HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

The case for building a SETI observatory on the moon (supercluster.com)

166 points by pseudolus on Oct 3, 2020 | 76 comments

812.

Why does Instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts? (twitter.com)

166 points by davidbarker on Oct 20, 2020 | 76 comments

813.

Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job (daniel.fone.net.nz)

166 points by danielfone on Oct 21, 2020 | 74 comments

814.

Apple's CUPS Repository Has Died. CUPS creator M. Sweet has moved on to a fork (linuxreviews.org)

166 points by wailin on Oct 19, 2020 | 72 comments

815.

XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486 (phoronix.com)

166 points by programd on Oct 17, 2020 | 66 comments

816.

Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse (logicalclocks.com)

166 points by nathaliaariza on Oct 8, 2020 | 56 comments

817.

How to better calculate churn rates (catchjs.com)

166 points by cmogni1 on Oct 19, 2020 | 40 comments

818.

The Elroy Lamp: A transparent LCD lamp (2019) (kylescholz.com)

166 points by schappim on Oct 16, 2020 | 35 comments

819.

The Nikon Small World Competition (nikonsmallworld.com)

166 points by ivank on Oct 16, 2020 | 25 comments

820.

What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs? (scientificamerican.com)

165 points by bookofjoe on Oct 15, 2020 | 272 comments

821.

'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West (fastcompany.com)

165 points by prostoalex on Oct 21, 2020 | 212 comments

822.

Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims (forbes.com)

165 points by winterismute on Oct 28, 2020 | 186 comments

823.

Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in admissions (justice.gov)

165 points by hhs on Oct 8, 2020 | 137 comments

824.

Tesla dissolves its PR department (electrek.co)

165 points by tosh on Oct 6, 2020 | 131 comments

825.

Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS (paulbridger.com)

165 points by briggers on Oct 10, 2020 | 38 comments

826.

Your single-page app is now a polyfill (itnext.io)

164 points by mhoad on Oct 7, 2020 | 158 comments

827.

Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity (reuters.com)

164 points by rustoo on Oct 23, 2020 | 124 comments

828.

Free Software Is More Reliable (2011) (gnu.org)

164 points by crazypython on Oct 19, 2020 | 121 comments

829.

Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data (zdnet.com)

164 points by dane-pgp on Oct 2, 2020 | 114 comments

830.

figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text (figlet.org)

164 points by pmoriarty on Oct 29, 2020 | 61 comments

831.

Machine Learning Engineering Book (mlebook.com)

164 points by Vincent_F_Vega on Oct 9, 2020 | 16 comments

832.

A Family of Better Random Number Generators (pcg-random.org)

163 points by marcobambini on Oct 15, 2020 | 118 comments

833.

Cloudflare Analytics review (markosaric.com)

163 points by markosaric on Oct 21, 2020 | 52 comments

834.

The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

163 points by rbanffy on Oct 9, 2020 | 37 comments

835.

For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns against them (seekingalpha.com)

162 points by jaytaylor on Oct 3, 2020 | 236 comments

836.

Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight (nature.com)

162 points by elsewhen on Oct 17, 2020 | 120 comments

837.

Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire (cbc.ca)

162 points by goodcanadian on Oct 31, 2020 | 92 comments

838.

MobX 6 (michel.codes)

162 points by nikivi on Oct 1, 2020 | 86 comments

839.

Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream (paulbridger.com)

162 points by briggers on Oct 18, 2020 | 55 comments

840.

Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using optics and standard monads (chrispenner.ca)

161 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 7, 2020 | 98 comments