top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-12-13

We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change

https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/

8 years ago

1195 upvotes – 539 comments

Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/eff-court-accessing-publicly-available-information-internet-not-crime

8 years ago

726 upvotes – 284 comments

HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important

https://www.troyhunt.com/im-sorry-you-feel-this-way-natwest-but-https-on-your-landing-page-is-important/

8 years ago

639 upvotes – 288 comments

Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research

https://theconversation.com/universities-spend-millions-on-accessing-results-of-publicly-funded-research-88392

8 years ago

624 upvotes – 171 comments

France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/france-to-ban-mobile-phones-in-schools-from-september

8 years ago

505 upvotes – 343 comments

TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/tplink-aggressive-ntp

8 years ago

485 upvotes – 237 comments

Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

https://fishshell.com/

8 years ago

467 upvotes – 204 comments

Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

https://pineapplefund.org/

8 years ago

430 upvotes – 213 comments

A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree

https://www.flightradar24.com/AIB232E/fd1fd63

8 years ago

411 upvotes – 95 comments

The State of JavaScript 2017

http://stateofjs.com/2017/introduction/

8 years ago

356 upvotes – 244 comments

Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler

https://blog.avast.com/avast-open-sources-its-machine-code-decompiler

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 60 comments

Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly rerouted to Russia

https://bgpmon.net/popular-destinations-rerouted-to-russia/

8 years ago

333 upvotes – 107 comments

Game Theory: Open Access textbook

https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06808

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 54 comments

I went to production heaven

https://dailykanban.com/2017/12/go-production-hell-went-production-heaven/

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 107 comments

How to break a Captcha system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/how-to-break-a-captcha-system-in-15-minutes-with-machine-learning-dbebb035a710

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 99 comments

Target to Buy Shipt for $550M

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/target-to-buy-shipt-for-550-million-in-bet-on-same-day-delivery

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 106 comments

AWS Single Sign-On

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/announcing-aws-single-sign-on--sso/

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: Work at a Startup – Find a Job at a YC Company

https://www.workatastartup.com/?1

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 86 comments

An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 65 comments

Encryption in Transit in Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 28 comments
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