HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years (krebsonsecurity.com)

436 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 17, 2020 | 169 comments

152.

Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf] (docs.house.gov)

435 points by mosiuerbarso on Aug 10, 2020 | 265 comments

153.

"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla (twitter.com)

428 points by cs702 on Aug 13, 2020 | 334 comments

154.

How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out? (woodgears.ca)

427 points by cardamomo on Aug 10, 2020 | 370 comments

155.

Firefox Voice (voice.mozilla.org)

427 points by makeworld on Aug 8, 2020 | 154 comments

156.

Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public (amazon.science)

426 points by karxxm on Aug 15, 2020 | 48 comments

157.

Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay (theverge.com)

424 points by badwolf on Aug 20, 2020 | 649 comments

158.

China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs (buzzfeednews.com)

424 points by amaajemyfren on Aug 28, 2020 | 390 comments

159.

Ghost.org deleted my website (postapathy.substack.com)

421 points by davidbarker on Aug 15, 2020 | 345 comments

160.

Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation (wsj.com)

421 points by Osiris30 on Aug 29, 2020 | 272 comments

161.

Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story (devaboone.com)

420 points by usefulcat on Aug 24, 2020 | 303 comments

162.

A crash course on hacking satellites (nyan-sat.com)

420 points by PatrolX on Aug 6, 2020 | 62 comments

163.

Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels (axios.com)

417 points by 0xedb on Aug 5, 2020 | 333 comments

164.

I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action (quirksmode.org)

417 points by MindGods on Aug 14, 2020 | 233 comments

165.

Factorio and Software Engineering (blog.nindalf.com)

417 points by nindalf on Aug 16, 2020 | 164 comments

166.

Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action (cnbc.com)

416 points by busymom0 on Aug 1, 2020 | 653 comments

167.

Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?

416 points by capableweb on Aug 27, 2020 | 285 comments

168.

Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR (github.com)

415 points by homarp on Aug 25, 2020 | 84 comments

169.

The UX of Lego Interface Panels (designedbycave.co.uk)

415 points by george_cave on Aug 3, 2020 | 38 comments

170.

We Can Do Better Than SQL (edgedb.com)

414 points by kristianp on Aug 10, 2020 | 461 comments

171.

Epic direct payment on mobile (epicgames.com)

414 points by bdz on Aug 13, 2020 | 359 comments

172.

Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000 (agner.org)

411 points by diffuse_l on Aug 28, 2020 | 148 comments

173.

Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language (github.com)

410 points by robin_reala on Aug 7, 2020 | 212 comments

174.

Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store (techcrunch.com)

409 points by jmsflknr on Aug 25, 2020 | 625 comments

175.

Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?

409 points by plut0 on Aug 1, 2020 | 481 comments

176.

Firefox 80 (mozilla.org)

409 points by amake on Aug 25, 2020 | 291 comments

177.

What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days (meekg33k.dev)

408 points by bolajiayodeji on Aug 1, 2020 | 298 comments

178.

US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails (viewfromthewing.com)

406 points by hispanic on Aug 23, 2020 | 364 comments

179.

Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) (thelawproject.com.au)

405 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 3, 2020 | 386 comments

180.

NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video] (youtube.com)

405 points by jbredeche on Aug 1, 2020 | 96 comments