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Top of Month - Nov 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
    (27 Nov 2017 | 1089 points | Comments)

15. An Open Letter to Intel
    (7 Nov 2017 | 996 points | Comments)

16. Using SVG as image placeholders
    (14 Nov 2017 | 983 points | Comments)

17. I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality
    (23 Nov 2017 | 966 points | Comments)

18. Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled
    (21 Nov 2017 | 953 points | Comments)

19. Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
    (27 Nov 2017 | 937 points | Comments)

20. Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1
    (6 Nov 2017 | 929 points | Comments)

21. Tesla Semi
    (17 Nov 2017 | 922 points | Comments)

22. Does anyone remember websites?
    (5 Nov 2017 | 895 points | Comments)

23. Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom
    (15 Nov 2017 | 873 points | Comments)

24. My unusual hobby
    (25 Nov 2017 | 856 points | Comments)

25. An Open Letter to the FCC
    (22 Nov 2017 | 849 points | Comments)

26. Freelancer.com has ruined my life
    (4 Nov 2017 | 845 points | Comments)

27. Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads
    (27 Nov 2017 | 841 points | Comments)

28. Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
    (29 Nov 2017 | 830 points | Comments)

29. Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed
    (27 Nov 2017 | 828 points | Comments)

30. Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
    (17 Nov 2017 | 796 points | Comments)

31. The fake Facebook profile industry
    (14 Nov 2017 | 795 points | Comments)

32. Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code
    (24 Nov 2017 | 793 points | Comments)

33. Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
    (8 Nov 2017 | 789 points | Comments)

34. Deep image prior 'learns' on just one image
    (30 Nov 2017 | 782 points | Comments)

35. Netflix Stole My VHS Cassette Photos for Its Stranger Things Boxed Set
    (28 Nov 2017 | 780 points | Comments)

36. More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked
    (25 Nov 2017 | 766 points | Comments)

37. “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”
    (10 Nov 2017 | 760 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?
    (13 Nov 2017 | 709 points | Comments)

39. System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan
    (30 Nov 2017 | 703 points | Comments)

40. The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
    (8 Nov 2017 | 699 points | Comments)

41. Security alerts on GitHub
    (16 Nov 2017 | 697 points | Comments)

42. The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)
    (6 Nov 2017 | 675 points | Comments)

43. Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data
    (5 Nov 2017 | 663 points | Comments)

44. Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
    (15 Nov 2017 | 662 points | Comments)

45. DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next
    (28 Nov 2017 | 660 points | Comments)

46. Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market
    (20 Nov 2017 | 659 points | Comments)

47. Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
    (5 Nov 2017 | 647 points | Comments)

48. What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]
    (4 Nov 2017 | 645 points | Comments)

49. RSS: there's nothing better
    (11 Nov 2017 | 640 points | Comments)

50. How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox
    (28 Nov 2017 | 639 points | Comments)

51. I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Should I Say?
    (21 Nov 2017 | 637 points | Comments)

52. Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
    (22 Nov 2017 | 627 points | Comments)

53. Simple React Patterns
    (10 Nov 2017 | 625 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
    (1 Nov 2017 | 624 points | Comments)

55. Startup Ideas
    (16 Nov 2017 | 614 points | Comments)

56. Fearless Concurrency in Firefox Quantum
    (15 Nov 2017 | 611 points | Comments)

57. Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago
    (22 Nov 2017 | 608 points | Comments)

58. Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology
    (9 Nov 2017 | 603 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?
    (1 Nov 2017 | 600 points | Comments)

60. A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm
    (24 Nov 2017 | 600 points | Comments)

61. Inside a low-budget consumer hardware espionage implant
    (11 Nov 2017 | 591 points | Comments)

62. “I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole”
    (24 Nov 2017 | 586 points | Comments)

63. “I thought I could ship at least 700 units to stay in business”
    (23 Nov 2017 | 585 points | Comments)

64. Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?
    (17 Nov 2017 | 580 points | Comments)

65. WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
    (14 Nov 2017 | 574 points | Comments)

66. Visual Studio Live Share
    (15 Nov 2017 | 572 points | Comments)

67. Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code
    (20 Nov 2017 | 572 points | Comments)

68. Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)
    (26 Nov 2017 | 571 points | Comments)

69. Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm”
    (22 Nov 2017 | 566 points | Comments)

70. As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support
    (30 Nov 2017 | 563 points | Comments)

71. Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
    (21 Nov 2017 | 560 points | Comments)

72. Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s
    (13 Nov 2017 | 553 points | Comments)

73. Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting
    (13 Nov 2017 | 553 points | Comments)

74. Microsoft Has Manually Patched Their Equation Editor Executable
    (17 Nov 2017 | 553 points | Comments)

75. A Beginner´s Guide to Getting Things Done
    (13 Nov 2017 | 550 points | Comments)

76. Desktop compositing latency is real
    (21 Nov 2017 | 538 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?
    (14 Nov 2017 | 534 points | Comments)

78. The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective
    (24 Nov 2017 | 533 points | Comments)

79. AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
    (29 Nov 2017 | 533 points | Comments)

80. Tether Critical Announcement
    (21 Nov 2017 | 532 points | Comments)

81. There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use
    (14 Nov 2017 | 530 points | Comments)

82. Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
    (4 Nov 2017 | 527 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?
    (25 Nov 2017 | 525 points | Comments)

84. Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends
    (6 Nov 2017 | 522 points | Comments)

85. An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine
    (20 Nov 2017 | 522 points | Comments)

86. Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
    (29 Nov 2017 | 521 points | Comments)

87. Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG
    (26 Nov 2017 | 510 points | Comments)

88. American Equity
    (27 Nov 2017 | 509 points | Comments)

89. LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software
    (3 Nov 2017 | 504 points | Comments)

90. BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia
    (8 Nov 2017 | 504 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
    (14 Nov 2017 | 502 points | Comments)

92. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
    (7 Nov 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

93. Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go
    (21 Nov 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

94. Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads
    (4 Nov 2017 | 494 points | Comments)

95. I hate telephones
    (11 Nov 2017 | 493 points | Comments)

96. Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended
    (8 Nov 2017 | 491 points | Comments)

97. YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
    (10 Nov 2017 | 486 points | Comments)

98. Concise Electronics for Geeks (2010)
    (15 Nov 2017 | 481 points | Comments)

99. USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion
    (2 Nov 2017 | 476 points | Comments)

100. Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts
     (27 Nov 2017 | 476 points | Comments)