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1.

Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org)

480 points by HieronymusBosch 2021-05-04 | 87 comments

2.

My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community (yifanxing.medium.com)

296 points by ingve 2021-04-27 | 141 comments

3.

I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff (p.haavard.me)

271 points by ilkkao 2021-05-14 | 55 comments

4.

UMN Statement on Linux Kernel Research (cse.umn.edu)

214 points by fhars 2021-04-21 | 44 comments

5.

Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research (www.neowin.net)

202 points by prsutherland 2021-04-21 | 44 comments

6.

iPad Pro M1 (www.apple.com)

173 points by tosh 2021-04-20 | 136 comments

7.

IBM employee forced to stop kernel work for using personal email address (git.kernel.org)

158 points by ibmthrwy 2021-04-20 | 87 comments

8.

Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data (www.accc.gov.au)

127 points by Khaine 2021-04-16 | 11 comments

9.

Mars Sucks (www.marssucks.com)

124 points by paulintrognon 2021-04-23 | 41 comments

10.

Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class (twitter.com)

123 points by renameme 2021-05-03 | 38 comments

11.

Greg Kroah-Hartman Rejects Apology from University of Minnesota Researchers (lore.kernel.org)

117 points by nimbius 2021-04-26 | 46 comments

12.

60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent (me2ba.org)

116 points by InitialLastName 2021-05-05 | 16 comments

13.

WordPress Proposal to Treat Google's FLoC as a Security Concern (make.wordpress.org)

116 points by meattle 2021-04-18 | 29 comments

14.

Firefox 88.0 (www.mozilla.org)

108 points by easton 2021-04-19 | 46 comments

15.

Piano teacher gets copyright claim for playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (www.youtube.com)

106 points by bitcharmer 2021-05-01 | 42 comments

16.

Ubuntu 21.04 Released (ubuntu.com)

105 points by marcodiego 2021-04-22 | 52 comments

17.

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2020) (github.com)

104 points by rdpintqogeogsaa 2021-04-19 | 39 comments

18.

Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production (www.reuters.com)

100 points by tareqak 2021-05-11 | 62 comments

19.

GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages (github.blog)

100 points by pimterry 2021-04-28 | 24 comments

20.

Wildtype sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells (www.wildtypefoods.com)

99 points by zuhayeer 2021-04-22 | 37 comments

21.

Bill and Melinda Gates Separated (twitter.com)

99 points by lox 2021-05-03 | 15 comments

22.

Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac (asia.nikkei.com)

99 points by lhoff 2021-04-27 | 70 comments

23.

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years (www.bbc.com)

99 points by alphachloride 2021-04-22 | 41 comments

24.

Apple AirDrop shares more than files (www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)

95 points by bala529 2021-04-21 | 23 comments

25.

Beyond Burger: 90% less greenhouse emissions, 99% less water, and 93% less land (2018) (css.umich.edu)

95 points by aracena 2021-05-07 | 136 comments

26.

CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them? (www.newstatesman.com)

94 points by nixass 2021-04-26 | 68 comments

27.

Prions Are Going to End the World (www.countere.com)

93 points by pccampbell 2021-04-19 | 86 comments

28.

Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 (grafana.com)

92 points by WalterSobchak 2021-04-20 | 30 comments

29.

Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin (twitter.com)

91 points by seigando 2021-05-12 | 50 comments

30.

Brexit’s top donor outed as Bitfinex, Tether parent shareholder (protos.com)

91 points by belltaco 2021-04-24 | 25 comments

31.

Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test (www.spacex.com)

87 points by prtkgpt 2021-05-05 | 29 comments

32.

Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel (lkml.org)

85 points by EvgeniyZh 2021-04-16 | 17 comments

33.

$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin (www.cnbc.com)

84 points by awb 2021-05-13 | 109 comments

34.

US Army Training for Advanced Situational Awareness (April, 2021) [pdf] (armypubs.army.mil)

84 points by graderjs 2021-05-10 | 23 comments

35.

