HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (vibilagare.se)

1614 points by eriksdh on Aug 17, 2022 | 953 comments

2.

Design the next iPhone (neal.fun)

1463 points by mkeeter on Aug 23, 2022 | 352 comments

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The Big [Censored] Theory (pudding.cool)

1444 points by feross on Aug 29, 2022 | 835 comments

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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything (andys.page)

1428 points by andy_xor_andrew on Aug 30, 2022 | 383 comments

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Use one big server (specbranch.com)

1413 points by pclmulqdq on Aug 2, 2022 | 585 comments

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Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

1313 points by 7tech on Aug 22, 2022 | 508 comments

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Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones (dukope.com)

1297 points by nycpig on Aug 6, 2022 | 180 comments

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Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser (krausefx.com)

1258 points by the_mitsuhiko on Aug 10, 2022 | 449 comments

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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit (blog.comma.ai)

1212 points by arduinomancer on Aug 24, 2022 | 299 comments

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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (arstechnica.com)

1135 points by carride on Aug 10, 2022 | 427 comments

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I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)

1131 points by aemerson_ on Aug 18, 2022 | 664 comments

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Librarian's Letter to Google Security (docs.google.com)

1082 points by 2352500 on Aug 1, 2022 | 461 comments

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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? (noctslackv2.wordpress.com)

1070 points by ColinWright on Aug 3, 2022 | 467 comments

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An odd discovery on Spotify (robinsloan.com)

1056 points by breathenow on Aug 23, 2022 | 429 comments

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I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo (jacobmartins.com)

1045 points by cube2222 on Aug 2, 2022 | 378 comments

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Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay (whitehouse.gov)

1044 points by mattkrisiloff on Aug 25, 2022 | 267 comments

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Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies (cnn.com)

1005 points by razin on Aug 23, 2022 | 603 comments

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NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government (blog.cr.yp.to)

974 points by trulyrandom on Aug 5, 2022 | 443 comments

19.

Mikhail Gorbachev has died (reuters.com)

970 points by homarp on Aug 30, 2022 | 915 comments

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A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal (nytimes.com)

949 points by dklsf on Aug 21, 2022 | 559 comments

21.

A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (endtimes.dev)

933 points by DitheringIdiot on Aug 25, 2022 | 343 comments

22.

Removal of Heroku free product plans (help.heroku.com)

908 points by countspongebob on Aug 25, 2022 | 573 comments

23.

Stable Diffusion is a big deal (simonwillison.net)

874 points by simonw on Aug 29, 2022 | 471 comments

24.

To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways (metaphysic.ai)

864 points by Hard_Space on Aug 8, 2022 | 274 comments

25.

Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser (crunchydata.com)

814 points by samwillis on Aug 17, 2022 | 171 comments

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An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter (privacy.twitter.com)

807 points by WaitWaitWha on Aug 9, 2022 | 450 comments

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“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” (android.com)

796 points by Fabricio20 on Aug 9, 2022 | 960 comments

28.

Things people blamed on bicycles (twitter.com)

780 points by the-archivist on Aug 24, 2022 | 817 comments

29.

Stable Diffusion Public Release (stability.ai)

770 points by flimsythoughts on Aug 22, 2022 | 413 comments

30.

Productivity porn (calebschoepp.com)

770 points by triplechill on Aug 3, 2022 | 409 comments