HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

13501.

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)

120 points by sytelus on Dec 29, 2020 | 131 comments

13502.

A-Levels: The Model is not the Student (thaines.com)

120 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2020 | 128 comments

13503.

Misfit Tractors a Money Saver for Arkansas Farmer (agweb.com)

120 points by jelliclesfarm on Nov 23, 2020 | 122 comments

13504.

It’s 25 years since Sega of America made its biggest mistake (forbes.com)

120 points by raudaschl on May 11, 2020 | 117 comments

13505.

My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio (linkedin.com)

120 points by rubayeet on Mar 3, 2020 | 113 comments

13506.

Modern universities are an exercise in insanity (2018) (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

120 points by elsewhen on May 17, 2020 | 113 comments

13507.

My Procedurally Generated Music Is Awful (devlog.groovelet.com)

120 points by mproud on Dec 6, 2020 | 111 comments

13508.

Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013) (github.com)

120 points by todsac on May 1, 2020 | 110 comments

13509.

How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (blog.yossarian.net)

120 points by woodruffw on Nov 30, 2020 | 109 comments

13510.

Military scrambling to understand aviation crash risk from new 5G sale (defensenews.com)

120 points by bookofjoe on Dec 23, 2020 | 104 comments

13511.

Calls for TikTok to be banned in Australia over Chinese spying fears (7news.com.au)

120 points by oars on Jul 7, 2020 | 103 comments

13512.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) (harpers.org)

120 points by samclemens on Nov 2, 2020 | 101 comments

13513.

GDPR guide for developers (cnil.fr)

120 points by homarp on Jun 18, 2020 | 99 comments

13514.

Programming is boring art (ahsmart.com)

120 points by tomkwong on May 30, 2020 | 98 comments

13515.

The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished (onezero.medium.com)

120 points by AlexDragusin on Aug 2, 2020 | 97 comments

13516.

Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America (aeon.co)

120 points by samclemens on Nov 30, 2020 | 93 comments

13517.

Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records (nsarchive.gwu.edu)

120 points by hhs on Dec 2, 2020 | 85 comments

13518.

Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ (xenaproject.wordpress.com)

120 points by EvgeniyZh on Jul 6, 2020 | 82 comments

13519.

Jira forcing users to give write access to GitHub and drive (community.atlassian.com)

120 points by davidstokes on May 16, 2020 | 80 comments

13520.

Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau (science.sciencemag.org)

120 points by etiam on Oct 30, 2020 | 80 comments

13521.

It could be possible to transfer data through gravitational waves (2018) (universal-sci.com)

120 points by DyslexicAtheist on Sep 25, 2020 | 78 comments

13522.

Leaving Pittsburgh because of industrial air pollution (publicsource.org)

120 points by tantalor on Jan 9, 2020 | 77 comments

13523.

Postmortem of the failure of one hosting storage unit on Jan. 8, 2020 (news.gandi.net)

120 points by nachtigall on Jan 27, 2020 | 77 comments

13524.

The Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets (state.gov)

120 points by PatrolX on Aug 6, 2020 | 77 comments

13525.

No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to make us never churn (capiche.com)

120 points by maguay on Oct 31, 2020 | 76 comments

13526.

The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines (hackaday.com)

120 points by gumby on Jul 19, 2020 | 75 comments

13527.

Nobody Cares (2011) (a16z.com)

120 points by lxm on Jan 13, 2020 | 74 comments

13528.

Unfck the Internet (firefox.com)

120 points by mozillamaxx on Oct 1, 2020 | 74 comments

13529.

New hard drive rituals (2018) (blog.linuxserver.io)

120 points by walterbell on Mar 26, 2020 | 69 comments

13530.

A survey of recent iOS kernel exploits (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

120 points by edmorley on Jun 12, 2020 | 69 comments