HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4951.

Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts (motherboard.vice.com)

244 points by secfirstmd on Jan 31, 2019 | 153 comments

4952.

Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed (techcrunch.com)

244 points by idlewords on May 20, 2019 | 152 comments

4953.

Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain? (alexdanco.com)

244 points by rargulati on Jun 3, 2019 | 150 comments

4954.

Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices (wsj.com)

244 points by Dajsvaro on Jun 12, 2019 | 146 comments

4955.

System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances (blog.system76.com)

244 points by jseliger on May 1, 2019 | 138 comments

4956.

Cheating in Programming (twitter.com)

244 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 24, 2019 | 131 comments

4957.

Which programming language is used for making Windows 10? (quora.com)

244 points by donnemartin on Apr 14, 2019 | 118 comments

4958.

Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers (onezero.medium.com)

244 points by tumblen on Apr 13, 2019 | 116 comments

4959.

China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations (hongkongfp.com)

244 points by abc-xyz on Apr 1, 2019 | 112 comments

4960.

A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS (jamieweb.net)

244 points by jamieweb on Nov 27, 2019 | 104 comments

4961.

Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android (github.com)

244 points by flokii on Mar 9, 2019 | 103 comments

4962.

Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google (technologyreview.com)

244 points by gopalggk on Aug 30, 2019 | 103 comments

4963.

Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018) (thedailybeast.com)

244 points by krn on Nov 27, 2019 | 90 comments

4964.

EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation (theverge.com)

244 points by Tomte on Jul 17, 2019 | 86 comments

4965.

Yogababble (profgalloway.com)

244 points by JumpCrisscross on Sep 27, 2019 | 86 comments

4966.

Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid (hacks.mozilla.org)

244 points by feross on Oct 18, 2019 | 84 comments

4967.

Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC (arstechnica.com)

244 points by smacktoward on Jul 12, 2019 | 82 comments

4968.

Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient (fs.blog)

244 points by yarapavan on Jan 28, 2019 | 76 comments

4969.

Open Hardware on Its Own Doesn’t Solve the Trust Problem (bunniestudios.com)

244 points by sabas_ge on Dec 27, 2019 | 76 comments

4970.

Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents (bipartisanalliance.com)

244 points by Fricken on Oct 5, 2019 | 69 comments

4971.

X-ray technique can reverse-engineer an entire chip without damaging it (spectrum.ieee.org)

244 points by headalgorithm on Oct 7, 2019 | 56 comments

4972.

Australia's anti-encryption laws used to bypass journalist protections: expert (theguardian.com)

244 points by vermilingua on Jul 9, 2019 | 53 comments

4973.

Sleep quality and stress level matter more than languages or practices (twitter.com)

244 points by ognyankulev on Apr 21, 2019 | 52 comments

4974.

What does an unprocessed RAW file look like? (petapixel.com)

244 points by snailletters on Jul 18, 2019 | 52 comments

4975.

Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017) (shapeoperator.com)

244 points by sebg on Oct 22, 2019 | 39 comments

4976.

Living skin can be 3D-printed, with blood vessels (news.rpi.edu)

244 points by EndXA on Nov 2, 2019 | 27 comments

4977.

Michael Atiyah has died (maths.ox.ac.uk)

244 points by ColinWright on Jan 11, 2019 | 25 comments

4978.

Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style (composingprograms.com)

244 points by philonoist on Jan 14, 2019 | 17 comments

4979.

White House weighs encryption crackdown (politico.com)

243 points by traderjane on Jun 28, 2019 | 360 comments

4980.

Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report (ecaa.gov.et)

243 points by kunkurus on Apr 4, 2019 | 323 comments