The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2017
We track 1,099 stories from December 2017, averaging 238 points each. nytimes.com was the most linked source, with 41 stories. Together they drew 130,173 comments, 118 per story on average.
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F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
nytimes.com · panny · 14 Dec 2017
3.4k pts
1.4k comments
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2
Firefox is on a slippery slope
drewdevault.com · ddevault · 16 Dec 2017
2k pts
874 comments
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4
Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to
docs.google.com · flor1s · 14 Dec 2017
1.7k pts
120 comments
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5
Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
airma.sh · fivesigma · 10 Dec 2017
1.5k pts
304 comments
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6
Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time
inews.co.uk · pimeys · 16 Dec 2017
1.2k pts
217 comments
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7
Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
ohshitgit.com · adishaporwal · 18 Dec 2017
1.2k pts
508 comments
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8
We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
blog.patreon.com · JoshTriplett · 13 Dec 2017
1.2k pts
539 comments
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9
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
propublica.org · danso · 20 Dec 2017
1.2k pts
786 comments
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10
A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
apple.com · jayachdee · 28 Dec 2017
1.2k pts
832 comments
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11
AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
AGSchneiderman · 5 Dec 2017
1.1k pts
269 comments
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13
Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages
forums.xfinity.com · CSDude · 10 Dec 2017
999 pts
479 comments
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14
Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already
threadreaderapp.com · JoshTriplett · 1 Dec 2017
854 pts
487 comments
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15
Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings
sec.gov · corbinpage · 12 Dec 2017
811 pts
161 comments
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16
Chrome is Not the Standard
chriskrycho.com · chriskrycho · 21 Dec 2017
807 pts
451 comments
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17
WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities
reuters.com · artsandsci · 19 Dec 2017
795 pts
408 comments
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18
Exercism – Level up your programming skills
exercism.io · moesart · 11 Dec 2017
795 pts
94 comments
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19
Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
servethehome.com · awiesenhofer · 12 Dec 2017
793 pts
522 comments
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21
How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
training.kalzumeus.com · putnam · 23 Dec 2017
780 pts
472 comments
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22
Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
exstreamist.com · joeyespo · 22 Dec 2017
758 pts
440 comments
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23
Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
support.mozilla.org · shak77 · 15 Dec 2017
757 pts
511 comments
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24
The Big Vitamin D Mistake
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · pacaro · 7 Dec 2017
756 pts
440 comments
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25
Effective Engineer – Notes
gist.github.com · signa11 · 28 Dec 2017
751 pts
225 comments
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26
After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
arstechnica.com · lisper · 1 Dec 2017
740 pts
260 comments
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27
Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
spa.mnesty.com · dgellow · 30 Dec 2017
738 pts
157 comments
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28
Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
eff.org · DiabloD3 · 13 Dec 2017
726 pts
284 comments
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29
How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
torrentfreak.com · pawal · 14 Dec 2017
701 pts
310 comments
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30
Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
reddit.com · whalesalad · 17 Dec 2017
701 pts
292 comments
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31
How to get your first 100k active users
blog.winnie.com · annekate · 12 Dec 2017
693 pts
147 comments
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32
Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin
steamcommunity.com · tsneed290 · 6 Dec 2017
675 pts
395 comments
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33
How to Read Mathematics
people.vcu.edu · ColinWright · 12 Dec 2017
663 pts
138 comments
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34
Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle
danluu.com · pavel_lishin · 9 Dec 2017
660 pts
234 comments
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35
Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games
google.github.io · ingve · 17 Dec 2017
657 pts
90 comments
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37
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
righto.com · dvt · 18 Dec 2017
642 pts
156 comments
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39
HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important
troyhunt.com · f2n · 13 Dec 2017
639 pts
288 comments
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40
Django 2.0 released
docs.djangoproject.com · webiad · 2 Dec 2017
635 pts
170 comments
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41
Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research
theconversation.com · versteegen · 13 Dec 2017
624 pts
171 comments
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42
I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty
medium.com · GregoryVPerry · 24 Dec 2017
624 pts
152 comments
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45
Amazon's Fake Review Problem
brianbien.com · doglet · 16 Dec 2017
602 pts
324 comments
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46
Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback
smortaz · 14 Dec 2017
594 pts
268 comments
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47
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
whoishiring · 1 Dec 2017
592 pts
983 comments
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50
A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
twitter.com · emsy · 19 Dec 2017
580 pts
398 comments
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51
Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting
krebsonsecurity.com · pjc50 · 29 Dec 2017
574 pts
617 comments
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52
Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
theguardian.com · benbreen · 6 Dec 2017
572 pts
518 comments
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53
Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview
keyvalues.com · lynnetye · 12 Dec 2017
572 pts
125 comments
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54
Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
thewaltdisneycompany.com · mxfh · 14 Dec 2017
566 pts
348 comments
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55
Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
washingtonpost.com · lisper · 4 Dec 2017
556 pts
141 comments
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56
Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society
theverge.com · SREinSF · 11 Dec 2017
555 pts
231 comments
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57
How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]
blackhat.com · danjoc · 27 Dec 2017
543 pts
107 comments
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58
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
woz.posthaven.com · ausjke · 18 Dec 2017
540 pts
348 comments
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59
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
arxiv.org · dennybritz · 6 Dec 2017
539 pts
270 comments
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Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
bloomberg.com · jseliger · 6 Dec 2017
527 pts
270 comments
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