HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Social Cooling (2017) (socialcooling.com)

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

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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

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

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

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died (npr.org)

1738 points by _zhqs on Sep 18, 2020 | 1452 comments

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Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal (politico.com)

1722 points by AndrewBissell on Sep 2, 2020 | 472 comments

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This electrical transmission tower has a problem (twitter.com)

1666 points by danso on Sep 17, 2020 | 460 comments

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Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

1656 points by wasteme on Sep 17, 2020 | 729 comments

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Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up (calpaterson.com)

1624 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 23, 2020 | 1286 comments

9.

Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke (forbes.com)

1336 points by pseudolus on Sep 15, 2020 | 836 comments

10.

I no longer build software (github.com)

1287 points by tagawa on Sep 21, 2020 | 856 comments

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On the Use of a Life (daemonology.net)

1275 points by cperciva on Sep 20, 2020 | 265 comments

12.

Most-favorited Hacker News posts (observablehq.com)

1266 points by tlarkworthy on Sep 2, 2020 | 259 comments

13.

BitTorrent v2 (blog.libtorrent.org)

1227 points by jakobdabo on Sep 7, 2020 | 560 comments

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Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B (bethesda.net)

1185 points by MaximumMadness on Sep 21, 2020 | 779 comments

15.

CRDTs are the future (josephg.com)

1181 points by lewisjoe on Sep 28, 2020 | 312 comments

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We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode (momentjs.com)

1129 points by maple3142 on Sep 15, 2020 | 257 comments

17.

Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms (support.mozilla.org)

1093 points by muxator on Sep 22, 2020 | 375 comments

18.

Nova by Panic (nova.app)

1051 points by 0x0 on Sep 16, 2020 | 542 comments

19.

Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads (flatpanelshd.com)

996 points by Shihan on Sep 29, 2020 | 935 comments

20.

They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video] (youtube.com)

987 points by notRobot on Sep 23, 2020 | 761 comments

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Someone has stolen my Instagram account (twitter.com)

976 points by testloop on Sep 27, 2020 | 333 comments

22.

Security by obscurity is underrated (utkusen.com)

939 points by goranmoomin on Sep 11, 2020 | 510 comments

23.

Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes (appfairness.org)

913 points by poorman on Sep 24, 2020 | 1013 comments

24.

Amnesia is now open source (frictionalgames.com)

902 points by jsheard on Sep 23, 2020 | 205 comments

25.

Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them (thedrive.com)

900 points by x43b on Sep 1, 2020 | 473 comments

26.

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business (blog.ltse.com)

896 points by ummonk on Sep 9, 2020 | 535 comments

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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017) (journals.uchicago.edu)