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1.

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” (krebsonsecurity.com)

255 points by parsecs 2021-03-30 | 91 comments

2.

GitHub, f ck your name change (mooseyanon.medium.com)

240 points by leontrolski 2021-03-17 | 82 comments

3.

Facebook Down? (www.facebook.com)

230 points by gamerDude 2021-04-08 | 156 comments

4.

I Refused to Become an FBI Informant. The Government Put Me on the No Fly List (www.aclu.org)

209 points by jbegley 2021-04-06 | 42 comments

5.

Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] (www.supremecourt.gov)

205 points by pdoconnell 2021-04-05 | 36 comments

6.

Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account (twitter.com)

173 points by hirsin 2021-03-14 | 68 comments

7.

Suez canal is free again (www.reuters.com)

167 points by WJW 2021-03-29 | 38 comments

8.

Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming (www.pcgamer.com)

167 points by mmhsieh 2021-03-15 | 34 comments

9.

Et Tu, Signal? (www.stephendiehl.com)

162 points by darylyu 2021-04-07 | 29 comments

10.

Why uBlock Origin works best on Firefox (github.com)

152 points by anonymfus 2021-04-09 | 41 comments

11.

Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store (github.com)

145 points by URfejk 2021-03-24 | 53 comments

12.

Audacity 3.0.0 (www.audacityteam.org)

137 points by app4soft 2021-03-17 | 17 comments

13.

Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash (roadtoramen.com)

128 points by dkthehuman 2021-03-16 | 23 comments

14.

Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images (unsplash.com)

127 points by baptlac 2021-03-30 | 58 comments

15.

HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts created before Feb 13, 2008 (news.ycombinator.com)

122 points by ibraheemdev 2021-03-15 | 87 comments

16.

RIP Google Reader (www.ripgooglereader.com)

121 points by mrbbk 2021-03-25 | 64 comments

17.

I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (tinyprojects.dev)

119 points by tinyprojects 2021-03-11 | 47 comments

18.

Addiction to Outrage Is Ruining Your Life (medium.com)

114 points by prostoalex 2021-03-28 | 31 comments

19.

UK to depart from GDPR (www.lawgazette.co.uk)

114 points by bencollier49 2021-03-12 | 114 comments

20.

Please don't make me go back: some reasons I hope to never return to the office (www.ryanmercer.com)

112 points by ryanmercer 2021-04-06 | 81 comments

21.

Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak (www.reuters.com)

112 points by challengly 2021-04-07 | 29 comments

22.

Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California coast (www.thedrive.com)

110 points by SEJeff 2021-03-24 | 45 comments

23.

Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent (itep.org)

110 points by lurtbancaster 2021-04-05 | 61 comments

24.

Goolgle collects 20X more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS (therecord.media)

109 points by gormandizer 2021-03-30 | 42 comments

25.

Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute (theintercept.com)

107 points by tareqak 2021-03-27 | 54 comments

26.

Voltswagen of America (media.vw.com)

107 points by throwaway4good 2021-03-30 | 104 comments

27.

Richard M Stallman Is Back on the FSF Board He Founded 35 Years Ago (techrights.org)

105 points by wrycoder 2021-03-21 | 51 comments

28.

Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France (www.bbc.co.uk)

103 points by beaker52 2021-04-02 | 68 comments

29.

AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years (forums.aws.amazon.com)

102 points by shikkra 2021-04-06 | 42 comments

30.

Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare (med.stanford.edu)

99 points by hardtke 2021-03-31 | 22 comments

31.

John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free Software Foundation (social.librem.one)

99 points by mthld 2021-03-29 | 165 comments

32.

Do you want Linux phones? (blog.brixit.nl)

96 points by JetSpiegel 2021-03-25 | 72 comments

33.

Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy (blog.mozilla.org)

96 points by twapi 2021-03-22 | 33 comments

34.

Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’ (www.gamerevolution.com)

95 points by LordAtlas 2021-03-24 | 82 comments

35.

Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar? (superuser.com)

93 points by personjerry 2021-03-14 | 21 comments

36.

The price students pay for a prized IIT seat (theprint.in)

93 points by rustoo 2021-03-22 | 27 comments

37.

Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] (github.com)

89 points by aty268 2021-03-29 | 37 comments

38.

Intel Launches 10nm 'Ice Lake' Datacenter CPU with Up to 40 Cores (www.hpcwire.com)

88 points by rbanffy 2021-04-06 | 64 comments

39.

YouTube to Remove Dislikes (twitter.com)

84 points by Jerry2 2021-03-31 | 64 comments

40.

China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang (www.reuters.com)

84 points by jswizzy 2021-03-27 | 35 comments

41.

Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted (www.sciencemag.org)

84 points by furcyd 2021-04-07 | 18 comments

42.

Rust 1.51 (blog.rust-lang.org)

83 points by ibraheemdev 2021-03-25 | 9 comments

43.

TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated (datatracker.ietf.org)

83 points by cmckn 2021-03-23 | 2 comments

44.

Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs (github.com)

83 points by fragileone 2021-04-09 | 27 comments

45.

Fuck Medium (tengl.net)

82 points by tiagoleifert 2021-03-11 | 23 comments

46.

ClojureScript 1.10.844 (clojurescript.org)

79 points by tosh 2021-04-06 | 29 comments

47.

Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019) (www.mcall.com)

78 points by dan-robertson 2021-04-05 | 40 comments

48.

2/3rds of Google Searches Now End Without a Click (sparktoro.com)

76 points by randfish 2021-03-22 | 68 comments

49.

The Sovietization of the American Press (taibbi.substack.com)

76 points by andrenth 2021-03-12 | 24 comments

50.

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think (www.theatlantic.com)

76 points by fortran77 2021-03-29 | 27 comments

51.

NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money (fstoppers.com)

75 points by CynicusRex 2021-03-21 | 86 comments

52.

All Futurama Opening Quotes (theabbie.github.io)

74 points by melector 2021-03-18 | 32 comments

53.

New Mexico Governor Signs Historic Legislation to End Qualified Immunity (innocenceproject.org)

74 points by williamsharris 2021-04-08 | 13 comments

54.

OpenSSL will release a HIGH severity issue fix on 25th (mta.openssl.org)

74 points by yread 2021-03-22 | 5 comments

55.

Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces (www.bbc.com)

74 points by longdefeat 2021-04-09 | 27 comments

56.

Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes (noahpinion.substack.com)

73 points by temp8964 2021-03-29 | 42 comments

57.

SQLite is not a toy database (antonz.org)

73 points by nalgeon 2021-03-25 | 9 comments

58.

No one gives a sh*t what programming language you use (georgestocker.com)

73 points by gortok 2021-03-29 | 42 comments

59.

Boeing 737 Serious Incident. Root cause: adult females checked in as “Miss” [pdf] (assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)

71 points by georgecmu 2021-04-08 | 69 comments

60.

Writing tools I learned from The Economist (builtbywords.substack.com)

69 points by ahsoli 2021-04-05 | 15 comments

61.

Show HN: Beautiful PDFs from HTML (pdf.math.dev)

69 points by abhinav22 2021-04-04 | 21 comments

62.

MIT suspending SAT/ACT requirement for next application cycle (mitadmissions.org)

68 points by jchernan 2021-04-06 | 115 comments

63.

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format (www.apple.com)

67 points by todsacerdoti 2021-03-30 | 32 comments

64.

High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders (www.scientificamerican.com)

66 points by aminozuur 2021-03-24 | 57 comments

65.

Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano (www.ruv.is)

66 points by lknik 2021-03-22 | 16 comments

66.

GPT Neo: open-source GPT-3-like model, with pretrained smaller models available (github.com)

66 points by pizza 2021-03-21 | 16 comments

67.

'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter (www.bbc.com)

66 points by alexrustic 2021-03-30 | 13 comments

68.

