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The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2017

We track 1,145 stories from September 2017, averaging 250 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 54 stories. Together they drew 141,564 comments.

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W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns boingboing.net · guelo · 18 Sep 2017
2.7k pts 978 comments
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Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js code.facebook.com · dwwoelfel · 22 Sep 2017
2.3k pts 498 comments
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It’s time to give Firefox another chance techcrunch.com · uladzislau · 29 Sep 2017
1.7k pts 712 comments
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Sublime Text 3.0 sublimetext.com · fbnlsr · 13 Sep 2017
1.7k pts 675 comments
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Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack bloomberg.com · jameslk · 8 Sep 2017
1.3k pts 648 comments
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China Blocks WhatsApp nytimes.com · GuiA · 25 Sep 2017
1.2k pts 618 comments
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DuckDuckGo vs Google fourweekmba.com · gcuofano · 20 Sep 2017
1.1k pts 536 comments
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Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch bradfrost.com · ingve · 11 Sep 2017
1.1k pts 387 comments
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Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home flightradar24.com · devy · 7 Sep 2017
1.1k pts 188 comments
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Facebook recruiting and Unix systems imgur.com · abhisuri97 · 6 Sep 2017
1.1k pts 477 comments
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Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You kalzumeus.com · darwhy · 9 Sep 2017
1.1k pts 276 comments
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Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information investor.equifax.com · runesoerensen · 7 Sep 2017
1k pts 532 comments
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Text-only CNN lite.cnn.io · ekimekim · 10 Sep 2017
1k pts 297 comments
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It’s time to kill the web app blog.plan99.net · raindev · 23 Sep 2017
1k pts 702 comments
15
iPhone X apple.com · interconnector · 12 Sep 2017
995 pts 1.7k comments
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Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency blogs.dropbox.com · nuriaion · 6 Sep 2017
987 pts 84 comments
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A new kind of map: it’s about time blog.mapbox.com · uptown · 20 Sep 2017
968 pts 201 comments
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New in PostgreSQL 10 wiki.postgresql.org · okket · 21 Sep 2017
962 pts 249 comments
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Insane state of today's advertising part 3 plus.google.com · archon810 · 1 Sep 2017
961 pts 420 comments
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A “right to repair” movement tools up economist.com · edward · 28 Sep 2017
928 pts 305 comments
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Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee blog.ycombinator.com · craigcannon · 28 Sep 2017
927 pts 602 comments
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Scenic Tram Simulator alexanderperrin.com.au · fredley · 24 Sep 2017
918 pts 127 comments
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React 16 facebook.github.io · markthethomas · 26 Sep 2017
914 pts 338 comments
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How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block la3.org · kilburn · 29 Sep 2017
906 pts 548 comments
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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition blog.mozilla.org · Vinnl · 26 Sep 2017
896 pts 439 comments
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Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches ibtimes.com · Dowwie · 10 Sep 2017
893 pts 167 comments
27
The art of over-engineering your side projects elsyms.com · elsyms · 1 Sep 2017
869 pts 257 comments
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How I got to 200 productive hours a month qotoqot.com · miqkt · 22 Sep 2017
853 pts 291 comments
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers blog.mozilla.org · nachtigall · 15 Sep 2017
850 pts 238 comments
30
Cutting your salary by 40% codewithoutrules.com · itamarst · 18 Sep 2017
844 pts 435 comments
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New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains bbc.com · hexrcs · 22 Sep 2017
829 pts 246 comments
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YC’s Essential Startup Advice blog.ycombinator.com · craigcannon · 25 Sep 2017
825 pts 231 comments
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Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies” replicationindex.wordpress.com · skmurphy · 12 Sep 2017
819 pts 328 comments
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Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds aei.org · yurisagalov · 17 Sep 2017
786 pts 312 comments
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How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME blackhat.com · edejong · 20 Sep 2017
769 pts 240 comments
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Demon-Haunted World locusmag.com · drabiega · 5 Sep 2017
768 pts 282 comments
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“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product” twitter.com · sengork · 3 Sep 2017
753 pts 387 comments
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HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece  medium.com · larsiusprime · 4 Sep 2017
739 pts 280 comments
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“Google: it is time to return to not being evil” vivaldi.com · _lbaq · 4 Sep 2017
739 pts 237 comments
40
Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen michalspacek.com · flux_w42 · 23 Sep 2017
726 pts 303 comments
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“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason” jasmcole.com · mhb · 21 Sep 2017
710 pts 270 comments
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Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? baran · 2 Sep 2017
692 pts 247 comments
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Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs (2016) washingtonpost.com · anythingnonidin · 19 Sep 2017
687 pts 367 comments
44
Nginx Unit nginx.com · tomd · 7 Sep 2017
680 pts 232 comments
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Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 blog.talosintelligence.com · spaar · 18 Sep 2017
675 pts 222 comments
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Uber London loses licence to operate bbc.co.uk · gadders · 22 Sep 2017
672 pts 585 comments
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Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound venturebeat.com · piyushgupta27 · 15 Sep 2017
670 pts 183 comments
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Gas Pump Skimmers learn.sparkfun.com · whalesalad · 19 Sep 2017
657 pts 335 comments
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It appears my Google account is slated for deletion alexaobrien.com · harryh · 13 Sep 2017
657 pts 266 comments
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Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed bloomberg.com · _vvdf · 7 Sep 2017
650 pts 169 comments
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Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent tomshardware.com · thg · 14 Sep 2017
645 pts 193 comments
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Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library shopify.github.io · davidcornu · 29 Sep 2017
633 pts 114 comments
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Announcing CoffeeScript 2 coffeescript.org · GeoffreyBooth · 18 Sep 2017
632 pts 207 comments
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We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach onlinelibrary.wiley.com · mathgenius · 16 Sep 2017
626 pts 377 comments
55
How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost? nation.maps.arcgis.com · sndean · 8 Sep 2017
616 pts 332 comments
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Windows for Linux Nerds blog.jessfraz.com · geostyx · 13 Sep 2017
615 pts 381 comments
57
Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security troyhunt.com · louis-paul · 14 Sep 2017
612 pts 305 comments
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Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like gizmodo.com · IBM · 1 Sep 2017
605 pts 190 comments
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Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse lensrentals.com · blueintegral · 2 Sep 2017
599 pts 153 comments
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Godot Engine – Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine godotengine.org · malikNF · 22 Sep 2017
593 pts 131 comments

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