HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

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

212.

Facebook Renames to Meta (about.facebook.com)

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

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Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer (old.reddit.com)

1086 points by tosh on May 30, 2021 | 494 comments

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An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning (github.com)

1082 points by yewenjie on Aug 7, 2021 | 430 comments

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Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag (dell.com)

1080 points by bestouff on Sep 24, 2021 | 879 comments

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GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine (bloomberg.com)

1078 points by tempsy on Jan 27, 2021 | 1148 comments

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Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare (nomdebebe.app)

1077 points by hamaluik on Nov 5, 2021 | 372 comments

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Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly (bonsaibrowser.com)

1070 points by hyferg on Sep 7, 2021 | 226 comments

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Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show (wsj.com)

1069 points by jmsflknr on Sep 14, 2021 | 638 comments

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

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

221.

M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability (m1racles.com)

1067 points by paulgerhardt on May 26, 2021 | 277 comments

222.

Audacity 3.0 (audacityteam.org)

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

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

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

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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (shkspr.mobi)

1064 points by edent on Jan 26, 2021 | 378 comments

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

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

226.

How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler (greenwald.substack.com)

1060 points by amadeuspagel on Jan 12, 2021 | 1795 comments

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Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler (nytimes.com)

1058 points by jimmy2020 on Jan 10, 2021 | 3676 comments

228.

Stripe Identity (stripe.com)

1057 points by thomaspark on Jun 14, 2021 | 536 comments

229.

Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’ (mattstoller.substack.com)

1057 points by yarapavan on May 30, 2021 | 440 comments

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QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time (phoboslab.org)

1057 points by Ragnarork on Nov 24, 2021 | 293 comments

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Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while (theverge.com)

1056 points by icpmacdo on Jan 27, 2021 | 1174 comments

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3D printed mirror array (github.com)

1056 points by agmm on Nov 11, 2021 | 143 comments

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

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

234.

ECC matters (realworldtech.com)

1053 points by rajesh-s on Jan 3, 2021 | 550 comments

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

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

236.

Windy.com (windy.com)

1052 points by kaycebasques on Sep 10, 2021 | 212 comments

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Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads (danfabulich.medium.com)