HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B (justice.gov)

407 points by edward on Jan 7, 2021 | 253 comments

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Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation (prnewswire.com)

406 points by muskminion on Jan 18, 2021 | 75 comments

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I received my first donation on my open-source side project (gourav.io)

404 points by jerrygoyal on Jan 12, 2021 | 106 comments

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Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab (newsweek.com)

403 points by DeusExMachina on Jan 26, 2021 | 554 comments

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My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions (anderstrier.dk)

403 points by anderstrier on Jan 11, 2021 | 240 comments

246.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (qualys.com)

400 points by ptype on Jan 26, 2021 | 317 comments

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Toxic positivity does more harm than good (bloomberg.com)

397 points by lxm on Jan 16, 2021 | 282 comments

248.

Serverless SQLite (sql.lspgn.workers.dev)

396 points by sfeng on Jan 20, 2021 | 163 comments

249.

Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode (foambubble.github.io)

396 points by lelf on Jan 13, 2021 | 107 comments

250.

On Repl-Driven Programming (mikelevins.github.io)

394 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 3, 2021 | 206 comments

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After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off (jordan-shared.medium.com)

393 points by CPLX on Jan 4, 2021 | 300 comments

252.

Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?

392 points by euengthrowaway on Jan 13, 2021 | 945 comments

253.

Postgres scaling advice (cybertec-postgresql.com)

392 points by BrentOzar on Jan 26, 2021 | 200 comments

254.

The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious (github.com)

389 points by AdamGibbins on Jan 3, 2021 | 178 comments

255.

Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

389 points by picture on Jan 7, 2021 | 151 comments

256.

Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019) (webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu)

389 points by pseudolus on Jan 30, 2021 | 118 comments

257.

How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (whyy.org)

389 points by _Microft on Jan 6, 2021 | 106 comments

258.

One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected (tass.com)

388 points by revicon on Jan 22, 2021 | 324 comments

259.

Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts (pnas.org)

388 points by lobbly on Jan 29, 2021 | 164 comments

260.

Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature (bitwarden.com)

388 points by madsmtm on Jan 21, 2021 | 150 comments

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Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access (github.com)

386 points by mpsq on Jan 27, 2021 | 114 comments

262.

Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform (cabal.chat)

385 points by yosoyubik on Jan 10, 2021 | 312 comments

263.

Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf] (nbloom.people.stanford.edu)

383 points by troydavis on Jan 23, 2021 | 548 comments

264.

Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy (nytimes.com)

383 points by mzs on Jan 19, 2021 | 259 comments

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U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers (reuters.com)

382 points by Element_ on Jan 12, 2021 | 439 comments

266.

Pixar's Render Farm (twitter.com)

382 points by brundolf on Jan 2, 2021 | 310 comments

267.

Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019) (sasha-f.medium.com)

382 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 9, 2021 | 203 comments

268.

Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians (somagnews.com)

382 points by JeanMarcS on Jan 25, 2021 | 130 comments

269.

Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second (jvns.ca)

381 points by ArmandGrillet on Jan 23, 2021 | 67 comments

270.

Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again (pagely.com)

380 points by gmays on Jan 24, 2021 | 351 comments