top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-21

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/uber-concealed-cyberattack-that-exposed-57-million-people-s-data

8 years ago

1720 upvotes – 572 comments

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/21/the-fcc-has-unveiled-its-plan-to-rollback-its-net-neutrality-rules/?utm_term=.dd07b903b6a7

8 years ago

1330 upvotes – 646 comments

Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/

8 years ago

953 upvotes – 401 comments

I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Should I Say?

https://www.troyhunt.com/im-testifying-in-front-of-congress-in-washington-dc-about-data-breaches-what-should-i-say/

8 years ago

637 upvotes – 230 comments

Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030

8 years ago

560 upvotes – 159 comments

Desktop compositing latency is real

http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/dwm_latency.html

8 years ago

538 upvotes – 291 comments

Tether Critical Announcement

https://tether.to/tether-critical-announcement/

8 years ago

532 upvotes – 310 comments

Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/738649/81007748bf15c1e5/

8 years ago

498 upvotes – 127 comments

A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/europe/italy/photos-of-life-alone-on-a-paradise-island/

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 78 comments

Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers

http://www.nature.com/news/sex-matters-in-experiments-on-party-drug-in-mice-1.23022

8 years ago

378 upvotes – 223 comments

The first known object to enter our solar system from deep space

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/astronomers-interstellar-visitor-1.4410477

8 years ago

377 upvotes – 107 comments

HQ CEO: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ceo-of-hq-the-hottest-app-going-if-you-run-this-profile-well-fire-our-host

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 70 comments

Extensions in Firefox 58

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/11/20/extensions-in-firefox-58/

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 312 comments

User experience design for APIs

https://blog.keras.io/user-experience-design-for-apis.html

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 42 comments

Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21731332-weaker-dollar-and-energy-boom-are-pushing-up-pay-blue-collar-wages-are-surging-can-it

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 579 comments

F.C.C. Announces Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/fcc-net-neutrality.html

8 years ago

260 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745057

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 194 comments

How do groups work on Linux?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/11/20/groups/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 63 comments

Skype Vanishes from App Stores in China, Including Apple’s

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/business/skype-app-china.html

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 177 comments

What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a14491/story-of-sr-71-blackbird/

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 147 comments

Of SVG, Minification and Gzip

https://medium.com/@subzey/of-svg-minification-and-gzip-21cd26a5d007

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 48 comments

GTD in 15 Minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

https://hamberg.no/gtd/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 73 comments

Fossil – Next Generation

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/wiki?name=Fossil-NG

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 123 comments

John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of inappropriate behavior

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/21/pixars-john-lasseter-taking-a-six-month-leave-of-absence-amid-reports-of-inappropriate-behavior/

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 244 comments

Regression in Linux 4.14 – using bcache can destroy the file system

https://bugs.gentoo.org/638206

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 123 comments

Previous Evidence of Water on Mars Now Identified as Grainflows

https://www.usgs.gov/news/previous-evidence-water-mars-now-identified-grainflows

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 46 comments

Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meg-whitman-to-step-down-as-hewlett-packard-enterprise-ceo-1511300946

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 146 comments

John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/obituaries/john-raines-84-who-evaded-capture-in-an-fbi-break-in-dies.html

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 66 comments

AWS Amplify: JavaScript Open Source Library with React, React Native Extensions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/announcing-aws-amplify-and-the-aws-mobile-cli/

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 26 comments

Joan Feynman Found Her Place in the Sun

https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/joan-feynman-found-her-place-in-the-sun/

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 26 comments

A Nuclear Jet at Chernobyl Around 21:23:45 UTC on April 25, 1986

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1384269

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 59 comments

Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is Protected Speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/court-rules-effs-stupid-patent-month-post-protected-speech

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flixbus-usa/germanys-flixbus-to-take-on-greyhound-in-the-united-states-idUSKBN1D81CB

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 94 comments

The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-organ-of-the-universe-on-living-with-tinnitus/#!

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 75 comments

Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-discrimination-housing-race-sex-national-origin

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 96 comments

India's Stepwells (2013)

https://www.archdaily.com/395363/india-s-forgotten-stepwells

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 20 comments

JIT compiling a subset of Python to x86-64

https://csl.name/post/python-compiler/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 18 comments

Google will ‘de-rank’ RT articles to make them harder to find – Eric Schmidt

https://www.rt.com/news/410444-google-alphabet-derank-rt/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 206 comments

React Training's Advanced React.js Patterns Videos Now Free

http://reacttraining.com/patterns

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 13 comments

Bitcoin Is Creeping into Real Estate Deals

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-is-creeping-into-real-estate-deals-1511265600

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 72 comments

RIP net neutrality: FCC chair releases plan to deregulate ISPs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/rip-net-neutrality-fcc-chair-releases-plan-to-deregulate-isps/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 1 comments

The Secret Lives of Urban Crows

https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2017/5/17/the-secret-life-of-urban-crows

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

The way Microsoft patched a recent bug raised some eyebrows

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-appears-to-have-lost-the-source-code-of-an-office-component/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments
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