HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Facebook is an attack on the open web (daringfireball.net)

1635 points by tambourine_man on Jun 1, 2017 | 421 comments

32.

Welcome, ACLU (medium.com)

1558 points by katm on Jan 31, 2017 | 1030 comments

33.

Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game (airma.sh)

1535 points by fivesigma on Dec 10, 2017 | 304 comments

34.

Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) (josephg.com)

1519 points by charlieirish on Apr 11, 2017 | 996 comments

35.

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence (nytimes.com)

1503 points by coloneltcb on Jan 17, 2017 | 713 comments

36.

What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? (privacylog.blogspot.com)

1494 points by ivank on Apr 21, 2017 | 438 comments

37.

A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it (imgur.com)

1480 points by wyldfire on Aug 30, 2017 | 296 comments

38.

We’re dropping Google Ads (groundup.org.za)

1477 points by alex_hirner on Apr 12, 2017 | 584 comments

39.

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will (m.nautil.us)

1466 points by rajeshmr on Nov 20, 2017 | 496 comments

40.

CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals (sciencedirect.com)

1455 points by shannietron on May 2, 2017 | 239 comments

41.

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

1450 points by dmit on May 10, 2017 | 522 comments

42.

Keybase launches encrypted Git (keybase.io)

1427 points by aston on Oct 4, 2017 | 270 comments

43.

Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016) (answers.microsoft.com)

1423 points by wielebny on Mar 22, 2017 | 469 comments

44.

My Family’s Slave (theatlantic.com)

1419 points by aaron695 on May 16, 2017 | 606 comments

45.

Grumpy: Go running Python (opensource.googleblog.com)

1411 points by trotterdylan on Jan 4, 2017 | 451 comments

46.

Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration (thehackerblog.com)

1404 points by koenrh on Jul 10, 2017 | 246 comments

47.

Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone (lyrebird.ai)

1401 points by adbrebs on Apr 24, 2017 | 298 comments

48.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn (gist.github.com)

1382 points by yossorion on Jan 18, 2017 | 558 comments

49.

Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

1374 points by dustinkirkland on Mar 31, 2017 | 1145 comments

50.

Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse (krackattacks.com)

1371 points by fanfantm on Oct 16, 2017 | 411 comments

51.

They Used To Last 50 Years (recraigslist.com)

1359 points by teslacar on Mar 19, 2017 | 860 comments

52.

Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack (bloomberg.com)

1345 points by jameslk on Sep 8, 2017 | 648 comments

53.

Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave (lists.gnu.org)

1332 points by dhuramas on Feb 9, 2017 | 474 comments

54.

WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages (theguardian.com)

1332 points by katpas on Jan 13, 2017 | 321 comments

55.

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see (washingtonpost.com)

1330 points by rbanffy on Nov 21, 2017 | 646 comments

56.

Teach Yourself Computer Science (teachyourselfcs.com)

1308 points by kruse-tim on Mar 13, 2017 | 237 comments

57.

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (neustadt.fr)

1307 points by livatlantis on Nov 2, 2017 | 503 comments

58.

Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license (issues.apache.org)

1277 points by thelarkinn on Jul 16, 2017 | 362 comments

59.

Battle for the Internet (battleforthenet.com)

1275 points by anigbrowl on Jul 12, 2017 | 487 comments

60.

LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft (libretaxi.org)

1275 points by bpierre on Jan 31, 2017 | 382 comments