HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

18061.

Convos IRC client now supports video chat (convos.by)

83 points by jhthorsen on May 23, 2020 | 27 comments

18062.

MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming (microblocks.fun)

83 points by jarmitage on Aug 6, 2020 | 27 comments

18063.

Show HN: Look Busy fills your work calendar with secretly fake events (lookbusy.app)

83 points by aaronbrager on Jan 9, 2020 | 26 comments

18064.

Databricks acquires Redash (techcrunch.com)

83 points by akulkarni on Jul 16, 2020 | 26 comments

18065.

PR won't be merged because the contributor is an Israeli (github.com)

83 points by oferzelig on Sep 3, 2020 | 26 comments

18066.

Time has come for four-day week, say European politicians (theguardian.com)

83 points by grecy on Nov 16, 2020 | 26 comments

18067.

Systems smart enough to know when they're not smart enough (2017) (bigmedium.com)

83 points by nromiun on May 6, 2020 | 24 comments

18068.

One-fifth of Earth's ocean floor is now mapped (bbc.com)

83 points by pseudolus on Jun 22, 2020 | 24 comments

18069.

Viral effects are not network effects (nfx.com)

83 points by allenleein on Oct 7, 2020 | 23 comments

18070.

Show HN: Deep learning tool that repairs damaged/faded photos (hotpot.ai)

83 points by panabee on Dec 17, 2020 | 23 comments

18071.

Beekeeper Studio is a free and open source SQL editor and database manager (github.com)

83 points by gilad on May 31, 2020 | 22 comments

18072.

CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks (arxiv.org)

83 points by massacre on Jul 3, 2020 | 22 comments

18073.

Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy (cacm.acm.org)

83 points by kiyanwang on Oct 12, 2020 | 22 comments

18074.

For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin (ferrous-systems.com)

83 points by quyleanh on Oct 30, 2020 | 22 comments

18075.

Native Applications with Racket (defn.io)

83 points by Bogdanp on Jan 4, 2020 | 21 comments

18076.

Rich-markdown-editor: react Dropbox Paper clone (github.com)

83 points by rgbrgb on Jun 8, 2020 | 21 comments

18077.

A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal (github.com)

83 points by pjmlp on Apr 8, 2020 | 20 comments

18078.

The Economics of AI Today (thegradient.pub)

83 points by guidefreitas on Jan 24, 2020 | 19 comments

18079.

How People Read Online: New and Old Findings (nngroup.com)

83 points by adamfard on Jun 23, 2020 | 19 comments

18080.

The Ising model: a cartoon picture of magnets that became ubiquitous in science (quantamagazine.org)

83 points by pseudolus on Jun 25, 2020 | 19 comments

18081.

Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981) (books.google.nl)

83 points by bryanrasmussen on Apr 10, 2020 | 18 comments

18082.

How to fight back against Google AMP (markosaric.com)

83 points by ColinWright on May 27, 2020 | 18 comments

18083.

Leading Projects – As a Software Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

83 points by gregdoesit on Jan 19, 2020 | 17 comments

18084.

How to build a darkroom for £100 or less (35mmc.com)

83 points by lelf on Apr 22, 2020 | 17 comments

18085.

FBI accidentally reveals Saudi official suspected of supporting 9/11 hijackers (news.yahoo.com)

83 points by AndrewBissell on May 13, 2020 | 17 comments

18086.

Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems (coda.io)

83 points by arnon on Jul 11, 2020 | 17 comments

18087.

SwimOS: Distributed platform for building stateful, real-time streaming apps (github.com)

83 points by yoquan on Apr 20, 2020 | 15 comments

18088.

In a first, UAE spacecraft blasts off to Mars from Japan (smh.com.au)

83 points by aaron695 on Jul 19, 2020 | 15 comments

18089.

Ariane is a 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux (pulp-platform.github.io)

83 points by jrepinc on Jan 15, 2020 | 14 comments

18090.

How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts (nytimes.com)

83 points by jseliger on Jun 6, 2020 | 14 comments