HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Gears (ciechanow.ski)

2760 points by robert-boehnke on Feb 12, 2020 | 222 comments

2.

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID (github.com)

2292 points by rvnx on Feb 4, 2020 | 615 comments

3.

Wacom tablets track every app you open (robertheaton.com)

1594 points by krithix on Feb 5, 2020 | 449 comments

4.

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (blog.discordapp.com)

1582 points by Sikul on Feb 4, 2020 | 642 comments

5.

I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit (howonlee.github.io)

1564 points by curuinor on Feb 13, 2020 | 437 comments

6.

My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (jeffhuang.com)

1545 points by lazyjeff on Feb 8, 2020 | 402 comments

7.

Google Maps Hacks (simonweckert.com)

1410 points by rsj_hn on Feb 2, 2020 | 382 comments

8.

Larry Tesler Has Died (gizmodo.com)

1346 points by drallison on Feb 18, 2020 | 149 comments

9.

Freeman Dyson Has Died (nytimes.com)

1238 points by ChickeNES on Feb 28, 2020 | 248 comments

10.

Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner (neilwithdata.com)

1232 points by nsainsbury on Feb 23, 2020 | 210 comments

11.

What's SAP? (retool.com)

1221 points by dvdhsu on Feb 5, 2020 | 600 comments

12.

The missing semester of CS education (missing.csail.mit.edu)

1163 points by anishathalye on Feb 3, 2020 | 196 comments

13.

Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates (letsencrypt.org)

1160 points by jaas on Feb 27, 2020 | 258 comments

14.

Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain (smithsonianmag.com)

1115 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 25, 2020 | 123 comments

15.

Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu (news.softpedia.com)

1047 points by milankragujevic on Feb 10, 2020 | 559 comments

16.

1-on-1 meeting questions (github.com)

1030 points by yankit on Feb 16, 2020 | 296 comments

17.

The dystopian world of software engineering interviews (jarednelsen.dev)

1027 points by asangha on Feb 15, 2020 | 811 comments

18.

Old CSS, New CSS (eev.ee)

1018 points by culturedsystems on Feb 2, 2020 | 244 comments

19.

Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016) (cutle.fish)

1002 points by aphextron on Feb 15, 2020 | 281 comments

20.

“We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it” (cybernews.com)

980 points by teslademigod1 on Feb 24, 2020 | 328 comments

21.

Tailwind UI (tailwindui.com)

974 points by alt3red on Feb 26, 2020 | 358 comments

22.

How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (washingtonpost.com)

962 points by allard on Feb 11, 2020 | 330 comments

23.

More bosses give four-day workweek a try (npr.org)

934 points by hhs on Feb 21, 2020 | 388 comments

24.

Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

930 points by xcoding on Feb 4, 2020 | 862 comments

25.

A half-hour to learn Rust (fasterthanli.me)

927 points by xrd on Feb 29, 2020 | 148 comments

26.

Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety (boingboing.net)

919 points by ericdanielski on Feb 13, 2020 | 403 comments

27.

Kickstarter employees vote to unionize (vice.com)

910 points by danso on Feb 18, 2020 | 1092 comments

28.

Explorabl.es (explorabl.es)

894 points by rickdeveloper on Feb 19, 2020 | 36 comments

29.

Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? (thewirecutter.com)

853 points by zdw on Feb 21, 2020 | 408 comments

30.

Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

852 points by Shosty123 on Feb 11, 2020 | 178 comments