HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Reasons not to become famous (tim.blog)

850 points by imgabe on Feb 9, 2020 | 408 comments

32.

“We already store data. In a database. It works well” (twitter.com)

847 points by susam on Feb 11, 2020 | 351 comments

33.

A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools (acrossapp.com)

834 points by ksj2114 on Feb 29, 2020 | 453 comments

34.

Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads (krebsonsecurity.com)

831 points by akeck on Feb 17, 2020 | 297 comments

35.

Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits (musictech.net)

829 points by jensgk on Feb 28, 2020 | 330 comments

36.

How to Write Usefully (paulgraham.com)

821 points by r_singh on Feb 21, 2020 | 285 comments

37.

Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell (git.sr.ht)

814 points by kick on Feb 11, 2020 | 227 comments

38.

Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?

766 points by Voxoff on Feb 6, 2020 | 250 comments

39.

Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian (ascmag.com)

766 points by ashin on Feb 20, 2020 | 122 comments

40.

Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech? (newatlas.com)

760 points by chris_overseas on Feb 21, 2020 | 276 comments

41.

I Learned French in 12 Months (runwes.com)

748 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2020 | 312 comments

42.

Python dicts are now ordered (softwaremaniacs.org)

734 points by signa11 on Feb 7, 2020 | 436 comments

43.

Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him (petapixel.com)

732 points by ProAm on Feb 21, 2020 | 280 comments

44.

Hard Startups (blog.samaltman.com)

728 points by sethbannon on Feb 26, 2020 | 326 comments

45.

Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study (inc.com)

727 points by simonebrunozzi on Feb 6, 2020 | 455 comments

46.

To get good, go after the metagame (commoncog.com)

726 points by shadowsun7 on Feb 25, 2020 | 296 comments

47.

Palindrome Day 20200202 (blog.sumymus.de)

723 points by stanislavb on Feb 2, 2020 | 173 comments

48.

Don't touch my clipboard (alexanderell.is)

718 points by otras on Feb 18, 2020 | 312 comments

49.

I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (fasterthanli.me)

717 points by whatever_dude on Feb 28, 2020 | 492 comments

50.

Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk (embeddedbits.org)

717 points by sprado on Feb 6, 2020 | 87 comments

51.

Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years (phoronix.com)

714 points by alexellisuk on Feb 9, 2020 | 246 comments

52.

An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012) (betterexplained.com)

709 points by PNWChris on Feb 25, 2020 | 102 comments

53.

Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records (txti.es)

698 points by iudqnolq on Feb 24, 2020 | 407 comments

54.

Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

695 points by dostoevsky on Feb 24, 2020 | 244 comments

55.

Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin (twitter.com)

694 points by Aissen on Feb 4, 2020 | 323 comments

56.

Time.gov was upgraded today (time.gov)

692 points by eganist on Feb 8, 2020 | 210 comments

57.

FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format (flif.info)

691 points by scotteh on Feb 6, 2020 | 249 comments

58.

How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

688 points by falava on Feb 17, 2020 | 57 comments

59.

No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia (vice.com)

687 points by SZJX on Feb 12, 2020 | 247 comments

60.

Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas (github.com)

687 points by alok-g on Feb 18, 2020 | 92 comments