HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2521.

Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team (diracdeltas.github.io)

1009 points by xenophonf on Dec 15, 2016 | 280 comments

2522.

Getting better at Linux with mini-projects (carltheperson.com)

1009 points by carltheperson on Feb 2, 2021 | 120 comments

2523.

Aaron, 5 years later (bensw.com)

1009 points by bensw on Jan 13, 2018 | 108 comments

2524.

Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead (nytimes.com)

1008 points by ramraj07 on May 1, 2023 | 1184 comments

2525.

Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? (bbc.com)

1008 points by vanusa on May 17, 2021 | 637 comments

2526.

Brave launches 1.0 (brave.com)

1008 points by etr71115 on Nov 13, 2019 | 630 comments

2527.

VR (blog.ycombinator.com)

1008 points by craigcannon on Jan 13, 2017 | 550 comments

2528.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (arstechnica.com)

1008 points by JaimeThompson on Mar 30, 2025 | 467 comments

2529.

How to Do Great Work (paulgraham.com)

1008 points by razin on Jul 1, 2023 | 431 comments

2530.

LastPass autofill exploit (labs.detectify.com)

1008 points by detectify on Jul 27, 2016 | 420 comments

2531.

Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says (cbc.ca)

1008 points by vivekd on Oct 8, 2020 | 415 comments

2532.

Engineering for Slow Internet (brr.fyi)

1008 points by jader201 on May 31, 2024 | 386 comments

2533.

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (social.hails.org)

1008 points by sohkamyung 2 months ago | 252 comments

2534.

TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app (asia.nikkei.com)

1007 points by em500 on Aug 10, 2021 | 679 comments

2535.

We are destroying software (antirez.com)

1007 points by antirez on Feb 8, 2025 | 622 comments

2536.

What is Happening in Istanbul? (defnesumanblogs.com)

1007 points by bencevans on Jun 2, 2013 | 485 comments

2537.

Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU (replicate.com)

1007 points by bfirsh on Sep 1, 2022 | 401 comments

2538.

Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results

1007 points by babuskov on Nov 24, 2019 | 346 comments

2539.

Poll: How long have you been programming?

1007 points by michaelkscott on Apr 2, 2012 | 316 comments

2540.

Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years (krebsonsecurity.com)

1007 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 22, 2025 | 249 comments

2541.

‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video] (bbc.com)

1006 points by nathanyz 11 months ago | 1278 comments

2542.

Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian (bloomberg.com)

1006 points by uptown on Jul 26, 2018 | 710 comments

2543.

Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

1006 points by iameoghan on May 22, 2020 | 669 comments

2544.

Nine things I learned in ninety years (edwardpackard.com)

1006 points by coderintherye 9 months ago | 382 comments

2545.

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code (github.com)

1006 points by doppp 4 months ago | 301 comments

2546.

Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up (femfosec.com)

1005 points by femfosec on Mar 28, 2021 | 1449 comments

2547.

Google is winning on every AI front (thealgorithmicbridge.com)

1005 points by vinhnx on Apr 12, 2025 | 819 comments

2548.

Nexus 6 (google.com)

1005 points by myko on Oct 15, 2014 | 684 comments

2549.

Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies (cnn.com)

1005 points by razin on Aug 23, 2022 | 603 comments

2550.

Thinkpad X210 (geoff.greer.fm)

1005 points by MYEUHD on Mar 17, 2019 | 477 comments