HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12001.

India’s daunting challenge: There’s water everywhere, and nowhere (nationalgeographic.com)

136 points by baud147258 on Jul 16, 2020 | 45 comments

12002.

PlayCanvas, the Web-first game engine (playcanvas.com)

136 points by wiradikusuma on Aug 1, 2020 | 45 comments

12003.

Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile (news.mit.edu)

136 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 30, 2020 | 45 comments

12004.

YaCy: Decentralized Web Search (yacy.net)

136 points by okasaki on Feb 5, 2020 | 41 comments

12005.

The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves (quantamagazine.org)

136 points by theafh on Feb 5, 2020 | 41 comments

12006.

React Table v7 – Hooks for building fast and extendable data grids in React (github.com)

136 points by tannerlinsley on Mar 10, 2020 | 40 comments

12007.

MakeSpace – Virtual Spatial Chat (makespace.fun)

136 points by theanirudh on Jun 19, 2020 | 39 comments

12008.

Why Karachi Floods (dawn.com)

136 points by allthings on Sep 7, 2020 | 37 comments

12009.

Inkscape 1.0.1 (inkscape.org)

136 points by constantinum on Sep 8, 2020 | 37 comments

12010.

Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal (github.com)

136 points by delib on Jun 5, 2020 | 36 comments

12011.

We have no idea what happens next (collaborativefund.com)

136 points by RickJWagner on Nov 22, 2020 | 36 comments

12012.

MathJax Turns 3.0 (bit-player.org)

136 points by goranmoomin on Mar 15, 2020 | 34 comments

12013.

Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software (kanboard.org)

136 points by BerislavLopac on Apr 16, 2020 | 34 comments

12014.

Haskell language features and standard libraries in pure Python (github.com)

136 points by asib on Sep 21, 2020 | 32 comments

12015.

Leila Janah, CEO and entrepreneur who wanted to end global poverty, dies at 37 (cnn.com)

136 points by RickJWagner on Feb 2, 2020 | 28 comments

12016.

Google’s true origin partly lies in gov grants for mass surveillance (2017) (qz.com)

136 points by akshaybhalotia on Jun 22, 2020 | 28 comments

12017.

Optimizing 128-bit Division (danlark.org)

136 points by EvgeniyZh on Jul 19, 2020 | 28 comments

12018.

Master of Magic (filfre.net)

136 points by doppp on Oct 23, 2020 | 24 comments

12019.

Glial brain cells, long in neurons’ shadow, reveal hidden powers (quantamagazine.org)

136 points by theafh on Jan 27, 2020 | 22 comments

12020.

Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps (jeffgeerling.com)

136 points by geerlingguy on Aug 13, 2020 | 22 comments

12021.

Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0 (godotengine.org)

136 points by ronjouch on Nov 28, 2020 | 22 comments

12022.

Nebula Graph: A Linearly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database Written in C++ (nebula-graph.io)

136 points by jamie-vesoft on Apr 27, 2020 | 21 comments

12023.

Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (damieng.com)

136 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 1, 2020 | 21 comments

12024.

AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery (deepmind.com)

136 points by panabee on Jan 18, 2020 | 20 comments

12025.

The Purpose of Writing (limitlesscuriosity.com)

136 points by s3v on Nov 27, 2020 | 18 comments

12026.

Timely Dataflow in Fifteen Minutes [video] (youtube.com)

136 points by mpweiher on Apr 9, 2020 | 17 comments

12027.

Remark42: Self-Hosted, Lightweight Comment Engine (github.com)

136 points by polm23 on Jul 21, 2020 | 16 comments

12028.

Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’ (nybooks.com)

136 points by tintinnabula on Jul 25, 2020 | 13 comments

12029.

Unison: A Content-Addressable Programming Language (unisonweb.org)

136 points by sillysaurusx on Jan 27, 2020 | 12 comments

12030.

Simulating RAM in Clojure (stopa.io)

136 points by stopachka on Nov 13, 2020 | 12 comments