HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1891.

Millions of Americans could lose their electricity as shutoff moratoriums expire (carbonswitch.co)

56 points by claudeganon on Aug 28, 2020 | 34 comments

1892.

Show HN: I made a steganography program (github.com)

56 points by VenomSwitch on Aug 4, 2020 | 31 comments

1893.

Height Modernization: Recalibrating where the U.S. physically sits on the planet (nytimes.com)

56 points by wglb on Aug 23, 2020 | 31 comments

1894.

A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, promise (economist.com)

56 points by jkuria on Aug 28, 2020 | 29 comments

1895.

Jabra: We know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops. Sorry, no refunds (medium.com)

56 points by ingve on Aug 6, 2020 | 28 comments

1896.

DeGoogle My Life (homehack.nl)

56 points by app4soft on Aug 5, 2020 | 18 comments

1897.

DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019) (dascript.org)

56 points by wesamco on Aug 15, 2020 | 16 comments

1898.

Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon (theverge.com)

56 points by guptaneil on Aug 17, 2020 | 16 comments

1899.

The Sail ISA specification language (github.com)

56 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 11, 2020 | 15 comments

1900.

Visualizing TSNE Maps with Three.js (douglasduhaime.com)

56 points by polm23 on Aug 31, 2020 | 15 comments

1901.

Microsoft joins App Store backlash after xCloud game streaming blocked (developer-tech.com)

56 points by tentanbass on Aug 14, 2020 | 12 comments

1902.

New Particle Collision Math May Offer Quantum Clues (quantamagazine.org)

56 points by headalgorithm on Aug 20, 2020 | 8 comments

1903.

Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado (cnbc.com)

56 points by j_shi on Aug 19, 2020 | 4 comments

1904.

2500x: Convert Your Images to HTML tags (not-png.xyz)

56 points by knoppers12341 on Aug 19, 2020 | 3 comments

1905.

The World’s Richest Families 2020 (bloomberg.com)

55 points by pseudolus on Aug 1, 2020 | 83 comments

1906.

U.S. Stocks Rise After S&P 500’s Record Close (wsj.com)

55 points by devy on Aug 19, 2020 | 76 comments

1907.

Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities (gradeinflation.com)

55 points by Reedx on Aug 14, 2020 | 61 comments

1908.

Run for Your Life (kinfolk.com)

55 points by Melchizedek on Aug 11, 2020 | 55 comments

1909.

Ammonia as a fuel for compression ignition engines (ammoniaenergy.org)

55 points by airstrike on Aug 21, 2020 | 42 comments

1910.

Terminating a Frozen SSH Session (remembertheusers.com)

55 points by erredois on Aug 6, 2020 | 37 comments

1911.

Researchers discover the microbiome's role in attacking cancerous tumors (sciencedaily.com)

55 points by LinuxBender on Aug 24, 2020 | 22 comments

1912.

Picking Locks with Audio Technology (cacm.acm.org)

55 points by MindGods on Aug 15, 2020 | 18 comments

1913.

Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Privacy Before Congress (gizmodo.com)

55 points by dsr12 on Aug 7, 2020 | 16 comments

1914.

All about Woad (woad.org.uk)

55 points by brudgers on Aug 23, 2020 | 13 comments

1915.

Shipshape RenderMan Art Challenge (blog.yiningkarlli.com)

55 points by mariuz on Aug 4, 2020 | 6 comments

1916.

Pi-KVM: easy and cheap DIY KVM over IP with mouse, virtual drive, VNC and IPMI (reddit.com)

55 points by mdevaev on Aug 3, 2020 | 5 comments

1917.

I Was a Useful Idiot for Capitalism (theatlantic.com)

55 points by iron0013 on Aug 7, 2020 | 3 comments

1918.

Star Citizen Alpha 3.10 (robertsspaceindustries.com)

54 points by doener on Aug 11, 2020 | 111 comments

1919.

Inline CSS works better in a component world (davnicwil.com)

54 points by davnicwil on Aug 20, 2020 | 88 comments

1920.

NJ Supreme Court: No 5th Amendment right not to unlock your phone (arstechnica.com)

54 points by elliekelly on Aug 14, 2020 | 85 comments