HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Stealing passwords from McDonald's users (finnwea.com)

544 points by chx on Jan 16, 2017 | 164 comments

842.

AIM will shut down after 20 years (theverge.com)

543 points by rbanffy on Oct 6, 2017 | 330 comments

843.

iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security (eff.org)

543 points by panarky on Oct 6, 2017 | 329 comments

844.

On React and WordPress (ma.tt)

543 points by firasd on Sep 15, 2017 | 201 comments

845.

How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf] (blackhat.com)

543 points by danjoc on Dec 27, 2017 | 107 comments

846.

An animated GIF that shows its own MD5 (shells.aachen.ccc.de)

543 points by svenfaw on Mar 8, 2017 | 94 comments

847.

Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants (theintercept.com)

542 points by remx on Mar 13, 2017 | 278 comments

848.

One Step Closer to a Closed Internet (blog.mozilla.org)

542 points by Vinnl on May 18, 2017 | 215 comments

849.

Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python (anvil.works)

542 points by galfarragem on Oct 30, 2017 | 200 comments

850.

Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs (research.googleblog.com)

542 points by wsxiaoys on Jul 13, 2017 | 120 comments

851.

How much does employee turnover really cost? (medium.com)

541 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 17, 2017 | 342 comments

852.

Noun Project – Icons for Everything (thenounproject.com)

541 points by vikingcaffiene on May 11, 2017 | 141 comments

853.

Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless (youexec.com)

540 points by somid3 on Jan 15, 2017 | 370 comments

854.

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (woz.posthaven.com)

540 points by ausjke on Dec 18, 2017 | 348 comments

855.

Site Reliability Engineering (landing.google.com)

540 points by packetslave on Jan 27, 2017 | 111 comments

856.

Machine Learning Crash Course: The Bias-Variance Dilemma (ml.berkeley.edu)

540 points by Yossi_Frenkel on Jul 17, 2017 | 60 comments

857.

Things Every Hacker Once Knew (catb.org)

539 points by ingve on Jan 27, 2017 | 321 comments

858.

Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)

539 points by dennybritz on Dec 6, 2017 | 270 comments

859.

How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails (nateberkopec.com)

539 points by nateberkopec on Mar 15, 2017 | 175 comments

860.

How Stripe teaches employees to code (stripe.com)

539 points by p4lindromica on May 4, 2017 | 117 comments

861.

United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler (latimes.com)

538 points by 4ad on Apr 13, 2017 | 450 comments

862.

WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United States Climate Alliance (governor.wa.gov)

538 points by rbanffy on Jun 1, 2017 | 385 comments

863.

Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation (bbc.co.uk)

538 points by choult on May 19, 2017 | 375 comments

864.

Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy (techcrunch.com)

538 points by janober on Jun 21, 2017 | 316 comments

865.

Desktop compositing latency is real (lofibucket.com)

538 points by dezgeg on Nov 21, 2017 | 291 comments

866.

To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics (quantamagazine.org)

538 points by digital55 on Feb 2, 2017 | 231 comments

867.

Kotlin Is Better (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

538 points by praxxis on May 17, 2017 | 213 comments

868.

Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix (techblog.netflix.com)

537 points by nullspace on Mar 22, 2017 | 508 comments

869.

The Kolmogorov option (scottaaronson.com)

537 points by apsec112 on Aug 9, 2017 | 464 comments

870.

New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $130K/yr (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

537 points by mataug on Jan 31, 2017 | 463 comments