HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

631.

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

632.

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide (washingtonpost.com)

1604 points by nqureshi on Oct 30, 2013 | 592 comments

633.

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons? (nullpt.rs)

1604 points by hazebooth 2 weeks ago | 310 comments

634.

Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year (younganimator.uk)

1603 points by countrymile on Nov 15, 2023 | 254 comments

635.

Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown (raspberrypi.org)

1603 points by MikusR on Jan 5, 2018 | 215 comments

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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products (blog.mozilla.org)

1602 points by rebelwebmaster on Aug 11, 2020 | 1456 comments

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My Experience at Apple (ex-apple-engineer.medium.com)

1602 points by limono on Jan 1, 2021 | 778 comments

638.

No Calls (keygen.sh)

1602 points by ezekg on Jan 16, 2025 | 516 comments

639.

Dolly Parton has died (theguardian.com)

1602 points by helsinkiandrew 2 months ago | 249 comments

640.

American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time (aasm.org)

1600 points by oftenwrong on Aug 29, 2020 | 486 comments

641.

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

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

642.

Tony Hsieh has died (yahoo.com)

1598 points by MrMcDowall on Nov 28, 2020 | 298 comments

643.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing (pluralistic.net)

1597 points by jay_kyburz on Dec 9, 2023 | 794 comments

644.

Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act (blogs.harvard.edu)

1597 points by seapunk on Mar 27, 2020 | 509 comments

645.

Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)

1596 points by jfb 4 months ago | 608 comments

646.

Open source AI must win (opensourceaimustwin.com)

1596 points by vednig 5 months ago | 480 comments

647.

Firefox Replay (firefox-replay.com)

1596 points by nachtigall on Nov 28, 2019 | 286 comments

648.

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox (github.com)

1595 points by anonymfus on Apr 9, 2021 | 509 comments

649.

Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity (support.google.com)

1595 points by knaik94 on Sep 22, 2021 | 494 comments

650.

Firefox 70 (hacks.mozilla.org)

1595 points by feross on Oct 22, 2019 | 457 comments

651.

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died (eff.org)

1595 points by leotravis10 on Mar 12, 2025 | 353 comments

652.

"We ran out of columns" (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

1594 points by poidos on Aug 3, 2024 | 546 comments

653.

Wacom tablets track every app you open (robertheaton.com)

1594 points by krithix on Feb 5, 2020 | 449 comments

654.

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund (twitter.com)

1594 points by metafunctor on Jul 30, 2020 | 351 comments

655.

Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass (bugs.xdavidhu.me)

1592 points by BXWPU on Nov 10, 2022 | 444 comments

656.

Light Table - a new IDE concept (chris-granger.com)

1592 points by ibdknox on Apr 13, 2012 | 291 comments

657.

LLM Visualization (bbycroft.net)

1592 points by plibither8 on Dec 3, 2023 | 131 comments

658.

Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me” (plus.google.com)

1591 points by jamesbritt on Jan 19, 2014 | 301 comments

659.

Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels (typelit.io)

1589 points by Octouroboros on Oct 6, 2020 | 378 comments

660.

Apple introduces M4 chip (apple.com)

1588 points by excsn on May 7, 2024 | 2063 comments