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Top of Month - Sep 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
   (11 Sep 2017 | 1111 points | Comments)

9. Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
   (7 Sep 2017 | 1107 points | Comments)

10. Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
    (6 Sep 2017 | 1091 points | Comments)

11. Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You
    (9 Sep 2017 | 1088 points | Comments)

12. Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
    (7 Sep 2017 | 1044 points | Comments)

13. Text-only CNN
    (10 Sep 2017 | 1017 points | Comments)

14. It’s time to kill the web app
    (23 Sep 2017 | 1003 points | Comments)

15. iPhone X
    (12 Sep 2017 | 995 points | Comments)

16. Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
    (6 Sep 2017 | 987 points | Comments)

17. A new kind of map: it’s about time
    (20 Sep 2017 | 968 points | Comments)

18. New in PostgreSQL 10
    (21 Sep 2017 | 962 points | Comments)

19. Insane state of today's advertising part 3
    (1 Sep 2017 | 961 points | Comments)

20. A “right to repair” movement tools up
    (28 Sep 2017 | 928 points | Comments)

21. Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
    (28 Sep 2017 | 927 points | Comments)

22. Scenic Tram Simulator
    (24 Sep 2017 | 918 points | Comments)

23. React 16
    (26 Sep 2017 | 914 points | Comments)

24. How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
    (29 Sep 2017 | 906 points | Comments)

25. Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
    (26 Sep 2017 | 896 points | Comments)

26. Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches
    (10 Sep 2017 | 893 points | Comments)

27. The art of over-engineering your side projects
    (1 Sep 2017 | 869 points | Comments)

28. How I got to 200 productive hours a month
    (22 Sep 2017 | 853 points | Comments)

29. Firefox Multi-Account Containers
    (15 Sep 2017 | 850 points | Comments)

30. Cutting your salary by 40%
    (18 Sep 2017 | 844 points | Comments)

31. New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains
    (22 Sep 2017 | 829 points | Comments)

32. YC’s Essential Startup Advice
    (25 Sep 2017 | 825 points | Comments)

33. Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”
    (12 Sep 2017 | 819 points | Comments)

34. Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds
    (17 Sep 2017 | 786 points | Comments)

35. How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME
    (20 Sep 2017 | 769 points | Comments)

36. Demon-Haunted World
    (5 Sep 2017 | 768 points | Comments)

37. “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
    (3 Sep 2017 | 753 points | Comments)

38. HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece 
    (4 Sep 2017 | 739 points | Comments)

39. “Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
    (4 Sep 2017 | 739 points | Comments)

40. Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen
    (23 Sep 2017 | 726 points | Comments)

41. “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”
    (21 Sep 2017 | 710 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
    (2 Sep 2017 | 692 points | Comments)

43. Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs (2016)
    (19 Sep 2017 | 687 points | Comments)

44. Nginx Unit
    (7 Sep 2017 | 680 points | Comments)

45. Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33
    (18 Sep 2017 | 675 points | Comments)

46. Uber London loses licence to operate
    (22 Sep 2017 | 672 points | Comments)

47. Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
    (15 Sep 2017 | 670 points | Comments)

48. It appears my Google account is slated for deletion
    (13 Sep 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

49. Gas Pump Skimmers
    (19 Sep 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

50. Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed
    (7 Sep 2017 | 650 points | Comments)

51. Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent
    (14 Sep 2017 | 645 points | Comments)

52. Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library
    (29 Sep 2017 | 633 points | Comments)

53. Announcing CoffeeScript 2
    (18 Sep 2017 | 632 points | Comments)

54. We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach
    (16 Sep 2017 | 626 points | Comments)

55. How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?
    (8 Sep 2017 | 616 points | Comments)

56. Windows for Linux Nerds
    (13 Sep 2017 | 615 points | Comments)

57. Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security
    (14 Sep 2017 | 612 points | Comments)

58. Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like
    (1 Sep 2017 | 605 points | Comments)

59. Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
    (2 Sep 2017 | 599 points | Comments)

60. Godot Engine – Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine
    (22 Sep 2017 | 593 points | Comments)

61. A collection of things software developers should know
    (5 Sep 2017 | 589 points | Comments)

62. How Booking.com manipulates users
    (20 Sep 2017 | 583 points | Comments)

63. Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
    (27 Sep 2017 | 583 points | Comments)

64. Giving you more characters
    (26 Sep 2017 | 576 points | Comments)

65. Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C
    (4 Sep 2017 | 574 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
    (1 Sep 2017 | 573 points | Comments)

67. Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime
    (22 Sep 2017 | 572 points | Comments)

68. Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research
    (4 Sep 2017 | 564 points | Comments)

69. Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
    (12 Sep 2017 | 564 points | Comments)

70. How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video]
    (17 Sep 2017 | 563 points | Comments)

71. Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed
    (18 Sep 2017 | 560 points | Comments)

72. The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever
    (8 Sep 2017 | 559 points | Comments)

73. Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
    (23 Sep 2017 | 556 points | Comments)

74. MacOS High Sierra
    (25 Sep 2017 | 551 points | Comments)

75. EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
    (13 Sep 2017 | 549 points | Comments)

76. On React and WordPress
    (15 Sep 2017 | 543 points | Comments)

77. Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who averted nuclear war, has died
    (18 Sep 2017 | 534 points | Comments)

78. Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo
    (27 Sep 2017 | 528 points | Comments)

79. Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust
    (17 Sep 2017 | 527 points | Comments)

80. Show HN: A coloring book of data structures and algorithms
    (8 Sep 2017 | 523 points | Comments)

81. Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens
    (15 Sep 2017 | 523 points | Comments)

82. Snowflake macro photography (2013)
    (20 Sep 2017 | 517 points | Comments)

83. Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life
    (14 Sep 2017 | 512 points | Comments)

84. Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine
    (27 Sep 2017 | 512 points | Comments)

85. Git git git git git
    (26 Sep 2017 | 510 points | Comments)

86. PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer
    (21 Sep 2017 | 508 points | Comments)

87. Text-only NPR
    (26 Sep 2017 | 504 points | Comments)

88. Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
    (28 Sep 2017 | 502 points | Comments)

89. Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident
    (20 Sep 2017 | 499 points | Comments)

90. PixelNN – Example-Based Image Synthesis
    (25 Sep 2017 | 497 points | Comments)

91. Modern terminal-based text editor
    (28 Sep 2017 | 496 points | Comments)

92. Little UI Details
    (5 Sep 2017 | 495 points | Comments)

93. Blender 2.79 released
    (13 Sep 2017 | 493 points | Comments)

94. Anatomy of a Moral Panic
    (21 Sep 2017 | 491 points | Comments)

95. Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering
    (6 Sep 2017 | 490 points | Comments)

96. The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
    (4 Sep 2017 | 485 points | Comments)

97. iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'
    (19 Sep 2017 | 484 points | Comments)

98. GNU Taler
    (18 Sep 2017 | 479 points | Comments)

99. Tell me what your company does
    (4 Sep 2017 | 478 points | Comments)

100. Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability
     (11 Sep 2017 | 477 points | Comments)