HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Stephen Hawking has died (bbc.com)

6015 points by Cogito on Mar 14, 2018 | 436 comments

2.

Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street (reuters.com)

2361 points by kgwgk on Mar 19, 2018 | 1766 comments

3.

Machine Learning Crash Course (developers.google.com)

1926 points by matant on Mar 1, 2018 | 222 comments

4.

Congrats Dropbox (blog.ycombinator.com)

1543 points by runesoerensen on Mar 23, 2018 | 264 comments

5.

It's time to head back to RSS? (wired.com)

1501 points by kawera on Mar 31, 2018 | 491 comments

6.

Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time (petapixel.com)

1397 points by shawndumas on Mar 8, 2018 | 215 comments

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Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook (techcrunch.com)

1390 points by middle1 on Mar 23, 2018 | 499 comments

8.

Blocklist Facebook domains (github.com)

1349 points by z0a on Mar 20, 2018 | 348 comments

9.

Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud (sec.gov)

1211 points by kgwgk on Mar 14, 2018 | 516 comments

10.

Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted (nymag.com)

1187 points by walterbell on Mar 31, 2018 | 387 comments

11.

“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” (reddit.com)

1155 points by obtino on Mar 18, 2018 | 268 comments

12.

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts (fmwconcepts.com)

1149 points by primogen on Mar 24, 2018 | 100 comments

13.

Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways

1148 points by elektron on Mar 7, 2018 | 600 comments

14.

Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident (twitter.com)

1108 points by austinkhale on Mar 21, 2018 | 1323 comments

15.

FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says (bloomberg.com)

1107 points by coloneltcb on Mar 20, 2018 | 371 comments

16.

Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript (roughjs.com)

1087 points by shihn on Mar 12, 2018 | 92 comments

17.

WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook (theverge.com)

1086 points by coloneltcb on Mar 20, 2018 | 628 comments

18.

Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation (nytimes.com)

1074 points by aaronbrethorst on Mar 19, 2018 | 395 comments

19.

Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe (techcrunch.com)

1034 points by pdcerb on Mar 5, 2018 | 379 comments

20.

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live (community.letsencrypt.org)

1024 points by schoen on Mar 13, 2018 | 310 comments

21.

Some terrible personal news (mattcutts.com)

1018 points by rpledge on Mar 8, 2018 | 220 comments

22.

Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA (craigslist.org)

947 points by cft on Mar 23, 2018 | 596 comments

23.

Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine (theguardian.com)

942 points by valanto on Mar 20, 2018 | 384 comments

24.

Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany (cand.pglaf.org)

922 points by jwildeboer on Mar 3, 2018 | 502 comments

25.

I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet (threadreaderapp.com)

918 points by shawndumas on Mar 31, 2018 | 390 comments

26.

Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail

912 points by dfrappier on Mar 20, 2018 | 410 comments

27.

Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks (news.berkeley.edu)

910 points by dpflan on Mar 30, 2018 | 432 comments

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All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate (techcrunch.com)