HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own (theverge.com)

295 points by pseudolus on Dec 20, 2020 | 178 comments

392.

The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996) (nngroup.com)

295 points by goranmoomin on Dec 11, 2020 | 149 comments

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The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (sudhir.io)

295 points by sudhirj on Dec 31, 2020 | 108 comments

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QBE vs. LLVM (c9x.me)

295 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 2, 2020 | 99 comments

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Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers (arxiv.org)

294 points by anigbrowl on Dec 16, 2020 | 105 comments

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Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more (sequoia.makes.software)

294 points by sequoia on Dec 21, 2020 | 102 comments

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macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS (antranigv.am)

292 points by rodrigo975 on Dec 1, 2020 | 348 comments

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Mutated Covid-19 strain confirmed in Japan as case tally hits record high (japantimes.co.jp)

292 points by Circumnavigate on Dec 25, 2020 | 277 comments

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Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble (dyno-might.github.io)

292 points by dyno-might on Dec 16, 2020 | 144 comments

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How and why I stopped buying new laptops (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

291 points by pencil_ on Dec 20, 2020 | 279 comments

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The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019) (news.colgate.edu)

290 points by laplacesdemon48 on Dec 20, 2020 | 344 comments

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The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon (digital.com)

289 points by mooreds on Dec 5, 2020 | 210 comments

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Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates (eclecticlight.co)

289 points by mrzool on Dec 17, 2020 | 141 comments

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SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states (arstechnica.com)

288 points by samizdis on Dec 7, 2020 | 254 comments

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Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology (nature.com)

288 points by respinal on Dec 30, 2020 | 246 comments

406.

Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer (aws.amazon.com)

288 points by ke4qqq on Dec 1, 2020 | 113 comments

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Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium (washingtonpost.com)

288 points by comex on Dec 29, 2020 | 58 comments

408.

Google Alternatives (justprivacy.org)

287 points by yepgwer on Dec 11, 2020 | 233 comments

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Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why (medium.com)

287 points by riffraff on Dec 31, 2020 | 61 comments

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Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid (justice.gov)

286 points by nobody9999 on Dec 3, 2020 | 117 comments

411.

The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC (fabiensanglard.net)

285 points by 0-_-0 on Dec 23, 2020 | 207 comments

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Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (datasette.io)

285 points by robin_reala on Dec 11, 2020 | 22 comments

413.

I am lonely will anyone speak to me (en.wikipedia.org)

284 points by spondyl on Dec 24, 2020 | 209 comments

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YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason (linkedin.com)

284 points by amrrs on Dec 29, 2020 | 160 comments

415.

We can have democracy or we can have Facebook (the.ink)

283 points by imartin2k on Dec 11, 2020 | 502 comments

416.

Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google (kiramclean.com)

283 points by kmclean on Dec 19, 2020 | 172 comments

417.

Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt (blog.tomilkieway.com)