HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

The most underused browser feature: reader mode (frankgroeneveld.nl)

882 points by frenkel on Aug 24, 2021 | 357 comments

32.

New in Git: switch and restore (banterly.net)

872 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 1, 2021 | 543 comments

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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces (github.blog)

861 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 11, 2021 | 679 comments

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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy (edwardsnowden.substack.com)

861 points by ttctciyf on Aug 26, 2021 | 380 comments

35.

ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions (blog.roboflow.com)

860 points by yeldarb on Aug 19, 2021 | 510 comments

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FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website (github.com)

853 points by timothyaveni on Aug 13, 2021 | 278 comments

37.

Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine (them.us)

851 points by Saint_Genet on Aug 17, 2021 | 469 comments

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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020) (reuters.com)

847 points by Crash0v3rid3 on Aug 10, 2021 | 218 comments

39.

Apps Getting Worse (tbray.org)

828 points by TangerineDream on Aug 8, 2021 | 619 comments

40.

Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes (github.com)

822 points by makeworld on Aug 26, 2021 | 332 comments

41.

An old hacker's tips on staying employed (madned.substack.com)

815 points by mad_ned on Aug 11, 2021 | 347 comments

42.

The Coronavirus Is Here Forever (theatlantic.com)

773 points by lxm on Aug 23, 2021 | 1547 comments

43.

PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations (github.com)

763 points by xanthine on Aug 22, 2021 | 343 comments

44.

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free (sciencemag.org)

761 points by cyrksoft on Aug 8, 2021 | 92 comments

45.

The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children” (piotr.is)

753 points by arespredator on Aug 12, 2021 | 571 comments

46.

The surreal experience of my first developer job (bennuttall.com)

743 points by benn_88 on Aug 4, 2021 | 261 comments

47.

Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech (foundation.mozilla.org)

728 points by heyhillary on Aug 5, 2021 | 170 comments

48.

Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies (theregister.com)

725 points by alanwreath on Aug 31, 2021 | 571 comments

49.

Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game (widelands.org)

713 points by doener on Aug 16, 2021 | 177 comments

50.

The Problem with Perceptual Hashes (rentafounder.com)

705 points by rivo on Aug 6, 2021 | 418 comments

51.

My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry (mike.zwobble.org)

701 points by mwilliamson on Aug 1, 2021 | 189 comments

52.

Airyx OS (airyx.org)

699 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 5, 2021 | 254 comments

53.

How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) (blog.discord.com)

696 points by ibraheemdev on Aug 24, 2021 | 368 comments

54.

Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers (axios.com)

695 points by throwaway888abc on Aug 27, 2021 | 244 comments

55.

Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing (blog.mozilla.org)

695 points by arthuredelstein on Aug 10, 2021 | 224 comments

56.

Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence (nzz.ch)

694 points by ipnon on Aug 7, 2021 | 332 comments

57.

OnlyFans drops planned porn ban (variety.com)

690 points by uptown on Aug 25, 2021 | 1081 comments

58.

Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store (theverge.com)

688 points by davweb on Aug 19, 2021 | 472 comments

59.

I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple (markosaric.com)

679 points by miles on Aug 26, 2021 | 838 comments

60.

The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks (theguardian.com)

675 points by shivbhatt on Aug 28, 2021 | 346 comments