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1.

Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers (mashable.com)

550 points by pinewurst 2018-02-14 | 367 comments

2.

Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. (mashable.com)

537 points by bluetidepro 2013-01-24 | 357 comments

3.

Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+ (mashable.com)

526 points by bproper 2011-06-28 | 339 comments

4.

'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record (mashable.com)

443 points by danso 2018-09-25 | 121 comments

5.

Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22 (mashable.com)

397 points by davidbarker 2016-09-04 | 111 comments

6.

SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas (mashable.com)

367 points by subsystem 2013-03-21 | 559 comments

7.

The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour (mashable.com)

364 points by Liu 2012-06-11 | 109 comments

8.

Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple (mashable.com)

357 points by ssuda 2016-10-31 | 282 comments

9.

SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic (mashable.com)

306 points by typpo 2014-04-25 | 136 comments

10.

Facebook to File for IPO Next Week (mashable.com)

282 points by james-fend 2012-01-27 | 135 comments

11.

Aaron Swartz Was Targeted by Feds Over His Activism (mashable.com)

281 points by ghosh 2013-02-26 | 62 comments

12.

China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones (mashable.com)

256 points by libeclipse 2017-07-22 | 150 comments

13.

Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side (mashable.com)

243 points by dnqthao 2016-02-06 | 169 comments

14.

A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company (mashable.com)

241 points by jpadilla_ 2012-04-27 | 193 comments

15.

How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa (mashable.com)

240 points by cpeterso 2018-03-14 | 276 comments

16.

Uber VP: we could spend $1M to take revenge on journalists (mashable.com)

239 points by suprgeek 2014-11-18 | 104 comments

17.

SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill (mashable.com)

227 points by melvinmt 2012-01-20 | 76 comments

18.

Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto (mashable.com)

225 points by mbgaxyz 2017-02-17 | 92 comments

19.

Skip Flash, Build Animations in HTML5 With Hype (YC W11) (mashable.com)

209 points by ryannielsen 2011-05-20 | 68 comments

20.

The Best Entrepreneurs Are Older, Have Less Ego (mashable.com)

201 points by jonnycombust 2013-02-11 | 97 comments

21.

Yahoo is officially for sale (mashable.com)

192 points by azov 2016-02-19 | 126 comments

22.

A black market where people pay for Instagram verification (mashable.com)

190 points by gfredtech 2017-09-02 | 67 comments

23.

Grubwithus (YC W11) Brings Strangers Together Over Social Meals (mashable.com)

189 points by mhunter 2011-01-26 | 76 comments

24.

Google to Retire Blogger & Picasa Brands in Google+ Push (mashable.com)

186 points by ukdm 2011-07-05 | 90 comments

25.

Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends (mashable.com)

182 points by pg 2011-05-10 | 30 comments

26.

Google Loses Access to Twitter Stream, Suspends Realtime Search (mashable.com)

181 points by tilt 2011-07-04 | 50 comments

27.

Judge Denies Apple Request To Stop Amazon From Using "App Store" (mashable.com)

180 points by tathagatadg 2011-07-07 | 84 comments

28.

China Bans Livestreaming (mashable.com)

177 points by owens99 2017-06-23 | 64 comments

29.

Tim Berners-Lee: NSA Surveillance an 'Intrusion on Basic Human Rights' (mashable.com)

177 points by thegarside 2013-06-11 | 5 comments

30.

'I Have a Dream' Posted in Defiance of Copyright for Internet Freedom Day (mashable.com)

175 points by zoowar 2013-01-18 | 45 comments

31.

25,000 People Sign Petition to Remove Aaron Swartz's Prosecutors (mashable.com)

168 points by jeffreyfox 2013-01-16 | 48 comments

32.

Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity (mashable.com)

165 points by adventureful 2012-07-12 | 157 comments

33.

Aliens in the Valley: The History of Reddit (mashable.com)

154 points by pulakm 2014-12-03 | 24 comments

34.

Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ (mashable.com)

151 points by amlgsmsn 2015-08-02 | 155 comments

35.

Google to Launch Groupon Competitor (mashable.com)

149 points by jamesjyu 2011-01-21 | 98 comments

36.

