HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke (propublica.org)

2088 points by r0h1n on Feb 5, 2015 | 453 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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FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote (techcrunch.com)

1489 points by LukeB_UK on Feb 26, 2015 | 711 comments

4.

Magic (getmagicnow.com)

1329 points by wittyphrasehere on Feb 22, 2015 | 528 comments

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FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality (wired.com)

1275 points by Libertatea on Feb 4, 2015 | 424 comments

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Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox (gizmodo.com)

1174 points by sagivo on Feb 13, 2015 | 636 comments

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Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers (thenextweb.com)

1142 points by cpeterso on Feb 19, 2015 | 419 comments

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“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered (arstechnica.com)

870 points by privong on Feb 16, 2015 | 362 comments

9.

Extracting the SuperFish certificate (blog.erratasec.com)

867 points by robin_reala on Feb 19, 2015 | 231 comments

10.

Stripe: Bitcoin (stripe.com)

855 points by sunils34 on Feb 19, 2015 | 368 comments

11.

Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma

806 points by goralph on Feb 14, 2015 | 214 comments

12.

Whiteboard Clock (docs.google.com)

784 points by unbeli on Feb 18, 2015 | 82 comments

13.

Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2 (dev.windows.com)

723 points by velodrome on Feb 2, 2015 | 373 comments

14.

CoreCLR is now open source (blogs.msdn.com)

709 points by xyziemba on Feb 3, 2015 | 333 comments

15.

Side projects (antirez.com)

698 points by fcambus on Feb 26, 2015 | 236 comments

16.

Now, I can see wifi signals (imgur.com)

695 points by bane on Feb 15, 2015 | 56 comments

17.

Introducing Pebble Time (kickstarter.com)

658 points by kenny_r on Feb 24, 2015 | 386 comments

18.

“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 (eff.org)

647 points by mxfh on Feb 23, 2015 | 156 comments

19.

It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014) (schneier.com)

638 points by dyoder on Feb 25, 2015 | 133 comments

20.

F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility (nytimes.com)

636 points by NearAP on Feb 2, 2015 | 438 comments

21.

Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer (nytimes.com)

625 points by the_duck on Feb 19, 2015 | 121 comments

22.

Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (envisage-project.eu)

608 points by amund on Feb 24, 2015 | 140 comments

23.

I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords (xato.net)

594 points by m8urn on Feb 10, 2015 | 216 comments

24.

How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast (medium.com)

592 points by rokhayakebe on Feb 19, 2015 | 88 comments

25.

GPG and Me (thoughtcrime.org)

588 points by jashkenas on Feb 24, 2015 | 249 comments

26.

The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle (firstlook.org)

576 points by frandroid on Feb 19, 2015 | 195 comments

27.

Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed (theregister.co.uk)

573 points by mmastrac on Feb 2, 2015 | 201 comments

28.

Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA (reddit.com)

559 points by ahamdy on Feb 23, 2015 | 79 comments

29.

The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up (slate.com)

552 points by tokenadult on Feb 13, 2015 | 173 comments

30.

How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is? (nymag.com)

548 points by danso on Feb 24, 2015 | 210 comments