HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission (mwcampbell.github.io)

751 points by mwcampbell on Jul 30, 2021 | 388 comments

32.

The Insecurity Industry (edwardsnowden.substack.com)

743 points by stanislavb on Jul 26, 2021 | 368 comments

33.

People Staring at Computers (kylemcdonald.net)

743 points by BayAreaEscapee on Jul 11, 2021 | 337 comments

34.

AWS's Egregious Egress (blog.cloudflare.com)

742 points by jgrahamc on Jul 23, 2021 | 229 comments

35.

A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013) (minimizedistraction.com)

740 points by cratermoon on Jul 7, 2021 | 271 comments

36.

Windows 96 (windows96.net)

724 points by besnn00 on Jul 27, 2021 | 316 comments

37.

Naval Architecture (ciechanow.ski)

717 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 27, 2021 | 138 comments

38.

BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound (birdnet.cornell.edu)

706 points by r_singh on Jul 23, 2021 | 155 comments

39.

The most precious resource is agency (simonsarris.substack.com)

701 points by simonsarris on Jul 1, 2021 | 325 comments

40.

TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant (asia.nikkei.com)

699 points by stereoradonc on Jul 26, 2021 | 436 comments

41.

“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead” (zeit.de)

694 points by Tomte on Jul 10, 2021 | 272 comments

42.

Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech (theregister.com)

689 points by walterbell on Jul 19, 2021 | 204 comments

43.

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk (reuters.com)

687 points by geox on Jul 27, 2021 | 191 comments

44.

Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization (josephg.com)

686 points by xnx on Jul 31, 2021 | 151 comments

45.

Our lawsuit against ChessBase (stockfishchess.org)

677 points by EvgeniyZh on Jul 20, 2021 | 253 comments

46.

Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion (cyclingnews.com)

674 points by billfruit on Jul 25, 2021 | 169 comments

47.

Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information” (i.postimg.cc)

669 points by URfejk on Jul 29, 2021 | 620 comments

48.

Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable (consoledonottrack.com)

668 points by thih9 on Jul 6, 2021 | 341 comments

49.

Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time? (chronicle.com)

665 points by Cream-Corn-11 on Jul 4, 2021 | 374 comments

50.

Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship (eff.org)

659 points by DiabloD3 on Jul 18, 2021 | 544 comments

51.

Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts (github.com)

654 points by jiripospisil on Jul 25, 2021 | 382 comments

52.

Instagram Has Become SkyMall (clivethompson.medium.com)

652 points by DLay on Jul 10, 2021 | 328 comments

53.

1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee (businessinsider.com)

646 points by pseudolus on Jul 30, 2021 | 532 comments

54.

Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists (washingtonpost.com)

643 points by tosh on Jul 18, 2021 | 167 comments

55.

Linux Rust Support (lore.kernel.org)

641 points by doener on Jul 6, 2021 | 433 comments

56.

GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model (github.com)

636 points by canada_dry on Jul 4, 2021 | 146 comments

57.

Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch (sciencemag.org)

629 points by sohkamyung on Jul 16, 2021 | 231 comments

58.

Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale (promethean.news)