HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

GitHub, fuck your name change (mooseyanon.medium.com)

3353 points by leontrolski on Mar 17, 2021 | 2007 comments

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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” (krebsonsecurity.com)

1944 points by picture on Mar 30, 2021 | 785 comments

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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (tinyprojects.dev)

1683 points by tinyprojects on Mar 11, 2021 | 612 comments

4.

It Can Happen to You (mattkeeter.com)

1683 points by mooreds on Mar 4, 2021 | 403 comments

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Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch (text.npr.org)

1461 points by everybodyknows on Mar 7, 2021 | 298 comments

6.

Is that ship still stuck? (istheshipstillstuck.com)

1453 points by ColinWright on Mar 25, 2021 | 1237 comments

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All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk (brianschrader.com)

1345 points by sonicrocketman on Mar 25, 2021 | 696 comments

8.

Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] (github.com)

1248 points by aty268 on Mar 29, 2021 | 367 comments

9.

Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020) (palant.info)

1215 points by autoditype on Mar 1, 2021 | 487 comments

10.

Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed (eu.usatoday.com)

1167 points by ruaraidh on Mar 22, 2021 | 985 comments

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Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building (travaux.ovh.net)

1141 points by finniananderson on Mar 10, 2021 | 589 comments

12.

Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany (demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net)

1107 points by quakeguy on Mar 20, 2021 | 136 comments

13.

Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut (agfundernews.com)

1105 points by adrian_mrd on Mar 2, 2021 | 910 comments

14.

Click (clickclickclick.click)

1100 points by st_goliath on Mar 19, 2021 | 243 comments

15.

Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated (reuters.com)

1068 points by WJW on Mar 29, 2021 | 569 comments

16.

Audacity 3.0 (audacityteam.org)

1065 points by app4soft on Mar 17, 2021 | 219 comments

17.

Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook (twitter.com)

1064 points by celsoazevedo on Mar 22, 2021 | 516 comments

18.

Suez canal blocked by a massive ship (twitter.com)

1055 points by tilolebo on Mar 23, 2021 | 427 comments

19.

30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server (krebsonsecurity.com)

1038 points by picture on Mar 5, 2021 | 437 comments

20.

NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images (bbc.com)

1032 points by astdb on Mar 3, 2021 | 347 comments

21.

Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming (pcgamer.com)

1032 points by mmhsieh on Mar 15, 2021 | 321 comments

22.

Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer (roy.marples.name)

1012 points by elvis70 on Mar 13, 2021 | 221 comments

23.

“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” (twitter.com)

1010 points by linksbro on Mar 8, 2021 | 312 comments

24.

Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up (femfosec.com)

1005 points by femfosec on Mar 28, 2021 | 1449 comments

25.

I want a computer that I own (misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)

994 points by bezelbuttons on Mar 9, 2021 | 655 comments

26.

SQLite is not a toy database (antonz.org)

986 points by nalgeon on Mar 25, 2021 | 354 comments

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Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy (blog.mozilla.org)