HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

751.

YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account (medium.com)

674 points by Suncho on Apr 11, 2020 | 263 comments

752.

Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA (electrospaces.net)

674 points by XzetaU8 on Nov 1, 2020 | 227 comments

753.

Attention is your scarcest resource (benkuhn.net)

674 points by adambyrtek on Sep 6, 2020 | 172 comments

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The Next Step for Generics (blog.golang.org)

673 points by ainar-g on Jun 16, 2020 | 664 comments

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A Third Solution (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

673 points by rafaelc on Apr 24, 2020 | 516 comments

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Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font (vole.wtf)

673 points by phoe-krk on May 10, 2020 | 284 comments

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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018) (github.com)

673 points by billme on Jun 6, 2020 | 266 comments

758.

Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

673 points by mmastrac on Apr 8, 2020 | 180 comments

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Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case (morganhilltimes.com)

672 points by spike021 on Nov 23, 2020 | 955 comments

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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012) (daedtech.com)

672 points by DerCommodore on Jul 8, 2020 | 432 comments

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BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X (hackaday.com)

672 points by fogus on Jan 9, 2020 | 415 comments

762.

Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent (infoq.com)

672 points by oftenwrong on Mar 25, 2020 | 318 comments

763.

Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB (github.com)

672 points by ethanpil on Sep 18, 2020 | 261 comments

764.

Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature (thebigtech.substack.com)

671 points by anupamchugh on Dec 18, 2020 | 420 comments

765.

αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (justine.storage.googleapis.com)

671 points by Pneumaticat on Aug 24, 2020 | 286 comments

766.

Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection (bbc.com)

671 points by n_parks on Nov 16, 2020 | 5 comments

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Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19 (politico.com)

670 points by tlrobinson on Mar 17, 2020 | 117 comments

768.

Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video] (tesla.com)

669 points by belltaco on Feb 3, 2020 | 641 comments

769.

Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images (theverge.com)

669 points by danso on May 20, 2020 | 553 comments

770.

ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly (bbc.co.uk)

669 points by goodcanadian on Jul 28, 2020 | 449 comments

771.

I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel (alaa.blog)

669 points by hackerpain on Dec 12, 2020 | 290 comments

772.

Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times (gist.github.com)

669 points by premek on Apr 13, 2020 | 267 comments

773.

For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression (quantamagazine.org)

669 points by theafh on Apr 16, 2020 | 225 comments

774.

Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain (fireeye.com)

669 points by anigbrowl on Dec 14, 2020 | 224 comments

775.

GitHub CLI is now in beta (github.blog)

669 points by twapi on Feb 12, 2020 | 188 comments

776.

De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer (fivethirtyeight.com)

668 points by oftenwrong on Jun 2, 2020 | 721 comments

777.

Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?

668 points by rayalez on Jun 14, 2020 | 339 comments

778.

City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once (anvaka.github.io)

668 points by jordinebot on Jan 22, 2020 | 143 comments

779.

Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011) (johndcook.com)

667 points by nilsandrey on Jun 24, 2020 | 228 comments

780.

Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs (webrtcforthecurious.com)

667 points by Sean-Der on Aug 30, 2020 | 72 comments