HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

Messaging and chat control (patrick-breyer.de)

643 points by kristjank on Aug 9, 2021 | 317 comments

872.

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

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

873.

Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug” (twitter.com)

643 points by radmuzom on Aug 21, 2021 | 15 comments

874.

Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord (revolt.chat)

642 points by adamnemecek on Sep 6, 2021 | 395 comments

875.

Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors (nytimes.com)

641 points by coloneltcb on Jan 29, 2021 | 462 comments

876.

There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada (kelownanow.com)

641 points by actually_a_dog on Nov 16, 2021 | 449 comments

877.

Linux Rust Support (lore.kernel.org)

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

878.

Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust (brson.github.io)

641 points by signa11 on May 3, 2021 | 170 comments

879.

Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees (vice.com)

640 points by fireball_blaze on Feb 25, 2021 | 598 comments

880.

Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? (blog.nikitas.link)

639 points by its_nikita on May 26, 2021 | 417 comments

881.

YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

639 points by thijser on Dec 6, 2021 | 370 comments

882.

EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies (bbc.com)

638 points by xendo on May 25, 2021 | 405 comments

883.

Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region (aws.amazon.com)

638 points by eigen-vector on Dec 10, 2021 | 388 comments

884.

FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web (theverge.com)

638 points by jbredeche on Jun 7, 2021 | 334 comments

885.

A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years (groups.io)

638 points by MKais on Jun 20, 2021 | 309 comments

886.

Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon (changelog.complete.org)

638 points by joeyh on Sep 11, 2021 | 284 comments

887.

We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s (nationalgeographic.com)

638 points by esarbe on Feb 22, 2021 | 220 comments

888.

White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets (reuters.com)

637 points by pseudolus on May 5, 2021 | 568 comments

889.

Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys (agwa.name)

637 points by h1x on Nov 13, 2021 | 320 comments

890.

New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance (reclaimyourface.eu)

637 points by giuliomagnifico on Nov 25, 2021 | 188 comments

891.

A Framework for Writing Better Documentation (documentation.divio.com)

637 points by omginternets on Feb 2, 2021 | 76 comments

892.

WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers (quastor.org)

636 points by unripe_syntax on Oct 25, 2021 | 454 comments

893.

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

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

894.

El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender (bbc.com)

635 points by aazaa on Jun 9, 2021 | 703 comments

895.

Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust (android.googlesource.com)

635 points by nicoburns on Mar 31, 2021 | 377 comments

896.

Write libraries instead of services, where possible (catern.com)

635 points by catern on Mar 9, 2021 | 322 comments

897.

There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company” (hunterwalk.medium.com)