HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1021.

TorrentFreak Is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource (torrentfreak.com)

112 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 26, 2018 | 34 comments

1022.

The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or FB, it’s “surveillance capitalism” (opendemocracy.net)

112 points by sus_007 on Aug 10, 2018 | 30 comments

1023.

Causal Models (plato.stanford.edu)

112 points by zerealshadowban on Aug 8, 2018 | 19 comments

1024.

Tindallgrams (tindallgrams.net)

112 points by thestoicattack on Aug 4, 2018 | 13 comments

1025.

Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types (github.com)

112 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 | 10 comments

1026.

Ask HN: Software development after 40, how do you keep the fire?

111 points by m3mpp on Aug 20, 2018 | 100 comments

1027.

Amazon Aurora Serverless (aws.amazon.com)

111 points by tiagobraw on Aug 10, 2018 | 74 comments

1028.

What is Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 dual port controller’s total bandwidth? (communities.intel.com)

111 points by roger- on Aug 13, 2018 | 55 comments

1029.

2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners (quantamagazine.org)

111 points by heinrichf on Aug 1, 2018 | 48 comments

1030.

OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents (bleepingcomputer.com)

111 points by wglb on Aug 28, 2018 | 47 comments

1031.

Single-decryption EM-based attack reveals private keys from Android phones [pdf] (usenix.org)

111 points by dhx on Aug 22, 2018 | 45 comments

1032.

Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go (github.com)

111 points by twokei on Aug 2, 2018 | 44 comments

1033.

Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment (junglecoder.com)

111 points by yumaikas on Aug 9, 2018 | 34 comments

1034.

Iterative methods done right (life's too short to write for-loops) (lostella.github.io)

111 points by stellalo on Aug 5, 2018 | 27 comments

1035.

'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF (sfgate.com)

110 points by mbgaxyz on Aug 20, 2018 | 206 comments

1036.

Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years (blog.brainstation.io)

110 points by salbowski on Aug 2, 2018 | 124 comments

1037.

The Peter Principle is a joke taken seriously. Is it true? (timharford.com)

110 points by cirrus-clouds on Aug 26, 2018 | 108 comments

1038.

Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac (diagrams.app)

110 points by timmz on Aug 29, 2018 | 84 comments

1039.

Pocket’s 30M Users Are Great for Publishers (bloomberg.com)

110 points by cpeterso on Aug 9, 2018 | 44 comments

1040.

Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be (nationalgeographic.com)

110 points by curtis on Aug 4, 2018 | 42 comments

1041.

The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries (atlasobscura.com)

110 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on Aug 3, 2018 | 37 comments

1042.

Ajit Pai grilled by lawmakers on why FCC spread “myth” of DDoS attack (arstechnica.com)

110 points by LinuxBender on Aug 15, 2018 | 29 comments

1043.

The City Born in a Day: The Origin Story of Oklahoma City (nymag.com)

110 points by tintinnabula on Aug 17, 2018 | 22 comments

1044.

Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Security Question (nytimes.com)

109 points by mistersquid on Aug 12, 2018 | 193 comments

1045.

MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month (techcrunch.com)

109 points by sahin-boydas on Aug 6, 2018 | 170 comments

1046.

Consider applying for grad school (80000hours.org)

109 points by robertwiblin on Aug 24, 2018 | 157 comments

1047.

Going FLOSS-only on Android (codingquark.com)

109 points by ericdanielski on Aug 18, 2018 | 89 comments

1048.

Fred Turner: Silicon Valley Thinks Politics Doesn’t Exist (032c.com)

109 points by dredmorbius on Aug 2, 2018 | 70 comments

1049.

‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ and America’s Post-Truth Era (theatlantic.com)

109 points by matt4077 on Aug 6, 2018 | 69 comments

1050.

CCleaner v5.45 Introduces Data Collection with No Way to Opt-Out (sensorstechforum.com)

109 points by koin0r on Aug 2, 2018 | 57 comments