HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

15121.

A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops (news.mit.edu)

105 points by jelliclesfarm on Jan 18, 2020 | 95 comments

15122.

When bad UX is good (herebeseaswines.net)

105 points by _4bcr on May 2, 2020 | 95 comments

15123.

Partying like it’s 1999 – Initial public offerings are back in Silicon Valley (economist.com)

105 points by prostoalex on Aug 21, 2020 | 92 comments

15124.

“Out of the Crisis” Podcast (startuplessonslearned.com)

105 points by eries on Apr 22, 2020 | 85 comments

15125.

Venezuela is a testing ground for digital dollarization, Zelle doesn’t like it (coindesk.com)

105 points by jpkoning on Jun 16, 2020 | 85 comments

15126.

Companies flooding Kenya with apps offering high-interest loans (bloomberg.com)

105 points by kaboro on Feb 12, 2020 | 82 comments

15127.

Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam (reddit.com)

105 points by donpott on Sep 17, 2020 | 80 comments

15128.

Aging Canadian government computer systems at risk of 'critical failure' (cbc.ca)

105 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 3, 2020 | 79 comments

15129.

Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (2018) (stingingfly.org)

105 points by maleno on Jun 3, 2020 | 79 comments

15130.

Playmaker: The Reality of 10x Engineer (oferka.medium.com)

105 points by oferka on Nov 21, 2020 | 79 comments

15131.

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

105 points by folli on Oct 30, 2020 | 76 comments

15132.

Google pilots a feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok, Instagram (techcrunch.com)

105 points by elsewhen on Dec 30, 2020 | 75 comments

15133.

A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's tweet on Tesla stock price (alexpghayes.com)

105 points by alexpghayes on May 1, 2020 | 73 comments

15134.

Spain's hospital IT systems under “massive attack” (in Spanish) (elpais.com)

105 points by nemoniac on Mar 23, 2020 | 70 comments

15135.

Show HN: Write.md – a shareable distraction-free Markdown editor (writemd.xyz)

105 points by jakobitz on Mar 29, 2020 | 70 comments

15136.

Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time (nngroup.com)

105 points by headalgorithm on Nov 1, 2020 | 70 comments

15137.

AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller (arnholm.github.io)

105 points by app4soft on Aug 22, 2020 | 68 comments

15138.

How many pieces can a puzzle have? (gottwurfelt.com)

105 points by sfg on Aug 18, 2020 | 67 comments

15139.

Stop Silencing Critics from MiddleEast and NorthAfrica (accessnow.org)

105 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 17, 2020 | 66 comments

15140.

Software bug made Bombardier planes turn the wrong way (theregister.co.uk)

105 points by sohkamyung on May 29, 2020 | 63 comments

15141.

Show HN: A Django code review bot for GitHub pull requests (django.doctor)

105 points by rikatee on Nov 6, 2020 | 63 comments

15142.

A Vacancy Has Been Detected (2019) (kellysutton.com)

105 points by zdw on Mar 13, 2020 | 61 comments

15143.

Show HN: Pantry – Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects (getpantry.cloud)

105 points by fiveSpeedManual on Apr 30, 2020 | 60 comments

15144.

The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first major platform to ban (theatlantic.com)

105 points by pseudolus on Dec 27, 2020 | 58 comments

15145.

Lawmakers Want to Protect Local Newspapers From Google, Facebook (wsj.com)

105 points by choppaface on Oct 28, 2020 | 57 comments

15146.

Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’ (blog.britishmuseum.org)

105 points by diodorus on May 25, 2020 | 54 comments

15147.

What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh? (nytimes.com)

105 points by ajay-d on May 29, 2020 | 52 comments

15148.

A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS (devblogs.microsoft.com)

105 points by pjmlp on Aug 9, 2020 | 52 comments

15149.

A billionaire retailer whose shops had no stock (bbc.com)

105 points by antongribok on Jan 13, 2020 | 50 comments

15150.

Use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo (flamingspork.com)

105 points by harporoeder on Nov 25, 2020 | 50 comments