HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp (janet-lang.org)

408 points by galfarragem on May 13, 2020 | 269 comments

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I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich (blog.stetsonblake.com)

408 points by stets on May 28, 2020 | 257 comments

243.

Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text (doc.norang.ca)

408 points by gjvc on May 25, 2020 | 232 comments

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The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days (guzey.com)

407 points by luu on May 17, 2020 | 352 comments

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GeckoView for Android (mozilla.github.io)

406 points by selvan on May 7, 2020 | 127 comments

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Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds (apnews.com)

405 points by hbcondo714 on May 4, 2020 | 278 comments

247.

Take care editing bash scripts (2019) (thomask.sdf.org)

405 points by cxr on May 6, 2020 | 114 comments

248.

Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (iism.org)

404 points by signa11 on May 7, 2020 | 168 comments

249.

Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails (theregister.co.uk)

402 points by thinkingemote on May 14, 2020 | 175 comments

250.

Humans Not Invited (humansnotinvited.com)

402 points by bschne on May 5, 2020 | 130 comments

251.

Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863) (scientificamerican.com)

401 points by AareyBaba on May 4, 2020 | 232 comments

252.

US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis (vice.com)

399 points by pera on May 29, 2020 | 412 comments

253.

AWS services to avoid (medium.com)

399 points by kiyanwang on May 10, 2020 | 279 comments

254.

My blog is now generated by Google Docs (benwiser.com)

398 points by RupertWiser on May 10, 2020 | 156 comments

255.

The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret (npr.org)

397 points by leoh on May 7, 2020 | 306 comments

256.

WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web (getmemex.com)

396 points by lelf on May 18, 2020 | 207 comments

257.

Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts (vox.com)

396 points by kevlar1818 on May 4, 2020 | 154 comments

258.

Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online (rijksmuseum.nl)

396 points by Someone on May 12, 2020 | 125 comments

259.

Diagram as Code (diagrams.mingrammer.com)

396 points by delduca on May 12, 2020 | 74 comments

260.

The most prized degree in India became the most worthless (restofworld.org)

395 points by danso on May 12, 2020 | 377 comments

261.

Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal (rachelbythebay.com)

395 points by ingve on May 7, 2020 | 280 comments

262.

OTP 23 (erlang.org)

395 points by nifoc on May 13, 2020 | 119 comments

263.

FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a warrant, rules judge (9to5mac.com)

395 points by arkadiyt on May 22, 2020 | 103 comments

264.

So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

394 points by luu on May 15, 2020 | 219 comments

265.

Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction (bbirnbaum.com)

394 points by bbirnbaum on May 13, 2020 | 199 comments

266.

How Distortion Works in Music (benmosheron.gitlab.io)

394 points by beeeeeeeeeeeeen on May 19, 2020 | 102 comments

267.

After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media (techcrunch.com)

394 points by pseudolus on May 27, 2020 | 2 comments

268.

Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so (marilynburnsmathblog.com)

393 points by ColinWright on May 26, 2020 | 296 comments

269.

Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home (swissinfo.ch)

393 points by malthaus on May 25, 2020 | 252 comments

270.

SSH Agent Explained (smallstep.com)

393 points by sourishkrout on May 20, 2020 | 48 comments