HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1531.

Unraveling the linothorax mystery (2013) (jhupress.wordpress.com)

79 points by _Microft on Aug 12, 2020 | 42 comments

1532.

Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf] (static.googleusercontent.com)

79 points by tptacek on Aug 2, 2020 | 36 comments

1533.

TF-Coder, a tool that writes tricky TensorFlow expressions (blog.tensorflow.org)

79 points by homarp on Aug 26, 2020 | 35 comments

1534.

Searx instances (searx.space)

79 points by troydavis on Aug 22, 2020 | 27 comments

1535.

The mine that built the atomic bomb (bbc.com)

79 points by Thevet on Aug 4, 2020 | 26 comments

1536.

OpenRCT2 0.3 (openrct2.org)

79 points by tmstieff on Aug 16, 2020 | 9 comments

1537.

People on SO have been working together on a single polyglot program for 4 years (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

79 points by logicallee on Aug 24, 2020 | 0 comments

1538.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)

78 points by whoishiring on Aug 3, 2020 | 153 comments

1539.

'Music is as good as gold or oil': A man spending billions on old hits (theguardian.com)

78 points by codetrotter on Aug 8, 2020 | 93 comments

1540.

You may finally use JSHint for evil (mikepennisi.com)

78 points by catacombs on Aug 4, 2020 | 80 comments

1541.

Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly' (nypost.com)

78 points by dsr12 on Aug 14, 2020 | 73 comments

1542.

Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects (builderbook.org)

78 points by tima101 on Aug 15, 2020 | 73 comments

1543.

Expert overclockers successfully push DOOM Eternal past 1k frames per second (slayersclub.bethesda.net)

78 points by austinprete on Aug 26, 2020 | 67 comments

1544.

The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election (vice.com)

78 points by cryptoz on Aug 13, 2020 | 64 comments

1545.

Zin Boats reinvents the electric boat in a bid to become the Tesla of the sea (techcrunch.com)

78 points by breck on Aug 12, 2020 | 61 comments

1546.

A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating (sciencealert.com)

78 points by wglb on Aug 26, 2020 | 60 comments

1547.

Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (2008) (reuters.com)

78 points by EndXA on Aug 5, 2020 | 37 comments

1548.

Shakuntala Devi – The Human Computer (2016) (petersmagnusson.org)

78 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 26, 2020 | 28 comments

1549.

China uses Hong Kong security law against US and UK-based activists (theguardian.com)

78 points by ioxnm on Aug 1, 2020 | 20 comments

1550.

U.S. Navy Sex-Trafficing Scandal in Bahrain (militarytimes.com)

78 points by everybodyknows on Aug 9, 2020 | 19 comments

1551.

Fox Two: The Story of the Aim-9 Sidewinder (2014) (donhollway.com)

78 points by tragiclos on Aug 27, 2020 | 15 comments

1552.

PHP 8.0.0 beta 2 (php.net)

77 points by julien_c on Aug 21, 2020 | 99 comments

1553.

Horcrux Encrypted Messaging (notion.so)

77 points by ljlolel on Aug 30, 2020 | 93 comments

1554.

Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy (bnnbloomberg.ca)

77 points by gbourne on Aug 2, 2020 | 74 comments

1555.

A new company promises a 5G keyboarded BlackBerry in 2021 (pcmag.com)

77 points by HaGoijer on Aug 19, 2020 | 66 comments

1556.

Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (2019) (theatlantic.com)

77 points by optimalsolver on Aug 30, 2020 | 56 comments

1557.

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 blasts through Kickstarter goal (bbc.com)

77 points by AlexeyBrin on Aug 14, 2020 | 52 comments

1558.

Weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city’s power grid (journals.plos.org)

77 points by mhb on Aug 15, 2020 | 46 comments

1559.

How the world’s largest garbage dump evolved into a green oasis (nytimes.com)

77 points by mcone on Aug 21, 2020 | 43 comments

1560.

100 years to solve an integral: The history of the Mercator map (liorsinai.github.io)

77 points by the_origami_fox on Aug 28, 2020 | 40 comments