HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20101.

Face-touching may reflect unconscious hand-smelling [pdf] (royalsocietypublishing.org)

70 points by sturza on Apr 25, 2020 | 31 comments

20102.

Rebuilding James Bond's Apple IIc – A Software Forgery [video] (youtube.com)

70 points by codezero on Apr 30, 2020 | 31 comments

20103.

Microsoft Open Source (opensource.microsoft.com)

70 points by Garbage on Aug 14, 2020 | 31 comments

20104.

Noether’s Theorem – A Quick Explanation (2019) (quantum-friend-theory.tumblr.com)

70 points by panic on Jan 13, 2020 | 30 comments

20105.

Strings in WebAssembly (medium.com)

70 points by dmit on Feb 23, 2020 | 30 comments

20106.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Averages: Perc50, Perc95 Explained for Programmers (schneems.com)

70 points by kqr on Mar 18, 2020 | 30 comments

20107.

The Safecracker of Last Resort (2018) (theatlantic.com)

70 points by wallflower on Dec 31, 2020 | 30 comments

20108.

How to write a great Arduino library (sparkfun.com)

70 points by apple4ever on Mar 1, 2020 | 29 comments

20109.

Your Career in Computer Programming (2015) (thecomputerboys.com)

70 points by benbreen on Jun 23, 2020 | 29 comments

20110.

A T Cell Army against SARS-CoV-2 (hellovirology.com)

70 points by karmel on Aug 7, 2020 | 29 comments

20111.

Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing (thecorrespondent.com)

70 points by nightfuryx on Oct 20, 2020 | 28 comments

20112.

Sort of handy (leancrew.com)

70 points by ingve on May 20, 2020 | 27 comments

20113.

Launch HN: Liyfe Clinic (YC S20) – Telemedicine for breast cancer

70 points by littlesnail on Aug 13, 2020 | 27 comments

20114.

'Super bacteria' survives for three years outside space station [video] (bbc.com)

70 points by pseudolus on Sep 6, 2020 | 27 comments

20115.

Named Tensors (nlp.seas.harvard.edu)

70 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2020 | 25 comments

20116.

2,000-Year-Old Nazca Line Featuring Lounging Cat Found in Peru (smithsonianmag.com)

70 points by diodorus on Oct 25, 2020 | 25 comments

20117.

Self_update: In-place updates for Rust executables (github.com)

70 points by adamnemecek on Jan 29, 2020 | 24 comments

20118.

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) (shkspr.mobi)

70 points by robin_reala on Mar 14, 2020 | 24 comments

20119.

AT&T mobile users are unable to access Tutanota (tutanota.com)

70 points by outloudvi on Feb 13, 2020 | 23 comments

20120.

Frank Ramsey: A Genius by All Tests for Genius (hnn.us)

70 points by sillysaurusx on Feb 13, 2020 | 23 comments

20121.

Robinhood accused of offering snafu credits to squelch suit (bloomberg.com)

70 points by rococode on Mar 28, 2020 | 23 comments

20122.

A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere (remusao.github.io)

70 points by pythux on May 31, 2020 | 23 comments

20123.

What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011) (kunststube.net)

70 points by neiesc on Aug 14, 2020 | 22 comments

20124.

Benchmarking Debian vs. Alpine as a base Docker image (2018) (nickjanetakis.com)

70 points by aloukissas on Feb 6, 2020 | 21 comments

20125.

Show HN: Nautilus: A Docker Compose Charting Tool (nautilusdev.com)

70 points by michaelbayday on Apr 10, 2020 | 19 comments

20126.

Why did the 1982-era MCZ 2/60 desktop computer have an Exxon logo on it? (twitter.com)

70 points by ilamont on Apr 11, 2020 | 19 comments

20127.

Astronomers find 'missing matter', solving decades-long mystery of outer space (abc.net.au)