HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls (autocar.co.uk)

1922 points by trenning on Mar 31, 2020 | 743 comments

2.

NPM Is Joining GitHub (github.blog)

1829 points by mholt on Mar 16, 2020 | 557 comments

3.

Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act (blogs.harvard.edu)

1597 points by seapunk on Mar 27, 2020 | 509 comments

4.

Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account (vice.com)

1433 points by softwaredoug on Mar 26, 2020 | 360 comments

5.

Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says (npr.org)

1243 points by tmlee on Mar 11, 2020 | 1038 comments

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Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing (theintercept.com)

1230 points by tony101 on Mar 31, 2020 | 339 comments

7.

SETI@home shuts down after 21 years (bleepingcomputer.com)

1216 points by ingve on Mar 3, 2020 | 343 comments

8.

DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use (bitlog.com)

1158 points by braythwayt on Mar 6, 2020 | 476 comments

9.

Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community (left.it)

1095 points by magoghm on Mar 14, 2020 | 693 comments

10.

Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

1083 points by whoishiring on Mar 23, 2020 | 784 comments

11.

MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester (web.mit.edu)

1027 points by ryeights on Mar 10, 2020 | 586 comments

12.

Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible (andregarzia.com)

963 points by soapdog on Mar 25, 2020 | 896 comments

13.

Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days (bbc.co.uk)

953 points by tompagenet2 on Mar 19, 2020 | 744 comments

14.

Zotero: Personal Research Assistant (zotero.org)

945 points by supdatecron on Mar 26, 2020 | 206 comments

15.

FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf] (docs.fcc.gov)

929 points by hbcondo714 on Mar 31, 2020 | 335 comments

16.

U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days (nbcnews.com)

920 points by sahin-boydas on Mar 12, 2020 | 866 comments

17.

Using Anki to remember what you read (superorganizers.substack.com)

901 points by dshipper on Mar 5, 2020 | 304 comments

18.

Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom (meet.jit.si)

897 points by LockAndLol on Mar 23, 2020 | 285 comments

19.

Apple acquires Dark Sky (blog.darksky.net)

894 points by _egt6 on Mar 31, 2020 | 576 comments

20.

Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default (theverge.com)

854 points by doener on Mar 2, 2020 | 330 comments

21.

Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus (bloomberg.com)

835 points by blago on Mar 31, 2020 | 345 comments

22.

GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization (bloomberg.com)

831 points by avonmach on Mar 19, 2020 | 548 comments

23.

Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (andrewkelley.me)

831 points by hazebooth on Mar 24, 2020 | 288 comments

24.

“Just walk out” technology by Amazon (justwalkout.com)

825 points by bookofjoe on Mar 9, 2020 | 742 comments

25.

People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (cbc.ca)

822 points by fraqed on Mar 5, 2020 | 782 comments

26.

WireGuard 1.0 (lore.kernel.org)

821 points by iamd3vil on Mar 30, 2020 | 2 comments

27.

I got my file from Clearview AI (onezero.medium.com)

811 points by us0r on Mar 25, 2020 | 224 comments

28.

Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

809 points by sakopov on Mar 21, 2020 | 1237 comments

29.

Show HN: Fraidycat (fraidyc.at)

807 points by kickscondor on Mar 11, 2020 | 150 comments

30.

Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

800 points by Peretus on Mar 18, 2020 | 645 comments