HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company (securethoughts.com)

320 points by wglb on Aug 18, 2020 | 142 comments

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Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches (ethanrosenthal.com)

319 points by ethanahte on Aug 25, 2020 | 106 comments

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Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children (washingtonpost.com)

318 points by hvo on Aug 19, 2020 | 282 comments

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The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary (newyorker.com)

318 points by jseliger on Aug 20, 2020 | 184 comments

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Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern (brookings.edu)

317 points by ohjeez on Aug 28, 2020 | 225 comments

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Jacques Cousteau’s grandson wants to build the ISS of the sea (smithsonianmag.com)

317 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Aug 26, 2020 | 152 comments

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Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?

314 points by newsbinator on Aug 9, 2020 | 474 comments

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Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research (bbc.com)

314 points by clouddrover on Aug 18, 2020 | 198 comments

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Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team (twitter.com)

314 points by claviska on Aug 12, 2020 | 178 comments

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Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers (ilsr.org)

314 points by rmason on Aug 14, 2020 | 173 comments

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Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams (isoflow.io)

313 points by willemlabu on Aug 15, 2020 | 54 comments

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On All That Fuckery (tinykat.cafe)

312 points by idan on Aug 27, 2020 | 205 comments

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Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore (oregonlive.com)

312 points by gscott on Aug 28, 2020 | 201 comments

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Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript (sleepsources.com)

312 points by joshternyak on Aug 13, 2020 | 121 comments

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Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009) (petersmagnusson.org)

311 points by ahupp on Aug 31, 2020 | 440 comments

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Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving (k0lwc.com)

311 points by lightlyused on Aug 28, 2020 | 211 comments

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Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business (theregister.com)

311 points by kiyanwang on Aug 7, 2020 | 154 comments

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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business (adamwathan.me)

308 points by adamwathan on Aug 2, 2020 | 109 comments

319.

Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

307 points by izik on Aug 12, 2020 | 144 comments

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RFC8890: The Internet Is for End Users (mnot.net)

306 points by pimterry on Aug 28, 2020 | 78 comments

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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? (nature.com)

305 points by sohkamyung on Aug 24, 2020 | 477 comments

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Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk (twitter.com)

305 points by Garbage on Aug 18, 2020 | 92 comments

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Autodesk criticised by architects (extranetevolution.com)

304 points by nsoonhui on Aug 3, 2020 | 379 comments

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Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious (bbc.com)

304 points by irontinkerer on Aug 13, 2020 | 104 comments

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Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript (romefrontend.dev)

303 points by acemarke on Aug 8, 2020 | 136 comments

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Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org)

303 points by stmw on Aug 5, 2020 | 48 comments

327.

Oh Shit, Git? (ohshitgit.com)

302 points by auraham on Aug 15, 2020 | 156 comments

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New 50-metre deep crater opens up in Arctic tundra (siberiantimes.com)

302 points by wglb on Aug 30, 2020 | 109 comments

329.

Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing (thecorrespondent.com)

301 points by dotcoma on Aug 22, 2020 | 283 comments

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Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission? (theatlantic.com)

301 points by KoftaBob on Aug 3, 2020 | 279 comments