-ice-age-caves-across-europe-but-what-do-they-mean/
197
118
Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/27/chess-champion-to-miss-saudi-arabia-tournament-over-womens-rights
188
273
World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/27/worlds-richest-500-see-increased-their-wealth-by-1tn-this-year
186
399
The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/26/the-echo-dot-was-the-best-selling-product-on-all-of-amazon-this-holiday-season/
172
20
Reading Mathematics (2002) [pdf]
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hubbard/readingmath.pdf
171
67
Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git
http://gittup.org/gittup/
167
39
Building a Thermal Camera
https://damow.net/building-a-thermal-camera/
162
91
Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms
http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/
159
83
Hacker News Transparency
https://hn.0x2237.club/
151
85
I realized my brain belongs to my phone
https://qz.com/1165651/smartphone-addiction-this-was-the-year-i-realized-my-brain-belongs-to-my-phone/
141
38
Evidence of exponential speed-up in the solution of hard optimization problems?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09278
29
Dustin Moskovitz pours funds into high-risk research
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08795-0
138
199
Big Tech Is Going After Health Care
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/technology/big-tech-health-care.html
137
98
‘Saluton’: the surprise return of Esperanto
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/06/saluton-the-surprise-return-of-esperanto
134
114
Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-27/vietnam-deploys-10-000-cyber-warriors-to-fight-wrongful-views
130
48
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Round 1 Submissions
https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography/Round-1-Submissions
127
129
We’re Going to Need More Lithium
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-lithium-battery-future/
126
158
Chef gives up a Michelin star, reflecting hardship of ‘the Other France’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/world/europe/france-chef-michelin-star.html
124
35
Google claims near-human accuracy at imitating a person speaking from text
https://qz.com/1165775/googles-voice-generating-ai-is-now-indistinguishable-from-humans/
122
43
HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming
https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/html-5-2-is-done-html-5-3-is-coming/
16
Ixy – a userspace network driver in 1000 lines of code
https://github.com/emmericp/ixy
★ 1.2kCBSD-3-Clause–8 years ago
189
Warren Buffett: Bitcoin Is Pure FOMO
https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/heed-warren-buffetts-warning-bitcoin-is-pure-fomo-2017-12-26
121
110
Hard and Soft Skills in Tech
https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/hard-and-soft-skills-in-tech-8be00216f67f?source=linkShare-ccff18f5a169-1514394601
120
Using Go Templates
https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2017/using-go-templates/
119
63
What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-alexa-economy-echo-speaker-google-assistant-siri/
15
Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05889
116
113
LastPass’ Authenticator app is not secure
https://medium.com/@dylan.m/lastpass-authenticator-app-is-not-secure-77b9743c3007
112
36
Travel, Budget Beds, and the Homeless
https://www.ricksteves.com/about-rick/trinity-place
111
22
The Social Origins of Inventors [pdf]
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/aghion/files/social_origins_of_inventors.pdf
128
Apple faces lawsuits after admitting it slows down aging iPhones
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-27/apple-faces-lawsuits-after-saying-it-slows-down-aging-iphones/9287216
109
200
Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16013950
81
Publishers Bought Millions of Website Visits They Found Out Were Fraudulent
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/these-publishers-bought-millions-of-website-visits-they
12
Passive Fingerprinting of HTTP/2 Clients [pdf]
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-17/materials/eu-17-Shuster-Passive-Fingerprinting-Of-HTTP2-Clients-wp.pdf
104
23
Canadian open data portal
http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data
103
54
Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16015715
102
68
MedleyText
https://medleytext.net/
101
3
A Python internals adventure (2014)
https://flowerhack.dreamwidth.org/3594.html
99
My Internet Mea Culpa
https://shift.newco.co/my-internet-mea-culpa-f3ba77ac3eed
Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis [pdf]
http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mshafiq/files/adblock-ndss2018.pdf
The iPhone X
https://daringfireball.net/2017/12/the_iphone_x
89
57
Single Board Computers Introduced in 2017
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332763
75
New California law allows liquor companies to pay for free rides
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article191357404.html
88
Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/opinion/digital-nazi-hunter-trump.html
The Lonely Future of Buying Stuff
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-future-of-automation/
87
26
Empirical research reveals three big problems with how patents are vetted
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/these-experts-figured-out-why-so-many-bogus-patents-get-approved/
86
61
Today's peak crypto arbitrage spreads for 26 pairs – BTC/USD 10.98%
https://www.tokenspread.com/spreads/top-price-spreads
80
WeWork is set to become the No. 1 tenant of London office space
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/a-u-s-startup-is-gobbling-up-the-old-city-of-london
9
Functional architecture is Ports and Adapters (2016)
http://blog.ploeh.dk/2016/03/18/functional-architecture-is-ports-and-adapters/
27
Power Method for Approximating Eigenvalues [pdf]
http://ergodic.ugr.es/cphys/LECCIONES/FORTRAN/power_method.pdf
76
What Is It Like to Be a Bee?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bee
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