HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

Tech companies are profiling us from before birth (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

380 points by DamnInteresting on Jan 18, 2021 | 138 comments

272.

Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment (hisham.hm)

379 points by ingve on Jan 22, 2021 | 323 comments

273.

Theseus: A modern experimental OS written from scratch in Rust (github.com)

379 points by metalwhale on Jan 12, 2021 | 148 comments

274.

Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach (twitter.com)

378 points by ytpete on Jan 7, 2021 | 505 comments

275.

Linux Running on Apple M1 (twitter.com)

378 points by ig0r0 on Jan 20, 2021 | 275 comments

276.

AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

373 points by doener on Jan 9, 2021 | 149 comments

277.

Memory access on the Apple M1 processor (lemire.me)

372 points by luigi23 on Jan 6, 2021 | 260 comments

278.

Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World (smist08.wordpress.com)

372 points by _zhqs on Jan 15, 2021 | 111 comments

279.

The MIT License, Line by Line (writing.kemitchell.com)

371 points by known on Jan 31, 2021 | 142 comments

280.

Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design (uxdesign.cc)

371 points by fanf2 on Jan 29, 2021 | 71 comments

281.

Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store (play.google.com)

370 points by jimmy2020 on Jan 9, 2021 | 809 comments

282.

OO in Python is mostly pointless (leontrolski.github.io)

370 points by leontrolski on Jan 27, 2021 | 383 comments

283.

FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol (wusa9.com)

369 points by danso on Jan 23, 2021 | 492 comments

284.

NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels (novelwriter.io)

369 points by app4soft on Jan 19, 2021 | 270 comments

285.

Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company (reuters.com)

369 points by elsewhen on Jan 2, 2021 | 229 comments

286.

How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance (spectrum.ieee.org)

368 points by samizdis on Jan 7, 2021 | 200 comments

287.

Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?

365 points by abdabab on Jan 5, 2021 | 276 comments

288.

Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them (lincoln.metacannon.net)

365 points by thereare5lights on Jan 23, 2021 | 234 comments

289.

Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring (lemire.me)

364 points by ingve on Jan 1, 2021 | 204 comments

290.

An Unlikely Database Migration (tailscale.com)

364 points by ifcologne on Jan 13, 2021 | 178 comments

291.

Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections (objective-see.com)

364 points by tambourine_man on Jan 12, 2021 | 150 comments

292.

Termux no longer updated on Google Play (wiki.termux.com)

362 points by martinlaz on Jan 5, 2021 | 340 comments

293.

How We Ported Linux to the M1 (corellium.com)

362 points by easton on Jan 21, 2021 | 74 comments

294.

Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” (axios.com)

361 points by threatofrain on Jan 8, 2021 | 1035 comments

295.

My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network (carter.sande.duodecima.technology)

361 points by csande17 on Jan 11, 2021 | 262 comments

296.

Best of show – abuse of libc (ioccc.org)

361 points by mooreds on Jan 8, 2021 | 77 comments

297.

Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide (reuters.com)

361 points by thefounder on Jan 8, 2021 | 9 comments

298.

Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (2005) (euromoney.com)