HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation (pages.nist.gov)

642 points by aaronharnly on Dec 14, 2016 | 305 comments

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A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing (bloombergview.com)

641 points by warrenmar on May 3, 2016 | 809 comments

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Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software (latimes.com)

641 points by molecule on Feb 8, 2016 | 585 comments

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The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited (boingboing.net)

641 points by cylo on Jun 16, 2016 | 271 comments

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How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls (elaineou.com)

640 points by elaineo on Feb 19, 2016 | 232 comments

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Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars (expatsoftware.com)

640 points by jasonkester on Oct 4, 2016 | 114 comments

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Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video] (darkpatterns.org)

639 points by alexpoulsen on Dec 6, 2016 | 311 comments

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Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (economist.com)

639 points by shazad on May 2, 2016 | 259 comments

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I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier (medium.com)

639 points by markonen on Jan 17, 2016 | 222 comments

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Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg (0x41.no)

639 points by tilt on Jul 15, 2016 | 194 comments

431.

LiChess: Learn from your mistakes (en.lichess.org)

639 points by akkartik on Dec 23, 2016 | 113 comments

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Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight (bloomberg.com)

637 points by matt_wulfeck on Apr 19, 2016 | 502 comments

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Why we chose Vue.js (about.gitlab.com)

637 points by rmason on Oct 21, 2016 | 271 comments

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React Native for OS X (github.com)

637 points by BafS on Mar 30, 2016 | 256 comments

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Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (elie.net)

637 points by revicon on Oct 22, 2016 | 140 comments

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FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking (fingerio.cs.washington.edu)

637 points by jonbaer on Mar 18, 2016 | 118 comments

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Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say (theguardian.com)

636 points by lemming on May 4, 2016 | 502 comments

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Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules (eweek.com)

636 points by pdpi on Jul 1, 2016 | 334 comments

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Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones (nytimes.com)

636 points by jstreebin on Feb 24, 2016 | 304 comments

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Aaron Swartz died three years ago today (crookedtimber.org)

635 points by jseliger on Jan 11, 2016 | 204 comments

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Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley (medium.com)

634 points by dtran on Jan 22, 2016 | 292 comments

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Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol (whispersystems.org)

633 points by mayneack on Jul 8, 2016 | 295 comments

443.

A practical guide to securing macOS (github.com)

633 points by DemiGuru on Nov 23, 2016 | 84 comments

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Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline (bloomberg.com)

632 points by kjhughes on Dec 8, 2016 | 441 comments

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Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test (fast.com)

631 points by protomyth on May 18, 2016 | 360 comments

446.

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org)

631 points by petepete on Dec 13, 2016 | 327 comments

447.

Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

630 points by throw94 on Jul 29, 2016 | 767 comments

448.

Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux (darlinghq.org)

630 points by mikemoka on Nov 2, 2016 | 265 comments

449.

HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal (hyperterm.org)

630 points by pandemicsyn on Jul 15, 2016 | 255 comments

450.

Time to Dump Time Zones (nytimes.com)

629 points by prostoalex on Nov 6, 2016 | 536 comments