HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera (medium.com)

1937 points by mplanchard on Jul 8, 2019 | 456 comments

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YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube (boingboing.net)

1553 points by KirinDave on Jul 4, 2019 | 429 comments

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YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views (astronaut.io)

1362 points by monort on Jul 14, 2019 | 232 comments

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Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server (techcrunch.com)

1358 points by coloneltcb on Jul 10, 2019 | 532 comments

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Choose Boring Technology (boringtechnology.club)

1357 points by luu on Jul 1, 2019 | 344 comments

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YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems” (twitter.com)

1355 points by avolcano on Jul 3, 2019 | 668 comments

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MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

1336 points by bzbarsky on Jul 18, 2019 | 453 comments

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Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

1188 points by folli on Jul 3, 2019 | 196 comments

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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI (openai.com)

1119 points by gdb on Jul 22, 2019 | 592 comments

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How to assess the quality of garments (2014) (anuschkarees.com)

991 points by bookofjoe on Jul 22, 2019 | 287 comments

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QuickJS JavaScript Engine (bellard.org)

948 points by apaprocki on Jul 11, 2019 | 261 comments

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Developers don't understand CORS (fosterelli.co)

931 points by chrisfosterelli on Jul 10, 2019 | 355 comments

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Adblocking: How about Nah? (eff.org)

918 points by dredmorbius on Jul 27, 2019 | 534 comments

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Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf] (cis.upenn.edu)

883 points by oldgun on Jul 30, 2019 | 118 comments

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Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations (translate.google.com)

872 points by bartkappenburg on Jul 10, 2019 | 441 comments

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To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public (bloomberg.com)

859 points by JumpCrisscross on Jul 15, 2019 | 597 comments

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Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem (petapixel.com)

845 points by zafka on Jul 6, 2019 | 207 comments

18.

Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003) (www-math.mit.edu)

836 points by lewisjoe on Jul 14, 2019 | 104 comments

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Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook (9to5mac.com)

802 points by jeremylevy on Jul 4, 2019 | 647 comments

20.

I Can’t Stop Winning (blog.pinboard.in)

786 points by jashkenas on Jul 9, 2019 | 214 comments

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Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source (opensource.googleblog.com)

777 points by dankohn1 on Jul 1, 2019 | 194 comments

22.

User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment (userinyerface.com)

757 points by maxime_ on Jul 3, 2019 | 255 comments

23.

Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages (quantamagazine.org)

752 points by parsimo2010 on Jul 26, 2019 | 70 comments

24.

How is it like to be a dev in Iran (shahinsorkh.ir)

745 points by daanavitch on Jul 21, 2019 | 417 comments

25.

Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day (petapixel.com)

740 points by elijahparker on Jul 18, 2019 | 503 comments

26.

Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M (blender.org)

736 points by brachi on Jul 15, 2019 | 250 comments

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A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy (theguardian.com)

734 points by mattkevan on Jul 4, 2019 | 106 comments

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California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure (newyorker.com)