HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

91.

UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful (theguardian.com)

501 points by robin_reala on Jan 30, 2018 | 186 comments

92.

AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018 (extremetech.com)

497 points by artsandsci on Jan 31, 2018 | 238 comments

93.

Extensions in Firefox 59 (blog.mozilla.org)

496 points by ac29 on Jan 26, 2018 | 236 comments

94.

U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com)

495 points by chollida1 on Jan 30, 2018 | 404 comments

95.

The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won (robert.ocallahan.org)

495 points by bzbarsky on Jan 8, 2018 | 170 comments

96.

CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work (thedailybeast.com)

492 points by tlb on Jan 14, 2018 | 455 comments

97.

Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere (fosdem.org)

489 points by buovjaga on Jan 18, 2018 | 101 comments

98.

The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it (blog.r3bl.me)

483 points by r3bl on Jan 21, 2018 | 163 comments

99.

Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack (blog.mozilla.org)

483 points by Nrbelex on Jan 4, 2018 | 110 comments

100.

Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp (catonmat.net)

480 points by amasad on Jan 9, 2018 | 222 comments

101.

Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal (reneweconomy.com.au)

478 points by tim333 on Jan 29, 2018 | 204 comments

102.

Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?

475 points by benbreen on Jan 29, 2018 | 182 comments

103.

Why Am I So Lazy? (thecut.com)

472 points by colinprince on Jan 7, 2018 | 230 comments

104.

Building for the Blockchain (blog.ycombinator.com)

470 points by vincentschen on Jan 9, 2018 | 330 comments

105.

Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away (nytimes.com)

469 points by camtarn on Jan 8, 2018 | 270 comments

106.

EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border (eff.org)

469 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 29, 2018 | 99 comments

107.

Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock (businessinsider.com)

468 points by MollyR on Jan 4, 2018 | 85 comments

108.

Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator (github.com)

466 points by hising on Jan 15, 2018 | 171 comments

109.

Programming Notes for Professionals books (books.goalkicker.com)

466 points by gregorymichael on Jan 19, 2018 | 61 comments

110.

Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance (blog.google)

465 points by theDoug on Jan 11, 2018 | 129 comments

111.

Rust in 2018: easier to use (jvns.ca)

462 points by OberstKrueger on Jan 14, 2018 | 293 comments

112.

NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values (theintercept.com)

462 points by etiam on Jan 24, 2018 | 152 comments

113.

James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, has died (freedom.press)

461 points by uptown on Jan 9, 2018 | 77 comments

114.

How to solve most NLP problems: a step-by-step guide (blog.insightdatascience.com)

461 points by e_ameisen on Jan 24, 2018 | 74 comments

115.

Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone (nytimes.com)

459 points by alwillis on Jan 24, 2018 | 266 comments

116.

Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch (bradfrost.com)

457 points by kawera on Jan 18, 2018 | 383 comments

117.

Branchless Doom (github.com)

454 points by strangecasts on Jan 23, 2018 | 80 comments

118.

Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100 (github.com)

449 points by realusername on Jan 20, 2018 | 84 comments

119.

Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice? (markbittman.com)

448 points by 0xbadcafebee on Jan 17, 2018 | 207 comments

120.

Using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH (0day.work)

445 points by gehaxelt on Jan 14, 2018 | 127 comments