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Top of Month - Oct 2017

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

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

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

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

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

6. Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway
   (3 Oct 2017 | 1096 points | Comments)

7. PostgreSQL 10 Released
   (5 Oct 2017 | 1024 points | Comments)

8. Do you need a VPN?
   (30 Oct 2017 | 969 points | Comments)

9. I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
   (16 Oct 2017 | 950 points | Comments)

10. AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
    (18 Oct 2017 | 923 points | Comments)

11. We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
    (31 Oct 2017 | 910 points | Comments)

12. 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
    (18 Oct 2017 | 901 points | Comments)

13. Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
    (24 Oct 2017 | 886 points | Comments)

14. 'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
    (7 Oct 2017 | 878 points | Comments)

15. The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
    (27 Oct 2017 | 878 points | Comments)

16. Five minute guide to better typography
    (7 Oct 2017 | 868 points | Comments)

17. iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
    (10 Oct 2017 | 867 points | Comments)

18. Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
    (25 Oct 2017 | 866 points | Comments)

19. Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
    (11 Oct 2017 | 856 points | Comments)

20. The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
    (10 Oct 2017 | 853 points | Comments)

21. The Depression Thing
    (11 Oct 2017 | 841 points | Comments)

22. New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
    (18 Oct 2017 | 835 points | Comments)

23. Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
    (9 Oct 2017 | 828 points | Comments)

24. Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
    (9 Oct 2017 | 812 points | Comments)

25. Saying Goodbye to Firebug
    (24 Oct 2017 | 805 points | Comments)

26. I have no side code projects to show you
    (25 Oct 2017 | 771 points | Comments)

27. A Pre-History of Slashdot
    (5 Oct 2017 | 751 points | Comments)

28. Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child
    (5 Oct 2017 | 749 points | Comments)

29. Keyboard latency
    (16 Oct 2017 | 747 points | Comments)

30. Robert Scoble and Me
    (19 Oct 2017 | 733 points | Comments)

31. How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
    (3 Oct 2017 | 726 points | Comments)

32. Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
    (23 Oct 2017 | 721 points | Comments)

33. 150 days of living and coding in a van
    (10 Oct 2017 | 720 points | Comments)

34. Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
    (30 Oct 2017 | 712 points | Comments)

35. Disabling the Intel Management Engine
    (10 Oct 2017 | 707 points | Comments)

36. Security.txt
    (6 Oct 2017 | 705 points | Comments)

37. Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
    (20 Oct 2017 | 697 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
    (2 Oct 2017 | 678 points | Comments)

39. Show HN: Metaballs
    (17 Oct 2017 | 673 points | Comments)

40. Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect
    (25 Oct 2017 | 670 points | Comments)

41. Text Editor: Data Structures
    (2 Oct 2017 | 664 points | Comments)

42. Please take care of my plant
    (11 Oct 2017 | 660 points | Comments)

43. Sorting Visualizations
    (7 Oct 2017 | 651 points | Comments)

44. Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
    (3 Oct 2017 | 647 points | Comments)

45. Dangers of CSV Injection
    (10 Oct 2017 | 645 points | Comments)

46. Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias
    (12 Oct 2017 | 644 points | Comments)

47. The impossible dream of USB-C
    (14 Oct 2017 | 635 points | Comments)

48. If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
    (24 Oct 2017 | 631 points | Comments)

49. If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
    (5 Oct 2017 | 627 points | Comments)

50. HolyJit: A New Hope
    (20 Oct 2017 | 627 points | Comments)

51. “Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
    (26 Oct 2017 | 625 points | Comments)

52. Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller
    (26 Oct 2017 | 623 points | Comments)

53. An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
    (12 Oct 2017 | 614 points | Comments)

54. New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior
    (15 Oct 2017 | 604 points | Comments)

55. How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
    (24 Oct 2017 | 603 points | Comments)

56. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
    (8 Oct 2017 | 598 points | Comments)

57. Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
    (23 Oct 2017 | 598 points | Comments)

58. The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case
    (10 Oct 2017 | 596 points | Comments)

59. Vim after 15 Years
    (17 Oct 2017 | 590 points | Comments)

60. Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis
    (2 Oct 2017 | 588 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
    (11 Oct 2017 | 586 points | Comments)

62. Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U
    (13 Oct 2017 | 578 points | Comments)

63. TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
    (12 Oct 2017 | 577 points | Comments)

64. Interactive Vim tutorial
    (4 Oct 2017 | 566 points | Comments)

65. ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source
    (16 Oct 2017 | 566 points | Comments)

66. Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
    (27 Oct 2017 | 557 points | Comments)

67. Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
    (21 Oct 2017 | 552 points | Comments)

68. Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music
    (11 Oct 2017 | 551 points | Comments)

69. Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
    (16 Oct 2017 | 550 points | Comments)

70. iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
    (6 Oct 2017 | 543 points | Comments)

71. AIM will shut down after 20 years
    (6 Oct 2017 | 543 points | Comments)

72. Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python
    (30 Oct 2017 | 542 points | Comments)

73. Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Been Breached
    (11 Oct 2017 | 537 points | Comments)

74. Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch
    (13 Oct 2017 | 536 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
    (4 Oct 2017 | 526 points | Comments)

76. Google Data Studio
    (10 Oct 2017 | 512 points | Comments)

77. CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens
    (10 Oct 2017 | 508 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?
    (11 Oct 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

79. Stripe Elements: Pre-built UI components to help you create checkout flows
    (3 Oct 2017 | 494 points | Comments)

80. Colony: A platform for open organizations
    (5 Oct 2017 | 492 points | Comments)

81. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
    (3 Oct 2017 | 490 points | Comments)

82. Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
    (8 Oct 2017 | 482 points | Comments)

83. Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples
    (25 Oct 2017 | 478 points | Comments)

84. The Land of Lisp
    (6 Oct 2017 | 477 points | Comments)

85. Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities
    (20 Oct 2017 | 477 points | Comments)

86. First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe
    (10 Oct 2017 | 474 points | Comments)

87. Just own the damn robots
    (17 Oct 2017 | 474 points | Comments)

88. Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies
    (31 Oct 2017 | 474 points | Comments)

89. Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative
    (31 Oct 2017 | 469 points | Comments)

90. Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers
    (24 Oct 2017 | 467 points | Comments)

91. WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
    (4 Oct 2017 | 463 points | Comments)

92. Falling through the KRACKs
    (17 Oct 2017 | 462 points | Comments)

93. What is Nix and why you should try it
    (15 Oct 2017 | 461 points | Comments)

94. You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy
    (16 Oct 2017 | 460 points | Comments)

95. Georgia election server wiped after lawsuit filed
    (26 Oct 2017 | 457 points | Comments)

96. Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust
    (8 Oct 2017 | 456 points | Comments)

97. A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command
    (11 Oct 2017 | 452 points | Comments)

98. New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses
    (26 Oct 2017 | 450 points | Comments)

99. Exploding Git Repositories
    (12 Oct 2017 | 447 points | Comments)

100. F-Droid 1.0 released
     (19 Oct 2017 | 441 points | Comments)