HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

661.

Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups (support.apple.com)

1587 points by frizlab on Dec 7, 2022 | 1043 comments

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10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (arstechnica.com)

1587 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 27, 2025 | 632 comments

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FSF announces Librephone project (fsf.org)

1586 points by g-b-r on Oct 14, 2025 | 631 comments

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Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)

1586 points by romanhn on Jun 7, 2025 | 273 comments

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 (anthropic.com)

1585 points by adocomplete on Sep 29, 2025 | 786 comments

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Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 (nytimes.com)

1584 points by coloneltcb on Feb 27, 2015 | 165 comments

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Mario meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)

1583 points by superMayo on Apr 4, 2024 | 177 comments

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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (blog.discordapp.com)

1582 points by Sikul on Feb 4, 2020 | 642 comments

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Cognitive load is what matters (github.com)

1582 points by nromiun on Aug 30, 2025 | 522 comments

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Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out (explore.zoom.us)

1581 points by isodev on Aug 6, 2023 | 512 comments

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GPT-5.5 (openai.com)

1580 points by rd 6 months ago | 1057 comments

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Vietnam bans unskippable ads (saigoneer.com)

1580 points by hoherd 10 months ago | 813 comments

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Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

1580 points by newobj on Feb 26, 2025 | 356 comments

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I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021) (haterade.substack.com)

1578 points by voxadam on Feb 11, 2025 | 451 comments

675.

Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org)

1578 points by tosh on Jul 24, 2022 | 256 comments

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Apple previews Lockdown Mode (apple.com)

1577 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 6, 2022 | 742 comments

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The Tyranny of the Marginal User (nothinghuman.substack.com)

1576 points by ivee on Sep 14, 2023 | 815 comments

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Introducing unlimited private repositories (github.com)

1576 points by fuzionmonkey on May 11, 2016 | 636 comments

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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source (zed.dev)

1576 points by FeroTheFox on Jan 24, 2024 | 602 comments

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The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)

1574 points by booleanbetrayal on Jun 4, 2025 | 942 comments

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John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (facebook.com)

1574 points by jbredeche on Nov 13, 2019 | 889 comments

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I've Just Liberated My Modules (medium.com)

1573 points by chejazi on Mar 22, 2016 | 797 comments

683.

The rule says, “No vehicles in the park” (novehiclesinthepark.com)

1572 points by luu on Jun 23, 2023 | 1186 comments

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Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL (bugs.chromium.org)

1572 points by gouggoug on Sep 6, 2018 | 876 comments

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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly (nytimes.com)

1572 points by 1915cb1f on Oct 20, 2020 | 824 comments

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Tiny volumetric display (mitxela.com)

1570 points by ttesmer on Dec 2, 2023 | 174 comments

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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies (blog.mozilla.org)

1569 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 26, 2021 | 760 comments

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The first conformant M1 GPU driver (rosenzweig.io)

1569 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 22, 2023 | 657 comments

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Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video] (youtube.com)

1565 points by egb on Jun 8, 2016 | 400 comments

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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit (howonlee.github.io)

1564 points by curuinor on Feb 13, 2020 | 437 comments