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1.

Stephen Hawking has died (www.bbc.com)

6015 points by Cogito 2018-03-14 | 436 comments

2.

A Message to Our Customers (www.apple.com)

5771 points by epaga 2016-02-17 | 967 comments

3.

Steve Jobs has passed away. (www.apple.com)

4338 points by patricktomas 2011-10-05 | 363 comments

4.

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber (www.susanjfowler.com)

4107 points by grey-area 2017-02-19 | 1013 comments

5.

Show HN: This up votes itself (news.ycombinator.com)

3531 points by olalonde 2012-03-23 | 82 comments

6.

F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules (www.nytimes.com)

3384 points by panny 2017-12-14 | 1431 comments

7.

Switch from Chrome to Firefox (www.mozilla.org)

3282 points by WisNorCan 2019-05-30 | 981 comments

8.

Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory (bugs.chromium.org)

3238 points by tptacek 2017-02-23 | 992 comments

9.

UK votes to leave EU (www.bbc.co.uk)

3125 points by dmmalam 2016-06-24 | 2530 comments

10.

Tim Cook Speaks Up (www.businessweek.com)

3086 points by replicatorblog 2014-10-30 | 974 comments

11.

Announcing the first SHA-1 collision (security.googleblog.com)

3030 points by pfg 2017-02-23 | 485 comments

12.

I Sell Onions on the Internet (www.deepsouthventures.com)

3015 points by eightturn 2019-04-23 | 435 comments

13.

macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com)

3001 points by vladikoff 2017-11-28 | 1055 comments

14.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches (techcrunch.com)

2968 points by mpweiher 2018-02-06 | 872 comments

15.

2048 (gabrielecirulli.github.io)

2903 points by frederfred 2014-03-10 | 410 comments

16.

Paul Allen has died (www.cnbc.com)

2901 points by coloneltcb 2018-10-15 | 278 comments

17.

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub (www.bloomberg.com)

2873 points by miguelrochefort 2018-06-03 | 1436 comments

18.

Announcing unlimited free private repos (blog.github.com)

2866 points by razer6 2019-01-07 | 684 comments

19.

Don't Fly During Ramadan (varnull.adityamukerjee.net)

2744 points by chimeracoder 2013-08-22 | 962 comments

20.

W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns (boingboing.net)

2735 points by guelo 2017-09-18 | 978 comments

21.

CIA malware and hacking tools (wikileaks.org)

2699 points by randomname2 2017-03-07 | 1088 comments

22.

Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time (internalregister.github.io)

2690 points by pkiller 2019-03-14 | 210 comments

23.

Hyperloop (www.spacex.com)

2666 points by spikels 2013-08-12 | 954 comments

24.

IBM acquires Red Hat (www.redhat.com)

2610 points by nopriorarrests 2018-10-28 | 1051 comments

25.

Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off (lore.kernel.org)

2585 points by fejkp 2018-09-16 | 996 comments

26.

Pardon Snowden (www.pardonsnowden.org)

2553 points by erlend_sh 2016-09-14 | 781 comments

27.

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple (www.bloomberg.com)

2477 points by Osiris30 2018-10-04 | 762 comments

28.

Be Kind (www.briangilham.com)

2475 points by bgilham 2016-10-14 | 434 comments

29.

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (www.jwz.org)

2376 points by jwwest 2011-11-29 | 292 comments

30.

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform (news.microsoft.com)

2376 points by ethomson 2014-11-12 | 894 comments

31.

Julian Assange arrested in London (www.bbc.co.uk)

2369 points by kragniz 2019-04-11 | 1119 comments

32.

Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies (twitter.com)

2364 points by jwildeboer 2018-09-25 | 810 comments

33.

Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street (www.reuters.com)

2361 points by kgwgk 2018-03-19 | 1766 comments

34.

Why I’m done with Chrome (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

2357 points by user982 2018-09-23 | 837 comments

35.

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

2334 points by brandon 2018-01-03 | 593 comments

36.

Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product (smartcar.com)

2292 points by sahaskatta 2019-04-22 | 603 comments

37.

Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js (code.facebook.com)

2280 points by dwwoelfel 2017-09-22 | 498 comments

38.

Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth (www.nature.com)

2256 points by ngoldbaum 2017-02-22 | 704 comments

39.

No Thank You, Mr. Pecker (medium.com)

2243 points by coloneltcb 2019-02-07 | 660 comments

40.

G is for Google (googleblog.blogspot.com)

2228 points by dkasper 2015-08-10 | 562 comments

41.

A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (blog.chriszacharias.com)

2195 points by zacman85 2019-05-01 | 363 comments

42.

How Firefox Got Fast Again (hacks.mozilla.org)

2180 points by bpierre 2017-11-13 | 687 comments

43.

I am an Uber survivor (medium.com)

2168 points by NelsonMinar 2017-02-27 | 768 comments

44.

Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] (www.youtube.com)

2164 points by doktorn 2019-04-10 | 488 comments

45.

Apple open-sources FoundationDB (www.foundationdb.org)

2136 points by spullara 2018-04-19 | 441 comments

46.

Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] (www.spacex.com)

2123 points by tilt 2016-09-27 | 1046 comments

47.

Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. (www.nytimes.com)

2119 points by java_script 2017-06-21 | 1291 comments

48.

Get started making music (learningmusic.ableton.com)

2106 points by bbgm 2017-05-09 | 461 comments

49.

Aaron Swartz commits suicide (tech.mit.edu)

2103 points by bfaviero 2013-01-12 | 546 comments

50.

Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users (9to5google.com)

2090 points by estranhosidade 2019-05-29 | 877 comments

51.

Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke (www.propublica.org)

2088 points by r0h1n 2015-02-05 | 453 comments

52.

GitHub Sponsors (github.com)

2082 points by Heliosmaster 2019-05-23 | 501 comments

53.

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com)

2074 points by weatherlight 2018-05-07 | 309 comments

54.

Today is The Day We Fight Back (thedaywefightback.org)

2061 points by brokenparser 2014-02-11 | 258 comments

55.

Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. (ycombinator.com)

2060 points by dzlobin 2012-01-20 | 664 comments

56.

Ubuntu on Windows (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

2049 points by bpierre 2016-03-30 | 901 comments

57.

Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B (news.microsoft.com)

2049 points by whatok 2016-06-13 | 831 comments

58.

Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service (blog.mozilla.org)

2031 points by dnlserrano 2019-03-12 | 512 comments

59.

“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” (mail.python.org)

2024 points by randlet 2018-07-12 | 721 comments

60.

Firefox is on a slippery slope (drewdevault.com)

2023 points by Sir_Cmpwn 2017-12-16 | 874 comments

61.

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web (www.eff.org)

2019 points by mariusz79 2014-11-18 | 461 comments

62.

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (medium.com)

2014 points by jamesjyu 2019-02-07 | 351 comments

63.

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right (www.nytimes.com)

2011 points by intull 2016-02-11 | 483 comments

64.

All Our Patent Are Belong To You (www.teslamotors.com)

1999 points by gkoberger 2014-06-12 | 314 comments

65.

Drop Dropbox (www.drop-dropbox.com)

1990 points by PhilipA 2014-04-10 | 1008 comments

66.

Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack (www.malwaretech.com)

1981 points by pradeepchhetri 2017-05-13 | 338 comments

67.

Google Reader shutting down (googleblog.blogspot.com)

1964 points by knurdle 2013-03-13 | 695 comments

68.

Google Maps' Moat (www.justinobeirne.com)

1960 points by rafaelc 2017-12-19 | 609 comments

69.

Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died (plus.google.com)

1958 points by fogus 2011-10-13 | 196 comments

70.

14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School (techcrunch.com)

1952 points by ahmad19526 2015-09-16 | 946 comments

71.

Google Is Eating Our Mail (www.tablix.org)

1931 points by saintamh 2019-04-26 | 685 comments

72.

Joe Armstrong has died (twitter.com)

1928 points by okket 2019-04-20 | 188 comments

73.

Machine Learning Crash Course (developers.google.com)

1926 points by matant 2018-03-01 | 222 comments

74.

I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me (blog.samuelmaddock.com)

1920 points by smaddock 2019-04-02 | 605 comments

75.

Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules (www.nytimes.com)

1905 points by _hv99 2015-06-26 | 1215 comments

76.

Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair (www.timetoplayfair.com)

1903 points by dmitriid 2019-03-13 | 841 comments

77.

1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service (blog.cloudflare.com)

1895 points by satysin 2018-04-01 | 657 comments

78.

Request For Research: Basic Income (blog.ycombinator.com)

1876 points by mattkrisiloff 2016-01-27 | 1121 comments

79.

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (ai.googleblog.com)

1875 points by ivank 2018-05-08 | 750 comments

80.

A Most Peculiar Test Drive (www.teslamotors.com)

1859 points by reneherse 2013-02-14 | 578 comments

81.

Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M (techcrunch.com)

1857 points by SwaroopH 2017-01-09 | 733 comments

82.

Why I’m Suing the US Government (www.bunniestudios.com)

1855 points by ivank 2016-07-21 | 307 comments

83.

Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” (lkml.iu.edu)

1854 points by Valmar 2018-01-22 | 657 comments

84.

Master Plan, Part Deux (www.tesla.com)

1851 points by arturogarrido 2016-07-21 | 677 comments

85.

EU copyright law proposal rejected (twitter.com)

1847 points by iMerNibor 2018-07-05 | 314 comments

86.

GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources (qz.com)

1841 points by imanewsman 2017-03-21 | 462 comments

87.

Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour (twitter.com)

1832 points by LukeB_UK 2016-05-26 | 393 comments

88.

Lavabit abruptly shuts down (lavabit.com)

1831 points by cstuder 2013-08-08 | 640 comments

89.

A guide to difficult conversations (medium.dave-bailey.com)

1829 points by davesuperman 2019-03-26 | 400 comments

90.

Swift is Open Source (swift.org)

1824 points by psuter 2015-12-03 | 432 comments

91.

Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. (bellard.org)

1820 points by neopanz 2011-05-17 | 239 comments

92.

Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)

1817 points by introvertmac 2016-11-09 | 2215 comments

93.

YC Research (blog.ycombinator.com)

1776 points by sama 2015-10-07 | 370 comments

94.

The Heartbleed Bug (heartbleed.com)

1768 points by tptacek 2014-04-07 | 528 comments

95.

Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (mtlynch.io)

1767 points by mtlynch 2018-02-28 | 751 comments

96.

Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (www.gwan.com)

1764 points by fatihky 2016-10-13 | 923 comments

97.

Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails (rapgenius.com)

1763 points by tomlemon 2013-02-13 | 423 comments

98.

SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year (www.spacex.com)

1747 points by runesoerensen 2017-02-27 | 488 comments

99.

Farewell, Google Maps (www.inderapotheke.de)

1747 points by ScottWRobinson 2018-07-19 | 527 comments

100.

UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access (www.universityofcalifornia.edu)

1743 points by tingletech 2019-02-28 | 233 comments

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