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1.		macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com/lemiorhan)
		3001 points by vladikoff on Nov 28, 2017 \| 1056 comments
2.		Hello, world: this is WikiTribune (wikitribune.com)
		830 points by nafizh on Nov 29, 2017 \| 235 comments
3.		AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure (amazon.com)
		533 points by moritzplassnig on Nov 29, 2017 \| 229 comments
4.		Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level (triplebyte.com)
		433 points by compumike on Nov 29, 2017 \| 437 comments
5.		Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures (bloomberg.com)
		416 points by knwang on Nov 29, 2017 \| 351 comments
6.		American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off (npr.org)
		364 points by huac on Nov 29, 2017 \| 333 comments
7.		Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com)
		402 points by artsandsci on Nov 29, 2017 \| 395 comments
8.		Interactive workflows for C++ with Jupyter (jupyter.org)
		292 points by SylvainCorlay on Nov 29, 2017 \| 90 comments
9.		Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games (vassalengine.org)
		274 points by evo_9 on Nov 29, 2017 \| 73 comments
10.		Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed (samsung.com)
		294 points by nielsbjerg on Nov 28, 2017 \| 90 comments
11.		Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts (gjermundbjaanes.com)
		476 points by bjaanes on Nov 27, 2017 \| 158 comments
12.		About the security content of Security Update 2017-001 (support.apple.com)
		337 points by cmg on Nov 29, 2017 \| 145 comments
13.		What I'm Telling US Congress about Data Breaches (troyhunt.com)
		288 points by robin_reala on Nov 29, 2017 \| 93 comments
14.		EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware (amazon.com)
		385 points by jeffbarr on Nov 29, 2017 \| 127 comments
15.		Show HN: Shazam-like acoustic fingerprinting of continuous audio streams (github.com/dest4)
		158 points by dest on Nov 29, 2017 \| 76 comments
16.		Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools (theguardian.com)
		174 points by dberhane on Nov 28, 2017 \| 99 comments
17.		What's a reference in Rust? (jvns.ca)
		242 points by giacaglia on Nov 28, 2017 \| 97 comments
18.		Introducing the new Snapchat (snap.com)
		259 points by hacker_user on Nov 29, 2017 \| 204 comments
19.		India's big data hunt for cures to mental, ageing-related diseases (factordaily.com)
		78 points by ston3r on Nov 28, 2017 \| 7 comments
20.		The secret world below Chicago (bbc.com)
		120 points by MiriamWeiner on Nov 29, 2017 \| 47 comments
21.		Cell – A functional, relational, reactive programming language (cell-lang.net)
		186 points by cell-lang on Nov 28, 2017 \| 64 comments
22.		G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack (nytimes.com)
		150 points by elsewhen on Nov 29, 2017 \| 224 comments
23.		Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One (lowrisc.org)
		107 points by bshanks on Nov 29, 2017 \| 47 comments
24.		Amazon Is Asking Indians to Hand Over Their Aadhaar Biometric ID (buzzfeed.com)
		140 points by kmfrk on Nov 28, 2017 \| 102 comments
25.		Chatbots need a personality (myralabs.com)
		76 points by gregdale on Nov 28, 2017 \| 49 comments
26.		Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers (amazon.com)
		193 points by tdrnd on Nov 29, 2017 \| 102 comments
27.		Turning a Furby into an Amazon Echo (howchoo.com)
		200 points by ahemphill on Nov 28, 2017 \| 26 comments
28.		Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service (amazon.com)
		355 points by res0nat0r on Nov 29, 2017 \| 90 comments
29.		The backstory of Alexa’s Indian makeover (factordaily.com)
		68 points by jsgrokker on Nov 28, 2017 \| 44 comments
30.		Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links (1989) [pdf] (usi.ch)
		64 points by legel on Nov 28, 2017 \| 17 comments
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