HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6811.

A look at the die of the 8086 processor (righto.com)

217 points by magnat on Jun 17, 2020 | 123 comments

6812.

Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity (reneweconomy.com.au)

217 points by toomuchtodo on Nov 28, 2020 | 119 comments

6813.

How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You (thegradient.pub)

217 points by kungfudoi on Oct 3, 2020 | 109 comments

6814.

ThinkPad Mods, Done Right (thinkmods.store)

217 points by lelf on Feb 2, 2020 | 108 comments

6815.

Toxic sofas are a secret scandal (theguardian.com)

217 points by montalbano on Feb 26, 2020 | 107 comments

6816.

Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes (bloomberg.com)

217 points by samizdis on May 5, 2020 | 107 comments

6817.

Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha (invisible.college)

217 points by greyface- on Nov 27, 2020 | 105 comments

6818.

Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research (klobie.com)

217 points by te_ch on Jul 31, 2020 | 103 comments

6819.

Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go (github.com)

217 points by cube2222 on Jan 7, 2020 | 90 comments

6820.

Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System (sciencealert.com)

217 points by daegloe on Oct 19, 2020 | 85 comments

6821.

Apple outages affecting Mac apps, Big Sur updates, iMessage, and more (9to5mac.com)

217 points by gardaani on Nov 13, 2020 | 77 comments

6822.

Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse (github.com)

217 points by MrXOR on Dec 15, 2020 | 77 comments

6823.

Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data (svilentodorov.xyz)

217 points by Tenoke on Jan 23, 2020 | 67 comments

6824.

Notion encourages busy-work (medium.com)

217 points by _ttg on May 2, 2020 | 63 comments

6825.

gping: Ping, but with a graph (github.com)

217 points by orf on Nov 13, 2020 | 57 comments

6826.

Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope (sciencemag.org)

217 points by yawz on Nov 10, 2020 | 55 comments

6827.

Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen (grail.cs.washington.edu)

217 points by hr7161 on Apr 25, 2020 | 54 comments

6828.

An/TVs 3 Searchlight – 20 kW Xenon Arc viewable from space (brettpeabody.com)

217 points by MichaelZuo on Oct 7, 2020 | 54 comments

6829.

TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming from a smartphone (github.com)

217 points by sciurus on Dec 3, 2020 | 52 comments

6830.

Tensorflow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript (tensorflow.org)

217 points by memexy on Jun 8, 2020 | 50 comments

6831.

Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks (supabase.io)

217 points by kiwicopple on Dec 3, 2020 | 50 comments

6832.

Chemist Uses CO2 to Convert Seawater into Drinking Water (ineffableisland.com)

217 points by SQL2219 on Oct 8, 2020 | 49 comments

6833.

How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)

217 points by pitterpatter on Aug 5, 2020 | 48 comments

6834.

Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy (som.uci.edu)

217 points by gmays on Oct 20, 2020 | 45 comments

6835.

StreetComplete asks questions, with answers used to improve OpenStreetMap data (github.com)

217 points by Vinnl on May 9, 2020 | 40 comments

6836.

Introducing the Open Library Explorer (blog.openlibrary.org)

217 points by mekarpeles on Dec 21, 2020 | 37 comments

6837.

Show HN: Terminal Phase – Terminal-based space shooter (dustycloud.org)

217 points by paroneayea on Jan 20, 2020 | 30 comments

6838.

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) (listennotes.com)

217 points by dilly_li on May 15, 2020 | 27 comments

6839.

Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go (github.com)

217 points by mastabadtomm on Aug 10, 2020 | 27 comments

6840.

Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain (newatlas.com)

217 points by laurex on Oct 14, 2020 | 14 comments