HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2611.

Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS (ramble.pw)

27 points by input_sh on Feb 19, 2021 | 14 comments

2612.

Ask HN: Works of fiction that have inspired you to solve programming problems?

27 points by marttt on Feb 27, 2021 | 14 comments

2613.

Why scientists want to kill Pablo Escobar's hippos (bbc.co.uk)

27 points by matteocapucci on Feb 11, 2021 | 12 comments

2614.

Analysis: Carmakers wake up to new pecking order as chip crunch intensifies (reuters.com)

27 points by Breadmaker on Feb 19, 2021 | 12 comments

2615.

Deepfakes of Tom Cruise show the technology's threat to society is real (inputmag.com)

27 points by CharlesW on Feb 28, 2021 | 12 comments

2616.

Show HN: AI-powered image search that beats Google without captions or keywords (evertrove.co)

27 points by abharga2 on Feb 4, 2021 | 11 comments

2617.

“Slack transcodes some files you upload, including removing byte order marks ” (twitter.com)

27 points by obi1kenobi on Feb 8, 2021 | 11 comments

2618.

Salesforce will provide new ways for employees to work, including WFH forever (businessinsider.com)

27 points by gamesbrainiac on Feb 15, 2021 | 11 comments

2619.

I Know What You Bought at Chipotle for $9.81 by Solving a Linear Inverse Problem (dl.acm.org)

27 points by godelmachine on Feb 7, 2021 | 10 comments

2620.

Citibank can't get back $500M it wired by mistake, judge rules (cnn.com)

27 points by pseudolus on Feb 16, 2021 | 10 comments

2621.

Excellent archive of Watcom C/C++ CD-ROMs on Archive.org (2018) (virtuallyfun.com)

27 points by fm77 on Feb 20, 2021 | 10 comments

2622.

Show HN: Rails N+1 queries auto-detection with zero false negatives (github.com)

27 points by charkost-rb on Feb 17, 2021 | 6 comments

2623.

California law would give wronged workers a way out of NDAs (protocol.com)

27 points by Bluestein on Feb 9, 2021 | 5 comments

2624.

Egypt unearths 'oldest' mass-production brewery (phys.org)

27 points by diodorus on Feb 16, 2021 | 5 comments

2625.

Announcing Skittish (waxy.org)

27 points by colinprince on Feb 23, 2021 | 5 comments

2626.

Windows 7 restarts on Swiss national TV evening news [video] (youtube.com)

27 points by alexis2b on Feb 20, 2021 | 4 comments

2627.

We increased the data limits of our Free Plan by 100x. Here’s why (mixpanel.com)

27 points by i0exception on Feb 2, 2021 | 3 comments

2628.

Show HN: Florodoro – A pomodoro timer that grows procedurally generated plants (github.com)

27 points by xiaoxiae on Feb 9, 2021 | 3 comments

2629.

Trading in Atoms for Bits (cabinetmagazine.org)

27 points by swibbler on Feb 17, 2021 | 3 comments

2630.

People are leaving S.F. USPS data shows where they went (sfchronicle.com)

27 points by kqr2 on Feb 18, 2021 | 3 comments

2631.

Trussed – a new Rust framework for security chips that could replace JavaCard (trussed.dev)

27 points by conorpp on Feb 21, 2021 | 2 comments

2632.

Three thylacines (Tasmanian wolves) have apparently been photographed alive (twitter.com)

27 points by idlewords on Feb 23, 2021 | 2 comments

2633.

Ultrasound triggers brain's waste disposal system in Alzheimer's patients (newatlas.com)

27 points by panabee on Feb 26, 2021 | 2 comments

2634.

Loan Apps Weaponise Your Data to Make You Pay (vice.com)

27 points by elliekelly on Feb 1, 2021 | 1 comments

2635.

Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program (righto.com)

27 points by parsecs on Feb 22, 2021 | 1 comments

2636.

Reasoning about Taxes (billdietrich.me)

26 points by acqbu on Feb 28, 2021 | 81 comments

2637.

Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles (ayende.com)

26 points by GordonS on Feb 22, 2021 | 56 comments

2638.

Ask HN: Buy the M1 MacBook Pro or Wait for M2?

26 points by ponderingfish on Feb 13, 2021 | 51 comments

2639.

Who are the culture heroes of today? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

26 points by luu on Feb 17, 2021 | 43 comments

2640.

The Atrocious Robert Clive (guernicamag.com)

26 points by dearwell on Feb 3, 2021 | 36 comments