HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH (businessinsider.com)

855 points by jeffbee on Oct 15, 2020 | 465 comments

32.

I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API (twitter.com)

845 points by swyx on Oct 22, 2020 | 420 comments

33.

Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla (bytecodealliance.org)

813 points by swyx on Oct 26, 2020 | 135 comments

34.

Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime (timhutton.github.io)

801 points by tim_hutton on Oct 18, 2020 | 433 comments

35.

One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 (joel.net)

787 points by Sandeepg33k on Oct 2, 2020 | 480 comments

36.

Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims (bbc.com)

780 points by nkurz on Oct 15, 2020 | 1664 comments

37.

Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead (arstechnica.com)

777 points by fn1 on Oct 3, 2020 | 389 comments

38.

Google's new logos are bad (techcrunch.com)

776 points by LopRabbit on Oct 28, 2020 | 333 comments

39.

RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO (torrentfreak.com)

772 points by ikeboy on Oct 27, 2020 | 276 comments

40.

Google disabled my husband's account (twitter.com)

763 points by Eyas on Oct 15, 2020 | 483 comments

41.

AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] (youtube.com)

761 points by thg on Oct 8, 2020 | 674 comments

42.

Face ID and Touch ID for the Web (webkit.org)

757 points by Austin_Conlon on Oct 19, 2020 | 355 comments

43.

Pandoc – A universal document converter (pandoc.org)

756 points by johnsonjo on Oct 24, 2020 | 168 comments

44.

Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like? (mockmechanics.com)

719 points by felipereigosa on Oct 29, 2020 | 149 comments

45.

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid (joshwcomeau.com)

716 points by feross on Oct 5, 2020 | 268 comments

46.

French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs (privateinternetaccess.com)

714 points by seigando on Oct 4, 2020 | 330 comments

47.

The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel (phoronix.com)

707 points by akvadrako on Oct 11, 2020 | 462 comments

48.

They're Made Out of Meat (1991) (mit.edu)

702 points by swazzy on Oct 10, 2020 | 292 comments

49.

Congress should invest in open-source software (brookings.edu)

692 points by gilad on Oct 15, 2020 | 164 comments

50.

ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion' (techspot.com)

681 points by illuminated on Oct 9, 2020 | 370 comments

51.

What is the best dumb TV? (pointerclicker.com)

674 points by evo_9 on Oct 2, 2020 | 644 comments

52.

Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency (endocrine.org)

654 points by walterbell on Oct 27, 2020 | 363 comments

53.

Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other (nytimes.com)

650 points by piker on Oct 9, 2020 | 191 comments

54.

DigitalOcean App Platform (pages.news.digitalocean.com)

646 points by digianarchist on Oct 6, 2020 | 346 comments

55.

IBM is splitting itself into two public companies (reuters.com)

645 points by dredmorbius on Oct 8, 2020 | 426 comments

56.

Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google (arstechnica.com)

643 points by randtrain34 on Oct 8, 2020 | 748 comments

57.

Sean Connery has died (bbc.co.uk)

633 points by bitshifta on Oct 31, 2020 | 240 comments

58.

Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account (melovedata.com)

632 points by dsaavy on Oct 26, 2020 | 705 comments

59.

How Discord Won (ianvanagas.com)

632 points by ivanagas on Oct 19, 2020 | 588 comments

60.

Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries (shkspr.mobi)

627 points by edent on Oct 11, 2020 | 347 comments