HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

18601.

What does I/O bound mean? (2008) (erikengbrecht.blogspot.com)

79 points by higerordermap on Oct 1, 2020 | 55 comments

18602.

Chernobyl wildfires and radiation risk (valentin.vincendon.com)

79 points by vvincendon on Apr 16, 2020 | 54 comments

18603.

A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video] (share.tube)

79 points by indidea on Sep 23, 2020 | 54 comments

18604.

Hard is not defensible (2017) (alexcrompton.com)

79 points by saadalem on Jul 9, 2020 | 52 comments

18605.

Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure (Paper) (biorxiv.org)

79 points by vackosar on Feb 19, 2020 | 51 comments

18606.

Italy’s coronavirus death toll is far higher than reported (wsj.com)

79 points by adventured on Apr 2, 2020 | 51 comments

18607.

The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients (nytimes.com)

79 points by vo2maxer on Apr 21, 2020 | 51 comments

18608.

Ask HN: Do you miss being excited about programming/tech?

79 points by poushkar on Dec 21, 2020 | 49 comments

18609.

Connected, but at what cost? (science.sciencemag.org)

79 points by nithinj on May 17, 2020 | 48 comments

18610.

Loose Lips Sink MIPS (eejournal.com)

79 points by jakobdabo on Sep 7, 2020 | 48 comments

18611.

Introduction to Google Cloud Functions (ncona.com)

79 points by adrianancona on Nov 4, 2020 | 48 comments

18612.

Rubyists, we must do better (timriley.info)

79 points by damagednoob on Jun 8, 2020 | 47 comments

18613.

FBI Says Foreign States Hacked into U.S. Covid-19 Research Centers (sciencetechniz.com)

79 points by sciencetech28 on Apr 17, 2020 | 46 comments

18614.

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students’ Long-Term Development (papers.ssrn.com)

79 points by gandalfgeek on Dec 20, 2020 | 45 comments

18615.

Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951) (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

79 points by jelliclesfarm on Aug 26, 2020 | 44 comments

18616.

Whose bug is it anyway? (shkspr.mobi)

79 points by edent on Jul 23, 2020 | 43 comments

18617.

Unraveling the linothorax mystery (2013) (jhupress.wordpress.com)

79 points by _Microft on Aug 12, 2020 | 42 comments

18618.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (navalmanack.com)

79 points by jger15 on Sep 28, 2020 | 42 comments

18619.

Is Twitter Down?

79 points by tekcyb-org on Oct 15, 2020 | 42 comments

18620.

'Nature is taking back Venice': wildlife returns to tourist-free city (theguardian.com)

79 points by pseudolus on Mar 20, 2020 | 41 comments

18621.

Zombie Satellites Return from the Graveyard (spectrum.ieee.org)

79 points by sohkamyung on Jun 19, 2020 | 41 comments

18622.

C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story (medium.com)

79 points by lukastyrychtr on Sep 11, 2020 | 41 comments

18623.

McKinsey: Friendly Neighborhood Spreadsheet Sociopaths Are Back in Town (apexsnotes.substack.com)

79 points by haltingproblem on Nov 29, 2020 | 40 comments

18624.

Private key of DigiCert Certificate Transparency log compromised (feistyduck.com)

79 points by CiPHPerCoder on May 28, 2020 | 39 comments

18625.

In Defence of Half-Arsing (drmaciver.substack.com)

79 points by OmarShehata on Sep 22, 2020 | 39 comments

18626.

The Newton Application Architecture (1994) [pdf] (waltersmith.us)

79 points by adamnemecek on Feb 23, 2020 | 37 comments

18627.

Redux Overview and Concepts – Reimagined Redux Tutorial (redux.js.org)

79 points by kiyanwang on Jul 25, 2020 | 37 comments

18628.

Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene (realclearscience.com)

79 points by DamnInteresting on Jul 28, 2020 | 37 comments

18629.

Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf] (static.googleusercontent.com)

79 points by tptacek on Aug 2, 2020 | 36 comments

18630.

TF-Coder, a tool that writes tricky TensorFlow expressions (blog.tensorflow.org)

79 points by homarp on Aug 26, 2020 | 35 comments