HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com)

3001 points by vladikoff on Nov 28, 2017 | 1056 comments

2.

How Firefox Got Fast Again (hacks.mozilla.org)

2180 points by bpierre on Nov 13, 2017 | 687 comments

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Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People (bloomberg.com)

1720 points by coloneltcb on Nov 21, 2017 | 572 comments

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Firefox 57.0 Released (mozilla.org)

1692 points by l2dy on Nov 14, 2017 | 813 comments

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Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will (m.nautil.us)

1466 points by rajeshmr on Nov 20, 2017 | 496 comments

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FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see (washingtonpost.com)

1330 points by rbanffy on Nov 21, 2017 | 646 comments

7.

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (neustadt.fr)

1307 points by livatlantis on Nov 2, 2017 | 503 comments

8.

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality (battleforthenet.com)

1269 points by rayalez on Nov 22, 2017 | 379 comments

9.

Tesla Roadster (tesla.com)

1261 points by franl on Nov 17, 2017 | 708 comments

10.

Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook (projekte.sueddeutsche.de)

1200 points by mpweiher on Nov 8, 2017 | 791 comments

11.

Chrome breaks the Web (tonsky.me)

1187 points by bloomca on Nov 6, 2017 | 458 comments

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Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack (techcrunch.com)

1126 points by Varcht on Nov 8, 2017 | 464 comments

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Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel (techcrunch.com)

1120 points by lemiant on Nov 7, 2017 | 609 comments

14.

Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers (cs007.blog)

1089 points by destraynor on Nov 27, 2017 | 343 comments

15.

An Open Letter to Intel (cs.vu.nl)

996 points by varjag on Nov 7, 2017 | 363 comments

16.

Using SVG as image placeholders (medium.com)

983 points by FriedPickles on Nov 14, 2017 | 134 comments

17.

I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality (latimes.com)

966 points by mjfern on Nov 23, 2017 | 407 comments

18.

Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled (qz.com)

953 points by kshatrea on Nov 21, 2017 | 401 comments

19.

Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills (github.com)

937 points by federicoponzi on Nov 27, 2017 | 84 comments

20.

Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1 (jaycarlson.net)

929 points by stefanpie on Nov 6, 2017 | 183 comments

21.

Tesla Semi (tesla.com)

922 points by runesoerensen on Nov 17, 2017 | 554 comments

22.

Does anyone remember websites? (tttthis.com)

895 points by dfps on Nov 5, 2017 | 365 comments

23.

Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom (blog.atom.io)

873 points by hswolff on Nov 15, 2017 | 223 comments

24.

My unusual hobby (stephanboyer.com)

856 points by curryhoward on Nov 25, 2017 | 147 comments

25.

An Open Letter to the FCC (medium.com)

849 points by throwanem on Nov 22, 2017 | 203 comments

26.

Freelancer.com has ruined my life (trustpilot.com)

845 points by hohaa on Nov 4, 2017 | 344 comments

27.

Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads (niemanlab.org)

841 points by gk1 on Nov 27, 2017 | 350 comments

28.

Hello, world: this is WikiTribune (wikitribune.com)

830 points by nafizh on Nov 29, 2017 | 235 comments

29.

Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed (business-review.eu)

828 points by dcro on Nov 27, 2017 | 350 comments

30.

Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux (arstechnica.com)

796 points by dmmalam on Nov 17, 2017 | 218 comments