HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA (blog.zoller.lu)

230 points by thierryzoller on Jul 26, 2020 | 192 comments

512.

Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power (bbc.com)

230 points by pseudolus on Jul 27, 2020 | 172 comments

513.

Web Dark Ages (pavellaptev.github.io)

230 points by jslakro on Jul 1, 2020 | 147 comments

514.

Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy (fs.blog)

229 points by lxm on Jul 27, 2020 | 97 comments

515.

Why forgiving someone else is about you (npr.org)

228 points by pseudolus on Jul 30, 2020 | 239 comments

516.

An update on our security incident (blog.twitter.com)

228 points by pseudolus on Jul 31, 2020 | 232 comments

517.

U.S. attorney general: Hollywood, tech companies “pawns of Chinese influence” (reuters.com)

228 points by ilamont on Jul 16, 2020 | 207 comments

518.

Crooked to the Millimetre (ethz.ch)

228 points by montalbano on Jul 2, 2020 | 37 comments

519.

One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud (bbc.com)

227 points by tartoran on Jul 9, 2020 | 170 comments

520.

This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power (louwrentius.com)

227 points by louwrentius on Jul 10, 2020 | 120 comments

521.

Tor 0day: Stopping Tor Connections (hackerfactor.com)

227 points by a_m0d on Jul 23, 2020 | 88 comments

522.

How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book (blakeboles.com)

227 points by melpomene on Jul 30, 2020 | 37 comments

523.

Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack (zdnet.com)

226 points by fbnlsr on Jul 23, 2020 | 223 comments

524.

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) (twitter.com)

226 points by seesawtron on Jul 1, 2020 | 193 comments

525.

Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t (arstechnica.com)

226 points by _JamesA_ on Jul 23, 2020 | 176 comments

526.

Principles for great product managers (reeve.blog)

226 points by AlexDReeve on Jul 20, 2020 | 89 comments

527.

Hacking with environment variables (elttam.com)

226 points by pentestercrab on Jul 14, 2020 | 65 comments

528.

Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf] (ams.org)

226 points by srimukh on Jul 3, 2020 | 52 comments

529.

What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results? (buzzfeednews.com)

224 points by finphil on Jul 25, 2020 | 288 comments

530.

Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies (theverge.com)

224 points by rbanffy on Jul 31, 2020 | 140 comments

531.

From context collapse to content collapse (roughtype.com)

224 points by MindGods on Jul 4, 2020 | 109 comments

532.

WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing (kripken.github.io)

224 points by syrusakbary on Jul 28, 2020 | 106 comments

533.

Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app (arstechnica.com)

223 points by jtrip on Jul 10, 2020 | 214 comments

534.

Why GPT-3 Matters (leogao.dev)

223 points by teruakohatu on Jul 20, 2020 | 163 comments

535.

TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong (axios.com)

223 points by longdefeat on Jul 7, 2020 | 144 comments

536.

Minecraft@Home (minecraftathome.com)

223 points by networked on Jul 20, 2020 | 74 comments

537.

Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests (reuters.com)

222 points by ckastner on Jul 27, 2020 | 148 comments

538.

Intel in Macs (2007) (apple.com)

222 points by cjv on Jul 8, 2020 | 136 comments

539.

Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management (usenix.org)

222 points by dcbadacd on Jul 2, 2020 | 80 comments

540.

Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation (decentraleyes.org)

222 points by thunderbong on Jul 9, 2020 | 80 comments