HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8251.

The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment (newrepublic.com)

188 points by NKosmatos on Sep 20, 2020 | 87 comments

8252.

Incident: Ethiopian B737 at Dire Dawa on Jan 9th, swarm of grasshoppers (avherald.com)

188 points by mhandley on Jan 17, 2020 | 85 comments

8253.

Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage (reddit.com)

188 points by djsumdog on Feb 15, 2020 | 85 comments

8254.

Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013) (bmj.com)

188 points by stanislavb on Jan 11, 2020 | 83 comments

8255.

SXSW Cancelled Due to Coronavirus (techcrunch.com)

188 points by estreeper on Mar 6, 2020 | 83 comments

8256.

Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes (r2c.dev)

188 points by todsacerdoti on Jun 26, 2020 | 82 comments

8257.

Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce (hbr.org)

188 points by jsnell on Jul 18, 2020 | 75 comments

8258.

30% Faster Rust Build Times using Cranelift instead of the LLVM (github.com)

188 points by ibraheemdev on Nov 17, 2020 | 74 comments

8259.

Decaying Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil as the Exxon Valdez (scitechdaily.com)

188 points by samizdis on Dec 20, 2020 | 72 comments

8260.

Prologue: A web framework written in Nim (github.com)

188 points by flywind on Oct 21, 2020 | 71 comments

8261.

Mac sandbox escape (lapcatsoftware.com)

188 points by miles on Apr 29, 2020 | 70 comments

8262.

Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC (github.com)

188 points by lelf on Jan 8, 2020 | 68 comments

8263.

Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS? (slac.stanford.edu)

188 points by kristianp on Jan 6, 2020 | 67 comments

8264.

MS Flight Simulator vs. Real Life (m.imgur.com)

188 points by tosh on May 10, 2020 | 66 comments

8265.

Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers (github.com)

188 points by glouwbug on Aug 2, 2020 | 65 comments

8266.

Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator (veryseriousblog.com)

188 points by fanf2 on Oct 4, 2020 | 65 comments

8267.

Tell HN: My HN app is rejected by Apple for showing Covid-related submissions

188 points by dangwu on Sep 8, 2020 | 64 comments

8268.

Protein discovered inside a meteorite (phys.org)

188 points by _bpgl on Mar 3, 2020 | 60 comments

8269.

See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016) (blog.heroku.com)

188 points by amzans on Jan 23, 2020 | 59 comments

8270.

Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian (steveliu.co)

188 points by steve1820 on Sep 23, 2020 | 59 comments

8271.

Octopus with transparent head caught by blackwater photographer (mymodernmet.com)

188 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 8, 2020 | 56 comments

8272.

A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly (mattkeeter.com)

188 points by lukastyrychtr on Jun 26, 2020 | 54 comments

8273.

What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (nautil.us)

188 points by dnetesn on Jan 25, 2020 | 53 comments

8274.

BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP (fly.io)

188 points by dochtman on Oct 21, 2020 | 50 comments

8275.

CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT (github.com)

188 points by codezero on Jan 15, 2020 | 49 comments

8276.

"Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008) (steveblank.com)

188 points by cushychicken on Jun 18, 2020 | 48 comments

8277.

Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS (jake.nyc)

188 points by jakelazaroff on Nov 16, 2020 | 47 comments

8278.

Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Lists (xerces.org)

188 points by Amorymeltzer on Mar 31, 2020 | 45 comments

8279.

Quickref – Experimental search engine for developers (quickref.dev)

188 points by feross on May 21, 2020 | 43 comments

8280.

NPhysics: 2D and 3D Real-Time Physics Engine for Rust (nphysics.org)

188 points by ArtWomb on Jun 22, 2020 | 34 comments