HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

Airbnb and security camera disclosure (jeffreybigham.com)

680 points by pmlnr on Jan 16, 2019 | 393 comments

602.

YouTube was launched as a dating site (web.archive.org)

680 points by ElectronShak on Jul 21, 2019 | 243 comments

603.

Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)

680 points by 0xedb on Jan 23, 2019 | 234 comments

604.

GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories (github.blog)

680 points by dstaheli on Aug 8, 2019 | 231 comments

605.

Websocketd (websocketd.com)

680 points by mmcclure on Jan 25, 2019 | 220 comments

606.

H.264 is magic (2016) (sidbala.com)

680 points by dpeck on May 24, 2019 | 180 comments

607.

In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default (wired.co.uk)

679 points by whalabi on Sep 4, 2019 | 420 comments

608.

Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad (steveblank.com)

678 points by furkansahin on Apr 10, 2019 | 374 comments

609.

One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI (buzzfeednews.com)

677 points by chollida1 on Feb 1, 2019 | 314 comments

610.

PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years (fosdem.org)

676 points by lelf on Feb 9, 2019 | 307 comments

611.

The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug (twitter.com)

676 points by pkilgore on Dec 13, 2019 | 185 comments

612.

PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again (github.com)

675 points by cool-RR on Apr 22, 2019 | 168 comments

613.

Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro (apple.com)

674 points by css on May 21, 2019 | 1034 comments

614.

Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015) (cbc.ca)

674 points by colinprince on Feb 20, 2019 | 330 comments

615.

Blender 2.80 (blender.org)

674 points by harperlee on Jul 30, 2019 | 216 comments

616.

Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?

673 points by deanstag on Dec 18, 2019 | 239 comments

617.

Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains (leebutterman.com)

673 points by lsb on Sep 6, 2019 | 141 comments

618.

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (sciencemag.org)

671 points by headalgorithm on Sep 4, 2019 | 250 comments

619.

California Approves Statewide Rent Control (nytimes.com)

670 points by dawhizkid on Sep 11, 2019 | 964 comments

620.

Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?

670 points by throwaway1m on Nov 27, 2019 | 400 comments

621.

The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017) (jaycarlson.net)

670 points by howard941 on May 7, 2019 | 195 comments

622.

Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust (brave.com)

669 points by teovoinea on Jun 26, 2019 | 359 comments

623.

Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”? (twitter.com)

669 points by fortran77 on Oct 13, 2019 | 299 comments

624.

Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos (github.com)

669 points by amingilani on Apr 22, 2019 | 80 comments

625.

What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? (hackaday.com)

668 points by jccalhoun on Feb 6, 2019 | 498 comments

626.

5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk (hackaday.com)

668 points by szczys on Apr 16, 2019 | 471 comments

627.

Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone (bbc.co.uk)

668 points by choult on Oct 17, 2019 | 309 comments

628.

Consume less, create more (tjcx.me)

668 points by tomjcleveland on Aug 23, 2019 | 182 comments

629.

What do executives do, anyway? (apenwarr.ca)

666 points by panic on Sep 27, 2019 | 203 comments

630.

My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine (sullysullenberger.com)

666 points by kaboro on Oct 14, 2019 | 201 comments