HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2221.

France rejects backdoor mandate (eff.org)

1043 points by hn_acker on Mar 21, 2025 | 301 comments

2222.

Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments (ramiro.org)

1043 points by gkst on Jan 18, 2016 | 181 comments

2223.

Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery (singhkays.com)

1042 points by singhkays on Nov 24, 2020 | 1083 comments

2224.

Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 (github.com)

1042 points by xairy on Nov 27, 2024 | 522 comments

2225.

Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

1042 points by nojvek on Jan 24, 2023 | 199 comments

2226.

Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel (bbc.com)

1041 points by cjlm on Oct 5, 2020 | 801 comments

2227.

LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator (twitter.com)

1041 points by bqe on Jun 4, 2021 | 588 comments

2228.

What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time? (twitter.com)

1041 points by ingve on Aug 25, 2019 | 320 comments

2229.

Llama3 implemented from scratch (github.com)

1041 points by Hadi7546 on May 19, 2024 | 269 comments

2230.

Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2) (github.com)

1041 points by LightMachine on May 17, 2024 | 253 comments

2231.

"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends." (joethepeacock.blogspot.co.uk)

1041 points by kilian on Apr 24, 2012 | 195 comments

2232.

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)

1040 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 662 comments

2233.

My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison (twitter.com)

1040 points by danso on Oct 1, 2020 | 622 comments

2234.

What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week (blog.immersed.team)

1040 points by eflowers on Sep 28, 2021 | 448 comments

2235.

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing (arxiv.org)

1040 points by fgfm on Feb 28, 2024 | 447 comments

2236.

Postgres IDE in VS Code (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

1040 points by Dowwie 11 months ago | 406 comments

2237.

Attention Is Off By One (evanmiller.org)

1040 points by elbasti on Jul 24, 2023 | 331 comments

2238.

Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear (hemingwayapp.com)

1040 points by jmngomes on Feb 12, 2014 | 327 comments

2239.

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms (techcrunch.com)

1040 points by spenvo on Apr 18, 2022 | 237 comments

2240.

China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon (planetary.org)

1040 points by docbrown on Jan 3, 2019 | 226 comments

2241.

Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project (justine.lol)

1040 points by jart on Jun 16, 2022 | 224 comments

2242.

2048 AI (ov3y.github.io)

1040 points by ovolve on Mar 11, 2014 | 189 comments

2243.

Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun (techcrunch.com)

1039 points by matthieu_bl on Nov 4, 2022 | 2117 comments

2244.

A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work (mertbulan.com)

1039 points by mertbio on Jan 27, 2025 | 960 comments

2245.

Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice (twitter.com)

1039 points by apsec112 on Dec 7, 2023 | 659 comments

2246.

When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com (facebook.com)

1039 points by shiftpgdn on Jun 25, 2020 | 425 comments

2247.

Fired (zachholman.com)

1039 points by rdegges on Mar 6, 2015 | 389 comments

2248.

React Native is now open source (github.com)

1039 points by peterhunt on Mar 26, 2015 | 287 comments

2249.

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected (helixguard.ai)

1038 points by mrdosija 5 months ago | 775 comments

2250.

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri (cnbc.com)

1038 points by stygiansonic 3 months ago | 651 comments