HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20701.

Lori Loughlin and husband sentenced in college bribery scandal (axios.com)

66 points by dsavant on Aug 21, 2020 | 115 comments

20702.

Why Developers Hate PHP (jesuisundev.com)

66 points by jesuisundev on May 20, 2020 | 111 comments

20703.

Watch a Tesla Fail an Automatic Braking Test and Vaporize a Robot Pedestrian (thedrive.com)

66 points by tomohawk on Sep 25, 2020 | 111 comments

20704.

Plugin hybrids in new emissions scandal: test show higher pollution than claimed (transportenvironment.org)

66 points by giuliomagnifico on Nov 24, 2020 | 102 comments

20705.

Ask HN: What are your best purchases in 2020?

66 points by ayberk on Dec 22, 2020 | 100 comments

20706.

Scientists discover 'why stress turns hair white' (bbc.com)

66 points by hhs on Jan 23, 2020 | 92 comments

20707.

GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses (trust-in-soft.com)

66 points by fanf2 on Apr 16, 2020 | 91 comments

20708.

Nvidia Geforce Now launches at $5 a month (nvidia.com)

66 points by madhato on Feb 4, 2020 | 90 comments

20709.

Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? (support.google.com)

66 points by jpxw on Jun 13, 2020 | 90 comments

20710.

The UK's “Chief Digital Officer” job has been open for over a year (zdnet.com)

66 points by BerislavLopac on Sep 11, 2020 | 90 comments

20711.

A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy (arxiv.org)

66 points by ipnon on Dec 27, 2020 | 89 comments

20712.

California Governor calls for home isolation for seniors, bars to close, etc (ktvu.com)

66 points by jconley on Mar 15, 2020 | 87 comments

20713.

Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree (thedrive.com)

66 points by tomohawk on Aug 2, 2020 | 84 comments

20714.

PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran (thegrayzone.com)

66 points by oska on Jan 10, 2020 | 82 comments

20715.

Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?

66 points by gruglife on Mar 6, 2020 | 82 comments

20716.

The ergonomic Ultimate Hacking Keyboard 60: v2 (ultimatehackingkeyboard.com)

66 points by jseliger on Nov 7, 2020 | 82 comments

20717.

Why everyone’s hoarding Mason jars (marker.medium.com)

66 points by oska on Nov 28, 2020 | 79 comments

20718.

The Death of the Photo Studio (medium.com)

66 points by karanganesan on Jul 28, 2020 | 78 comments

20719.

Section 230 is Good, Actually (eff.org)

66 points by samizdis on Dec 5, 2020 | 78 comments

20720.

Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs (nature.com)

66 points by bgutierrez on Apr 10, 2020 | 77 comments

20721.

Twitch Is Developing Talk Shows and Dating Programs for Gamers (bloomberg.com)

66 points by haneefmubarak on May 8, 2020 | 76 comments

20722.

Data and graphs showing millenials' bad economic odds (washingtonpost.com)

66 points by tekdude on Jun 7, 2020 | 76 comments

20723.

The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray (nautil.us)

66 points by dnetesn on Jul 2, 2020 | 73 comments

20724.

Caffeine attenuates high-fat-high-sucrose lipogenesis and body fat accumulation (sciencedirect.com)

66 points by bookofjoe on Jan 3, 2020 | 72 comments

20725.

How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016) (theatlantic.com)

66 points by andrewon on Sep 27, 2020 | 70 comments

20726.

Europe’s old money mingles with tech startups (wsj.com)

66 points by hhs on Mar 7, 2020 | 68 comments

20727.

Tesla superfandom becomes toxic, negative for electric revolution [op-ed] (electrek.co)