The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2017

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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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Firefox is on a slippery slope drewdevault.com · ddevault · 16 Dec 2017

2k pts 874 comments

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Google Maps' Moat justinobeirne.com · rafaelc · 19 Dec 2017

2k pts 609 comments

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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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Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game airma.sh · fivesigma · 10 Dec 2017

1.5k pts 304 comments

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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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Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations ohshitgit.com · adishaporwal · 18 Dec 2017

1.2k pts 508 comments

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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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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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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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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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Magic Leap One magicleap.com · runesoerensen · 20 Dec 2017

1.1k pts 623 comments

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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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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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Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings sec.gov · corbinpage · 12 Dec 2017

811 pts 161 comments

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Chrome is Not the Standard chriskrycho.com · chriskrycho · 21 Dec 2017

807 pts 451 comments

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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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Exercism – Level up your programming skills exercism.io · moesart · 11 Dec 2017

795 pts 94 comments

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Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 servethehome.com · awiesenhofer · 12 Dec 2017

793 pts 522 comments

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Project Euler projecteuler.net · vinchuco · 10 Dec 2017

792 pts 163 comments

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How I went from programming to consulting (2012) training.kalzumeus.com · putnam · 23 Dec 2017

780 pts 472 comments

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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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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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The Big Vitamin D Mistake ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · pacaro · 7 Dec 2017

756 pts 440 comments

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Effective Engineer – Notes gist.github.com · signa11 · 28 Dec 2017

751 pts 225 comments

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After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters arstechnica.com · lisper · 1 Dec 2017

740 pts 260 comments

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Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time spa.mnesty.com · dgellow · 30 Dec 2017

738 pts 157 comments

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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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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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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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How to get your first 100k active users blog.winnie.com · annekate · 12 Dec 2017

693 pts 147 comments

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Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin steamcommunity.com · tsneed290 · 6 Dec 2017

675 pts 395 comments

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How to Read Mathematics people.vcu.edu · ColinWright · 12 Dec 2017

663 pts 138 comments

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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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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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E Pur Si Muove blog.samaltman.com · firloop · 14 Dec 2017

647 pts 827 comments

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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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Economics of Minecraft alicemaz.com · scribu · 28 Dec 2017

642 pts 112 comments

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HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important troyhunt.com · f2n · 13 Dec 2017

639 pts 288 comments

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Django 2.0 released docs.djangoproject.com · webiad · 2 Dec 2017

635 pts 170 comments

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Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research theconversation.com · versteegen · 13 Dec 2017

624 pts 171 comments

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I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty medium.com · GregoryVPerry · 24 Dec 2017

624 pts 152 comments

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Internet Chemotherapy ghostbin.com · signa11 · 17 Dec 2017

616 pts 135 comments

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Introducing the GoodWatch goodwatch.org · limmeau · 15 Dec 2017

604 pts 71 comments

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Amazon's Fake Review Problem brianbien.com · doglet · 16 Dec 2017

602 pts 324 comments

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Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback smortaz · 14 Dec 2017

594 pts 268 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) whoishiring · 1 Dec 2017

592 pts 983 comments

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Computer latency: 1977-2017 danluu.com · kens · 24 Dec 2017

588 pts 161 comments

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REST is the new SOAP medium.com · sidcool · 16 Dec 2017

581 pts 338 comments

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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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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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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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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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Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox thewaltdisneycompany.com · mxfh · 14 Dec 2017

566 pts 348 comments

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Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps washingtonpost.com · lisper · 4 Dec 2017

556 pts 141 comments

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Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society theverge.com · SREinSF · 11 Dec 2017

555 pts 231 comments

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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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What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) woz.posthaven.com · ausjke · 18 Dec 2017

540 pts 348 comments

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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