HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Get started making music (learningmusic.ableton.com)

2106 points by bbgm on May 9, 2017 | 461 comments

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Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack (malwaretech.com)

1981 points by pradeepchhetri on May 13, 2017 | 338 comments

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CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals (sciencedirect.com)

1455 points by shannietron on May 2, 2017 | 239 comments

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A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system (twitter.com)

1450 points by dmit on May 10, 2017 | 522 comments

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My Family’s Slave (theatlantic.com)

1419 points by aaron695 on May 16, 2017 | 606 comments

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Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool (mobile.nytimes.com)

1248 points by ghosh on May 12, 2017 | 478 comments

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Fireflies (ncase.me)

1243 points by bpierre on May 31, 2017 | 89 comments

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Wikimedia Foundation spending (en.wikipedia.org)

1054 points by apsec112 on May 7, 2017 | 409 comments

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The largest Git repo (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

1053 points by ethomson on May 24, 2017 | 402 comments

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Root – Programmable bank account for software developers (root.co.za)

1015 points by s_dev on May 3, 2017 | 409 comments

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1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders (blog.agilebits.com)

1004 points by nthitz on May 23, 2017 | 521 comments

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Kill Google AMP before it kills the web (theregister.co.uk)

969 points by DLay on May 20, 2017 | 462 comments

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A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month (medium.com)

952 points by lpellegr on May 17, 2017 | 497 comments

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Net neutrality is in jeopardy again (blog.mozilla.org)

928 points by kungfudoi on May 8, 2017 | 374 comments

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SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold (law.cornell.edu)

884 points by beefman on May 30, 2017 | 303 comments

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Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities (reuters.com)

883 points by techlover14159 on May 4, 2017 | 559 comments

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Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) (mikecanex.wordpress.com)

866 points by Tomte on May 25, 2017 | 316 comments

18.

A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case (qz.com)

853 points by imanewsman on May 12, 2017 | 215 comments

19.

Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient (prepack.io)

836 points by jimarcey on May 3, 2017 | 224 comments

20.

The Horror in the Standard Library (zerotier.com)

830 points by aw1621107 on May 5, 2017 | 216 comments

21.

CockroachDB 1.0 (cockroachlabs.com)

811 points by hepha1979 on May 10, 2017 | 347 comments

22.

AI Playbook (aiplaybook.a16z.com)

806 points by jbredeche on May 15, 2017 | 113 comments

23.

Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim (stackoverflow.blog)

775 points by var_explained on May 23, 2017 | 473 comments

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U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’ (reuters.com)

746 points by robteix on May 22, 2017 | 195 comments

25.

Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com)

719 points by josephpmay on May 15, 2017 | 371 comments

26.

Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?

699 points by humaninstrument on May 21, 2017 | 270 comments

27.

Let them paste passwords (ncsc.gov.uk)

694 points by matthewbadeau on May 18, 2017 | 365 comments

28.

Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS (ipfs.io)

692 points by bpierre on May 8, 2017 | 247 comments

29.

Solar Roof (tesla.com)

690 points by runesoerensen on May 10, 2017 | 438 comments

30.

Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?

685 points by 1ba9115454 on May 29, 2017 | 308 comments