HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) (rogerschank.com)

904 points by dirtyaura on Apr 30, 2018 | 435 comments

212.

Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada (twitter.com)

902 points by jwildeboer on Dec 20, 2018 | 608 comments

213.

All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate (techcrunch.com)

901 points by twinkletwinkle on Mar 8, 2018 | 376 comments

214.

Let’s talk about usernames (b-list.org)

900 points by acjohnson55 on Feb 12, 2018 | 429 comments

215.

Au Revoir (blog.docker.com)

898 points by zapita on Mar 28, 2018 | 287 comments

216.

Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

897 points by spacesarebetter on Jun 24, 2018 | 731 comments

217.

Why you should not use Google Cloud (medium.com)

895 points by samdung on Jun 30, 2018 | 357 comments

218.

Dumber phone (nomasters.io)

895 points by jstanley on Apr 24, 2018 | 343 comments

219.

Safe ways to do things in bash (github.com)

892 points by signa11 on May 13, 2018 | 240 comments

220.

Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha (drewdevault.com)

892 points by ddevault on Nov 15, 2018 | 217 comments

221.

MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros (apple.com)

889 points by briandear on Jul 12, 2018 | 1173 comments

222.

Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? (usenix.org)

878 points by zdw on Aug 17, 2018 | 171 comments

223.

Facial recognition: It’s time for action (blogs.microsoft.com)

877 points by benryon on Dec 7, 2018 | 270 comments

224.

Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server (blog.scrt.ch)

877 points by phwd on Aug 24, 2018 | 192 comments

225.

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom (bloomberg.com)

875 points by gorbachev on Oct 9, 2018 | 366 comments

226.

I've spent the last two years building a new email client (ivelope.com)

874 points by muszc-master on May 2, 2018 | 593 comments

227.

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI (blogs.windows.com)

874 points by TiredOfLife on Dec 4, 2018 | 375 comments

228.

Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative (theguardian.com)

874 points by lnguyen on Apr 12, 2018 | 295 comments

229.

People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard (freakonomics.com)

868 points by dctoedt on Jul 12, 2018 | 425 comments

230.

Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

867 points by egonschiele on Sep 24, 2018 | 568 comments

231.

Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s (boglin.iwarp.com)

867 points by rpeden on Mar 2, 2018 | 417 comments

232.

A letter about Google AMP (ampletter.org)

866 points by lainon on Jan 9, 2018 | 346 comments

233.

Show HN: Hacker News Classics (jsomers.net)

864 points by jsomers on Feb 23, 2018 | 107 comments

234.

GDPR: Don't Panic (jacquesmattheij.com)

863 points by grabeh on May 18, 2018 | 800 comments

235.

DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS (medium.com)

860 points by nykolasz on Apr 2, 2018 | 311 comments

236.

“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims” (twitter.com)

860 points by ryanlol on Jan 5, 2018 | 241 comments

237.

Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking (blog.mozilla.org)

858 points by ronjouch on Aug 30, 2018 | 371 comments

238.

If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley (gatesnotes.com)

855 points by trequartista on Nov 19, 2018 | 459 comments

239.

Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation (facebook.com)

854 points by runesoerensen on Mar 21, 2018 | 544 comments

240.

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked (blog.mozilla.org)

854 points by sanatgersappa on Mar 27, 2018 | 229 comments