HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

How to Interview Engineers (defmacro.substack.com)

156 points by tosh on Oct 12, 2020 | 178 comments

872.

Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years (scientificamerican.com)

156 points by joubert on Oct 4, 2020 | 46 comments

873.

ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gardou hired to work full-time (reactos.org)

156 points by crazypython on Oct 26, 2020 | 46 comments

874.

Mathematics for Computer Science (2017) [pdf] (courses.csail.mit.edu)

156 points by Schiphol on Oct 23, 2020 | 29 comments

875.

Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk (wildfiretoday.com)

155 points by blendo on Oct 3, 2020 | 136 comments

876.

Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl” (amazonwatch.org)

155 points by ciconia on Oct 6, 2020 | 48 comments

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The misuse of colour in science communication (nature.com)

155 points by fluctuation on Oct 30, 2020 | 44 comments

878.

Blender Conference 2020 (conference.blender.org)

155 points by Tomte on Oct 27, 2020 | 32 comments

879.

GDB 10.1 (lists.gnu.org)

155 points by lelf on Oct 24, 2020 | 29 comments

880.

Teens' mental health did surprisingly well in quarantine (theatlantic.com)

154 points by pgcj_poster on Oct 13, 2020 | 231 comments

881.

Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings (abc.xyz)

154 points by jhatax on Oct 29, 2020 | 181 comments

882.

The End of the American Internet (ben-evans.com)

154 points by 1cvmask on Oct 3, 2020 | 163 comments

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Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells (carbontracker.org)

154 points by clumsysmurf on Oct 4, 2020 | 81 comments

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Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019) (medium.com)

154 points by fanf2 on Oct 20, 2020 | 78 comments

885.

Google Adds WireGuard VPN to Android 12’s Linux Kernel 5.4 Tree (xda-developers.com)

154 points by vanburen on Oct 19, 2020 | 72 comments

886.

UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.” (exberliner.com)

154 points by dotcoma on Oct 10, 2020 | 49 comments

887.

Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually (blokdots.com)

154 points by bschne on Oct 19, 2020 | 33 comments

888.

Wyoming uses a “dark money” organization to advocate for coal in other states (npr.org)

154 points by js2 on Oct 29, 2020 | 33 comments

889.

AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU (anandtech.com)

154 points by jsheard on Oct 8, 2020 | 4 comments

890.

30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator (wired.com)

153 points by signa11 on Oct 24, 2020 | 132 comments

891.

Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat (phys.org)

153 points by dnetesn on Oct 2, 2020 | 75 comments

892.

Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world (seattletimes.com)

153 points by wallflower on Oct 11, 2020 | 55 comments

893.

A Youtube video downloader written in Go (github.com)

153 points by nadermx on Oct 27, 2020 | 52 comments

894.

Multicore OCaml: September 2020 (discuss.ocaml.org)

153 points by horiz0n on Oct 8, 2020 | 43 comments

895.

Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs (blog.trailofbits.com)

153 points by galapago on Oct 22, 2020 | 22 comments

896.

My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure (github.com)

153 points by uint256_t on Oct 23, 2020 | 19 comments

897.

Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely (chicagobusiness.com)

152 points by avonmach on Oct 26, 2020 | 276 comments

898.

Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code (letsxd.com)

152 points by soheilpro on Oct 24, 2020 | 119 comments

899.

Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors (aws.amazon.com)

152 points by TheGuyWhoCodes on Oct 22, 2020 | 89 comments

900.

Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing (sophron.github.io)

152 points by sophron on Oct 23, 2020 | 71 comments