HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9421.

“Unprecedented” locust invasion threatens crops in East Africa (scientificamerican.com)

169 points by LinuxBender on Jan 31, 2020 | 125 comments

9422.

Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa (engineering.fb.com)

169 points by ampersandy on May 14, 2020 | 125 comments

9423.

Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters (washingtonpost.com)

169 points by robbybaron on Jul 24, 2020 | 116 comments

9424.

Germany: 'Colossal' cyberattack knocks out Funke news group (dw.com)

169 points by samizdis on Dec 29, 2020 | 111 comments

9425.

Coca-Cola named world’s worst plastic polluter for third straight year (independent.co.uk)

169 points by elorant on Dec 11, 2020 | 102 comments

9426.

Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.” (twitter.com)

169 points by bmcn2020 on Oct 2, 2020 | 101 comments

9427.

British Airways Flight 5390 (en.wikipedia.org)

169 points by benbreen on Nov 14, 2020 | 101 comments

9428.

Landlord-friendly, self-install solar and battery kit (sunboxlabs.com)

169 points by nikodunk on May 28, 2020 | 100 comments

9429.

75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011) (spectrum.ieee.org)

169 points by EndXA on Apr 23, 2020 | 97 comments

9430.

Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test (quantamagazine.org)

169 points by georgecmu on Jul 29, 2020 | 96 comments

9431.

Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft (paulstovell.com)

169 points by gortok on Jan 28, 2020 | 93 comments

9432.

New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus (blogs.sciencemag.org)

169 points by walterbell on Jul 20, 2020 | 89 comments

9433.

The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

169 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 10, 2020 | 88 comments

9434.

Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads (familyinequality.wordpress.com)

169 points by dredmorbius on Jan 28, 2020 | 88 comments

9435.

Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

169 points by lbj on Jun 15, 2020 | 81 comments

9436.

Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS (duckbillgroup.com)

169 points by QuinnyPig on Apr 24, 2020 | 78 comments

9437.

Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns (arstechnica.com)

169 points by kerng on Sep 4, 2020 | 77 comments

9438.

I rewrote a Clojure tool in Rust (timofreiberg.github.io)

169 points by praveenperera on Dec 21, 2020 | 76 comments

9439.

What Peak Hello World Looks Like (h313.info)

169 points by wh313 on May 17, 2020 | 75 comments

9440.

Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup (helenmin.com)

169 points by tosh on Sep 11, 2020 | 74 comments

9441.

AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool (aws.amazon.com)

169 points by ManWith2Plans on Nov 12, 2020 | 70 comments

9442.

Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time (bloomberg.com)

169 points by JumpCrisscross on Mar 24, 2020 | 68 comments

9443.

How to Detect Business Fraud (economist.com)

169 points by known on May 5, 2020 | 68 comments

9444.

Show HN: Scratch.js – Interactive JavaScript Scratchpad (hole.dev)

169 points by kahole on Nov 18, 2020 | 66 comments

9445.

Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies (medium.com)

169 points by aspenmayer on Apr 30, 2020 | 62 comments

9446.

Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated (digitalbunker.dev)

169 points by aryamansharda on Sep 30, 2020 | 60 comments

9447.

Show HN: I wrote a book on implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing (leanpub.com)

169 points by alex-lawrence on Dec 19, 2020 | 56 comments

9448.

Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals (blog.yossarian.net)

169 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 16, 2020 | 55 comments

9449.

Ways to think long-term: a cognitive toolkit for good ancestors (blog.longnow.org)

169 points by MindGods on Jul 20, 2020 | 52 comments

9450.

Mass amateurization (en.wikipedia.org)

169 points by pabs3 on Mar 16, 2020 | 47 comments