HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3901.

Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009) (petersmagnusson.org)

311 points by ahupp on Aug 31, 2020 | 440 comments

3902.

CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off (bloomberg.com)

311 points by infodocket on Mar 15, 2020 | 375 comments

3903.

Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it (npr.org)

311 points by moorage on Jan 15, 2020 | 357 comments

3904.

The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering (techcrunch.com)

311 points by crivabene on Feb 13, 2020 | 301 comments

3905.

All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight (flightglobal.com)

311 points by prostoalex on May 30, 2020 | 255 comments

3906.

When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook (medium.com)

311 points by input_sh on Oct 13, 2020 | 253 comments

3907.

Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers (lukerissacher.com)

311 points by QuadrupleA on Nov 20, 2020 | 244 comments

3908.

Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit (blog.aboutamazon.com)

311 points by ssully on Jun 24, 2020 | 238 comments

3909.

My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)

311 points by edward on Jul 23, 2020 | 232 comments

3910.

Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good (search.lycos.com)

311 points by tikwidd on Feb 8, 2020 | 220 comments

3911.

Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving (k0lwc.com)

311 points by lightlyused on Aug 28, 2020 | 211 comments

3912.

Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle (uni-mainz.de)

311 points by rustoo on Nov 10, 2020 | 207 comments

3913.

WiFi 6 gets 1.34 Gbps on the Raspberry Pi CM4 (jeffgeerling.com)

311 points by geerlingguy on Dec 22, 2020 | 204 comments

3914.

Notion Timeline View (notion.so)

311 points by AlphaWeaver on Nov 11, 2020 | 188 comments

3915.

TikTok reveals details of how its algorithm works (axios.com)

311 points by 0xedb on Sep 10, 2020 | 185 comments

3916.

How to Serve over 100K Web Pages a Day on a Slower Home Internet Connection (cheapskatesguide.org)

311 points by sT370ma2 on May 7, 2020 | 165 comments

3917.

The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s (thedrive.com)

311 points by tomohawk on Sep 7, 2020 | 164 comments

3918.

Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams (gather.town)

311 points by eambutu on Nov 9, 2020 | 161 comments

3919.

Your mobile data sold, without your knowledge (translate.googleusercontent.com)

311 points by gorm on May 10, 2020 | 155 comments

3920.

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business (theregister.com)

311 points by kiyanwang on Aug 7, 2020 | 154 comments

3921.

Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development (github.com)

311 points by zdw on Oct 26, 2020 | 153 comments

3922.

Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists (nature.com)

311 points by headalgorithm on Sep 28, 2020 | 151 comments

3923.

Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1 (github.com)

311 points by soheil on Nov 23, 2020 | 151 comments

3924.

Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries (dansdeals.com)

311 points by ikarandeep on Apr 27, 2020 | 150 comments

3925.

NBA suspends season over the coronavirus after player tests positive (axios.com)

311 points by jonbaer on Mar 12, 2020 | 139 comments

3926.

MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software (musescore.org)

311 points by programLyrique on Jun 15, 2020 | 111 comments

3927.

PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf] (wescottdesign.com)

311 points by anonu on Apr 1, 2020 | 106 comments

3928.

Discord Desktop App RCE (mksben.l0.cm)

311 points by Wingy on Oct 19, 2020 | 103 comments

3929.

A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time (carolchen.me)

311 points by chrisseaton on Jul 5, 2020 | 97 comments

3930.

Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste (rollingstone.com)

311 points by elijahwheelock on Jan 24, 2020 | 94 comments