HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity (support.google.com)

1595 points by knaik94 on Sep 22, 2021 | 494 comments

602.

Firefox 70 (hacks.mozilla.org)

1595 points by feross on Oct 22, 2019 | 457 comments

603.

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died (eff.org)

1595 points by leotravis10 on Mar 12, 2025 | 353 comments

604.

"We ran out of columns" (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

1594 points by poidos on Aug 3, 2024 | 546 comments

605.

Wacom tablets track every app you open (robertheaton.com)

1594 points by krithix on Feb 5, 2020 | 449 comments

606.

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund (twitter.com)

1594 points by metafunctor on Jul 30, 2020 | 351 comments

607.

Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass (bugs.xdavidhu.me)

1592 points by BXWPU on Nov 10, 2022 | 444 comments

608.

Light Table - a new IDE concept (chris-granger.com)

1592 points by ibdknox on Apr 13, 2012 | 291 comments

609.

LLM Visualization (bbycroft.net)

1592 points by plibither8 on Dec 3, 2023 | 131 comments

610.

Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me” (plus.google.com)

1591 points by jamesbritt on Jan 19, 2014 | 301 comments

611.

Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels (typelit.io)

1589 points by Octouroboros on Oct 6, 2020 | 378 comments

612.

Apple introduces M4 chip (apple.com)

1588 points by excsn on May 7, 2024 | 2063 comments

613.

Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups (support.apple.com)

1587 points by frizlab on Dec 7, 2022 | 1043 comments

614.

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (arstechnica.com)

1587 points by Brajeshwar 8 months ago | 632 comments

615.

FSF announces Librephone project (fsf.org)

1586 points by g-b-r 8 months ago | 631 comments

616.

Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)

1586 points by romanhn on Jun 7, 2025 | 273 comments

617.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 (anthropic.com)

1585 points by adocomplete 8 months ago | 786 comments

618.

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 (nytimes.com)

1584 points by coloneltcb on Feb 27, 2015 | 165 comments

619.

Mario meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)

1583 points by superMayo on Apr 4, 2024 | 177 comments

620.

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (blog.discordapp.com)

1582 points by Sikul on Feb 4, 2020 | 642 comments

621.

Cognitive load is what matters (github.com)

1582 points by nromiun 9 months ago | 522 comments

622.

Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)

1581 points by jfb 1 week ago | 604 comments

623.

Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out (explore.zoom.us)

1581 points by isodev on Aug 6, 2023 | 512 comments

624.

GPT-5.5 (openai.com)

1580 points by rd 2 months ago | 1057 comments

625.

Vietnam bans unskippable ads (saigoneer.com)

1580 points by hoherd 5 months ago | 813 comments

626.

Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

1580 points by newobj on Feb 26, 2025 | 356 comments

627.

I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021) (haterade.substack.com)