HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3931.

Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out (businessinsider.com)

311 points by djsumdog on Jul 15, 2020 | 91 comments

3932.

Letter to Myself in Late 2008 (dalton.substack.com)

311 points by baxtr on Mar 25, 2020 | 88 comments

3933.

Hacker News Classics (2018) (jsomers.net)

311 points by dsalzman on Jan 9, 2020 | 42 comments

3934.

Google says its carbon footprint is now zero (bbc.com)

310 points by blauditore on Sep 14, 2020 | 329 comments

3935.

Why Not Rust? (matklad.github.io)

310 points by dochtman on Sep 20, 2020 | 319 comments

3936.

Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years (theguardian.com)

310 points by bloat on Nov 4, 2020 | 250 comments

3937.

Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me (abe-winter.github.io)

310 points by awinter-py on Jan 14, 2020 | 246 comments

3938.

CollegeHumor shuts down (washingtonpost.com)

310 points by rahuldottech on Jan 15, 2020 | 214 comments

3939.

I Got My Attention Back (2017) (craigmod.com)

310 points by _zhqs on Jul 5, 2020 | 181 comments

3940.

Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

310 points by mraza007 on May 24, 2020 | 157 comments

3941.

Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’ (bbc.co.uk)

310 points by zeristor on Jun 19, 2020 | 151 comments

3942.

Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters (startplaying.games)

310 points by kntucker on Oct 19, 2020 | 141 comments

3943.

Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock (nature.com)

310 points by evo_9 on Dec 4, 2020 | 114 comments

3944.

Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing (github.com)

310 points by vasanthv on Sep 5, 2020 | 99 comments

3945.

WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines (onezero.medium.com)

310 points by pslattery on Jan 21, 2020 | 96 comments

3946.

Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’ (theguardian.com)

310 points by sohkamyung on Nov 23, 2020 | 70 comments

3947.

Learn TLA+ (2018) (learntla.com)

310 points by Twirrim on Feb 22, 2020 | 58 comments

3948.

Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (probml.github.io)

310 points by joaorico on Dec 31, 2020 | 56 comments

3949.

Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video] (youtube.com)

310 points by tomduncalf on Feb 16, 2020 | 46 comments

3950.

Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid-19 threat (ma.ttias.be)

309 points by Mojah on Mar 12, 2020 | 421 comments

3951.

Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language (stu2b50.dev)

309 points by signa11 on Jul 13, 2020 | 343 comments

3952.

Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? (interconnected.blog)

309 points by ceohockey60 on Mar 23, 2020 | 325 comments

3953.

Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine (reuters.com)

309 points by nocturnial on Mar 15, 2020 | 286 comments

3954.

Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side (laptopmag.com)

309 points by joshlittle on Feb 26, 2020 | 277 comments

3955.

RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

309 points by aliveupstairs on Mar 19, 2020 | 277 comments

3956.

Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries (vice.com)