HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (blog.curiousquail.com)

1697 points by speckx 2 months ago | 401 comments

512.

Your phone is about to stop being yours (keepandroidopen.org)

1696 points by doener 6 months ago | 887 comments

513.

I resigned from Twitter (twitter.com)

1692 points by ryzvonusef on Nov 29, 2021 | 1061 comments

514.

Firefox 57.0 Released (mozilla.org)

1692 points by l2dy on Nov 14, 2017 | 813 comments

515.

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code (github.com)

1692 points by tardismechanic on Feb 9, 2021 | 214 comments

516.

The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? (arxiv.org)

1690 points by Akronymus on Jul 25, 2023 | 877 comments

517.

Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

1690 points by bsilvereagle on Jan 7, 2022 | 762 comments

518.

O.mg Cable (shop.hak5.org)

1690 points by fredley on Sep 2, 2021 | 538 comments

519.

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' (theguardian.com)

1688 points by sinak on Jul 31, 2013 | 612 comments

520.

Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B (bloomberg.com)

1687 points by whatok on Jun 16, 2017 | 824 comments

521.

Pi 1.0 (earendil.com)

1686 points by sergiotapia 1 month ago | 603 comments

522.

I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (tinyprojects.dev)

1683 points by tinyprojects on Mar 11, 2021 | 612 comments

523.

It Can Happen to You (mattkeeter.com)

1683 points by mooreds on Mar 4, 2021 | 403 comments

524.

The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE (wired.com)

1682 points by medler on Feb 2, 2025 | 2986 comments

525.

Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?

1681 points by sidyapa on Apr 6, 2018 | 302 comments

526.

The new and upgraded Framework Laptop (community.frame.work)

1680 points by etbusch on May 19, 2022 | 738 comments

527.

Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)

1680 points by Jrh0203 3 months ago | 415 comments

528.

Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)

1679 points by lawlessone 10 months ago | 549 comments

529.

Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones (ericmigi.com)

1678 points by griffinli on Mar 18, 2025 | 1106 comments

530.

Lessons from 14 years at Google (addyosmani.com)

1678 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 688 comments

531.

Goodbye, Clean Code (overreacted.io)

1678 points by danabramov on Jan 11, 2020 | 575 comments

532.

Dear GitHub (github.com)

1678 points by msvan on Jan 14, 2016 | 463 comments

533.

Facebook Fraud [video] (youtube.com)

1678 points by fanfantm on Feb 10, 2014 | 393 comments

534.

Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users (nytimes.com)

1677 points by coloneltcb on Sep 28, 2018 | 609 comments

535.

Shirt Without Stripes (github.com)

1676 points by elsamuko on Apr 20, 2020 | 617 comments

536.

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

1676 points by CliffStoll 6 months ago | 258 comments

537.

We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won (blog.cloudflare.com)

1675 points by eastdakota on Nov 4, 2019 | 246 comments

538.

Raspberry Pi 5 (raspberrypi.com)

1674 points by chabes on Sep 28, 2023 | 1022 comments

539.

It’s time to give Firefox another chance (techcrunch.com)

1674 points by uladzislau on Sep 29, 2017 | 712 comments

540.

RethinkDB is shutting down (rethinkdb.com)

1674 points by neumino on Oct 6, 2016 | 441 comments