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Top of Month - Dec 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages
    (10 Dec 2017 | 999 points | Comments)

14. Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already
    (1 Dec 2017 | 854 points | Comments)

15. Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings
    (12 Dec 2017 | 811 points | Comments)

16. Chrome is Not the Standard
    (21 Dec 2017 | 807 points | Comments)

17. Exercism – Level up your programming skills
    (11 Dec 2017 | 795 points | Comments)

18. WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities
    (19 Dec 2017 | 795 points | Comments)

19. Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
    (12 Dec 2017 | 793 points | Comments)

20. Project Euler
    (10 Dec 2017 | 792 points | Comments)

21. How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
    (23 Dec 2017 | 780 points | Comments)

22. Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
    (22 Dec 2017 | 758 points | Comments)

23. Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
    (15 Dec 2017 | 757 points | Comments)

24. The Big Vitamin D Mistake
    (7 Dec 2017 | 756 points | Comments)

25. Effective Engineer – Notes
    (28 Dec 2017 | 751 points | Comments)

26. After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
    (1 Dec 2017 | 740 points | Comments)

27. Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
    (30 Dec 2017 | 738 points | Comments)

28. Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
    (13 Dec 2017 | 726 points | Comments)

29. How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
    (14 Dec 2017 | 701 points | Comments)

30. Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
    (17 Dec 2017 | 701 points | Comments)

31. How to get your first 100k active users
    (12 Dec 2017 | 693 points | Comments)

32. Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin
    (6 Dec 2017 | 675 points | Comments)

33. How to Read Mathematics
    (12 Dec 2017 | 663 points | Comments)

34. Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle
    (9 Dec 2017 | 660 points | Comments)

35. Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games
    (17 Dec 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

36. E Pur Si Muove
    (14 Dec 2017 | 647 points | Comments)

37. Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
    (18 Dec 2017 | 642 points | Comments)

38. Economics of Minecraft
    (28 Dec 2017 | 642 points | Comments)

39. HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important
    (13 Dec 2017 | 639 points | Comments)

40. Django 2.0 released
    (2 Dec 2017 | 635 points | Comments)

41. Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research
    (13 Dec 2017 | 624 points | Comments)

42. I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty
    (24 Dec 2017 | 624 points | Comments)

43. Internet Chemotherapy
    (17 Dec 2017 | 616 points | Comments)

44. Introducing the GoodWatch
    (15 Dec 2017 | 604 points | Comments)

45. Amazon's Fake Review Problem
    (16 Dec 2017 | 602 points | Comments)

46. Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback
    (14 Dec 2017 | 594 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
    (1 Dec 2017 | 592 points | Comments)

48. Computer latency: 1977-2017
    (24 Dec 2017 | 588 points | Comments)

49. REST is the new SOAP
    (16 Dec 2017 | 581 points | Comments)

50. A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
    (19 Dec 2017 | 580 points | Comments)

51. Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting
    (29 Dec 2017 | 574 points | Comments)

52. Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
    (6 Dec 2017 | 572 points | Comments)

53. Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview
    (12 Dec 2017 | 572 points | Comments)

54. Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
    (14 Dec 2017 | 566 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
    (30 Dec 2017 | 558 points | Comments)

56. Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
    (4 Dec 2017 | 556 points | Comments)

57. Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society
    (11 Dec 2017 | 555 points | Comments)

58. How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]
    (27 Dec 2017 | 543 points | Comments)

59. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
    (18 Dec 2017 | 540 points | Comments)

60. Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
    (6 Dec 2017 | 539 points | Comments)

61. Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
    (6 Dec 2017 | 527 points | Comments)

62. Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won
    (8 Dec 2017 | 518 points | Comments)

63. Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
    (22 Dec 2017 | 517 points | Comments)

64. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
    (8 Dec 2017 | 516 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
    (6 Dec 2017 | 513 points | Comments)

66. Books I read this year
    (4 Dec 2017 | 511 points | Comments)

67. A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
    (1 Dec 2017 | 508 points | Comments)

68. A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
    (7 Dec 2017 | 507 points | Comments)

69. France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
    (13 Dec 2017 | 505 points | Comments)

70. Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me
    (26 Dec 2017 | 504 points | Comments)

71. Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web apps
    (25 Dec 2017 | 500 points | Comments)

72. Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
    (4 Dec 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

73. IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability
    (31 Dec 2017 | 497 points | Comments)

74. Making a Game Boy game in 2017
    (9 Dec 2017 | 496 points | Comments)

75. India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year
    (27 Dec 2017 | 495 points | Comments)

76. ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking
    (26 Dec 2017 | 491 points | Comments)

77. Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016)
    (10 Dec 2017 | 489 points | Comments)

78. TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds
    (13 Dec 2017 | 485 points | Comments)

79. Power Prices Go Negative in Germany
    (26 Dec 2017 | 485 points | Comments)

80. How Stripe Designs Websites
    (3 Dec 2017 | 484 points | Comments)

81. I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
    (7 Dec 2017 | 478 points | Comments)

82. Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
    (19 Dec 2017 | 472 points | Comments)

83. Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively
    (4 Dec 2017 | 468 points | Comments)

84. Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc
    (13 Dec 2017 | 467 points | Comments)

85. iOS 11 Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of iOS Security
    (1 Dec 2017 | 466 points | Comments)

86. 120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak
    (19 Dec 2017 | 465 points | Comments)

87. The compelling case for working less
    (5 Dec 2017 | 461 points | Comments)

88. Internet protocols are changing
    (12 Dec 2017 | 458 points | Comments)

89. Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California
    (14 Dec 2017 | 457 points | Comments)

90. iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
    (19 Dec 2017 | 456 points | Comments)

91. A beginner’s guide to getting started in the cryptocurrency world
    (10 Dec 2017 | 453 points | Comments)

92. I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil
    (26 Dec 2017 | 447 points | Comments)

93. Dynamicland
    (19 Dec 2017 | 446 points | Comments)

94. LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police
    (30 Dec 2017 | 446 points | Comments)

95. Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123
    (29 Dec 2017 | 444 points | Comments)

96. Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
    (2 Dec 2017 | 442 points | Comments)

97. Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational
    (29 Dec 2017 | 442 points | Comments)

98. Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
    (3 Dec 2017 | 441 points | Comments)

99. Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler
    (5 Dec 2017 | 435 points | Comments)

100. New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
     (19 Dec 2017 | 432 points | Comments)