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The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2017

We track 1,126 stories from October 2017, averaging 237 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 64 stories. Together they drew 128,635 comments.

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Keybase launches encrypted Git keybase.io · aston · 4 Oct 2017
1.4k pts 270 comments
2
Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse krackattacks.com · fanfantm · 16 Oct 2017
1.4k pts 411 comments
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US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data medium.com · benaadams · 15 Oct 2017
1.3k pts 301 comments
4
DevDocs API Documentation devdocs.io · nieksa · 19 Oct 2017
1.2k pts 141 comments
5
Documenting the Web together blogs.windows.com · marvinpinto · 18 Oct 2017
1.2k pts 203 comments
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Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway guacamole.incubator.apache.org · mutin-sa · 3 Oct 2017
1.1k pts 216 comments
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PostgreSQL 10 Released postgresql.org · Tostino · 5 Oct 2017
1k pts 296 comments
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Do you need a VPN? blog.mozilla.org · thesumofall · 30 Oct 2017
969 pts 479 comments
9
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived uss-la-ca135.org · curtis · 16 Oct 2017
950 pts 246 comments
10
AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch deepmind.com · stablemap · 18 Oct 2017
923 pts 311 comments
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We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016) danluu.com · indy · 31 Oct 2017
910 pts 625 comments
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75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas journals.plos.org · kawera · 18 Oct 2017
901 pts 432 comments
13
Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator reddit.com · danso · 24 Oct 2017
886 pts 480 comments
14
'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia theguardian.com · misnamed · 7 Oct 2017
878 pts 386 comments
15
The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service open.nytimes.com · alecmuffett · 27 Oct 2017
878 pts 192 comments
16
Five minute guide to better typography pierrickcalvez.com · reacharavindh · 7 Oct 2017
868 pts 126 comments
17
iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking krausefx.com · krausefx · 10 Oct 2017
867 pts 320 comments
18
Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics spectrum.ieee.org · sohkamyung · 25 Oct 2017
866 pts 258 comments
19
Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing send.firefox.com · networked · 11 Oct 2017
856 pts 275 comments
20
The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank hacks.mozilla.org · bpierre · 10 Oct 2017
853 pts 207 comments
21
The Depression Thing zachholman.com · darwhy · 11 Oct 2017
841 pts 328 comments
22
New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary m.sfgate.com · ssaxena80 · 18 Oct 2017
835 pts 651 comments
23
Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp robertheaton.com · robheaton · 9 Oct 2017
828 pts 150 comments
24
Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile bbc.co.uk · nocoder · 9 Oct 2017
812 pts 710 comments
25
Saying Goodbye to Firebug hacks.mozilla.org · kungfudoi · 24 Oct 2017
805 pts 154 comments
26
I have no side code projects to show you codementor.io · nnd · 25 Oct 2017
771 pts 522 comments
27
A Pre-History of Slashdot medium.com · cmdrtaco · 5 Oct 2017
751 pts 350 comments
28
Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child mathoverflow.net · lainon · 5 Oct 2017
749 pts 131 comments
29
Keyboard latency danluu.com · darwhy · 16 Oct 2017
747 pts 265 comments
30
Robert Scoble and Me medium.com · strangeloops85 · 19 Oct 2017
733 pts 337 comments
31
How the Elderly Lose Their Rights newyorker.com · CommieBobDole · 3 Oct 2017
726 pts 251 comments
32
Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages arxiv-vanity.com · bfirsh · 23 Oct 2017
721 pts 134 comments
33
150 days of living and coding in a van ruby-on-wheels.github.io · hwartig · 10 Oct 2017
720 pts 436 comments
34
Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web staltz.com · staltz · 30 Oct 2017
712 pts 323 comments
35
Disabling the Intel Management Engine wiki.gentoo.org · marksamman · 10 Oct 2017
707 pts 219 comments
36
Security.txt securitytxt.org · janvdberg · 6 Oct 2017
705 pts 141 comments
37
Iceland's attempts to replant its forests nytimes.com · farseer · 20 Oct 2017
697 pts 273 comments
38
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) whoishiring · 2 Oct 2017
678 pts 1.1k comments
39
Show HN: Metaballs varun.ca · winkerVSbecks · 17 Oct 2017
673 pts 93 comments
40
Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect fastcodesign.com · tlarkworthy · 25 Oct 2017
670 pts 252 comments
41
Text Editor: Data Structures averylaird.com · LaSombra · 2 Oct 2017
664 pts 121 comments
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Please take care of my plant pleasetakecareofmyplant.com · mooreds · 11 Oct 2017
660 pts 179 comments
43
Sorting Visualizations imgur.com · infodroid · 7 Oct 2017
651 pts 35 comments
44
Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B wsj.com · coloneltcb · 3 Oct 2017
647 pts 295 comments
45
Dangers of CSV Injection georgemauer.net · rpenm · 10 Oct 2017
645 pts 188 comments
46
Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias facebook.com · KentBeck · 12 Oct 2017
644 pts 419 comments
47
The impossible dream of USB-C marco.org · okket · 14 Oct 2017
635 pts 306 comments
48
If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools blog.interviewing.io · leeny · 24 Oct 2017
631 pts 479 comments
49
If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint support.apple.com · 0x0 · 5 Oct 2017
627 pts 354 comments
50
HolyJit: A New Hope blog.mozilla.org · bpierre · 20 Oct 2017
627 pts 199 comments
51
“Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen reddit.com · erklik · 26 Oct 2017
625 pts 274 comments
52
Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller npr.org · zymhan · 26 Oct 2017
623 pts 249 comments
53
An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 github.com · j_s · 12 Oct 2017
614 pts 129 comments
54
New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior planetizen.com · WisNorCan · 15 Oct 2017
604 pts 441 comments
55
How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability blog.canny.io · a13n · 24 Oct 2017
603 pts 165 comments
56
Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers stripe.com · nozzlegear · 23 Oct 2017
598 pts 130 comments
57
Designing Data-Intensive Applications dataintensive.net · wooola · 8 Oct 2017
598 pts 59 comments
58
The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case dreamhost.com · yoda_sl · 10 Oct 2017
596 pts 135 comments
59
Vim after 15 Years statico.github.io · statico · 17 Oct 2017
590 pts 173 comments
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Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis antirez.com · darwhy · 2 Oct 2017
588 pts 147 comments

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