1981 Radio Shack computer catalog (2015) (mashable.com)

148 points by wyclif 2016-10-06 | 142 comments

37.

Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month (mashable.com)

146 points by rainmaker23 2013-01-16 | 126 comments

38.

Google Fires Back at Twitter: You Took Yourself Out of Search (mashable.com)

143 points by rhufnagel 2012-01-12 | 114 comments

39.

Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online (mashable.com)

136 points by MarlonPro 2012-05-18 | 82 comments

40.

Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon (mashable.com)

135 points by MichaelApproved 2012-11-11 | 91 comments

41.

What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove? (mashable.com)

135 points by LemonadeBoy 2013-06-09 | 55 comments

42.

Uber banned in all of Italy (mashable.com)

128 points by thewhitetulip 2017-04-09 | 287 comments

43.

Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book (mashable.com)

128 points by _nh_ 2015-10-08 | 159 comments

44.

Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed (mashable.com)

125 points by poopaway 2019-04-05 | 84 comments

45.

Evernote makes $800,000 per Month (mashable.com)

123 points by kingsidharth 2010-12-09 | 66 comments

46.

AT&T Gives Up on the iPad 3G Unlimited Data Plan (mashable.com)

121 points by jrwoodruff 2010-06-02 | 103 comments

47.

SpaceX misses landing on a drone ship, breaking the company's streak (mashable.com)

121 points by rezist808 2016-06-15 | 71 comments

48.

Breakthrough: The Secret to Making Processors 1,000 Times Faster (mashable.com)

119 points by manyad 2011-09-10 | 0 comments

49.

Tumblr’s stumbles under Yahoo (mashable.com)

118 points by ikeboy 2016-06-16 | 57 comments

50.

College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically From Amazon (mashable.com)

118 points by tathagatadg 2011-07-18 | 41 comments

51.

Apple lied to public about Google Voice app rejection (mashable.com)

117 points by mcantelon 2009-09-18 | 42 comments

52.

Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the first time in 20 years (mashable.com)

116 points by mapk 2011-04-29 | 81 comments

53.

City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products (mashable.com)

115 points by Jagat 2012-07-11 | 105 comments

54.

Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage (mashable.com)

111 points by frankphilips 2012-07-27 | 142 comments

55.

This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job (mashable.com)

110 points by allangrant 2012-09-18 | 67 comments

56.

Internet Access Is a Human Right, Says United Nations (mashable.com)

110 points by taylorbuley 2012-07-06 | 76 comments

57.

Samsung Outsells iPhone, Breaks Shipping Records (mashable.com)

110 points by neya 2012-07-28 | 127 comments

58.

Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry (mashable.com)

108 points by Jagat 2012-06-12 | 68 comments

59.

Desperate Coinbase customers turn to SEC with allegations of fraud (mashable.com)

107 points by magnetic 2018-06-20 | 64 comments

60.

Posterous Swaps Blog Platform for Social Network (mashable.com)

105 points by bamazizi 2011-09-12 | 29 comments

61.

IPad Event Confirmed: Apple Invites Press to 'Touch' Something (mashable.com)

104 points by vinothgopi 2012-02-28 | 79 comments

62.

Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes (mashable.com)

104 points by jwang815 2011-08-11 | 35 comments

63.

Bloom Unveils Its Game Changing Energy Box (mashable.com)

103 points by bigsassy 2010-02-24 | 58 comments

64.

Bill Gates Will Give You $100,000 to Build a Better Condom (mashable.com)

103 points by mattquiros 2013-03-24 | 80 comments

65.

Angry Birds Maker Sued for Patent Violation (mashable.com)

101 points by dean 2011-07-25 | 100 comments

66.

Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage (mashable.com)

100 points by cooldeal 2013-04-03 | 111 comments

67.

c. 1946: The New York subway, by Stanley Kubrick (mashable.com)

100 points by Thevet 2015-01-21 | 21 comments

68.

Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work? (mashable.com)

99 points by nikbackm 2018-08-25 | 94 comments

69.

Crowdbooster (YC S10) Launches Twitter Analytics with a Twist (mashable.com)

99 points by mlinsey 2010-11-17 | 20 comments

70.

