HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

Mutt email client 25 years old (mutt.org)

335 points by job on Aug 16, 2020 | 158 comments

272.

What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017) (lrb.co.uk)

334 points by samgilb on Aug 10, 2020 | 162 comments

273.

Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says (news.bloomberglaw.com)

334 points by elliekelly on Aug 7, 2020 | 149 comments

274.

Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny (abcnews.go.com)

332 points by seigando on Aug 23, 2020 | 402 comments

275.

TikTok and the Sorting Hat (eugenewei.com)

332 points by hardmaru on Aug 4, 2020 | 223 comments

276.

Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3 (n-o-d-e.net)

332 points by Abishek_Muthian on Aug 7, 2020 | 76 comments

277.

AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation (breakingdefense.com)

331 points by MontagFTB on Aug 21, 2020 | 423 comments

278.

Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up (inquirer.com)

330 points by AndrewBissell on Aug 2, 2020 | 298 comments

279.

D3 6.0 (github.com)

330 points by coldsnap427 on Aug 26, 2020 | 86 comments

280.

How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company (wsj.com)

329 points by ilamont on Aug 8, 2020 | 249 comments

281.

Creating a QR Code step by step (nayuki.io)

329 points by marcobambini on Aug 11, 2020 | 41 comments

282.

Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook (kowainik.github.io)

328 points by gluegadget on Aug 18, 2020 | 30 comments

283.

Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

327 points by OnWriting on Aug 18, 2020 | 308 comments

284.

Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902 (thisiscolossal.com)

327 points by gmays on Aug 21, 2020 | 130 comments

285.

Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?

326 points by hooda on Aug 8, 2020 | 529 comments

286.

Why is this idiot running my engineering org? (medium.com)

326 points by mbellotti on Aug 7, 2020 | 167 comments

287.

New Racket Language Website (racket-lang.org)

326 points by kamaal on Aug 26, 2020 | 98 comments

288.

Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) (magcius.github.io)

326 points by goranmoomin on Aug 18, 2020 | 89 comments

289.

Write Your Own Virtual Machine (justinmeiners.github.io)

326 points by ChankeyPathak on Aug 15, 2020 | 42 comments

290.

Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden (reuters.com)

325 points by elliekelly on Aug 16, 2020 | 375 comments

291.

Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad (youtube.com)

325 points by pizza on Aug 13, 2020 | 162 comments

292.

Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year (github.com)

325 points by anshul on Aug 31, 2020 | 131 comments

293.

My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I (theatlantic.com)

324 points by magnifique on Aug 19, 2020 | 448 comments

294.

The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago (smithsonianmag.com)

324 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2020 | 136 comments

295.

Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras (driesdepoorter.be)

324 points by driesdep on Aug 19, 2020 | 90 comments

296.

Air pollution is worse than we thought (vox.com)

323 points by elorant on Aug 13, 2020 | 233 comments

297.

macOS Security and Privacy Guide (github.com)

323 points by Nginx487 on Aug 22, 2020 | 89 comments

298.

Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder (glyph.twistedmatrix.com)

322 points by ingve on Aug 23, 2020 | 205 comments

299.

Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands (protocol.com)

321 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2020 | 274 comments

300.

Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps (rockpapershotgun.com)

321 points by danso on Aug 30, 2020 | 182 comments