HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood (github.com)

498 points by ithkuil on Jun 29, 2021 | 174 comments

1592.

Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end (issues.edpnet.be)

497 points by laurensr on Sep 18, 2021 | 300 comments

1593.

Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation (tanelpoder.com)

497 points by tanelpoder on Jan 29, 2021 | 207 comments

1594.

How the Python import system works (tenthousandmeters.com)

497 points by zikohh on Jul 24, 2021 | 203 comments

1595.

URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies (ylukem.com)

497 points by firloop on Jan 3, 2021 | 202 comments

1596.

Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (engineering.skroutz.gr)

497 points by greenonion on Feb 11, 2021 | 41 comments

1597.

The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box? (thebulletin.org)

496 points by dataflow on May 7, 2021 | 537 comments

1598.

Deurbanising the Web [pdf] (lab6.com)

496 points by ColinWright on Jul 19, 2021 | 413 comments

1599.

“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.” (twitter.com)

496 points by x43b on Dec 4, 2021 | 393 comments

1600.

PinePhone Pro Announced (pine64.org)

496 points by abawany on Oct 15, 2021 | 364 comments

1601.

Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust (pathsensitive.com)

496 points by todsacerdoti on Mar 28, 2021 | 355 comments

1602.

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater (mining.com)

496 points by sambeau on Jun 6, 2021 | 290 comments

1603.

Light Pollution Map (lightpollutionmap.info)

496 points by okl on Apr 23, 2021 | 191 comments

1604.

What's New in SQLite 3.35 (nalgeon.github.io)

496 points by nalgeon on Mar 12, 2021 | 167 comments

1605.

The 88x31 GIF Collection (cyber.dabamos.de)

496 points by kaeruct on Jun 14, 2021 | 124 comments

1606.

Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua (github.com)

496 points by adnzzzzZ on May 23, 2021 | 97 comments

1607.

20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports? (ocregister.com)

495 points by lxm on Sep 8, 2021 | 924 comments

1608.

Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday (axios.com)

495 points by waynekerr on Jul 27, 2021 | 528 comments

1609.

Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022 (reuters.com)

495 points by t23 on Sep 30, 2021 | 480 comments

1610.

Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest (mediaite.com)

495 points by sbuttgereit on Jul 14, 2021 | 451 comments

1611.

Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process (eenewseurope.com)

495 points by djoldman on Jan 20, 2021 | 296 comments

1612.

A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow (stackoverflow.com)

495 points by w-m on Sep 24, 2021 | 176 comments

1613.

Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy (airgradient.com)

495 points by ahaucnx on Dec 6, 2021 | 163 comments

1614.

European Parliament Calls for a Ban on Facial Recognition (politico.eu)

495 points by infodocket on Oct 6, 2021 | 153 comments

1615.

Visualization of 40M Cell Towers (alpercinar.com)

495 points by alprc on Feb 17, 2021 | 146 comments

1616.

Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them (bostonglobe.com)

495 points by disabled on Aug 3, 2021 | 126 comments

1617.

Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong (reason.com)

494 points by nradov on Dec 29, 2021 | 682 comments

1618.

SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon (cryptoslate.com)

494 points by awb on Jun 28, 2021 | 548 comments

1619.

Yamaha MOTOROiD (global.yamaha-motor.com)

494 points by susam on May 29, 2021 | 315 comments

1620.

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (krebsonsecurity.com)

494 points by picture on Nov 1, 2021 | 271 comments