Sean Parker's Wedding Defense (mashable.com)

98 points by pkfrank 2013-06-06 | 67 comments

71.

Linus Torvalds: Locked Down Technologies Lose in the End (mashable.com)

97 points by RyanMcGreal 2011-11-18 | 52 comments

72.

Stanford, USC, Duke study shows AI can read contracts better than lawyers (mashable.com)

97 points by dsil 2018-02-26 | 67 comments

73.

'Fuck ethics. Money is everything' FB employees react to scandal on gossip app (mashable.com)

96 points by Sonnol53 2019-01-30 | 37 comments

74.

I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook (mashable.com)

95 points by danhodgins 2013-08-11 | 87 comments

75.

Sleeping in on the weekends might prevent an early death (mashable.com)

92 points by etrevino 2018-05-23 | 39 comments

76.

Kim Dotcom reveals more about his blockchain-inspired alternative Internet (mashable.com)

89 points by ascorbic 2015-10-31 | 40 comments

77.

Facebook TOS Change: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit (mashable.com)

88 points by brentb 2009-02-16 | 56 comments

78.

The first photograph of a human being (1838) (mashable.com)

87 points by jnord 2015-11-05 | 20 comments

79.

How To Develop Ideas That Will Disrupt Your Industry (mashable.com)

87 points by emmanuelory 2011-03-31 | 28 comments

80.

Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year (mashable.com)

85 points by ck2 2011-04-27 | 22 comments

81.

Wikileaks Says Aaron Swartz Was a Possible Source (mashable.com)

85 points by ma2rten 2013-01-21 | 53 comments

82.

Aisle50 (YC S11) is Group Buying for Groceries. (mashable.com)

85 points by Gaussian 2011-08-19 | 15 comments

83.

Ferguson or Iraq? Photos Unmask the Militarization of America's Police (mashable.com)

85 points by ethana 2014-08-14 | 94 comments

84.

How Yahoo Fought Against PRISM in Secret and Lost (mashable.com)

85 points by maudlinmau5 2013-06-17 | 9 comments

85.

Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype (mashable.com)

84 points by pitdesi 2011-05-05 | 62 comments

86.

Codecademy Adds Beginner Languages HTML and CSS (mashable.com)

84 points by aritraghosh007 2012-04-02 | 31 comments

87.

Better Ways to Read "Hacker News" (mashable.com)

84 points by rokamic 2010-12-02 | 34 comments

88.

Robotic Airplane Flies In Tight Spaces (mashable.com)

83 points by gagan2020 2012-08-13 | 22 comments

89.

Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apprehended Alive (mashable.com)

83 points by jeeringmole 2013-04-20 | 119 comments

90.

Inside Google's Secretive Data Centers (mashable.com)

82 points by ssclafani 2011-04-22 | 24 comments

91.

Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science (mashable.com)

80 points by benigeri 2012-07-03 | 65 comments

92.

April 1970: Trying to kill a sniper (mashable.com)

80 points by smacktoward 2017-06-11 | 60 comments

93.

Tech Companies Family Tree. Links between company founders and acquisitions (mashable.com)

78 points by iamwil 2011-08-15 | 10 comments

94.

Clever Foursquare Hack Turns New York City Into a Giant Game of Risk (mashable.com)

78 points by siculars 2011-06-29 | 28 comments

95.

SwipeGood Now Supporting Chase, WF, BofA, Amex (mashable.com)

78 points by anemitz 2011-01-11 | 10 comments

96.

Lady Gaga's $0.99 Album Download Overwhelms Amazon (mashable.com)

76 points by scottkduncan 2011-05-23 | 41 comments

97.

Curebit (YC W11) productizes the Dropbox referral system (mashable.com)

76 points by allangrant 2011-03-17 | 23 comments

98.

Why I pulled my son out of a school for 'gifted' kids (mashable.com)

76 points by gexos 2015-11-03 | 99 comments

99.

Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links (mashable.com)

75 points by tortilla 2009-07-19 | 41 comments

100.

"Paypal for Groups" Startup WePay (YC S09) Raises $7.5M Series B (mashable.com)

74 points by jazzychad 2010-08-13 | 11 comments

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