HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com)

4240 points by phantop on Oct 23, 2020 | 1443 comments

2.

Bye, Amazon (tbray.org)

3816 points by grey-area on May 4, 2020 | 1097 comments

3.

Every Google result now looks like an ad (twitter.com)

3592 points by cmod on Jan 21, 2020 | 972 comments

4.

Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

3270 points by zachrip on Apr 19, 2020 | 473 comments

5.

Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. (apnews.com)

3089 points by granzymes on Nov 7, 2020 | 4576 comments

6.

Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever (buzzfeednews.com)

2953 points by minimaxir on May 12, 2020 | 1339 comments

7.

No Cookie for You (github.blog)

2941 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2020 | 609 comments

8.

SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit (nasa.gov)

2856 points by tosh on May 30, 2020 | 798 comments

9.

Gears (ciechanow.ski)

2760 points by robert-boehnke on Feb 12, 2020 | 222 comments

10.

Social Cooling (2017) (socialcooling.com)

2692 points by rapnie on Sep 29, 2020 | 1059 comments

11.

YouTube-dl's repository has been restored (github.blog)

2636 points by fusl on Nov 16, 2020 | 658 comments

12.

Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

2634 points by genedangelo on May 31, 2020 | 531 comments

13.

macOS unable to open any non-Apple application (twitter.com)

2603 points by mattsolle on Nov 12, 2020 | 1278 comments

14.

Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack (coindesk.com)

2595 points by megadeth on Jul 15, 2020 | 1349 comments

15.

Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC (raspberrypi.org)

2594 points by schappim on Nov 2, 2020 | 754 comments

16.

GitHub is now free for teams (github.blog)

2589 points by ig0r0 on Apr 14, 2020 | 622 comments

17.

I Am Deleting the Blog (slatestarcodex.com)

2450 points by perditus on Jun 23, 2020 | 1515 comments

18.

Thank HN: You helped me get a new job

2425 points by atum47 on Jan 15, 2020 | 193 comments

19.

Tell HN: Thank You Dang

2363 points by sinak on Nov 27, 2020 | 249 comments

20.

When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number (mango.pdf.zone)

2326 points by michael_fine on Sep 16, 2020 | 340 comments

21.

Google outage – resolved

2316 points by abluecloud on Dec 14, 2020 | 827 comments

22.

John Conway has died (twitter.com)

2305 points by ColinWright on Apr 11, 2020 | 178 comments

23.

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID (github.com)

2292 points by rvnx on Feb 4, 2020 | 615 comments

24.

The End of the Redis Adventure (antirez.com)

2282 points by kristoff_it on Jun 30, 2020 | 294 comments

25.

Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (reuters.com)

2272 points by n1000 on Jan 21, 2020 | 696 comments

26.

Oppose the Earn IT Act (foundation.mozilla.org)

2229 points by joeyespo on Jul 1, 2020 | 543 comments

27.

Cameras and Lenses (ciechanow.ski)

2132 points by mariuz on Dec 9, 2020 | 212 comments

28.

Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B (nvidianews.nvidia.com)

2122 points by czr on Sep 13, 2020 | 752 comments

29.

Deno 1.0 (deno.land)

2081 points by 0xedb on May 13, 2020 | 583 comments

30.

MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? (sigpipe.macromates.com)

2031 points by jrk on May 22, 2020 | 998 comments