HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9121.

Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable? (eclecticlight.co)

173 points by sylens on Aug 30, 2020 | 198 comments

9122.

In Pursuit of PPE (nejm.org)

173 points by erwan on Apr 17, 2020 | 196 comments

9123.

University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang (zdnet.com)

173 points by jpkoning on Aug 21, 2020 | 196 comments

9124.

Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life (twitter.com)

173 points by arkadiyt on Jun 15, 2020 | 194 comments

9125.

What a typical serverless architecture looks like in AWS (medium.com)

173 points by prostoalex on May 22, 2020 | 182 comments

9126.

Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data (washingtonpost.com)

173 points by scott_s on Dec 10, 2020 | 168 comments

9127.

How Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders (themarkup.org)

173 points by isiahl on Feb 25, 2020 | 159 comments

9128.

Tesla appears to defy Bay Area shutdown, plans to operate Fremont factory (electrek.co)

173 points by widowlark on Mar 17, 2020 | 153 comments

9129.

Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures (bbc.co.uk)

173 points by g_p on Dec 24, 2020 | 151 comments

9130.

Facebook Is a 'Super Spreader' of Election Misinformation (newsweek.com)

173 points by doener on Oct 30, 2020 | 146 comments

9131.

A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests (bbc.com)

173 points by williamsharris on Dec 15, 2020 | 136 comments

9132.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Especially During COVID (propublica.org)

173 points by xenocyon on Jun 5, 2020 | 125 comments

9133.

GitHub was down (status.github.com)

173 points by nanddalal on Jul 13, 2020 | 124 comments

9134.

A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe (github.com)

173 points by BerislavLopac on Sep 8, 2020 | 123 comments

9135.

Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (2018) (buzzfeednews.com)

173 points by elorant on Jan 25, 2020 | 117 comments

9136.

Ticketmaster changes policy, no longer offering refunds on postponed shows (metalinjection.net)

173 points by fortran77 on Apr 13, 2020 | 116 comments

9137.

Doomsday prepping – Disaster planning for less crazy folk (2016) (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)

173 points by VBprogrammer on Nov 11, 2020 | 115 comments

9138.

Programming Inside a Container (lemire.me)

173 points by nkurz on May 22, 2020 | 114 comments

9139.

The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon (cfenollosa.com)

173 points by carlesfe on Oct 18, 2020 | 114 comments

9140.

Sonos is getting rid of its controversial “recycle mode” (theverge.com)

173 points by doener on Mar 6, 2020 | 113 comments

9141.

Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19 (addons.mozilla.org)

173 points by mailea on Apr 4, 2020 | 110 comments

9142.

A shared file system for lambda functions (aws.amazon.com)

173 points by petercooper on Jun 16, 2020 | 109 comments

9143.

What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study (zeynep.substack.com)

173 points by haltingproblem on Dec 4, 2020 | 106 comments

9144.

Build a Team that Ships (2012) (nav.al)

173 points by saadalem on Apr 19, 2020 | 102 comments

9145.

Don’t Fly During Ramadan (2013) (adityamukerjee.net)

173 points by luu on Jun 24, 2020 | 101 comments

9146.

Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support research and ‘good’ bots (techcrunch.com)

173 points by ajaviaad on Mar 10, 2020 | 100 comments

9147.

4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] (youtube.com)

173 points by xbmcuser on Oct 13, 2020 | 93 comments

9148.

Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites (theverge.com)

173 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 17, 2020 | 91 comments

9149.

GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News (technologyreview.com)

173 points by hamsterbooster on Aug 14, 2020 | 90 comments

9150.

California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpile but dismantled them (msn.com)

173 points by masonic on Mar 29, 2020 | 89 comments