HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M (techcrunch.com)

1857 points by SwaroopH on Jan 9, 2017 | 733 comments

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Welcome, ACLU (medium.com)

1558 points by katm on Jan 31, 2017 | 1030 comments

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Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence (nytimes.com)

1503 points by coloneltcb on Jan 17, 2017 | 713 comments

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Grumpy: Go running Python (opensource.googleblog.com)

1411 points by trotterdylan on Jan 4, 2017 | 451 comments

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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn (gist.github.com)

1382 points by yossorion on Jan 18, 2017 | 558 comments

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WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages (theguardian.com)

1332 points by katpas on Jan 13, 2017 | 321 comments

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LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft (libretaxi.org)

1275 points by bpierre on Jan 31, 2017 | 382 comments

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Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine (skytorrents.in)

1183 points by kasumis_ on Jan 18, 2017 | 346 comments

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Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust (blog.jwilm.io)

1170 points by jwilm on Jan 6, 2017 | 476 comments

10.

Time to Take a Stand (blog.samaltman.com)

1131 points by sama on Jan 28, 2017 | 992 comments

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There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' (whispersystems.org)

1018 points by stablemap on Jan 13, 2017 | 408 comments

12.

VR (blog.ycombinator.com)

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

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First they came for the Iranians (scottaaronson.com)

1000 points by aaronyy on Jan 26, 2017 | 429 comments

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I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (vc.gg)

951 points by stryk on Jan 22, 2017 | 593 comments

15.

RethinkDB Postmortem (github.com)

948 points by v3ss0n on Jan 17, 2017 | 267 comments

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Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure (security.googleblog.com)

947 points by vladootz on Jan 22, 2017 | 398 comments

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Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data (github.com)

937 points by caseysoftware on Jan 15, 2017 | 144 comments

18.

I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial (thepublicdiscourse.com)

899 points by anarazel on Jan 14, 2017 | 467 comments

19.

Wine 2.0 released (winehq.org)

896 points by coldpie on Jan 24, 2017 | 303 comments

20.

Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads (scribblrs.com)

880 points by sply on Jan 19, 2017 | 386 comments

21.

Welcome Chris Lattner (tesla.com)

879 points by nil_is_me on Jan 10, 2017 | 275 comments

22.

Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy (stemcell.usc.edu)

873 points by jpgvm on Jan 26, 2017 | 174 comments

23.

Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software (robert.ocallahan.org)

859 points by bzbarsky on Jan 26, 2017 | 374 comments

24.

Container Tabs (wiki.mozilla.org)

843 points by malikNF on Jan 21, 2017 | 215 comments

25.

George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon (openculture.com)

830 points by finid on Jan 25, 2017 | 603 comments

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Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs (blog.strml.net)

811 points by callumlocke on Jan 24, 2017 | 389 comments

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NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction (techcrunch.com)