top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-28

macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password

https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752

8 years ago

3001 upvotes – 1056 comments

Netflix Stole My VHS Cassette Photos for Its Stranger Things Boxed Set

https://petapixel.com/2017/11/27/netflix-stole-vhs-cassette-photos-stranger-things-boxed-set/

8 years ago

780 upvotes – 370 comments

DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-we-just-lost-web-what-we-learned-it-and-what-we-need-do-next

8 years ago

660 upvotes – 290 comments

How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

http://bholley.net/blog/2017/stylo.html

8 years ago

639 upvotes – 191 comments

Astonishing OS X bug lets anyone log into a High Sierra machine

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/28/astonishing-os-x-bug-lets-anyone-log-into-a-high-sierra-machine/

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 8 comments

Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/11/daily-chart-20

8 years ago

394 upvotes – 327 comments

Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year

https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroom/press-room/2017-11-28-western-digital-to-accelerate-the-future-of-next-generation-computing-architectures-for-big-data-and-fast-data-environments.html

8 years ago

371 upvotes – 145 comments

HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs

https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/28/hp-quietly-installs-system-slowing-spyware-on-its-pcs/

8 years ago

371 upvotes – 247 comments

The Poor Man's 3D Camera

http://etodd.io/2017/11/28/poor-mans-3d-camera/

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 36 comments

Infinitown – A WebGL Experiment

http://demos.littleworkshop.fr/infinitown

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 104 comments

U.S. judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trial

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-uber-ruling/u-s-judge-says-uber-withheld-evidence-delays-waymo-trial-idUSKBN1DS26X

8 years ago

344 upvotes – 141 comments

Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

https://kinsta.com/blog/bootstrapping-startup/

8 years ago

315 upvotes – 105 comments

AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/

8 years ago

310 upvotes – 83 comments

Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-develops-battery-material-with-5x-faster-charging-speed

8 years ago

294 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Golang DNS server, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS

https://github.com/tenta-browser/tenta-dns

8 years ago

★ 1.6k Go Apache-2.0
283 upvotes – 64 comments

Charging for our product originally hurt but ultimately saved our startup

https://medium.com/initialized-capital/how-charging-for-our-product-originally-hurt-but-ultimately-saved-our-startup-391e69ae42ba

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 20 comments

Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Turkers

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expensify-acknowledges-potential-privacy-problem-by-calling-it-a-feature/

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 109 comments

WeWork is going to acquire Meetup

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/wework-acquire-meetup/

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 111 comments

Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/ubuntu-17-10-return-of-the-gnome/

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 209 comments

What's a reference in Rust?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/11/27/rust-ref/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 97 comments

The world's most toxic value system (2001)

https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/TOXICVAL.HTM

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 193 comments

Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/25/brown-university-raising-120-million-to-eliminate-all-student-loans.html

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 151 comments

Firefox Debugger

https://mozilladevelopers.github.io/playground/debugger

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 67 comments

A Library of Parallel Algorithms

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl/algorithms.html

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 20 comments

Ajit Pai is right

https://stratechery.com/2017/why-ajit-pai-is-right/

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 295 comments

What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-28/what-to-worry-about-in-this-surreal-bull-market

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 214 comments

Turning a Furby into an Amazon Echo

https://howchoo.com/g/otewzwmwnzb/amazon-echo-furby-using-raspberry-pi-furlexa

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 26 comments

Origami-inspired soft artificial muscles

https://wyss.harvard.edu/artificial-muscles-give-soft-robots-superpowers/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 52 comments

Cell – A functional, relational, reactive programming language

http://cell-lang.net

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 64 comments

Emacs with the SpiderMonkey garbage collector

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-11/msg00575.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 45 comments

What the Stoics did for us

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5258/what-the-stoics-did-for-us

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 57 comments

Disable transparent hugepages

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/transparent-hugepages/

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 60 comments

Berlin police find radioactive iodine on playing cards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42157129

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 78 comments

Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/28/android-apps-third-party-tracker-google-privacy-security-yale-university

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 99 comments

Big tech is built on predatory pricing

https://medium.com/@HenryInnis/big-tech-is-built-on-predatory-pricing-why-arent-we-talking-about-it-2afee533d32e

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 97 comments

Amazon War Story #1: Jeff Bezos (2011)

https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzVeRq#110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzVeRq

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 34 comments

Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 115 comments

Amazon Is Asking Indians to Hand Over Their Aadhaar Biometric ID

https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/amazon-is-asking-indians-to-hand-over-their-aadhaar-indias

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 102 comments

Kotlin 1.2 Released: Sharing Code Between Platforms

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlin-1-2-released/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 38 comments

Bitcoin passes 10,000 USD

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#charts

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 236 comments

SoftBank said to be trying to buy a big stake in Uber at a discount

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/softbank-is-said-to-seek-uber-shares-at-48-billion-valuation

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 71 comments

WeWork acquires Meetup.com

https://www.wired.com/story/why-wework-is-buying-meetup/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

Donald Knuth’s 80th birthday will be celebrated by two events in Piteå, Sweden

http://knuth80.elfbrink.se/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 15 comments

The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011)

http://www.evanmiller.org/joy-of-erlang.html

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/dash-playback-of-av1-video/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 80 comments

Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal Cars with Just $20 Worth of Gear

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/just-pair-11-radio-gadgets-can-steal-car/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 153 comments

React v16.2.0: Improved Support for Fragments

https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/11/28/react-v16.2.0-fragment-support.html

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle Says ‘Avoid Bitcoin Like the Plague’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/vanguard-founder-jack-bogle-says-avoid-bitcoin-like-the-plague

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 182 comments

What's worked in Computer Science (2015)

https://danluu.com/butler-lampson-1999/

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 62 comments

Network Neuroscience Theory of Human Intelligence

http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(17)30221-8

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 21 comments

Meshkit

https://www.opengarden.com/meshkit.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lfobc/i_am_a_timetraveler_from_the_future_here_to_beg/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 70 comments

Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” – Talks at Google [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: 3D Game Programming using bitblting in Windows

https://github.com/lowlevel86/3D-Game-Programming

8 years ago

★ 265 C MIT
109 upvotes – 50 comments

Finance information on Google

https://www.blog.google/products/search/stay-top-finance-information-google/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 74 comments

Netherlands fishmongers accuse herring-tasters of erring

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21731656-can-dutch-still-trust-their-herring-tasters-netherlands-fishmongers-accuse-herring-tasters

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

Cutting cluster management fees on Google Kubernetes Engine

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Cutting-Cluster-Management-Fees-on-Google-Kubernetes-Engine.html

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

A Guide to Pitching Funding and Launch Stories

http://blog.ycombinator.com/a-guide-to-pitching-funding-and-launch-stories/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Amazon MQ – Managed Message Broker Service for ActiveMQ

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-mq-managed-message-broker-service-for-activemq/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Bacteria on the outside of the International Space Station

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alien-life-bacteria-space-international-station-bacteria-cosmonaut-astronaut-russia-a8080036.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Angelic-hierarchy, a game about Turing machines, philosophy, and math

https://modalduality.org/angelic-hierarchy/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments
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