HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2791.

Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox (bugs.debian.org)

282 points by leo2urlevan on Feb 17, 2016 | 149 comments

2792.

Confessions of an Instagram Influencer (bloomberg.com)

282 points by kevinbluer on Dec 2, 2016 | 131 comments

2793.

RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web (searchengineland.com)

282 points by adamcarson on Mar 9, 2016 | 125 comments

2794.

YouTube's road to HTTPS (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)

282 points by seanwatson on Aug 1, 2016 | 93 comments

2795.

How Snowden's Disclosures Made All Our Data Safer (pardonsnowden.org)

282 points by zerognowl on Oct 24, 2016 | 85 comments

2796.

If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data (bishopfox.com)

282 points by cgtyoder on Apr 8, 2016 | 81 comments

2797.

Apple Pay on the Web (stripe.com)

282 points by sinak on Jun 13, 2016 | 81 comments

2798.

Breaking homegrown crypto (kivikakk.ee)

282 points by tdurden on Mar 12, 2016 | 18 comments

2799.

An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges (reuters.com)

281 points by okket on May 25, 2016 | 318 comments

2800.

ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04 (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

281 points by doener on Feb 18, 2016 | 278 comments

2801.

AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse (github.com)

281 points by deletia on Dec 20, 2016 | 276 comments

2802.

Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49 (amazon.com)

281 points by silveira on Feb 22, 2016 | 232 comments

2803.

Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car (techcrunch.com)

281 points by doener on Dec 13, 2016 | 223 comments

2804.

ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech (bbc.com)

281 points by mbgaxyz on Jul 19, 2016 | 218 comments

2805.

The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016 (talks.golang.org)

281 points by signa11 on Feb 3, 2016 | 216 comments

2806.

Simple Ways of Reducing the Cognitive Load in Code (chrismm.com)

281 points by christianmm on Jun 28, 2016 | 195 comments

2807.

KDE Project releases KDE 1 (heliocastro.info)

281 points by oever on Oct 14, 2016 | 157 comments

2808.

Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans (washington.edu)

281 points by awqrre on Nov 30, 2016 | 156 comments

2809.

Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins (pnas.org)

281 points by gwern on Jul 12, 2016 | 133 comments

2810.

Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser (justsecurity.org)

281 points by throwaway2016a on May 2, 2016 | 120 comments

2811.

On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted (kennethreitz.org)

281 points by kenneth_reitz on Aug 10, 2016 | 117 comments

2812.

Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers (addons.mozilla.org)

281 points by throwaway2048 on Feb 1, 2016 | 111 comments

2813.

The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA (nytimes.com)

281 points by hackuser on Mar 31, 2016 | 101 comments

2814.

GoQt (github.com)

281 points by T-A on Jan 24, 2016 | 100 comments

2815.

Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels (theregister.co.uk)

281 points by tbrock on May 11, 2016 | 78 comments

2816.

Git 2.11 has been released (github.com)

281 points by stablemap on Nov 29, 2016 | 65 comments

2817.

Lossless compression with Brotli (blogs.dropbox.com)

281 points by nuriaion on Jun 29, 2016 | 63 comments

2818.

A Wait-Free Stack (arxiv.org)

281 points by EvgeniyZh on Jul 17, 2016 | 63 comments

2819.

Google has started a video series on machine learning and I can understand it (youtube.com)

281 points by iamkeyur on Apr 16, 2016 | 35 comments

2820.

No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems (theatlantic.com)

280 points by behoove on Dec 4, 2016 | 425 comments