HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

901.

Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg (github.com)

152 points by cheeaun on Oct 23, 2020 | 51 comments

902.

Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms (github.com)

152 points by nadermx on Oct 29, 2020 | 43 comments

903.

Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted for popular devices (planetebook.com)

152 points by susam on Oct 25, 2020 | 26 comments

904.

Ungrammar (rust-analyzer.github.io)

152 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 24, 2020 | 14 comments

905.

Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids? (spectrum.ieee.org)

151 points by blendo on Oct 20, 2020 | 152 comments

906.

Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court (science.sciencemag.org)

151 points by haltingproblem on Oct 21, 2020 | 149 comments

907.

RFC 8905 – The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments (tools.ietf.org)

151 points by kwk1 on Oct 25, 2020 | 94 comments

908.

Flame retardant may cause hyperthyroidism in cats (phys.org)

151 points by dmitriy_ko on Oct 19, 2020 | 87 comments

909.

Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs (pingcap.com)

151 points by gesaint on Oct 17, 2020 | 2 comments

910.

Type in the exact number of machines to proceed (rachelbythebay.com)

151 points by mplanchard on Oct 27, 2020 | 1 comments

911.

How Microsoft went from “Linux is a cancer” to “Microsoft loves Linux” (idginsiderpro.com)

150 points by CrankyBear on Oct 12, 2020 | 247 comments

912.

What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018) (coindesk.com)

150 points by MrXOR on Oct 31, 2020 | 210 comments

913.

House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M (nytimes.com)

150 points by hodgesrm on Oct 18, 2020 | 202 comments

914.

Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media (kartick.substack.com)

150 points by _qjt0 on Oct 3, 2020 | 133 comments

915.

The Nordic concept of friluftsliv – outdoor life (seattletimes.com)

150 points by wallflower on Oct 25, 2020 | 129 comments

916.

Humans Are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter (troyhunt.com)

150 points by twapi on Oct 28, 2020 | 106 comments

917.

Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI (github.com)

150 points by gauMah on Oct 6, 2020 | 41 comments

918.

Collision Detection (2015) (jeffreythompson.org)

150 points by zwliew on Oct 10, 2020 | 33 comments

919.

Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (simonwardjones.co.uk)

150 points by simonwardjones on Oct 6, 2020 | 7 comments

920.

Face retouching settings should be off by default (blog.google)

149 points by fortran77 on Oct 4, 2020 | 137 comments

921.

Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100 (cnx-software.com)

149 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 17, 2020 | 104 comments

922.

Cursed Elixir (evuez.github.io)

149 points by udfalkso on Oct 18, 2020 | 70 comments

923.

St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska (hakaimagazine.com)

149 points by Stratoscope on Oct 10, 2020 | 63 comments

924.

Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-hee has died (reuters.com)

149 points by josephh on Oct 25, 2020 | 63 comments

925.

Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE (pine64.org)

149 points by sohkamyung on Oct 28, 2020 | 52 comments

926.

JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor (dropbox.tech)

149 points by luord on Oct 3, 2020 | 51 comments

927.

Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things (a16z.com)

149 points by razin on Oct 18, 2020 | 46 comments

928.

FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230 (twitter.com)

148 points by uncoder0 on Oct 15, 2020 | 248 comments

929.

Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial (arstechnica.com)

148 points by danso on Oct 29, 2020 | 153 comments

930.

A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Crippling Headaches (npr.org)

148 points by iaw on Oct 28, 2020 | 135 comments