HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

Life before smartphones (2020) (mattruby.substack.com)

669 points by evo_9 on Aug 2, 2021 | 482 comments

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Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts (twitter.com)

669 points by luu on Aug 20, 2021 | 344 comments

63.

Economic costs of war (watson.brown.edu)

666 points by hncurious on Aug 16, 2021 | 573 comments

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A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead (theverge.com)

652 points by nabilhat on Aug 23, 2021 | 393 comments

65.

Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt (scotthelme.co.uk)

652 points by Jaruzel on Aug 20, 2021 | 202 comments

66.

Messaging and chat control (patrick-breyer.de)

643 points by kristjank on Aug 9, 2021 | 317 comments

67.

Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug” (twitter.com)

643 points by radmuzom on Aug 21, 2021 | 15 comments

68.

NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf] (media.defense.gov)

635 points by kennethko on Aug 3, 2021 | 165 comments

69.

My House (carltheperson.com)

633 points by carltheperson on Aug 31, 2021 | 230 comments

70.

Internet of Snitches (puri.sm)

632 points by nicolaslem on Aug 12, 2021 | 275 comments

71.

TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage (asia.nikkei.com)

630 points by giuliomagnifico on Aug 26, 2021 | 596 comments

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Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash (github.com)

623 points by anishathalye on Aug 19, 2021 | 351 comments

73.

WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel (lists.zx2c4.com)

622 points by zx2c4 on Aug 2, 2021 | 182 comments

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Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco (blog.waymo.com)

620 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 24, 2021 | 669 comments

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Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship (eff.org)

618 points by taxyovio on Aug 11, 2021 | 303 comments

76.

Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement

617 points by marcuslima on Aug 2, 2021 | 220 comments

77.

Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance (bou.ke)

616 points by bouk on Aug 2, 2021 | 117 comments

78.

Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

614 points by michalu on Aug 19, 2021 | 380 comments

79.

Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings (fishdraw.glitch.me)

614 points by sigil on Aug 12, 2021 | 87 comments

80.

Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim (twitter.com)

613 points by aresant on Aug 19, 2021 | 217 comments

81.

FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent (twitter.com)

608 points by votick on Aug 28, 2021 | 447 comments

82.

Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium (technologyreview.com)

602 points by webmobdev on Aug 18, 2021 | 107 comments

83.

Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US (culdesac.com)

597 points by foofoo4u on Aug 10, 2021 | 365 comments

84.

In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features (9to5mac.com)

596 points by goindeep on Aug 7, 2021 | 406 comments

85.

Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021 (asahilinux.org)

596 points by fanf2 on Aug 14, 2021 | 183 comments

86.

A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way (outsideonline.com)

595 points by Kaibeezy on Aug 17, 2021 | 421 comments

87.

Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it (rachelbythebay.com)

589 points by TangerineDream on Aug 17, 2021 | 137 comments

88.

Introducing the PineNote (pine64.org)

586 points by DanAtC on Aug 15, 2021 | 111 comments

89.

FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine (fda.gov)

585 points by PaulAnunda on Aug 23, 2021 | 1000 comments

90.

Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' (bbc.com)

585 points by belter on Aug 13, 2021 | 734 comments