HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12781.

CLIs are reified UIs (2017) (expressionsofchange.org)

127 points by ascertain on May 27, 2020 | 122 comments

12782.

Why I chose Electron.js for my side business (getloaf.io)

127 points by knowingathing on Nov 18, 2020 | 121 comments

12783.

AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter (tirania.org)

127 points by robteix on Sep 24, 2020 | 120 comments

12784.

In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proactive policing’ (2017) (latimes.com)

127 points by epistasis on May 29, 2020 | 118 comments

12785.

“Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted (nationalgeographic.com)

127 points by bookofjoe on Feb 7, 2020 | 115 comments

12786.

What Is Life? (2019) (berthub.eu)

127 points by marcobambini on Dec 31, 2020 | 113 comments

12787.

Family turned a former Freemason temple in Indiana into a home (businessinsider.com)

127 points by mmhsieh on Jan 15, 2020 | 102 comments

12788.

What “Roguelike” Meant (zenorogue.medium.com)

127 points by pavel_lishin on Nov 6, 2020 | 101 comments

12789.

Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit (blog.grimm-co.com)

127 points by geeklord on Jun 16, 2020 | 98 comments

12790.

An unemployed trader who became a $700M exile (bloomberg.com)

127 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 8, 2020 | 96 comments

12791.

Sucralose with carbohydrates may blunt the body’s ability to metabolize sugar (washingtonpost.com)

127 points by pseudolus on Mar 10, 2020 | 95 comments

12792.

Gravity is unlikely to be the cause of quantum collapse, experiment suggests (sciencemag.org)

127 points by tdhttt on Sep 7, 2020 | 95 comments

12793.

OFFSystem (en.wikipedia.org)

127 points by DyslexicAtheist on May 1, 2020 | 93 comments

12794.

Snowmobiler finds family of five stuck in frozen wilderness (cbc.ca)

127 points by colinprince on Jan 25, 2020 | 89 comments

12795.

One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher (phys.org)

127 points by dnetesn on Mar 18, 2020 | 83 comments

12796.

Is APL Dead? Not anymore (sacrideo.us)

127 points by lelf on May 2, 2020 | 77 comments

12797.

Who to ignore – bullshit filters (ernest.oppet.it)

127 points by ernopp on Aug 20, 2020 | 73 comments

12798.

Chelsea Manning recovering after suicide attempt in jail, lawyers say (cnn.com)

127 points by thrownaway954 on Mar 12, 2020 | 71 comments

12799.

Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?

127 points by thinkloop on Jun 10, 2020 | 71 comments

12800.

Maine's giant spinning ice disc looks like it's reforming (theguardian.com)

127 points by pseudolus on Jan 19, 2020 | 70 comments

12801.

Lossless compression of English messages using GPT-2 (textsynth.org)

127 points by kleiba on Jun 23, 2020 | 69 comments

12802.

Peak map: Visualize the elevation of any area using a ridgeline chart (github.com)

127 points by joe_blank on Jan 6, 2020 | 67 comments

12803.

Show HN: GIF Directions (gif.direct)

127 points by jack_riminton on Jun 27, 2020 | 67 comments

12804.

Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended (twitter.com)

127 points by ingve on Aug 16, 2020 | 66 comments

12805.

Imperial Wars Always Come Home (patrickwyman.substack.com)

127 points by ahelwer on Jul 27, 2020 | 65 comments

12806.

StackExchange Performance Stats (stackexchange.com)

127 points by ksec on Aug 1, 2020 | 63 comments

12807.

Alien Signals (robinsloan.com)

127 points by gala8y on Sep 7, 2020 | 63 comments

12808.

Why did Warren Buffett invest $6B+ in centuries-old Japanese trading houses? (thehustle.co)

127 points by Anon84 on Sep 29, 2020 | 61 comments

12809.

Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript (hierogly.ph)

127 points by herbertl on Dec 4, 2020 | 59 comments

12810.

I Can't Breathe (blog.citigroup.com)

127 points by radmuzom on May 31, 2020 | 58 comments