Confirmed talk cancelled due to slides heavily critical of Google and Facebook (twitter.com)

83 points by pabs3 2021-05-05 | 4 comments

36.

Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com)

83 points by forrestbrazeal 2021-05-04 | 33 comments

37.

Show HN: List of apps people pay for but have low rating (ideasfilter.com)

82 points by visox 2021-05-01 | 24 comments

38.

Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg (www.zdnet.com)

81 points by MontagFTB 2021-05-07 | 13 comments

39.

Practical SQL for Data Analysis (hakibenita.com)

81 points by steve-chavez 2021-05-03 | 25 comments

40.

Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google (arstechnica.com)

79 points by leephillips 2021-05-04 | 61 comments

41.

Chiropractors are bullshit (theoutline.com)

78 points by michaelmachine 2021-05-15 | 51 comments

42.

Termite Is Obsoleted by Alacritty (github.com)

77 points by polm23 2021-05-07 | 32 comments

43.

Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash” (www.apple.com)

76 points by max_ 2021-05-06 | 46 comments

44.

iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more (www.apple.com)

76 points by jmsflknr 2021-04-26 | 42 comments

45.

Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster (drewdevault.com)

75 points by fluix 2021-04-26 | 22 comments

46.

New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up (whyy.org)

75 points by spondyl 2021-05-05 | 16 comments

47.

FB JavaScript SDK down (developers.facebook.com)

73 points by littleworld 2021-04-30 | 11 comments

48.

Apple Introduces AirTag (www.apple.com)

73 points by davidbarker 2021-04-20 | 54 comments

49.

The Animal Is Tired (www.robinhobb.com)

73 points by montenegrohugo 2021-05-09 | 29 comments

50.

What's Accenture? (2020) (retool.com)

72 points by kgggvin 2021-04-28 | 39 comments

51.

Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta (tauri.studio)

71 points by adamnemecek 2021-05-14 | 42 comments

52.

Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings (petapixel.com)

71 points by jamesponddotco 2021-05-05 | 31 comments

53.

Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals (www.vice.com)

71 points by jbegley 2021-05-13 | 15 comments

54.

Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate (www.newsweek.com)

71 points by pcf 2021-04-16 | 14 comments

55.

Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal (www.pewresearch.org)

71 points by undefined1 2021-04-22 | 58 comments

56.

Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage (www.bbc.com)

70 points by jchrisa 2021-04-23 | 44 comments

57.

Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them (techdator.net)

70 points by gsidhu7713 2021-05-08 | 12 comments

58.

Gitlab has 15 ad trackers, 22 third party cookies, and a keylogger (themarkup.org)

70 points by luke2m 2021-04-27 | 32 comments

59.

Notion launches its API in public beta (developers.notion.so)

68 points by cristinacordova 2021-05-13 | 21 comments

60.

Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke (krebsonsecurity.com)

68 points by parsecs 2021-04-26 | 11 comments

61.

Buying a Bitcoin emits 195x as much CO₂ as buying an iPhone (blog.yannev.es)

68 points by yanneves 2021-05-02 | 25 comments

62.

Reddit Outage (www.redditstatus.com)

67 points by ra7 2021-05-04 | 38 comments

63.

Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation (developers.facebook.com)

67 points by wongmjane 2021-04-29 | 18 comments

64.

The FBI Seized Safe Deposit Boxes Knowing ‘Some’ Belonged to ‘Honest Citizens’ (reason.com)

65 points by hirundo 2021-05-10 | 31 comments

65.

Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office (apnews.com)

64 points by AndrewBissell 2021-05-15 | 42 comments

66.

Prisma – The Complete ORM for Node.js and TypeScript (www.prisma.io)

64 points by Sujan 2021-04-21 | 33 comments

67.

Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers (www.freethink.com)

63 points by HiroProtagonist 2021-04-26 | 30 comments

68.

Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19 (montrealgazette.com)

62 points by mvzvm 2021-04-26 | 21 comments

69.

Woven Planet, a subsidiary of Toyota, to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car divisi (investor.lyft.com)

61 points by bsilvereagle 2021-04-26 | 12 comments

70.

