HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (spectrum.ieee.org)

1670 points by oldnetguy 4 months ago | 1301 comments

512.

Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water (joshdata.me)

1669 points by raldi on Feb 20, 2021 | 171 comments

513.

Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account (blog.usejournal.com)

1668 points by jacquesm on Feb 9, 2019 | 498 comments

514.

AWS services explained in one line each (adayinthelifeof.nl)

1668 points by jaytaph on May 26, 2020 | 344 comments

515.

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) (cs.cmu.edu)

1667 points by isomorph on Sep 20, 2023 | 506 comments

516.

Lynn Conway has died (en.wikipedia.org)

1667 points by kevvok on Jun 11, 2024 | 328 comments

517.

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple (finance.yahoo.com)

1667 points by taylorbuley on Aug 24, 2011 | 305 comments

518.

This electrical transmission tower has a problem (twitter.com)

1666 points by danso on Sep 17, 2020 | 460 comments

519.

Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

1665 points by ConfessionTime on Dec 16, 2021 | 1058 comments

520.

Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

1665 points by csdrane on Apr 3, 2018 | 315 comments

521.

Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet (blog.google)

1664 points by ghosh on Jul 12, 2017 | 433 comments

522.

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com)

1663 points by lordnacho on Aug 8, 2019 | 777 comments

523.

Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] (youtube.com)

1663 points by malloreon on Feb 18, 2021 | 495 comments

524.

Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge (blog.ethereum.org)

1661 points by vishnu_ks on May 18, 2021 | 1690 comments

525.

Stripe Atlas (stripe.com)

1659 points by hepha1979 on Feb 24, 2016 | 390 comments

526.

Merry Christmas, HN

1659 points by Thorentis on Dec 24, 2022 | 221 comments

527.

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (smallandroidphone.com)

1658 points by erohead on May 17, 2022 | 1053 comments

528.

AWS us-east-1 outage (status.aws.amazon.com)

1658 points by judge2020 on Dec 7, 2021 | 957 comments

529.

Two new PebbleOS watches (ericmigi.com)

1658 points by griffinli on Mar 18, 2025 | 525 comments

530.

Apache ECharts (echarts.apache.org)

1658 points by tomtomistaken on Apr 8, 2025 | 250 comments

531.

MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch (apple.com)

1657 points by 0xedb on Oct 18, 2021 | 2059 comments

532.

Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

1656 points by wasteme on Sep 17, 2020 | 729 comments

533.

Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to (docs.google.com)

1656 points by flor1s on Dec 14, 2017 | 120 comments

534.

Learning to Reason with LLMs (openai.com)

1654 points by fofoz on Sep 12, 2024 | 1261 comments

535.

Sublime Text 3.0 (sublimetext.com)

1653 points by fbnlsr on Sep 13, 2017 | 675 comments

536.

We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly (medium.com)

1652 points by daveowei on Nov 27, 2018 | 840 comments

537.

Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood (supernuclear.substack.com)