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1.

macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com)

3001 points by vladikoff 2017-11-28 | 1055 comments

2.

Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies (twitter.com)

2364 points by jwildeboer 2018-09-25 | 810 comments

3.

Joe Armstrong has died (twitter.com)

1928 points by okket 2019-04-20 | 188 comments

4.

EU copyright law proposal rejected (twitter.com)

1847 points by iMerNibor 2018-07-05 | 314 comments

5.

Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour (twitter.com)

1832 points by LukeB_UK 2016-05-26 | 393 comments

6.

A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system (twitter.com)

1450 points by dmit 2017-05-10 | 522 comments

7.

NASA: We're sending humans to Mars (twitter.com)

1424 points by didgeoridoo 2014-12-02 | 586 comments

8.

I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words. (twitter.com)

1361 points by alpeb 2016-10-04 | 277 comments

9.

"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" (twitter.com)

1333 points by sergiomattei 2019-05-31 | 593 comments

10.

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but... (twitter.com)

1257 points by syrusakbary 2015-06-10 | 654 comments

11.

Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident (twitter.com)

1108 points by austinkhale 2018-03-21 | 1323 comments

12.

AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches (twitter.com)

1085 points by atupem 2016-03-09 | 573 comments

13.

Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking (twitter.com)

995 points by technocracy 2018-09-25 | 355 comments

14.

Did I just win? (twitter.com)

950 points by davidtgoldblatt 2016-05-13 | 129 comments

15.

Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System (twitter.com)

948 points by swalsh 2018-08-24 | 555 comments

16.

Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada (twitter.com)

902 points by jwildeboer 2018-12-20 | 608 comments

17.

“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims” (twitter.com)

860 points by ryanlol 2018-01-05 | 241 comments

18.

An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth (twitter.com)

789 points by waffle_ss 2018-12-12 | 336 comments

19.

The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times (twitter.com)

771 points by DoreenMichele 2019-03-03 | 271 comments

20.

European Parliament approves copyright reform (twitter.com)

769 points by haywirez 2019-03-26 | 803 comments

21.

Anatomy of a Killing (twitter.com)

768 points by danso 2018-09-24 | 172 comments

22.

“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI” (twitter.com)

760 points by cryogenic_soul 2017-11-10 | 392 comments

23.

737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer (twitter.com)

759 points by paulsutter 2019-03-17 | 270 comments

24.

WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete (twitter.com)

755 points by M4v3R 2016-05-16 | 109 comments

25.

“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product” (twitter.com)

753 points by sengork 2017-09-03 | 387 comments

26.

You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent? (twitter.com)

751 points by mpweiher 2018-05-01 | 304 comments

27.

Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ (twitter.com)

745 points by coloneltcb 2018-04-03 | 514 comments

28.

Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent (twitter.com)

734 points by pjf 2019-03-27 | 310 comments

29.

Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem (twitter.com)

711 points by cabraca 2018-10-24 | 198 comments

30.

Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors (twitter.com)

702 points by azhenley 2019-04-30 | 344 comments

31.

Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet (twitter.com)

699 points by cgtyoder 2015-07-18 | 479 comments

32.

Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases (twitter.com)

695 points by domoritz 2018-01-28 | 267 comments

33.

JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works (twitter.com)

689 points by firasd 2018-10-30 | 132 comments

34.

Author of cURL denied entry to the USA (twitter.com)

684 points by chx 2017-06-27 | 320 comments

35.

The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack (twitter.com)

667 points by kukx 2017-01-11 | 275 comments

36.

“I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration” (twitter.com)

660 points by z3t1 2017-02-27 | 314 comments

37.

Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons (twitter.com)

657 points by Yrlec 2017-04-08 | 297 comments

38.

The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday (twitter.com)

653 points by robin_reala 2018-01-16 | 363 comments

39.

Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case (twitter.com)

643 points by Karunamon 2016-02-20 | 209 comments

40.

Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users (twitter.com)

620 points by ascertain 2019-03-14 | 305 comments

41.

“A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made” (twitter.com)

596 points by MagicPropmaker 2019-05-19 | 304 comments

42.

Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand (twitter.com)

590 points by dash488 2017-03-21 | 309 comments

43.

Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake (twitter.com)

586 points by mlerner 2019-03-22 | 135 comments

44.

“I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole” (twitter.com)

586 points by caio1982 2017-11-24 | 43 comments

45.

A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms (twitter.com)

580 points by emsy 2017-12-19 | 398 comments

46.

Malicious crossenv package on npm (twitter.com)

578 points by phpnode 2017-08-01 | 228 comments

47.

Name one thing in this photo (twitter.com)

568 points by explore 2019-04-24 | 174 comments

48.

Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry (twitter.com)

568 points by edward 2019-03-11 | 220 comments

49.

I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned (twitter.com)

563 points by sus_007 2018-05-22 | 188 comments

50.

CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked (twitter.com)

562 points by jmduke 2014-04-12 | 142 comments

51.

