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1. Stephen Hawking has died (bbc.com) 6012 points by Cogito 8 months ago | 155 comments 2. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules (nytimes.com) 3381 points by panny 11 months ago | 159 comments 3. macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com) 3000 points by vladikoff 11 months ago | 195 comments 4. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches (techcrunch.com) 2960 points by mpweiher 9 months ago | 132 comments 5. Paul Allen has died (cnbc.com) 2891 points by coloneltcb 1 month ago | 106 comments 6. Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub (bloomberg.com) 2870 points by miguelrochefort 5 months ago | 301 comments 7. IBM acquires Red Hat (redhat.com) 2607 points by nopriorarrests 23 days ago | 204 comments 8. Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off (lore.kernel.org) 2557 points by fejkp 2 months ago | 159 comments 9. The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple (bloomberg.com) 2489 points by Osiris30 1 month ago | 126 comments 10. Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street (reuters.com) 2358 points by kgwgk 8 months ago | 173 comments 11. Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com) 2326 points by brandon 10 months ago | 85 comments 12. Why I’m done with Chrome (blog.cryptographyengineering.com) 2251 points by user982 1 month ago | 121 comments 13. Apple open-sources FoundationDB (foundationdb.org) 2127 points by spullara 7 months ago | 78 comments 14. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com) 2047 points by weatherlight 6 months ago | 56 comments 15. Firefox is on a slippery slope (drewdevault.com) 2019 points by Sir_Cmpwn 11 months ago | 122 comments 16. “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” (mail.python.org) 2016 points by randlet 4 months ago | 79 comments 17. Google Maps' Moat (justinobeirne.com) 1931 points by rafaelc 11 months ago | 92 comments 18. Machine Learning Crash Course (developers.google.com) 1921 points by matant 8 months ago | 38 comments 19. 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service (blog.cloudflare.com) 1884 points by satysin 7 months ago | 132 comments 20. Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (ai.googleblog.com) 1870 points by ivank 6 months ago | 139 comments 21. EU copyright law proposal rejected (twitter.com) 1843 points by iMerNibor 4 months ago | 34 comments 22. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” (lkml.iu.edu) 1840 points by Valmar 10 months ago | 58 comments 23. Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (mtlynch.io) 1762 points by mtlynch 8 months ago | 114 comments 24. Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com) 1743 points by wilsonfiifi 1 month ago | 54 comments 25. Farewell, Google Maps (inderapotheke.de) 1738 points by ScottWRobinson 4 months ago | 98 comments 26. GitLab sees huge spike in project imports (monitor.gitlab.net) 1732 points by AgentK20 5 months ago | 75 comments 27. EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ (theverge.com) 1730 points by daninet 2 months ago | 125 comments 28. Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People (bloomberg.com) 1713 points by coloneltcb 12 months ago | 85 comments 29. Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users (nytimes.com) 1672 points by coloneltcb 1 month ago | 78 comments 30. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics? 1649 points by sidyapa 7 months ago | 103 comments More

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