HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Facebook-owned sites were down (facebook.com)

2589 points by nabeards on Oct 4, 2021 | 1283 comments

2.

IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district (whitehoodhacker.net)

1912 points by revicon on Oct 12, 2021 | 383 comments

3.

Willingness to look stupid (danluu.com)

1859 points by ZephyrBlu on Oct 21, 2021 | 777 comments

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MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch (apple.com)

1657 points by 0xedb on Oct 18, 2021 | 2059 comments

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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer (simplethread.com)

1605 points by D_Guidi on Oct 8, 2021 | 722 comments

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Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension (techspot.com)

1513 points by mmastrac on Oct 8, 2021 | 583 comments

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Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal (twitter.com)

1417 points by ColinWright on Oct 24, 2021 | 405 comments

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Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich (theguardian.com)

1312 points by pseudolus on Oct 3, 2021 | 594 comments

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Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website (missouriindependent.com)

1300 points by davidw on Oct 14, 2021 | 678 comments

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Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux (old.reddit.com)

1292 points by otreblan on Oct 24, 2021 | 255 comments

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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California (signal.org)

1286 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Oct 29, 2021 | 580 comments

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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked (videogameschronicle.com)

1271 points by cvak on Oct 6, 2021 | 581 comments

13.

55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

1260 points by luu on Oct 28, 2021 | 255 comments

14.

Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

1226 points by jgrahamc on Oct 4, 2021 | 260 comments

15.

This word does not exist (thisworddoesnotexist.com)

1184 points by adrian_mrd on Oct 26, 2021 | 413 comments

16.

Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs (npr.org)

1143 points by sizzle on Oct 5, 2021 | 692 comments

17.

Facebook Renames to Meta (about.facebook.com)

1089 points by TiredOfLife on Oct 28, 2021 | 1054 comments

18.

NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts (citizenlab.ca)

1062 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 24, 2021 | 310 comments

19.

Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors (apple.com)

1052 points by emdashcomma on Oct 18, 2021 | 983 comments

20.

The metaverse is bullshit (outline.com)

1031 points by Stevvo on Oct 30, 2021 | 747 comments

21.

Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31 (developer.apple.com)

1010 points by ezhik_ on Oct 6, 2021 | 498 comments

22.

Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink (bleepingcomputer.com)

970 points by LordAtlas on Oct 16, 2021 | 470 comments

23.

EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug (curia.europa.eu)

938 points by aleclm on Oct 9, 2021 | 224 comments

24.

Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics (axisofordinary.substack.com)

936 points by raviparikh on Oct 5, 2021 | 323 comments

25.

Open Source Tractor (opensourceecology.dozuki.com)

887 points by vincent_s on Oct 11, 2021 | 204 comments

26.

Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations (news.cornell.edu)

881 points by aww_dang on Oct 16, 2021 | 598 comments

27.

A viable solution for Python concurrency (lwn.net)

841 points by zorgmonkey on Oct 15, 2021 | 358 comments

28.

I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own (codeamigo.dev)

832 points by plondon514 on Oct 28, 2021 | 250 comments

29.

Overly analytical guide to escorting (knowingless.com)

826 points by exolymph on Oct 19, 2021 | 440 comments

30.

Apple Joins Blender Development Fund (blender.org)

826 points by dagmx on Oct 14, 2021 | 280 comments