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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password

3001

2

How Firefox Got Fast Again

2180

3

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

1720

4

Firefox 57.0 Released

1692

5

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

1466

6

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

1330

7

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

1307

8

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality

1269

9

1261

10

Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook

1200

Top Ask HN

1

Best way to get started with AI?

709

2

Who is hiring? (November 2017)

624

3

Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

600

4

What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?

534

5

CS papers for software architecture and design?

525

6

What are best tools for web scraping?

502

7

What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?

408

8

What is your favorite place to find work?

334

9

I'm lonely. Are there any video chat support groups for solo founders?

293

10

How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?

248

Top Show HN

1

Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

572

2

LogoFox – fast logo maker

431

3

Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

345

4

Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

328

5

Server.js – A modern Express alternative

295

6

Golang DNS server, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS

283

7

Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework

271

8

Datasette – Create and publish an API for SQLite databases

269

9

Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go

226

10

219

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

1126

2

Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

1120

3

Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled

953

4

Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux

796

5

Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado

789

6

BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia

504

7

YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

486

8

Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

454

9

Astonishing OS X bug lets anyone log into a High Sierra machine

427

10

Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

426

News [?]

1

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

1720

2

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

1330

3

I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

966

4

The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

699

5

Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs

627

6

Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology

603

7

A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

600

8

Judge Tells Uber Lawyer: ‘It Looks Like You Covered This Up’

469

9

Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper

433

10

Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

419

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial

248

2

Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid

223

3

'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite

184

4

50 Years Ago Jocelyn Bell Discovered Pulsars

180

5

Shut up and calculate: an extreme mathematical universe

159

6

Rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a Bronze Age Greek warrior

156

7

Towards Linux Kernel Memory Safety

144

8

Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only [pdf]

115

9

The Xerox Alto Struts Its Stuff on Its 40th Birthday

112

10

The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint

99

Dev Blogs [?]

1

More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked

766

2

WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers

574

3

Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

521

4

Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go

498

5

Extensions in Firefox 58

287

6

Go, don't collect my garbage

272

7

Brilliant Jerks in Engineering

267

8

Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?

262

9

Introducing Twitter premium APIs

245

10

Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.

225

Tech blogs [?]

1

DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next

660

2

Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect

408

3

TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports

251

4

Apple’s Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) Firmware Decrypted

230

5

Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill

209

6

Miniaturizing a Mac

178

7

Joan Feynman Found Her Place in the Sun

176

8

14TB Hard Drives Now Available

176

9

Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is Protected Speech

163

10

How Pure Is This Cup of Joe?

140

FAANG+ [?]

1

Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data

663

2

AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure

533

3

EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware

385

4

Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service

355

5

AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities

310

6

Amazon Neptune – Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

286

7

Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences

274

8

Better Random Number Generation for OpenSSL, Libc, and Linux Mainline

265

9

AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments

210

10

Announcing the New AWS Secret Region

206

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years

461

2

YouTube monetization analysis

354

3

US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub

221

4

Ajit Pai is right

211

5

I still love Kierkegaard

189

6

The evolution of eyes

152

7

Theories of civilisational ‘collapse’ grow less convincing when scrutinised

152

8

Apple at Its Best

143

9

One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn

115

10

The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads

95

Science News [?]

1

Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)

571

2

Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers

378

3

When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?

228

4

The World Is Running Out of Sand

214

5

What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015)

178

6

Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire

174

7

The axolotl has nearly disappeared from its natural habitat

164

8

Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter

160

9

Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”

160

10

Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law

157

Social [?]

1

macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password

3001

2

“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”

760

3

What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]

645

4

“I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole”

586

5

Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

494

6

Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice

346

7

How do I permanently delete my account?

340

8

Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones

317

9

The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

237

10

Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]

215

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills

937

2

Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code

793

3

Security alerts on GitHub

697

4

Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support

662

5

Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”

527

6

Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

474

7

NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

402

8

VS Code Roadmap 2018

360

9

Functional Programming Jargon

359

10

326

Wikipedia [?]

1

Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir

221

2

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat

212

3

179

4

107

5

94

6

High Arctic relocation

68

7

Capacitor plague – Wikipedia

65

8

List of people and companies named in the Paradise Papers

36

9

Beer distribution game

21

10

Han unification

12

Blogs [?]

1

Using SVG as image placeholders

983

2

An Open Letter to the FCC

849

3

There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use

530

4

All about whiteboard markers

459

5

Skyrim rendered in text

459

6

Cortana is really bad

439

7

Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies

415

8

Something is wrong with children's videos on the internet

336

9

Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts

313

10

Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks, Part I: Intuition

276

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The diversity of SQL formatting standards

5

2

Why is C++ code faster than handwritten assembly for testing Collatz conjecture?

4

3

C++: What are move semantics?

3

4

Is it possible to implement bitwise operators using integer arithmetic?

3

5

How and when to align to cache line size

3

6

Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments

3

7

Promise vs. Observable

2

8

SO lists exactly 3 open positions in Germany that pay more than $100k/a

2

9

Replacing 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit introduces performance deviations

2

10

What should I name a table that maps two tables together?

1

Substack [?]