HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1291.

Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life (degoogle.jmoore.dev)

1257 points by ra7 on Aug 22, 2020 | 616 comments

1292.

Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec (scribd.com)

1257 points by kvargs on Nov 13, 2014 | 558 comments

1293.

Gordon Bell has died (arstechnica.com)

1257 points by dcminter on May 21, 2024 | 70 comments

1294.

Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay (wsj.com)

1256 points by grej on Oct 6, 2020 | 1363 comments

1295.

Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020) (turriate.com)

1256 points by EntICOnc on May 15, 2021 | 728 comments

1296.

Things you notice when you quit the news (2016) (raptitude.com)

1256 points by abhiminator on Feb 22, 2022 | 703 comments

1297.

Light Table is now open source (chris-granger.com)

1256 points by endianswap on Jan 8, 2014 | 431 comments

1298.

Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car (bbc.com)

1256 points by tartoran 2 months ago | 419 comments

1299.

France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra (reuters.com)

1255 points by superhumanuser on Sep 14, 2019 | 783 comments

1300.

Fastly Outage (fastly.com)

1255 points by pcr0 on Jun 8, 2021 | 694 comments

1301.

A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com)

1255 points by laurieherault 11 months ago | 603 comments

1302.

Descent 3 Source Code (github.com)

1255 points by kevin42 on Apr 16, 2024 | 325 comments

1303.

OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk? (vox.com)

1254 points by fnbr on May 17, 2024 | 963 comments

1304.

Quora User Data Compromised (blog.quora.com)

1254 points by joebeetee on Dec 4, 2018 | 505 comments

1305.

Free Lossless Image Format (flif.info)

1254 points by davidbarker on Oct 2, 2015 | 362 comments

1306.

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance (guardian.co.uk)

1254 points by grey-area on Jun 9, 2013 | 293 comments

1307.

Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (nytimes.com)

1253 points by jbredeche on May 15, 2025 | 529 comments

1308.

Introducing the Keybase filesystem (keybase.io)

1252 points by rdl on Feb 4, 2016 | 462 comments

1309.

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years (krebsonsecurity.com)

1252 points by snaky on Mar 21, 2019 | 429 comments

1310.

I'm Leaving Mojang (notch.net)

1252 points by UnfalseDesign on Sep 15, 2014 | 418 comments

1311.

Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption (act.eff.org)

1252 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 6, 2020 | 342 comments

1312.

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died (npr.org)

1252 points by edwinbalani on Apr 28, 2021 | 180 comments

1313.

Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died (theregister.com)

1252 points by sohkamyung on Oct 29, 2022 | 140 comments

1314.

Startup idea checklist (defmacro.org)

1251 points by adrian_mrd on Jun 23, 2019 | 194 comments

1315.

Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)

1250 points by antonymoose 2 months ago | 739 comments

1316.

Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline

1250 points by rmcginnis on May 6, 2019 | 565 comments

1317.

My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback (armaansahni.com)

1250 points by veesahni on Dec 3, 2024 | 481 comments

1318.

Apple's New Map (justinobeirne.com)

1250 points by joao on Nov 1, 2018 | 365 comments

1319.

How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help (medium.com)

1249 points by kf on Feb 13, 2014 | 789 comments

1320.

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com)

1249 points by homebrewer 3 weeks ago | 532 comments