HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

781.

Thinking About Thinking (1999) (cia.gov)

553 points by handojin on Nov 21, 2018 | 97 comments

782.

Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year (recode.net)

552 points by rblion on Feb 12, 2018 | 349 comments

783.

The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization (filfre.net)

552 points by doppp on Mar 16, 2018 | 163 comments

784.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works (independent.co.uk)

552 points by auxbuss on Mar 19, 2018 | 152 comments

785.

How I use Wireshark (jvns.ca)

552 points by ingve on Jun 19, 2018 | 94 comments

786.

Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series (research.fb.com)

552 points by tosh on Aug 7, 2018 | 63 comments

787.

Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies (recode.net)

551 points by imartin2k on Jan 30, 2018 | 239 comments

788.

Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git (github.com)

551 points by jesseduffield on Aug 5, 2018 | 229 comments

789.

Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH (github.com)

551 points by sandebert on Jan 4, 2018 | 92 comments

790.

Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers (mashable.com)

550 points by pinewurst on Feb 14, 2018 | 367 comments

791.

NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection (nycmesh.net)

550 points by tony101 on Aug 28, 2018 | 170 comments

792.

The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York” (twitter.com)

550 points by thibautg on Nov 24, 2018 | 92 comments

793.

Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec (github.com)

549 points by tptacek on Apr 13, 2018 | 374 comments

794.

Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps (blog.abhijittomar.com)

549 points by motiw on Nov 25, 2018 | 190 comments

795.

Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python (github.com)

549 points by autocorr on Aug 2, 2018 | 63 comments

796.

Flask 1.0 Released (palletsprojects.com)

548 points by JonoBB on Apr 26, 2018 | 179 comments

797.

Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video] (youtube.com)

548 points by lentil_soup on Jul 19, 2018 | 144 comments

798.

Introducing Git protocol version 2 (opensource.googleblog.com)

547 points by robmaceachern on May 18, 2018 | 163 comments

799.

MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’ (motherboard.vice.com)

547 points by dsr12 on Apr 23, 2018 | 133 comments

800.

Advent of Code 2018 (adventofcode.com)

547 points by rauhl on Nov 29, 2018 | 94 comments

801.

Lyft Files for IPO (reuters.com)

546 points by svtrent on Dec 6, 2018 | 303 comments

802.

DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf] (defcon.org)

546 points by andrewla on Oct 1, 2018 | 135 comments

803.

Write Your Own Virtual Machine (justinmeiners.github.io)

546 points by vedosity on Dec 14, 2018 | 77 comments

804.

Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says (cnbc.com)

545 points by SQL2219 on Nov 15, 2018 | 477 comments

805.

Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 (techcrunch.com)

545 points by mikece on Dec 4, 2018 | 327 comments

806.

Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities (theregister.co.uk)

545 points by chasontherobot on Apr 17, 2018 | 311 comments

807.

The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext (latacora.singles)

545 points by rargulati on Aug 3, 2018 | 256 comments

808.

Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory (blog.frizk.net)