HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back (bloomberg.com)

527 points by jseliger on Dec 6, 2017 | 270 comments

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Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won (washingtonpost.com)

518 points by notlob on Dec 8, 2017 | 311 comments

63.

Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play? (highscalability.com)

517 points by yarapavan on Dec 22, 2017 | 130 comments

64.

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf] (bitcoin.org)

516 points by sova on Dec 8, 2017 | 385 comments

65.

Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code

513 points by throwawaysource on Dec 6, 2017 | 277 comments

66.

Books I read this year (gatesnotes.com)

511 points by borisjabes on Dec 4, 2017 | 255 comments

67.

A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages (openculture.com)

508 points by Thevet on Dec 1, 2017 | 436 comments

68.

A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab (hacks.mozilla.org)

507 points by clouddrover on Dec 7, 2017 | 215 comments

69.

France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools (theguardian.com)

505 points by non_sequitur on Dec 13, 2017 | 343 comments

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Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (github.com)

504 points by dEnigma on Dec 26, 2017 | 69 comments

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Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web apps (github.com)

500 points by syrusakbary on Dec 25, 2017 | 137 comments

72.

Debugging an evil Go runtime bug (marcan.st)

498 points by cmsimike on Dec 4, 2017 | 48 comments

73.

IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability (siguza.github.io)

497 points by tptacek on Dec 31, 2017 | 112 comments

74.

Making a Game Boy game in 2017 (gamasutra.com)

496 points by doppp on Dec 9, 2017 | 65 comments

75.

India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year (qz.com)

495 points by codesternews on Dec 27, 2017 | 394 comments

76.

ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking (github.com)

491 points by rcarmo on Dec 26, 2017 | 165 comments

77.

Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) (dl.acm.org)

489 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 10, 2017 | 298 comments

78.

Power Prices Go Negative in Germany (nytimes.com)

485 points by kwindla on Dec 26, 2017 | 250 comments

79.

TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds (ctrl.blog)

485 points by phikai on Dec 13, 2017 | 237 comments

80.

How Stripe Designs Websites (leejamesrobinson.com)

484 points by leerob on Dec 3, 2017 | 104 comments

81.

I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it (washingtonpost.com)

478 points by eevilspock on Dec 7, 2017 | 389 comments

82.

Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains (janbambas.cz)

472 points by bzbarsky on Dec 19, 2017 | 261 comments

83.

Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively (sciencedirect.com)

468 points by antman on Dec 4, 2017 | 200 comments

84.

Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc (fishshell.com)

467 points by NanoWar on Dec 13, 2017 | 204 comments

85.

iOS 11 Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of iOS Security (blog.elcomsoft.com)

466 points by Maakuth on Dec 1, 2017 | 181 comments

86.

120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak (forbes.com)

465 points by wglb on Dec 19, 2017 | 157 comments

87.

The compelling case for working less (bbc.com)

461 points by bigben00763 on Dec 5, 2017 | 230 comments

88.

Internet protocols are changing (blog.apnic.net)

458 points by nmjohn on Dec 12, 2017 | 134 comments

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Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California (medium.com)

457 points by e_hup on Dec 14, 2017 | 191 comments

90.

iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages (geekbench.com)

456 points by Deinos on Dec 19, 2017 | 259 comments