HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis (kadirilkimen.com)

448 points by capitaogirafa on Aug 19, 2021 | 150 comments

152.

Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship (axios.com)

447 points by SirLJ on Aug 5, 2021 | 835 comments

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Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm (github.com)

447 points by ducktective on Aug 27, 2021 | 179 comments

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FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization (npr.org)

445 points by coloneltcb on Aug 2, 2021 | 340 comments

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A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong (twitter.com)

443 points by deegles on Aug 20, 2021 | 419 comments

156.

I hacked an office telephone to play Doom (neilbostian.github.io)

442 points by joshmanders on Aug 27, 2021 | 57 comments

157.

Deno on MDN (deno.com)

441 points by monstermachine on Aug 23, 2021 | 194 comments

158.

Git password authentication is shutting down (github.blog)

440 points by judge2020 on Aug 12, 2021 | 339 comments

159.

The Problem with Ethereum (tomerstrolight.medium.com)

440 points by myth_buster on Aug 11, 2021 | 316 comments

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Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster (bleepingcomputer.com)

439 points by david_shaw on Aug 16, 2021 | 252 comments

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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors (startuppitch.substack.com)

439 points by gmays on Aug 14, 2021 | 188 comments

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Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report (nypost.com)

438 points by snomad on Aug 5, 2021 | 269 comments

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U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research (reuters.com)

438 points by ceejayoz on Aug 6, 2021 | 112 comments

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Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads (dailydot.com)

435 points by jimgordon on Aug 4, 2021 | 77 comments

165.

T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked (vice.com)

432 points by jbegley on Aug 16, 2021 | 251 comments

166.

German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system (9to5mac.com)

430 points by Darthy on Aug 18, 2021 | 80 comments

167.

Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support (github.com)

428 points by daniel_iversen on Aug 11, 2021 | 200 comments

168.

Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat (blog.pimaker.at)

428 points by PiMaker on Aug 26, 2021 | 98 comments

169.

Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster (eff.org)

426 points by abecedarius on Aug 3, 2021 | 374 comments

170.

Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires (eff.org)

426 points by mikro2nd on Aug 23, 2021 | 156 comments

171.

T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach (reuters.com)

425 points by hourislate on Aug 15, 2021 | 192 comments

172.

Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs (lars.ingebrigtsen.no)

425 points by clircle on Aug 14, 2021 | 174 comments

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We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous (washingtonpost.com)

425 points by Copernicron on Aug 19, 2021 | 119 comments

174.

Life Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net)

424 points by janhenr on Aug 12, 2021 | 462 comments

175.

Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free (nwn.blogs.com)

424 points by Kroeler on Aug 18, 2021 | 57 comments

176.

Why I Wrote PGP (1999) (philzimmermann.com)

422 points by pdkl95 on Aug 8, 2021 | 181 comments

177.

Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic (apple.com)

421 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 30, 2021 | 299 comments

178.

Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming (matt-rickard.com)

421 points by herbertl on Aug 6, 2021 | 215 comments

179.

Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020) (jamieweb.net)

420 points by azalemeth on Aug 31, 2021 | 118 comments

180.

MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking (ian.sh)

420 points by agwa on Aug 29, 2021 | 99 comments