HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

15001.

Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015) (fcc.gov)

106 points by pizza on Apr 20, 2020 | 118 comments

15002.

Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac (support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp)

106 points by asimpletune on Oct 15, 2020 | 114 comments

15003.

Understanding mRNA Covid-19 vaccines (cdc.gov)

106 points by fortran77 on Dec 12, 2020 | 99 comments

15004.

Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers (omzlo.com)

106 points by unwind on Oct 1, 2020 | 96 comments

15005.

The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web (obsessivefacts.com)

106 points by orthecreedence on Apr 7, 2020 | 91 comments

15006.

Ask HN: What are the technical justifications for keeping .DS_Store?

106 points by kaptain on Jun 26, 2020 | 91 comments

15007.

Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months (theguardian.com)

106 points by perfunctory on Mar 23, 2020 | 89 comments

15008.

A doctor who championed hand-washing and briefly saved lives (2015) (npr.org)

106 points by Anon84 on Jul 11, 2020 | 88 comments

15009.

Show HN: Config.ly – Never hardcode your data again (config.ly)

106 points by jeremyis on Nov 11, 2020 | 87 comments

15010.

Startups threatened by iOS 14’s new features (techcrunch.com)

106 points by Tomte on Mar 11, 2020 | 86 comments

15011.

Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries' virtual shelves (wired.com)

106 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 | 86 comments

15012.

What Color Is Your Function? (2015) (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

106 points by chrfrasco on May 18, 2020 | 85 comments

15013.

Blue Cross Blue Shield plans sue CVS for overcharging them for generic drugs (medcitynews.com)

106 points by 80mph on Jun 3, 2020 | 85 comments

15014.

Ask HN: What’s your daily/weekly routine?

106 points by voisin on Aug 2, 2020 | 82 comments

15015.

Fed aid program for corporations won't require them to preserve jobs (washingtonpost.com)

106 points by gavman on Apr 28, 2020 | 81 comments

15016.

What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

106 points by lermontov on Jan 7, 2020 | 79 comments

15017.

Insider Build of VSCode for Windows/ARM64 (github.com)

106 points by soapdog on May 29, 2020 | 79 comments

15018.

You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English (literaryreview.co.uk)

106 points by pseudolus on Sep 22, 2020 | 78 comments

15019.

Randomized Living (maxhawkins.me)

106 points by _zhqs on Sep 26, 2020 | 78 comments

15020.

Fintech in Chains (johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)

106 points by avoidboringppl on Sep 16, 2020 | 77 comments

15021.

Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day (nola.com)

106 points by tertiary on Sep 23, 2020 | 77 comments

15022.

SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API (github.com)

106 points by dragonsh on Oct 8, 2020 | 75 comments

15023.

Elite Disillusionment (saffronhuang.com)

106 points by apsec112 on Jul 30, 2020 | 71 comments

15024.

Strapi – Open-source Node.js Headless CMS (strapi.io)

106 points by jhabdas on Jun 8, 2020 | 68 comments

15025.

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft (apnews.com)

106 points by gmays on Oct 26, 2020 | 68 comments

15026.

Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown (nature.com)

106 points by bookofjoe on Jan 25, 2020 | 64 comments

15027.

Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated? (blogs.sciencemag.org)

106 points by yread on May 2, 2020 | 63 comments

15028.

Coronavirus Lockdown in Wuhan Is a 'Living Hell' (npr.org)

106 points by _bxg1 on Mar 3, 2020 | 62 comments

15029.

Ask HN: My mother has shaky hands – guidance on iPhone accessibility settings?

106 points by frereubu on May 21, 2020 | 62 comments

15030.

Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling (speps.fr)

106 points by arunc on Dec 20, 2020 | 60 comments