Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 334 posts.

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Awk driven IoT

With a Raspberry Pi or other modern single-board computers, you can make very simple toys. I started with the hello world of interactive apps: the soundboard. But even then, I was too ambitious. The soundpad Since the main target was kids. I wanted a simple, screen-less toy that would teach …