_why is no more (twitter.com)

558 points by Jeremysr 2009-08-19 | 399 comments

52.

My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app (twitter.com)

557 points by DyslexicAtheist 2018-04-01 | 436 comments

53.

We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic (twitter.com)

549 points by doener 2019-01-07 | 274 comments

54.

“It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net” (twitter.com)

548 points by boramalper 2019-05-20 | 372 comments

55.

Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement (twitter.com)

544 points by ishtu 2016-01-26 | 174 comments

56.

iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs (twitter.com)

534 points by OberstKrueger 2017-08-23 | 420 comments

57.

A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet (twitter.com)

526 points by mikecarlton 2018-04-25 | 81 comments

58.

That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors (twitter.com)

522 points by berkeleyjunk 2018-07-31 | 150 comments

59.

"@" on Twitter (twitter.com)

504 points by isp 2018-04-27 | 137 comments

60.

Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother (twitter.com)

503 points by bkfh 2018-03-23 | 149 comments

61.

Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident (twitter.com)

499 points by ceejayoz 2017-09-20 | 189 comments

62.

Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint (twitter.com)

499 points by achynet 2018-09-24 | 256 comments

63.

The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York” (twitter.com)

497 points by thibautg 2018-11-24 | 83 comments

64.

Little UI Details (twitter.com)

495 points by yusufp 2017-09-05 | 48 comments

65.

Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads (twitter.com)

494 points by jakub_g 2017-11-04 | 210 comments

66.

Welcome to the new decade (twitter.com)

486 points by tswicegood 2010-08-15 | 158 comments

67.

Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze (twitter.com)

471 points by moonka 2017-09-09 | 187 comments

68.

Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings (twitter.com)

467 points by tmkbry 2017-05-21 | 255 comments

69.

Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps (twitter.com)

466 points by andyl 2015-01-28 | 166 comments

70.

GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB (twitter.com)

466 points by brundolf 2018-05-26 | 205 comments

71.

Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made (twitter.com)

460 points by ilamont 2019-05-11 | 137 comments

72.

iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users (twitter.com)

458 points by runesoerensen 2017-06-06 | 183 comments

73.

Museu de la Tècnica (twitter.com)

444 points by prawn 2016-10-30 | 107 comments

74.

A div that looks different in every browser (twitter.com)

444 points by shdon 2018-07-08 | 130 comments

75.

“Every minute I spent thinking about competitors was a minute wasted” (twitter.com)

442 points by aboutruby 2019-03-23 | 157 comments

76.

iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks (twitter.com)

442 points by DavidChouinard 2014-06-08 | 260 comments

77.

KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS (twitter.com)

434 points by coolgoose 2019-03-19 | 170 comments

78.

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed (twitter.com)

430 points by tambourine_man 2021-02-18 | 74 comments

79.

Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites (twitter.com)

428 points by adamlj 2014-02-28 | 118 comments

80.

macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team” (twitter.com)

424 points by fofolo 2017-12-08 | 262 comments

81.

A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla (twitter.com)

415 points by 8x8squares 2019-04-15 | 189 comments

82.

So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich (twitter.com)

413 points by davidchua 2014-02-20 | 62 comments

83.

Paul Graham inspired the creation of Redis (twitter.com)

411 points by oneowl 2019-03-27 | 93 comments

84.

Google Maps: Bird Mode (twitter.com)

409 points by tosh 2019-02-23 | 127 comments

85.

Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic (twitter.com)

405 points by ve55 2019-03-31 | 434 comments

86.

John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket” (twitter.com)

402 points by tilt 2015-03-17 | 275 comments

87.

Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default (twitter.com)

401 points by geekybiz 2019-02-22 | 186 comments

88.

“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java” (twitter.com)

400 points by tosh 2019-03-09 | 368 comments

89.

SpaceX: “Landing confirmed” (twitter.com)

398 points by ajdlinux 2016-05-06 | 1 comments

90.

Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript (twitter.com)

393 points by mhoad 2018-06-13 | 437 comments

91.

#ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software (twitter.com)

390 points by taytus 2013-04-26 | 115 comments

92.

“Facebook turned me down” (2009) (twitter.com)

388 points by zachlatta 2014-02-19 | 191 comments

93.

Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is (twitter.com)

387 points by ajdlinux 2016-08-16 | 229 comments

94.

Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source (twitter.com)

387 points by darkdimius 2019-04-19 | 210 comments

95.

If you put chalk under a powerful microscope (twitter.com)

380 points by DanBC 2018-07-28 | 76 comments

96.

Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides (twitter.com)

373 points by thijser 2018-04-01 | 213 comments

97.

Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow (twitter.com)

371 points by danso 2019-05-24 | 140 comments

98.

China's social network surveillance databases are apparently leaked to Internet (twitter.com)

369 points by stevefan1999 2019-03-04 | 105 comments

99.

Twitter to ban political advertising (twitter.com)

361 points by coloneltcb 2019-10-30 | 167 comments

100.

The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day (twitter.com)

361 points by slbenfica 2018-05-16 | 189 comments

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