HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3661.

You Don’t Need a Blockchain, You Need a Time-Series Database (thenewstack.io)

13 points by quyleanh on Oct 24, 2020 | 0 comments

3662.

Climate Scientists Fly more than other Researchers (braveneweurope.com)

13 points by dgudkov on Oct 24, 2020 | 0 comments

3663.

A cool text justification tool using dynamic programming (github.com)

13 points by Snaipe on Oct 26, 2020 | 0 comments

3664.

US Cops Turn to Canadian Phone-Tracking Firm After 'Stingrays' Become 'Obsolete' (gizmodo.com)

13 points by notRobot on Oct 26, 2020 | 0 comments

3665.

U.S. Supreme Court will not allow extension in Wisconsin mail-in ballot deadline (reuters.com)

13 points by hhs on Oct 27, 2020 | 0 comments

3666.

Apple breaks GPS support and suggests insecure iCloud backup as fix (support.apple.com)

13 points by mistersquid on Oct 27, 2020 | 0 comments

3667.

Apple ARM MacBook Pro coming 2020 (macworld.co.uk)

13 points by nt2h9uh238h on Oct 27, 2020 | 0 comments

3668.

Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest (washingtonpost.com)

13 points by pera on Oct 28, 2020 | 0 comments

3669.

The conflicts among the members of the Commission on Freedom of the Press (laphamsquarterly.org)

13 points by samclemens on Oct 29, 2020 | 0 comments

3670.

5M Canadian shoppers' images collected at mall kiosks (ctvnews.ca)

13 points by anonymousab on Oct 29, 2020 | 0 comments

3671.

Let's Encrypt Issues New Root and Intermediate Certificates (scotthelme.co.uk)

13 points by weinzierl on Oct 30, 2020 | 0 comments

3672.

Minicompiler: Lexing (christine.website)

13 points by bshanks on Oct 30, 2020 | 0 comments

3673.

How the Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission (quillette.com)

13 points by tomohawk on Oct 30, 2020 | 0 comments

3674.

Why skin lesions are peanuts and brain tumors harder nuts (thegradient.pub)

13 points by andreyk on Oct 31, 2020 | 0 comments

3675.

Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled (technologyreview.com)

12 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 5, 2020 | 29 comments

3676.

Ask HN: Will you send your child to Khanacademy instead of a physical school?

12 points by rohan_shah on Oct 21, 2020 | 29 comments

3677.

Ask HN: Why Are Printers Cursed?

12 points by J0_k3r on Oct 5, 2020 | 27 comments

3678.

The time has come for a more human internet (morehumaninternet.org)

12 points by wweiss1230 on Oct 13, 2020 | 23 comments

3679.

Ask HN: Which Lisp should I learn?

12 points by dusted on Oct 31, 2020 | 21 comments

3680.

Enforced political advocacy in Google open source projects (github.com)

12 points by claytongulick on Oct 22, 2020 | 20 comments

3681.

Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications?

12 points by jarbus on Oct 2, 2020 | 17 comments

3682.

Ask HN: My client wants to resell the project, how do I handle this?

12 points by 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV on Oct 4, 2020 | 16 comments

3683.

Ask HN: Why are some websites so bad at describing their product?

12 points by jessehorne on Oct 7, 2020 | 16 comments

3684.

Ask HN: When and why do you choose to use a desktop client vs. a web client?

12 points by lostintangent on Oct 25, 2020 | 15 comments

3685.

"Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity" (unherd.com)

12 points by timthorn on Oct 14, 2020 | 14 comments

3686.

Fear of white space (bpedro.medium.com)

12 points by bpedro on Oct 30, 2020 | 14 comments

3687.

Show HN: iOS14 weather (METAR) widgets for pilots (apps.apple.com)

12 points by siralonso on Oct 14, 2020 | 12 comments

3688.

Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires Big Fucking Meetings (buildingromes.substack.com)

12 points by aadilmaan on Oct 18, 2020 | 12 comments

3689.

I used Minecraft to teach my kids reading and writing (phoinixdurden.medium.com)

12 points by fraoulitsa on Oct 27, 2020 | 11 comments

3690.

Mercedes-Benz teases ‘highest-efficiency electric car’ with 750 miles range (electrek.co)

12 points by finphil on Oct 8, 2020 | 9 comments