HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3661.

NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech (venturebeat.com)

324 points by colawars on Jun 20, 2020 | 91 comments

3662.

Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras (driesdepoorter.be)

324 points by driesdep on Aug 19, 2020 | 90 comments

3663.

Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim (github.com)

324 points by stchacademy on Oct 20, 2020 | 57 comments

3664.

On the Loss of a Cofounder (ouegner.medium.com)

324 points by bekind on Nov 22, 2020 | 50 comments

3665.

Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online (bloomberg.com)

323 points by juokaz on May 27, 2020 | 462 comments

3666.

The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development (americanaffairsjournal.org)

323 points by boh on Jan 16, 2020 | 283 comments

3667.

Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes (theguardian.com)

323 points by ystad on Dec 21, 2020 | 267 comments

3668.

Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life (nationalgeographic.com)

323 points by frrp on Sep 6, 2020 | 266 comments

3669.

DuckDuckGo is growing fast (bleepingcomputer.com)

323 points by headalgorithm on Sep 17, 2020 | 265 comments

3670.

The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks (economist.com)

323 points by lxm on Jun 30, 2020 | 256 comments

3671.

Air pollution is worse than we thought (vox.com)

323 points by elorant on Aug 13, 2020 | 233 comments

3672.

It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI (cinemablend.com)

323 points by a5withtrrs on Sep 18, 2020 | 217 comments

3673.

List of oldest continuously inhabited cities (en.wikipedia.org)

323 points by ag8 on Apr 22, 2020 | 214 comments

3674.

Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe (wsj.com)

323 points by aty268 on Feb 21, 2020 | 172 comments

3675.

Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?

323 points by vertex-four on Feb 28, 2020 | 171 comments

3676.

Bubble barriers: a smart solution to plastic pollution in rivers (thegreatbubblebarrier.com)

323 points by dwenzek on Sep 15, 2020 | 140 comments

3677.

GCC 10.1 Released (gcc.gnu.org)

323 points by nrgc on May 7, 2020 | 139 comments

3678.

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) (dampfkraft.com)

323 points by polm23 on Oct 31, 2020 | 130 comments

3679.

A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites (mxb.dev)

323 points by mxbck on Mar 22, 2020 | 108 comments

3680.

macOS Security and Privacy Guide (github.com)

323 points by Nginx487 on Aug 22, 2020 | 89 comments

3681.

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video] (youtube.com)

323 points by tosh on Oct 4, 2020 | 54 comments

3682.

Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses (greaterwrong.com)

322 points by onemind on Oct 15, 2020 | 295 comments

3683.

Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores (reuters.com)

322 points by callwaiting on Jul 28, 2020 | 293 comments

3684.

Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone” (nitter.net)

322 points by DyslexicAtheist on Sep 9, 2020 | 282 comments

3685.

San Mateo County Health Officer Statement on Bay Area Stay-at-Home Orders (smchealth.org)

322 points by EdJiang on Dec 8, 2020 | 272 comments

3686.

IBM will offer free COBOL training (inputmag.com)

322 points by jacobedawson on Apr 11, 2020 | 227 comments

3687.

AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS (anandtech.com)

322 points by partingshots on Apr 20, 2020 | 226 comments

3688.

Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder (glyph.twistedmatrix.com)

322 points by ingve on Aug 23, 2020 | 205 comments

3689.

Raspberry Pi Server Mark III (uplab.pro)

322 points by homarp on Dec 20, 2020 | 166 comments

3690.

NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitting 7 reopening criteria (forward.ny.gov)

322 points by KoftaBob on May 11, 2020 | 161 comments