top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-11-17

SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/spacex-plans-worldwide-satellite-internet-with-low-latency-gigabit-speed/

10 years ago

1111 upvotes – 521 comments

Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”

http://www.zdnet.com/article/snoopers-charter-expansive-new-spying-powers-becomes-law/

10 years ago

651 upvotes – 291 comments

What.CD is shutting down

https://what.cd/

10 years ago

607 upvotes – 267 comments

Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-not-change-linux-files-using-windows-apps-and-tools/

10 years ago

549 upvotes – 262 comments

Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/11/17/introducing-firefox-focus-a-free-fast-and-easy-to-use-private-browser-for-ios/

10 years ago

535 upvotes – 194 comments

Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/laautoshow/la-fi-hy-disappearing-stick-shift-20161115-story.html

10 years ago

405 upvotes – 867 comments

Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND

http://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmepcie

10 years ago

337 upvotes – 52 comments

You Are Not Paid to Write Code

http://bravenewgeek.com/you-are-not-paid-to-write-code/

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 167 comments

The .blog Bait and Switch

http://chrisschidle.com/the-dot-blog-bait-and-switch/

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 178 comments

Go fonts

https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts

10 years ago

295 upvotes – 170 comments

Keybase chooses Zcash

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-and-zcash

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 159 comments

Shareholders approve Tesla Solarcity acquisition

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/17/shareholders-approve-tesla-acquisition-of-solarcity/

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 33 comments

iPhones send call history to Apple, security firm says

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/17/iphones-secretly-send-call-history-to-apple-security-firm-says/

10 years ago

242 upvotes – 81 comments

U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/internal-document-supports-argument-that-u-s-chicken-prices-have-been-artificially-inflated-for-years/

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 151 comments

Court to Cops: No Immunity If You 'Don't Have Time for Constitutional Bullshit'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161113/06093636030/appeals-court-to-cops-if-you-dont-have-time-constitutional-bullshit-you-dont-get-immunity.shtml

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 153 comments

Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/16/502349250/twitter-suspends-prominent-alt-right-accounts

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 500 comments

LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/17/linkedin-is-now-officially-blocked-in-russia/

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 189 comments

Global warming: The state of the climate in 2016

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/11/global-warming?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/globalwarmingthestateoftheclimatein2016

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 224 comments

Pixel Security

https://security.googleblog.com/2016/11/pixel-security-better-faster-stronger.html

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 145 comments

The mathematics of science’s broken reward system

http://www.nature.com/news/the-mathematics-of-science-s-broken-reward-system-1.20987

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 78 comments
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