top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-11-20

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

http://m.nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/modern-media-is-a-dos-attack-on-your-free-will

8 years ago

1466 upvotes – 496 comments

Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market

https://nettrack.info/ssl_certificate_issuers.html

8 years ago

659 upvotes – 247 comments

Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

https://harvestsignal.com

8 years ago

572 upvotes – 115 comments

An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00086&languageid=en-fr

8 years ago

522 upvotes – 185 comments

Samsung DeX

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-dex/

8 years ago

446 upvotes – 225 comments

Stanford Compilers Course

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/Fall2014/about

8 years ago

387 upvotes – 79 comments

The Shortest Papers Ever Published (2016)

https://paperpile.com/blog/shortest-papers/

8 years ago

382 upvotes – 93 comments

We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/opinion/facebook-regulation-incentive.html

8 years ago

374 upvotes – 194 comments

How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 303 comments

Kansas runs one of the most secretive state governments

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184179651.html

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 141 comments

Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-browsing-vs-chrome-incognito/

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 200 comments

Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play

http://www.clickerheroes2.com/paytowin.php

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 174 comments

Team Discussions

https://github.com/blog/2471-introducing-team-discussions

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 53 comments

The World Is Running Out of Sand

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/world-facing-global-sand-crisis-180964815/?no-ist

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 134 comments

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_cannot_claim_the_earth_is_not_flat

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 121 comments

CMU Time Series Database Lectures

http://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2017/

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 17 comments

Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985)

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/04/business/microsoft-has-it-all-almost.html

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 146 comments

Announcing the New AWS Secret Region

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new-aws-secret-region/

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 89 comments

People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts

https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/meet-the-people-who-listen-to-podcasts-at-super-fast-speeds?utm_term=.jdJ8Pn6MBG#.ioEx4N69Mb

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 214 comments

Ask HN: Resources on how to improve abstract thinking skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15740777

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 81 comments
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