HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com)

1637 points by zotz on Mar 6, 2012 | 330 comments

542.

Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it (deprocrastination.co)

1636 points by vitabenes on Jan 21, 2020 | 368 comments

543.

Compare Webb's Images to Hubble (johnedchristensen.github.io)

1636 points by hexomancer on Jul 12, 2022 | 244 comments

544.

Facebook is an attack on the open web (daringfireball.net)

1635 points by tambourine_man on Jun 1, 2017 | 421 comments

545.

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)

1633 points by DavideNL on Jun 6, 2025 | 757 comments

546.

Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)

1633 points by diebillionaires 1 month ago | 651 comments

547.

Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

1633 points by RBBronson123 on Jun 2, 2022 | 353 comments

548.

Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community (mooreds.com)

1631 points by gk1 on Nov 8, 2021 | 671 comments

549.

How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team (getweeklyupdate.com)

1631 points by voska on Jun 5, 2018 | 224 comments

550.

Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

1630 points by dang on Dec 5, 2016 | 1214 comments

551.

US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (zdnet.com)

1630 points by voctor on May 16, 2018 | 625 comments

552.

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android (ios-countdown.win)

1627 points by ozzyphantom 4 months ago | 793 comments

553.

Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up (calpaterson.com)

1624 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 23, 2020 | 1286 comments

554.

Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business

1624 points by yaythefuture on Sep 15, 2022 | 678 comments

555.

We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi (labs.watchtowr.com)

1624 points by notmine1337 on Sep 11, 2024 | 367 comments

556.

Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes (jgthms.com)

1624 points by bbx on Jul 26, 2016 | 152 comments

557.

You Are Not Google (2017) (blog.bradfieldcs.com)

1623 points by gerbilly on Apr 4, 2019 | 572 comments

558.

OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit (vice.com)

1623 points by isaacfrond on Mar 1, 2023 | 567 comments

559.

Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora (foto-webcam.eu)

1623 points by luispa on May 10, 2024 | 378 comments

560.

Responsive Pixel Art (essenmitsosse.de)

1622 points by bpierre on Mar 9, 2016 | 122 comments

561.

Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' (krebsonsecurity.com)

1621 points by mmsc on Feb 8, 2025 | 1798 comments

562.

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k (brutecat.com)

1621 points by brutecat on Feb 12, 2025 | 465 comments

563.

Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution (effectiviology.com)

1620 points by walterbell on Feb 24, 2024 | 1126 comments

564.

Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App (atrium.co)

1620 points by jenthoven on Jan 4, 2019 | 559 comments

565.

Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store (github.com)

1620 points by dhuramas on Aug 20, 2018 | 421 comments

566.

John McCarthy Has Died (en.wikipedia.org)

1619 points by apgwoz on Oct 24, 2011 | 218 comments

567.

Sunsetting Python 2 (python.org)

1616 points by azizsaya on Sep 9, 2019 | 704 comments

568.

Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says (arstechnica.com)