HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

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

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

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

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Grant Imahara Has Died (hollywoodreporter.com)

1963 points by jmcgough on Jul 14, 2020 | 255 comments

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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study (news.ncsu.edu)

1782 points by sizzle on Jul 15, 2020 | 1141 comments

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Del.icio.us (del.icio.us)

1649 points by kome on Jul 29, 2020 | 506 comments

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Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund (twitter.com)

1594 points by metafunctor on Jul 30, 2020 | 351 comments

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U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation (reuters.com)

1489 points by threatofrain on Jul 9, 2020 | 1225 comments

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Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad (roguelazer.com)

1285 points by Spellman on Jul 14, 2020 | 630 comments

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When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited] (twitter.com)

1243 points by tomduncalf on Jul 29, 2020 | 548 comments

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Where Am I? NYTimes or Google? (theinternetbytes.com)

1130 points by rwoll on Jul 4, 2020 | 355 comments

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Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products (wsj.com)

1125 points by mgav on Jul 23, 2020 | 351 comments

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Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B (bloomberg.com)

1106 points by caution on Jul 31, 2020 | 674 comments

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Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages (lwn.net)

1106 points by jonquark on Jul 8, 2020 | 523 comments

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Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 (timjrobinson.com)

1105 points by TimJRobinson on Jul 30, 2020 | 1979 comments

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Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (smitop.com)

1099 points by smitop on Jul 8, 2020 | 540 comments

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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin (maraoz.com)

1079 points by maraoz on Jul 18, 2020 | 526 comments

17.

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (jvns.ca)

1074 points by asicsp on Jul 16, 2020 | 367 comments

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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips (fossi-foundation.org)

1055 points by tomcam on Jul 7, 2020 | 384 comments

19.

We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)

1034 points by alanpage on Jul 8, 2020 | 135 comments

20.

Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

1025 points by signa11 on Jul 15, 2020 | 524 comments

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Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org (domainnamewire.com)

989 points by feross on Jul 18, 2020 | 135 comments

22.

Websites that look like desktop GUIs (simone.computer)

981 points by fanf2 on Jul 4, 2020 | 183 comments

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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare” (easydns.com)

972 points by StuntPope on Jul 20, 2020 | 385 comments

24.

You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? (mrlacey.com)

964 points by gregdoesit on Jul 14, 2020 | 507 comments

25.

Systems Design for Advanced Beginners (robertheaton.com)

945 points by _ttg on Jul 21, 2020 | 110 comments

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LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke (twitter.com)