HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1411.

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

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

1412.

Fastly Outage (fastly.com)

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

1413.

A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com)

1255 points by laurieherault on Jun 12, 2025 | 603 comments

1414.

Descent 3 Source Code (github.com)

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

1415.

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

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

1416.

Quora User Data Compromised (blog.quora.com)

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

1417.

Free Lossless Image Format (flif.info)

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

1418.

“I just chose words carefully” (unsung.aresluna.org)

1254 points by zdw 2 months ago | 353 comments

1419.

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

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

1420.

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

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

1421.

Introducing the Keybase filesystem (keybase.io)

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

1422.

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

1423.

I'm Leaving Mojang (notch.net)

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

1424.

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

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

1425.

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

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

1426.

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

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

1427.

Startup idea checklist (defmacro.org)

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

1428.

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

1250 points by antonymoose 7 months ago | 739 comments

1429.

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

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

1430.

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

1431.

Apple's New Map (justinobeirne.com)

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

1432.

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

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

1433.

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

1249 points by homebrewer 6 months ago | 532 comments

1434.

Stripe: instant payment processing for developers (stripe.com)

1249 points by pc on Sep 29, 2011 | 348 comments

1435.

Entering Public Beta (letsencrypt.org)

1249 points by sinak on Dec 3, 2015 | 213 comments

1436.

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome (bloomberg.com)

1248 points by redm on Nov 18, 2024 | 1437 comments

1437.

New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity (blog.ycombinator.com)

1248 points by sama on Apr 3, 2015 | 631 comments

1438.

Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool (mobile.nytimes.com)

1248 points by ghosh on May 12, 2017 | 478 comments

1439.

Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] (github.com)

1248 points by aty268 on Mar 29, 2021 | 367 comments

1440.

Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China (citizenlab.ca)

1248 points by gasull on Apr 3, 2020 | 302 comments