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Top of Year 2017

1. Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
   (19 Feb 2017 | 4107 points | Comments)

2. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
   (14 Dec 2017 | 3384 points | Comments)

3. Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
   (23 Feb 2017 | 3238 points | Comments)

4. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
   (23 Feb 2017 | 3030 points | Comments)

5. macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
   (28 Nov 2017 | 3001 points | Comments)

6. W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
   (18 Sep 2017 | 2735 points | Comments)

7. CIA malware and hacking tools
   (7 Mar 2017 | 2699 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: Is S3 down?
   (28 Feb 2017 | 2589 points | Comments)

9. Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
   (22 Sep 2017 | 2280 points | Comments)

10. Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
    (22 Feb 2017 | 2256 points | Comments)

11. How Firefox Got Fast Again
    (13 Nov 2017 | 2180 points | Comments)

12. I am an Uber survivor
    (27 Feb 2017 | 2168 points | Comments)

13. Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
    (21 Jun 2017 | 2119 points | Comments)

14. Get started making music
    (9 May 2017 | 2106 points | Comments)

15. Firefox is on a slippery slope
    (16 Dec 2017 | 2023 points | Comments)

16. Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
    (13 May 2017 | 1981 points | Comments)

17. Google Maps' Moat
    (19 Dec 2017 | 1960 points | Comments)

18. Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
    (2 Aug 2017 | 1879 points | Comments)

19. Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
    (9 Jan 2017 | 1857 points | Comments)

20. GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
    (21 Mar 2017 | 1841 points | Comments)

21. SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
    (27 Feb 2017 | 1747 points | Comments)

22. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
    (4 Apr 2017 | 1735 points | Comments)

23. Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
    (21 Nov 2017 | 1720 points | Comments)

24. Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
    (8 Aug 2017 | 1697 points | Comments)

25. Firefox 57.0 Released
    (14 Nov 2017 | 1692 points | Comments)

26. Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
    (16 Jun 2017 | 1687 points | Comments)

27. It’s time to give Firefox another chance
    (29 Sep 2017 | 1674 points | Comments)

28. Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
    (12 Jul 2017 | 1664 points | Comments)

29. Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to
    (14 Dec 2017 | 1656 points | Comments)

30. Sublime Text 3.0
    (13 Sep 2017 | 1653 points | Comments)

31. Facebook is an attack on the open web
    (1 Jun 2017 | 1635 points | Comments)

32. Welcome, ACLU
    (31 Jan 2017 | 1558 points | Comments)

33. Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
    (10 Dec 2017 | 1535 points | Comments)

34. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
    (11 Apr 2017 | 1519 points | Comments)

35. Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
    (17 Jan 2017 | 1503 points | Comments)

36. What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
    (21 Apr 2017 | 1494 points | Comments)

37. A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
    (30 Aug 2017 | 1480 points | Comments)

38. We’re dropping Google Ads
    (12 Apr 2017 | 1477 points | Comments)

39. Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will
    (20 Nov 2017 | 1466 points | Comments)

40. CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
    (2 May 2017 | 1455 points | Comments)

41. A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
    (10 May 2017 | 1450 points | Comments)

42. Keybase launches encrypted Git
    (4 Oct 2017 | 1427 points | Comments)

43. Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
    (22 Mar 2017 | 1423 points | Comments)

44. My Family’s Slave
    (16 May 2017 | 1419 points | Comments)

45. Grumpy: Go running Python
    (4 Jan 2017 | 1411 points | Comments)

46. Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration
    (10 Jul 2017 | 1404 points | Comments)

47. Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
    (24 Apr 2017 | 1401 points | Comments)

48. What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn
    (18 Jan 2017 | 1382 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
    (31 Mar 2017 | 1374 points | Comments)

50. Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse
    (16 Oct 2017 | 1371 points | Comments)

51. They Used To Last 50 Years
    (19 Mar 2017 | 1359 points | Comments)

52. Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
    (8 Sep 2017 | 1345 points | Comments)

53. WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
    (13 Jan 2017 | 1332 points | Comments)

54. Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
    (9 Feb 2017 | 1332 points | Comments)

55. FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
    (21 Nov 2017 | 1330 points | Comments)

56. Teach Yourself Computer Science
    (13 Mar 2017 | 1308 points | Comments)

57. Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
    (2 Nov 2017 | 1307 points | Comments)

58. Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
    (16 Jul 2017 | 1277 points | Comments)

59. LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
    (31 Jan 2017 | 1275 points | Comments)

60. Build Your Own Text Editor
    (5 Apr 2017 | 1275 points | Comments)

61. Battle for the Internet
    (12 Jul 2017 | 1275 points | Comments)

62. Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
    (13 Mar 2017 | 1274 points | Comments)

63. US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
    (15 Oct 2017 | 1273 points | Comments)

64. The web sucks if you have a slow connection
    (8 Feb 2017 | 1269 points | Comments)

65. Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
    (22 Nov 2017 | 1269 points | Comments)

66. Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
    (29 Apr 2017 | 1264 points | Comments)

67. Tesla Roadster
    (17 Nov 2017 | 1261 points | Comments)

68. Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
    (12 May 2017 | 1248 points | Comments)

69. Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
    (2 Mar 2017 | 1246 points | Comments)

70. Fireflies
    (31 May 2017 | 1243 points | Comments)

71. DevDocs API Documentation
    (19 Oct 2017 | 1239 points | Comments)

72. I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
    (15 Feb 2017 | 1237 points | Comments)

73. Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time
    (16 Dec 2017 | 1214 points | Comments)

74. “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
    (25 Jul 2017 | 1213 points | Comments)

75. Documenting the Web together
    (18 Oct 2017 | 1210 points | Comments)

76. Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
    (18 Dec 2017 | 1209 points | Comments)

77. Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
    (8 Nov 2017 | 1200 points | Comments)

78. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
    (13 Dec 2017 | 1195 points | Comments)

79. Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
    (30 Jun 2017 | 1188 points | Comments)

80. Mozilla Acquires Pocket
    (27 Feb 2017 | 1187 points | Comments)

81. Chrome breaks the Web
    (6 Nov 2017 | 1187 points | Comments)

82. Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
    (20 Dec 2017 | 1186 points | Comments)

83. Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
    (18 Jan 2017 | 1183 points | Comments)

84. A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
    (28 Dec 2017 | 1176 points | Comments)

85. China Blocks WhatsApp
    (25 Sep 2017 | 1174 points | Comments)

86. Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
    (6 Jan 2017 | 1170 points | Comments)

87. 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
    (2 Mar 2017 | 1168 points | Comments)

88. GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
    (1 Feb 2017 | 1162 points | Comments)

89. How We Built r/Place
    (13 Apr 2017 | 1152 points | Comments)

90. Please Make Google AMP Optional
    (10 Jun 2017 | 1146 points | Comments)

91. How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
    (3 Mar 2017 | 1144 points | Comments)

92. DuckDuckGo vs Google
    (20 Sep 2017 | 1140 points | Comments)

93. Time to Take a Stand
    (28 Jan 2017 | 1131 points | Comments)

94. Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
    (8 Nov 2017 | 1126 points | Comments)

95. AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
    (5 Dec 2017 | 1126 points | Comments)

96. YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
    (9 Mar 2017 | 1125 points | Comments)

97. Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
    (18 Apr 2017 | 1124 points | Comments)

98. Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
    (7 Nov 2017 | 1120 points | Comments)

99. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
    (14 Apr 2017 | 1117 points | Comments)

100. Magic Leap One
     (20 Dec 2017 | 1115 points | Comments)