HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities (bloomberg.com)

386 points by bschne on Jul 24, 2020 | 52 comments

212.

Lights and Shadows (ciechanow.ski)

386 points by robert-boehnke on Jul 1, 2020 | 28 comments

213.

Google’s top search result is Google (themarkup.org)

385 points by danso on Jul 28, 2020 | 304 comments

214.

Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD (serhack.me)

385 points by serhack_ on Jul 21, 2020 | 292 comments

215.

Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations (github.com)

385 points by photon_lines on Jul 1, 2020 | 93 comments

216.

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack (wfla.com)

382 points by Firebrand on Jul 31, 2020 | 659 comments

217.

More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts (reuters.com)

382 points by theBashShell on Jul 23, 2020 | 230 comments

218.

Ron Graham has died (ams.org)

382 points by jhfdbkofdcho on Jul 7, 2020 | 47 comments

219.

Wiki.js (wiki.js.org)

381 points by akandiah on Jul 21, 2020 | 199 comments

220.

Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine (runnaroo.com)

380 points by chris_f on Jul 8, 2020 | 196 comments

221.

Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions (devopsdirective.com)

380 points by spalas on Jul 25, 2020 | 45 comments

222.

Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr (theintercept.com)

379 points by jbegley on Jul 9, 2020 | 240 comments

223.

Firefox 79 (hacks.mozilla.org)

379 points by caution on Jul 28, 2020 | 188 comments

224.

Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund (blender.org)

377 points by antoineMoPa on Jul 29, 2020 | 166 comments

225.

Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech (medium.com)

376 points by 737min on Jul 3, 2020 | 294 comments

226.

Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds (vdacs.virginia.gov)

376 points by gscott on Jul 26, 2020 | 267 comments

227.

Sampler for Mac Touchbars (synthtopia.com)

376 points by anigbrowl on Jul 9, 2020 | 195 comments

228.

Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts (fonts.google.com)

376 points by thundernixon on Jul 23, 2020 | 108 comments

229.

ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data (accc.gov.au)

375 points by Khaine on Jul 27, 2020 | 79 comments

230.

Bible API (bible-api.com)

373 points by otobrglez on Jul 5, 2020 | 288 comments

231.

Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away (spectrum.ieee.org)

373 points by bookofjoe on Jul 19, 2020 | 185 comments

232.

Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack (blockchain.com)

372 points by aliabd on Jul 15, 2020 | 269 comments

233.

2+1=4, by quinoa (efavdb.com)

366 points by efavdb on Jul 3, 2020 | 168 comments

234.

Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire (newyorker.com)

366 points by alienreborn on Jul 21, 2020 | 131 comments

235.

Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater (forbes.com)

366 points by sethbannon on Jul 6, 2020 | 64 comments

236.

The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf] (inthepublicinterest.org)

365 points by Firebrand on Jul 21, 2020 | 542 comments

237.

MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations (news.mit.edu)

365 points by andytgl on Jul 8, 2020 | 371 comments

238.

A researcher on how to live a happy life (ox.ac.uk)

365 points by neoplatonian on Jul 1, 2020 | 199 comments

239.

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016) (programmingisterrible.com)

365 points by pcr910303 on Jul 22, 2020 | 109 comments

240.

Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel (mondaynote.com)

364 points by robin_reala on Jul 12, 2020 | 600 comments