HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

991.

Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

142 points by grzm on Oct 25, 2020 | 65 comments

992.

Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets Right (charlieharrington.com)

142 points by whatrocks on Oct 26, 2020 | 62 comments

993.

Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes (gridsagegames.com)

142 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 19, 2020 | 30 comments

994.

Show HN: Collaboratively Edit Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io (github.com)

142 points by Gehinnn on Oct 5, 2020 | 14 comments

995.

Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog (carnegieendowment.org)

141 points by bzbarsky on Oct 2, 2020 | 172 comments

996.

Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally but Not Vertically? Here's the Physics (sciencealert.com)

141 points by laktak on Oct 7, 2020 | 163 comments

997.

Proton 5.13: A Massive Update (boilingsteam.com)

141 points by ekianjo on Oct 17, 2020 | 134 comments

998.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis (scottaaronson.com)

141 points by headalgorithm on Oct 31, 2020 | 72 comments

999.

Galileo's Ground Segment Problem (berthub.eu)

141 points by liotier on Oct 20, 2020 | 48 comments

1000.

WebGL procedural city that feels alive and is fun to watch (demos.littleworkshop.fr)

141 points by parisianka on Oct 25, 2020 | 32 comments

1001.

How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers (moritz.systems)

141 points by tosh on Oct 23, 2020 | 12 comments

1002.

Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks (bbc.com)

140 points by tosh on Oct 20, 2020 | 128 comments

1003.

How to Hide from a Drone (theconversation.com)

140 points by hbcondo714 on Oct 16, 2020 | 116 comments

1004.

Pandemic sparked European cycling revolution (bbc.co.uk)

140 points by edward on Oct 11, 2020 | 111 comments

1005.

Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time (quantamagazine.org)

140 points by nnx on Oct 2, 2020 | 103 comments

1006.

Halide Mark II (halide.cam)

140 points by jmorgan on Oct 22, 2020 | 96 comments

1007.

Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet (krebsonsecurity.com)

140 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 12, 2020 | 72 comments

1008.

Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019) (arxiv.org)

140 points by michaelsbradley on Oct 18, 2020 | 52 comments

1009.

Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi) (jami.net)

140 points by asicsp on Oct 17, 2020 | 46 comments

1010.

Embracing Asynchronous Communication at Gitlab (about.gitlab.com)

140 points by yarapavan on Oct 16, 2020 | 44 comments

1011.

/.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile (leimao.github.io)

140 points by keyboardman on Oct 24, 2020 | 36 comments

1012.

Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal (theverge.com)

140 points by anigbrowl on Oct 18, 2020 | 33 comments

1013.

Quibi is shutting down (theinformation.com)

140 points by jmsflknr on Oct 21, 2020 | 4 comments

1014.

Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language? (neurosciencenews.com)

139 points by prostoalex on Oct 16, 2020 | 210 comments

1015.

Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars (medium.com)

139 points by votick on Oct 15, 2020 | 149 comments

1016.

US Seizes Domains Used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (justice.gov)

139 points by Meekro on Oct 11, 2020 | 135 comments

1017.

LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019) (andregarzia.com)

139 points by EamonnMR on Oct 23, 2020 | 68 comments

1018.

Updated BBC micro:bit (tech.microbit.org)

139 points by jaustin on Oct 13, 2020 | 59 comments

1019.

Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails [pdf] (electionemails2020.org)

139 points by randomwalker on Oct 5, 2020 | 55 comments

1020.

Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui (markjames.dev)

139 points by sanesmith on Oct 26, 2020 | 33 comments