I Mailed an AirTag and Tracked Its Progress; Here’s What Happened (www.intego.com)

61 points by miles 2021-05-11 | 32 comments

71.

India’s second wave of covid-19 feels nothing like its first (www.economist.com)

61 points by divbzero 2021-05-01 | 39 comments

72.

Oklahoma woman charged with felony for not returning VHS tape 21 years ago (okcfox.com)

61 points by fortran77 2021-04-24 | 55 comments

73.

Apple TV4K Gets A12 Bionic (www.apple.com)

61 points by cameron_b 2021-04-20 | 49 comments

74.

First of its kind study pits psilocybin against a common antidepressant (www.statnews.com)

61 points by gmays 2021-04-16 | 34 comments

75.

Most and Least Affordable Places to Buy a Home (priceonomics.com)

60 points by paulpauper 2021-05-15 | 65 comments

76.

Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to (arstechnica.com)

60 points by throwawaysea 2021-05-08 | 4 comments

77.

Prank Windows XP simulator (geekprank.com)

60 points by vncajules 2021-04-20 | 14 comments

78.

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dies at 90 (www.npr.org)

60 points by edwinbalani 2021-04-28 | 9 comments

79.

Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border (www.bbc.co.uk)

60 points by sleepyshift 2021-05-04 | 38 comments

80.

A Practical Guide to Reducing Loneliness (burgesspowell.medium.com)

60 points by bhalina 2021-04-26 | 19 comments

81.

Bitcoin Mining Hash Rate Drops as Blackouts Instituted in China (www.nasdaq.com)

60 points by blondie9x 2021-04-18 | 37 comments

82.

Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board (www.bbc.com)

60 points by MobileVet 2021-05-05 | 48 comments

83.

How Sex Surrogates Are Helping Injured Israeli Soldiers (www.bbc.com)

59 points by andrewl 2021-04-16 | 27 comments

84.

Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? · Babel (babeljs.io)

59 points by Ashoka_rkt 2021-05-11 | 16 comments

85.

We need to know the origin of Covid-19 (www.desmoinesregister.com)

59 points by RickJWagner 2021-04-20 | 28 comments

86.

Announcing Rome Tools Inc, an open source first company (rome.tools)

59 points by sebastianmck 2021-05-04 | 25 comments

87.

Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’ (blog.evergreengavekal.com)

58 points by RickJWagner 2021-05-10 | 19 comments

88.

Apple’s Notarizing (www.cdfinder.de)

58 points by joseluisq 2021-04-30 | 11 comments

89.

Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released (www.tobyord.com)

57 points by cyberhost 2021-04-24 | 12 comments

90.

Never run Google ads if you have an Android app (danfabulich.medium.com)

56 points by dfabulich 2021-04-28 | 3 comments

91.

Lambda School Lays Off 32% (lambdaschool.com)

56 points by caust1c 2021-04-29 | 26 comments

92.

Flask 2.0.0 has been merged into master (github.com)

56 points by tpfour 2021-05-12 | 7 comments

93.

US to propose almost doubling capital gains tax rate for the wealthy to 39.6% (www.bloomberg.com)

56 points by marc__1 2021-04-22 | 53 comments

94.

Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak (www.bbc.com)

55 points by LinuxBender 2021-04-16 | 14 comments

95.

Linux: Don't get me started on “executives” (lore.kernel.org)

54 points by cassepipe 2021-04-21 | 14 comments

96.

Tesla Model 3 Owners Are the Happiest Car Owners, According to Consumer Reports (www.motorbiscuit.com)

54 points by danboarder 2021-05-11 | 32 comments

97.

Beam VM Wisdoms (beam-wisdoms.clau.se)

54 points by Tomte 2021-04-21 | 0 comments

98.

The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty (paulgraham.com)

54 points by tosh 2021-04-22 | 121 comments

99.

Erlang/OTP 24 Highlights (blog.erlang.org)

53 points by nifoc 2021-05-12 | 3 comments

100.

Green vs. Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev)

53 points by muglug 2021-04-22 | 20 comments

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