The Best Hacker News Posts of 2017

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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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Ask HN: Is S3 down? iamdeedubs · 28 Feb 2017

2.6k 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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I am an Uber survivor medium.com · NelsonMinar · 27 Feb 2017

2.2k pts 767 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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Get started making music learningmusic.ableton.com · bbgm · 9 May 2017

2.1k pts 461 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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Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack malwaretech.com · pradeepchhetri · 13 May 2017

2k pts 338 comments

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

2k pts 609 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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Firefox 57.0 Released mozilla.org · l2dy · 14 Nov 2017

1.7k pts 813 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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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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Sublime Text 3.0 sublimetext.com · fbnlsr · 13 Sep 2017

1.7k pts 675 comments

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Facebook is an attack on the open web daringfireball.net · tambourine_man · 1 Jun 2017

1.6k pts 421 comments

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Welcome, ACLU medium.com · katm · 31 Jan 2017

1.6k pts 1k 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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Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 17 Jan 2017

1.5k pts 713 comments

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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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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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We’re dropping Google Ads groundup.org.za · alex_hirner · 12 Apr 2017

1.5k pts 584 comments

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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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CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals sciencedirect.com · shannietron · 2 May 2017

1.5k pts 239 comments

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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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Keybase launches encrypted Git keybase.io · aston · 4 Oct 2017

1.4k pts 270 comments

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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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My Family’s Slave theatlantic.com · aaron695 · 16 May 2017

1.4k pts 606 comments

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Grumpy: Go running Python opensource.googleblog.com · trotterdylan · 4 Jan 2017

1.4k pts 451 comments

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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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Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone lyrebird.ai · adbrebs · 24 Apr 2017

1.4k pts 298 comments

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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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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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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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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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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