top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-11-17

Story of a failed pentest

https://threader.app/thread/1063423110513418240

7 years ago

1147 upvotes – 167 comments

Amazon Web Services in Plain English

https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

7 years ago

483 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18477387

7 years ago

464 upvotes – 422 comments

Oil Demand for Cars Is Already Falling

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-16/oil-demand-for-cars-and-transportation-is-already-falling

7 years ago

388 upvotes – 301 comments

Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading

http://paralleltext.io/

7 years ago

312 upvotes – 88 comments

Intel Management Engine JTAG Proof of Concept

https://github.com/ptresearch/IntelTXE-PoC

7 years ago

301 upvotes – 75 comments

A million-dollar drug

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/glybera

7 years ago

298 upvotes – 204 comments

Vue 3.0 Updates [slides]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yhPGyhQrJcpJI2ZFvBme3pGKaGNiLi709c37svivv0o/preview?slide=id.p

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 123 comments

Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/11/16/mozilla-fights-on-for-net-neutrality/

7 years ago

285 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Why do we want to learn something new when we don't have time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18476626

7 years ago

280 upvotes – 66 comments

Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation

https://www.wired.com/story/mcsweeneys-excerpt-the-right-to-experiment/

7 years ago

279 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

https://24hrstartup.com/

7 years ago

265 upvotes – 116 comments

Prac­ti­cal Ty­pog­ra­phy

https://practicaltypography.com/

7 years ago

261 upvotes – 61 comments

GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go

https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 88 comments

Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-420-bisect&num=1

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look

https://github.com/shellscape/gmail-classic

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 179 comments

Amazon's Stealth Brands: Everything on Amazon Is Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/style/this-is-also-amazon.html

7 years ago

181 upvotes – 100 comments

A Raft implementation in Haskell

https://github.com/adjoint-io/raft

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 17 comments

UBlock-LLC taking code from ad blocker uBlock Origin without proper attribution

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1063777353678110720

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 22 comments

C.I.A. Concludes That Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killed

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/cia-saudi-crown-prince-khashoggi.html

7 years ago

148 upvotes – 75 comments
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