HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups (krebsonsecurity.com)

599 points by picture on Jul 19, 2021 | 316 comments

1052.

New GitHub Issues Beta (github.com)

599 points by splitbrain on Jun 23, 2021 | 212 comments

1053.

The gradual extinction of softness (hippocampusmagazine.com)

599 points by flabber on Nov 10, 2021 | 124 comments

1054.

Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries (github.com)

599 points by jim90 on Nov 19, 2021 | 113 comments

1055.

Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript (cstrnt.dev)

598 points by cstrnt on Oct 12, 2021 | 264 comments

1056.

Programming is hard (dorinlazar.ro)

597 points by zuzuleinen on Apr 6, 2021 | 477 comments

1057.

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

1058.

YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos (github.com)

596 points by makeworld on Jun 1, 2021 | 445 comments

1059.

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

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

1060.

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

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

1061.

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

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

1062.

Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak (twitter.com)

595 points by zdw on May 21, 2021 | 329 comments

1063.

Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors (farms.com)

595 points by anandaverma18 on Jun 7, 2021 | 262 comments

1064.

Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu)

595 points by ngzhian on Feb 9, 2021 | 152 comments

1065.

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen (theatlantic.com)

594 points by alihm on Jun 11, 2021 | 768 comments

1066.

Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

594 points by endofreach on Dec 1, 2021 | 316 comments

1067.

Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm (independent.com)

593 points by danso on Oct 29, 2021 | 674 comments

1068.

Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely (seattletimes.com)

593 points by chickenpotpie on Oct 11, 2021 | 547 comments

1069.

Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021 (adamcadre.ac)

592 points by rossvor on Jun 19, 2021 | 727 comments

1070.

Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out (technologyreview.com)

592 points by todd8 on Apr 9, 2021 | 618 comments

1071.

Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused (eff.org)

592 points by oedmarap on Oct 22, 2021 | 581 comments

1072.

We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis (calpaterson.com)

592 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 26, 2021 | 408 comments

1073.

Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019) (cpomagazine.com)

592 points by crazypython on Jan 21, 2021 | 173 comments

1074.

AWS Private 5G (aws.amazon.com)

591 points by Trisell on Nov 30, 2021 | 358 comments

1075.

Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat (mumble.info)

591 points by danboarder on Jun 27, 2021 | 248 comments

1076.

Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020) (news.mit.edu)

591 points by drran on Jul 2, 2021 | 227 comments

1077.

Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator (build.mmm.page)

591 points by xhfloz on May 12, 2021 | 150 comments

1078.

Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon (theguardian.com)

591 points by johnny_reilly on Jul 18, 2021 | 137 comments

1079.

Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet (technologyelevation.com)

590 points by awb on Mar 8, 2021 | 801 comments

1080.

Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible (twitter.com)

590 points by edward on Mar 10, 2021 | 476 comments