HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like (kalzumeus.com)

439 points by yarapavan on Oct 8, 2020 | 262 comments

152.

A small but complete JavaScript engine (bellard.org)

438 points by marcobambini on Oct 23, 2020 | 146 comments

153.

That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)

436 points by marinintim on Oct 28, 2020 | 155 comments

154.

Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows (ajc.com)

433 points by hownottowrite on Oct 12, 2020 | 315 comments

155.

Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good (gamespot.com)

433 points by AdmiralAsshat on Oct 24, 2020 | 242 comments

156.

Privacy is the most important concept of our time (inre.me)

433 points by umilegenio on Oct 2, 2020 | 212 comments

157.

Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time (scientificamerican.com)

432 points by pseudolus on Oct 31, 2020 | 270 comments

158.

Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure (a16z.com)

431 points by soumyadeb on Oct 18, 2020 | 105 comments

159.

Image Scaling Attacks (embracethered.com)

431 points by wendythehacker on Oct 29, 2020 | 73 comments

160.

Org Mode's new site (orgmode.org)

430 points by cjauvin on Oct 27, 2020 | 198 comments

161.

Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid (team-bhp.com)

430 points by boruto on Oct 10, 2020 | 193 comments

162.

AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out (reddit.com)

430 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 12, 2020 | 122 comments

163.

The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? (phoronix.com)

429 points by caution on Oct 25, 2020 | 692 comments

164.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

426 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2020 | 809 comments

165.

When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home (twitter.com)

426 points by compsciphd on Oct 12, 2020 | 230 comments

166.

I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) (hanselman.com)

426 points by IA21 on Oct 20, 2020 | 192 comments

167.

New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars (newatlas.com)

425 points by bookofjoe on Oct 25, 2020 | 252 comments

168.

Microsoft Tilecode (microsoft.github.io)

425 points by Impossible on Oct 24, 2020 | 60 comments

169.

14,000x Speedup (2015) (james.hiebert.name)

424 points by signa11 on Oct 13, 2020 | 228 comments

170.

Welcome to the Old Internet Again (theoldnet.com)

424 points by doener on Oct 17, 2020 | 192 comments

171.

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show (cnet.com)

421 points by 0xmohit on Oct 8, 2020 | 193 comments

172.

Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland (swisscom.ch)

420 points by richx on Oct 21, 2020 | 349 comments

173.

America's True Unemployment Rate (axios.com)

419 points by jbegley on Oct 20, 2020 | 349 comments

174.

Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready (bill.harding.blog)

419 points by wbharding on Oct 6, 2020 | 136 comments

175.

Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course (lowlvl.org)

419 points by nbaksalyar on Oct 13, 2020 | 37 comments

176.

Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people (foreigner.fi)

417 points by aaron695 on Oct 25, 2020 | 365 comments

177.

Y Combinator Failed Startups (failory.com)

415 points by nicocerdeira on Oct 9, 2020 | 184 comments

178.

San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. (bloomberg.com)

414 points by pondsider on Oct 13, 2020 | 620 comments

179.

Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder (reddit.com)

414 points by DeusExMachina on Oct 4, 2020 | 291 comments

180.

The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3 (engineering.fb.com)

414 points by mostdefinite1 on Oct 21, 2020 | 139 comments