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1. macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com/lemiorhan)
3001 points by vladikoff on Nov 28, 2017 | 1056 comments
2. Hello, world: this is WikiTribune (wikitribune.com)
830 points by nafizh on Nov 29, 2017 | 235 comments
3. AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure (amazon.com)
533 points by moritzplassnig on Nov 29, 2017 | 229 comments
4. Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level (triplebyte.com)
433 points by compumike on Nov 29, 2017 | 437 comments
5. Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures (bloomberg.com)
416 points by knwang on Nov 29, 2017 | 351 comments
6. American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off (npr.org)
364 points by huac on Nov 29, 2017 | 333 comments
7. Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com)
402 points by artsandsci on Nov 29, 2017 | 395 comments
8. Interactive workflows for C++ with Jupyter (jupyter.org)
292 points by SylvainCorlay on Nov 29, 2017 | 90 comments
9. Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games (vassalengine.org)
274 points by evo_9 on Nov 29, 2017 | 73 comments
10. Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed (samsung.com)
294 points by nielsbjerg on Nov 28, 2017 | 90 comments
11. Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts (gjermundbjaanes.com)
476 points by bjaanes on Nov 27, 2017 | 158 comments
12. About the security content of Security Update 2017-001 (support.apple.com)
337 points by cmg on Nov 29, 2017 | 145 comments
13. What I'm Telling US Congress about Data Breaches (troyhunt.com)
288 points by robin_reala on Nov 29, 2017 | 93 comments
14. EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware (amazon.com)
385 points by jeffbarr on Nov 29, 2017 | 127 comments
15. Show HN: Shazam-like acoustic fingerprinting of continuous audio streams (github.com/dest4)
158 points by dest on Nov 29, 2017 | 76 comments
16. Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools (theguardian.com)
174 points by dberhane on Nov 28, 2017 | 99 comments
17. What's a reference in Rust? (jvns.ca)
242 points by giacaglia on Nov 28, 2017 | 97 comments
18. Introducing the new Snapchat (snap.com)
259 points by hacker_user on Nov 29, 2017 | 204 comments
19. India's big data hunt for cures to mental, ageing-related diseases (factordaily.com)
78 points by ston3r on Nov 28, 2017 | 7 comments
20. The secret world below Chicago (bbc.com)
120 points by MiriamWeiner on Nov 29, 2017 | 47 comments
21. Cell – A functional, relational, reactive programming language (cell-lang.net)
186 points by cell-lang on Nov 28, 2017 | 64 comments
22. G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack (nytimes.com)
150 points by elsewhen on Nov 29, 2017 | 224 comments
23. Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One (lowrisc.org)
107 points by bshanks on Nov 29, 2017 | 47 comments
24. Amazon Is Asking Indians to Hand Over Their Aadhaar Biometric ID (buzzfeed.com)
140 points by kmfrk on Nov 28, 2017 | 102 comments
25. Chatbots need a personality (myralabs.com)
76 points by gregdale on Nov 28, 2017 | 49 comments
26. Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers (amazon.com)
193 points by tdrnd on Nov 29, 2017 | 102 comments
27. Turning a Furby into an Amazon Echo (howchoo.com)
200 points by ahemphill on Nov 28, 2017 | 26 comments
28. Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service (amazon.com)
355 points by res0nat0r on Nov 29, 2017 | 90 comments
29. The backstory of Alexa’s Indian makeover (factordaily.com)
68 points by jsgrokker on Nov 28, 2017 | 44 comments
30. Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links (1989) [pdf] (usi.ch)
64 points by legel on Nov 28, 2017 | 17 comments

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