HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3901.

An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018) (blog.mozilla.org)

314 points by doener on Jan 9, 2021 | 165 comments

3902.

ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities (techcrunch.com)

314 points by LordAtlas on Sep 6, 2021 | 163 comments

3903.

The Hotdog web browser and browser engine (github.com)

314 points by pabs3 on Apr 20, 2021 | 144 comments

3904.

Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou (twitter.com)

314 points by freddier on Oct 5, 2021 | 123 comments

3905.

Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris (github.com)

314 points by cconger on Apr 21, 2021 | 122 comments

3906.

Understanding Zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples (blog.goodaudience.com)

314 points by hongzi on Dec 2, 2021 | 82 comments

3907.

Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It (macrumors.com)

314 points by nathan_phoenix on Aug 20, 2021 | 79 comments

3908.

India’s second wave (ft.com)

313 points by DanBC on Apr 21, 2021 | 450 comments

3909.

Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap (bbc.com)

313 points by wheybags on Mar 20, 2021 | 392 comments

3910.

The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 (jeffgeerling.com)

313 points by geerlingguy on Jun 1, 2021 | 315 comments

3911.

NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid' (nature.com)

313 points by sohkamyung on Mar 5, 2021 | 290 comments

3912.

Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed (theguardian.com)

313 points by dredmorbius on Aug 26, 2021 | 270 comments

3913.

Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com (inputmag.com)

313 points by jakobgreenfeld on Sep 19, 2021 | 160 comments

3914.

Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore (shepherd.com)

313 points by bwb on Apr 20, 2021 | 152 comments

3915.

Something special is happening in Barcelona (twitter.com)

313 points by reallydontask on Oct 23, 2021 | 149 comments

3916.

Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America (reuters.com)

313 points by kordlessagain on Sep 10, 2021 | 148 comments

3917.

PyTorch 1.8, with AMD ROCm support (github.com)

313 points by lnyan on Mar 5, 2021 | 138 comments

3918.

Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 (slack.engineering)

313 points by benedikt on Feb 1, 2021 | 106 comments

3919.

Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE (thonny.org)

313 points by nine_k on Jan 7, 2021 | 102 comments

3920.

Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states (uspirg.org)

313 points by CharlesW on Jan 25, 2021 | 98 comments

3921.

Rust const generics MVP hits beta (blog.rust-lang.org)

313 points by mfsch on Feb 26, 2021 | 84 comments

3922.

Show HN: Verilog2factorio (github.com)

313 points by linux_is_nice on Apr 25, 2021 | 70 comments

3923.

Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020) (martinfowler.com)

313 points by sbmthakur on Feb 10, 2021 | 58 comments

3924.

Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said (nytimes.com)

312 points by dsr12 on May 13, 2021 | 871 comments

3925.

Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer (betterprogramming.pub)

312 points by anupamchugh on Mar 8, 2021 | 432 comments

3926.

San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge (nytimes.com)

312 points by tagawa on May 21, 2021 | 431 comments

3927.

The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy (telegraph.co.uk)

312 points by mrfusion on Aug 22, 2021 | 421 comments

3928.

Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times (twitter.com)