Stop Spotify Surveillance (www.stopspotifysurveillance.org)

65 points by FluentInBird 2021-04-08 | 63 comments

69.

OpenSSL Security Advisory (www.openssl.org)

65 points by arkadiyt 2021-03-25 | 13 comments

70.

Libreboot – Defend Richard Stallman! (libreboot.org)

65 points by arrizalamin 2021-03-31 | 6 comments

71.

It's Never a Bicycle Accident (slate.com)

65 points by pharmakom 2021-03-19 | 34 comments

72.

Audi abandons combustion engine development (www.electrive.com)

65 points by reddotX 2021-03-17 | 22 comments

73.

First human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface (www.brown.edu)

64 points by bemmu 2021-04-04 | 20 comments

74.

Help Us Test Payments in Signal (signal.org)

64 points by josh2600 2021-04-06 | 73 comments

75.

A Decade of Delusion at WeWork (www.newyorker.com)

63 points by irtefa 2021-04-06 | 87 comments

76.

Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem (numair.medium.com)

63 points by isomorph 2021-04-07 | 19 comments

77.

We are building a better Heroku (about.gitlab.com)

63 points by rement 2021-03-23 | 45 comments

78.

Suez canal blocked by a massive ship (twitter.com)

62 points by tilolebo 2021-03-23 | 20 comments

79.

Proof-of-work should be banned (stopburncoins.medium.com)

61 points by datafl4sh 2021-03-29 | 70 comments

80.

Police warn students to avoid science website (www.bbc.com)

61 points by Black101 2021-03-20 | 36 comments

81.

Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook (twitter.com)

60 points by celsoazevedo 2021-03-22 | 14 comments

82.

What have we lost? [video] (media.ccc.de)

59 points by gbrown_ 2021-04-07 | 9 comments

83.

India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners and traders (www.reuters.com)

59 points by yulaow 2021-03-15 | 26 comments

84.

Lyra – enabling voice calls for the next billion users (opensource.googleblog.com)

59 points by chmaynard 2021-04-06 | 58 comments

85.

Uniswap V3 (uniswap.org)

58 points by dylkil 2021-03-23 | 20 comments

86.

Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, dies (www.japantimes.co.jp)

58 points by _Microft 2021-04-02 | 8 comments

87.

34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work (www.psychnewsdaily.com)

58 points by edoreld 2021-04-07 | 19 comments

88.

based.cooking (based.cooking)

57 points by meribold 2021-03-11 | 33 comments

89.

IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 (www-01.ibm.com)

57 points by belter 2021-04-07 | 35 comments

90.

OVH CEO Octave Klaba speaking about the incident (www.ovh.com)

57 points by mxschmitt 2021-03-11 | 23 comments

91.

Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection (www.cdc.gov)

56 points by mulvya 2021-04-06 | 22 comments

92.

Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets (www.reuters.com)

56 points by ycom13__ 2021-03-31 | 29 comments

93.

IRS Guidance for Thieves, Drug Dealers, and Corrupt Officials (taxfoundation.org)

56 points by reese_john 2021-04-02 | 7 comments

94.

Brave disables Chromium FLoC features (github.com)

55 points by brunoluiz 2021-04-10 | 22 comments

95.

We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals (www.theguardian.com)

55 points by yellowyacht 2021-04-05 | 17 comments

96.

Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants (www.btctimes.com)

55 points by rmason 2021-03-17 | 57 comments

97.

Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind woman refused rides (www.bbc.com)

55 points by choppaface 2021-04-05 | 56 comments

98.

U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time (news.gallup.com)

55 points by pseudolus 2021-03-29 | 2 comments

99.

Brazil’s mismanagement of Covid-19 threatens the world (www.economist.com)

55 points by marcodiego 2021-03-27 | 56 comments

100.

Commits are snapshots not diffs (github.blog)

54 points by warpech 2021-04-08 | 16 comments

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