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, 114 per story on average.
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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
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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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I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
uss-la-ca135.org · curtis · 16 Oct 2017
950 pts
246 comments
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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
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Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
reddit.com · danso · 24 Oct 2017
886 pts
480 comments
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'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
theguardian.com · misnamed · 7 Oct 2017
878 pts
386 comments
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The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
open.nytimes.com · alecmuffett · 27 Oct 2017
878 pts
192 comments
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Five minute guide to better typography
pierrickcalvez.com · reacharavindh · 7 Oct 2017
868 pts
126 comments
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iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
krausefx.com · krausefx · 10 Oct 2017
867 pts
320 comments
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Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
spectrum.ieee.org · sohkamyung · 25 Oct 2017
866 pts
258 comments
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Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
send.firefox.com · networked · 11 Oct 2017
856 pts
275 comments
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The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
hacks.mozilla.org · bpierre · 10 Oct 2017
853 pts
207 comments
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New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
m.sfgate.com · ssaxena80 · 18 Oct 2017
835 pts
651 comments
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Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
robertheaton.com · robheaton · 9 Oct 2017
828 pts
150 comments
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Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
bbc.co.uk · nocoder · 9 Oct 2017
812 pts
710 comments
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Saying Goodbye to Firebug
hacks.mozilla.org · kungfudoi · 24 Oct 2017
805 pts
154 comments
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I have no side code projects to show you
codementor.io · nnd · 25 Oct 2017
771 pts
522 comments
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Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child
mathoverflow.net · lainon · 5 Oct 2017
749 pts
131 comments
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How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
newyorker.com · CommieBobDole · 3 Oct 2017
726 pts
251 comments
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Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
arxiv-vanity.com · bfirsh · 23 Oct 2017
721 pts
134 comments
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150 days of living and coding in a van
ruby-on-wheels.github.io · hwartig · 10 Oct 2017
720 pts
436 comments
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
staltz.com · staltz · 30 Oct 2017
712 pts
323 comments
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Disabling the Intel Management Engine
wiki.gentoo.org · marksamman · 10 Oct 2017
707 pts
219 comments
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Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
nytimes.com · farseer · 20 Oct 2017
697 pts
273 comments
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
whoishiring · 2 Oct 2017
678 pts
1.1k comments
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Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect
fastcodesign.com · tlarkworthy · 25 Oct 2017
670 pts
252 comments
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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
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Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
wsj.com · coloneltcb · 3 Oct 2017
647 pts
295 comments
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Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias
facebook.com · KentBeck · 12 Oct 2017
644 pts
419 comments
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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
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If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
support.apple.com · 0x0 · 5 Oct 2017
627 pts
354 comments
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“Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
reddit.com · erklik · 26 Oct 2017
625 pts
274 comments
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Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller
npr.org · zymhan · 26 Oct 2017
623 pts
249 comments
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An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
github.com · j_s · 12 Oct 2017
614 pts
129 comments
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New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior
planetizen.com · WisNorCan · 15 Oct 2017
604 pts
441 comments
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How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
blog.canny.io · a13n · 24 Oct 2017
603 pts
165 comments
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Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
stripe.com · nozzlegear · 23 Oct 2017
598 pts
130 comments
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
dataintensive.net · wooola · 8 Oct 2017
598 pts
59 comments
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The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case
dreamhost.com · yoda_sl · 10 Oct 2017
596 pts
135 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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