HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack (tutanota.com)

486 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 on Oct 14, 2020 | 239 comments

122.

Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain (tomlehrersongs.com)

486 points by kpozin on Oct 20, 2020 | 132 comments

123.

iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro (apple.com)

485 points by tosh on Oct 13, 2020 | 1402 comments

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“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” (reddit.com)

483 points by dnlbtlr on Oct 9, 2020 | 378 comments

125.

Escaping strings in Bash using !:q (til.simonwillison.net)

482 points by goranmoomin on Oct 2, 2020 | 81 comments

126.

Quibi Is Shutting Down (wsj.com)

479 points by jaredwiener on Oct 21, 2020 | 528 comments

127.

The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen (economist.com)

478 points by xenocratus on Oct 29, 2020 | 526 comments

128.

FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals (krebsonsecurity.com)

475 points by picture on Oct 29, 2020 | 329 comments

129.

Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story (taibbi.substack.com)

471 points by eyeball on Oct 25, 2020 | 567 comments

130.

We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal (thebellows.org)

471 points by oedmarap on Oct 11, 2020 | 374 comments

131.

100k Stars (stars.chromeexperiments.com)

471 points by evo_9 on Oct 6, 2020 | 172 comments

132.

Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (simonwillison.net)

471 points by simonw on Oct 9, 2020 | 95 comments

133.

‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study (theguardian.com)

465 points by archiepeach on Oct 26, 2020 | 637 comments

134.

AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th (anandtech.com)

462 points by jsheard on Oct 28, 2020 | 413 comments

135.

A one-line change decreased our build times by 99% (medium.com)

462 points by luord on Oct 24, 2020 | 243 comments

136.

Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones (peripherii.com)

462 points by Aurum197 on Oct 14, 2020 | 184 comments

137.

YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation (reuters.com)

461 points by finphil on Oct 14, 2020 | 893 comments

138.

Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust (nytimes.com)

461 points by bigpumpkin on Oct 13, 2020 | 359 comments

139.

Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste (troyhunt.com)

458 points by snowwolf on Oct 2, 2020 | 188 comments

140.

Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos (orca.security)

457 points by bonfire on Oct 20, 2020 | 132 comments

141.

Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.guru)

457 points by Malfunction92 on Oct 10, 2020 | 121 comments

142.

Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job (manuel.darcemont.fr)

453 points by megalomanu on Oct 12, 2020 | 382 comments

143.

Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products (reuters.com)

453 points by oblib on Oct 28, 2020 | 262 comments

144.

Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store (deccanherald.com)

450 points by superasn on Oct 3, 2020 | 350 comments

145.

We deleted the production database by accident (keepthescore.co)

446 points by caspii on Oct 17, 2020 | 426 comments

146.

Wobblepaint (lexaloffle.com)

445 points by polm23 on Oct 29, 2020 | 66 comments

147.

Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon (insider.com)

444 points by arberavdullahu on Oct 14, 2020 | 687 comments

148.

Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders (inference-review.com)