HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7561.

Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances (thehill.com)

201 points by anigbrowl on Sep 9, 2020 | 191 comments

7562.

Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

201 points by ekianjo on Mar 14, 2020 | 190 comments

7563.

Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations (foundation.mozilla.org)

201 points by fraqed on Sep 17, 2020 | 173 comments

7564.

Why do we fall into the rewrite trap? (justindfuller.com)

201 points by iamjfu on Jan 21, 2020 | 169 comments

7565.

The Danish climate minister closing down the nation’s oil and gas industry (theguardian.com)

201 points by orf on Dec 7, 2020 | 169 comments

7566.

New fuzzing tool finds USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD (zdnet.com)

201 points by doener on May 28, 2020 | 164 comments

7567.

The EU is set to declare war on encryption (tech.newstatesman.com)

201 points by wlscr on Sep 23, 2020 | 162 comments

7568.

EasyJet admits a cyber-attack has affected approximately nine million customers (bbc.co.uk)

201 points by ilmiont on May 19, 2020 | 160 comments

7569.

“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm (anandtech.com)

201 points by vanburen on Nov 23, 2020 | 156 comments

7570.

Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance (medium.com)

201 points by CM30 on Jan 1, 2020 | 152 comments

7571.

Georgia election server showed signs of tampering, expert says (nbcnews.com)

201 points by smacktoward on Jan 17, 2020 | 151 comments

7572.

Massacring C Pointers (2018) (wozniak.ca)

201 points by goranmoomin on Sep 4, 2020 | 149 comments

7573.

Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages (size-of-npm.netlify.com)

201 points by vnglst on Jan 9, 2020 | 147 comments

7574.

T-Mobile officially completes merger with Sprint, CEO John Legere steps down (techcrunch.com)

201 points by finphil on Apr 1, 2020 | 147 comments

7575.

Highlights from Git 2.28 (github.blog)

201 points by programeris on Jul 27, 2020 | 143 comments

7576.

GitHub was down (githubstatus.com)

201 points by benbruscella on Jul 13, 2020 | 128 comments

7577.

What do RISC and CISC mean in 2020? (erik-engheim.medium.com)

201 points by socialdemocrat on Nov 20, 2020 | 127 comments

7578.

Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds (news.illinois.edu)

201 points by johnny313 on Aug 8, 2020 | 126 comments

7579.

Where Have All the Schematics Gone? (groups.io)

201 points by segfaultbuserr on Feb 1, 2020 | 125 comments

7580.

Factorio 1.1 is getting close (factorio.com)

201 points by parsecs on Nov 13, 2020 | 119 comments

7581.

Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial (dissenter.substack.com)

201 points by k1m on Sep 26, 2020 | 118 comments

7582.

Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules (github.com)

201 points by krig on Feb 25, 2020 | 99 comments

7583.

An Introduction to OpenBSD [video] (blog.lambda.cx)

201 points by asicsp on Aug 17, 2020 | 94 comments

7584.

Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015) (web.archive.org)

201 points by tslocum on Dec 14, 2020 | 93 comments

7585.

Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser (radsix.com)

201 points by svenfaw on Sep 1, 2020 | 90 comments

7586.

Materialize Raises a $32M Series B (materialize.com)

201 points by austinbirch on Dec 2, 2020 | 86 comments

7587.

The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia (blog.torproject.org)

201 points by blendergeek on Jun 26, 2020 | 85 comments

7588.

Sentimental Versioning (sentimentalversioning.org)

201 points by zdw on Oct 12, 2020 | 79 comments

7589.

How Payment Transaction Processing Works (blog.privacy.com)

201 points by mooreds on Dec 7, 2020 | 79 comments

7590.

YC S20 Remote Batch (blog.ycombinator.com)

201 points by coolswan on Apr 20, 2020 | 78 comments