The Best Hacker News Posts of 2017
We track 13,401 stories from 2017, averaging 245 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 691 stories. Together they drew 1,635,522 comments, 122 per story on average.
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Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
susanjfowler.com · grey-area · 19 Feb 2017
4.1k pts
1k comments
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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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Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
bugs.chromium.org · tptacek · 23 Feb 2017
3.2k pts
992 comments
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Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
security.googleblog.com · pfg · 23 Feb 2017
3k pts
485 comments
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macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
twitter.com · vladikoff · 28 Nov 2017
3k pts
1.1k 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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CIA malware and hacking tools
wikileaks.org · randomname2 · 7 Mar 2017
2.7k pts
1.1k 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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Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
nature.com · ngoldbaum · 22 Feb 2017
2.3k pts
704 comments
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How Firefox Got Fast Again
hacks.mozilla.org · bpierre · 13 Nov 2017
2.2k pts
687 comments
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
nytimes.com · java_script · 21 Jun 2017
2.1k pts
1.3k comments
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14
Get started making music
learningmusic.ableton.com · bbgm · 9 May 2017
2.1k pts
461 comments
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15
Firefox is on a slippery slope
drewdevault.com · ddevault · 16 Dec 2017
2k pts
874 comments
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Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
malwaretech.com · pradeepchhetri · 13 May 2017
2k pts
338 comments
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Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
RBBronson123 · 2 Aug 2017
1.9k pts
506 comments
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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
techcrunch.com · SwaroopH · 9 Jan 2017
1.9k pts
733 comments
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GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
qz.com · imanewsman · 21 Mar 2017
1.8k pts
462 comments
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SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
spacex.com · runesoerensen · 27 Feb 2017
1.7k pts
488 comments
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Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
news.mit.edu · melqdusy · 4 Apr 2017
1.7k pts
287 comments
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Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
bloomberg.com · coloneltcb · 21 Nov 2017
1.7k pts
572 comments
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Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
bloomberg.com · _vvdf · 8 Aug 2017
1.7k pts
2.4k comments
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Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
bloomberg.com · whatok · 16 Jun 2017
1.7k pts
824 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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28
Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
blog.google · ghosh · 12 Jul 2017
1.7k pts
433 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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31
Facebook is an attack on the open web
daringfireball.net · tambourine_man · 1 Jun 2017
1.6k pts
421 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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Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
josephg.com · charlieirish · 11 Apr 2017
1.5k pts
996 comments
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35
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 17 Jan 2017
1.5k pts
713 comments
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36
What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
privacylog.blogspot.com · ivank · 21 Apr 2017
1.5k pts
438 comments
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37
A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
imgur.com · wyldfire · 30 Aug 2017
1.5k pts
296 comments
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38
We’re dropping Google Ads
groundup.org.za · alex_hirner · 12 Apr 2017
1.5k pts
584 comments
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39
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will
m.nautil.us · rajeshmr · 20 Nov 2017
1.5k pts
496 comments
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40
CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
sciencedirect.com · shannietron · 2 May 2017
1.5k pts
239 comments
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41
A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
twitter.com · dmit · 10 May 2017
1.5k pts
522 comments
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42
Keybase launches encrypted Git
keybase.io · aston · 4 Oct 2017
1.4k pts
270 comments
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43
Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
answers.microsoft.com · wielebny · 22 Mar 2017
1.4k pts
469 comments
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45
Grumpy: Go running Python
opensource.googleblog.com · trotterdylan · 4 Jan 2017
1.4k pts
451 comments
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46
Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration
thehackerblog.com · koenrh · 10 Jul 2017
1.4k pts
246 comments
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47
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
lyrebird.ai · adbrebs · 24 Apr 2017
1.4k pts
298 comments
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48
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn
gist.github.com · yossorion · 18 Jan 2017
1.4k pts
558 comments
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Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
dustinkirkland · 31 Mar 2017
1.4k pts
1.1k comments
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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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51
They Used To Last 50 Years
recraigslist.com · teslacar · 19 Mar 2017
1.4k pts
860 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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53
Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
lists.gnu.org · dhuramas · 9 Feb 2017
1.3k pts
474 comments
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WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
theguardian.com · katpas · 13 Jan 2017
1.3k pts
321 comments
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FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
washingtonpost.com · rbanffy · 21 Nov 2017
1.3k pts
646 comments
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56
Teach Yourself Computer Science
teachyourselfcs.com · kruse-tim · 13 Mar 2017
1.3k pts
237 comments
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Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
neustadt.fr · livatlantis · 2 Nov 2017
1.3k pts
503 comments
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Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
issues.apache.org · thelarkinn · 16 Jul 2017
1.3k pts
362 comments
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59
Battle for the Internet
battleforthenet.com · anigbrowl · 12 Jul 2017
1.3k pts
487 comments
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LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
libretaxi.org · bpierre · 31 Jan 2017
1.3k pts
382 comments
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