HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps (google.com)

2244 points by edge17 on Dec 20, 2021 | 373 comments

2.

Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

1665 points by ConfessionTime on Dec 16, 2021 | 1058 comments

3.

AWS us-east-1 outage (status.aws.amazon.com)

1658 points by judge2020 on Dec 7, 2021 | 957 comments

4.

Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg (bmj.com)

1599 points by DrHilarius on Dec 17, 2021 | 644 comments

5.

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS (twitter.com)

1545 points by cwaffles on Dec 17, 2021 | 498 comments

6.

I started a paper website business (daily.tinyprojects.dev)

1511 points by tinyprojects on Dec 14, 2021 | 257 comments

7.

100 years of whatever this will be (apenwarr.ca)

1475 points by mumblemumble on Dec 2, 2021 | 896 comments

8.

Log4j RCE Found (lunasec.io)

1385 points by usmannk on Dec 9, 2021 | 503 comments

9.

Pixel prevented me from calling 911 (old.reddit.com)

1384 points by sohkamyung on Dec 9, 2021 | 654 comments

10.

Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed] (github.com)

1326 points by mkdirp on Dec 25, 2021 | 538 comments

11.

Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend (arnoldgalovics.com)

1230 points by galovics on Dec 16, 2021 | 445 comments

12.

This website has 81% battery power remaining (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

1225 points by behnamoh on Dec 12, 2021 | 351 comments

13.

“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs (paulbutler.org)

1222 points by paulgb on Dec 28, 2021 | 670 comments

14.

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016 (macrumors.com)

1209 points by baybal2 on Dec 8, 2021 | 707 comments

15.

Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas

1193 points by Jaruzel on Dec 25, 2021 | 313 comments

16.

Wish HN: Happy Holidays (artsandculture.google.com)

1139 points by rcarmo on Dec 24, 2021 | 252 comments

17.

CT scans of AirPods evolution (scanofthemonth.com)

1094 points by vitruvius on Dec 6, 2021 | 334 comments

18.

U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware (reuters.com)

1093 points by amadeuspagel on Dec 3, 2021 | 592 comments

19.

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

1005 points by arkadiyt on Dec 15, 2021 | 341 comments

20.

Apple broke up with me (merecivilian.com)

985 points by MereCivilian on Dec 5, 2021 | 682 comments

21.

Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia (modernwiki.app)

979 points by sjdz on Dec 6, 2021 | 409 comments

22.

Mess with DNS (jvns.ca)

958 points by im2nguyen on Dec 15, 2021 | 87 comments

23.

From Node to Ruby on Rails (nikodunk.com)

941 points by mokkol on Dec 16, 2021 | 639 comments

24.

This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

938 points by trulyrandom on Dec 1, 2021 | 481 comments

25.

Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption' (tutanota.com)

899 points by Audiophilip on Dec 3, 2021 | 285 comments

26.

Prince of Persia in JavaScript (princejs.com)

887 points by colinprince on Dec 28, 2021 | 225 comments

27.

Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

879 points by thadjo on Dec 15, 2021 | 468 comments

28.

Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

877 points by gregsadetsky on Dec 27, 2021 | 515 comments

29.

Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start (arstechnica.com)

876 points by slobotron on Dec 13, 2021 | 716 comments

30.

25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

872 points by sandworm101 on Dec 25, 2021 | 202 comments