HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan (corecursive.com)

388 points by rodrigo975 on Nov 22, 2020 | 85 comments

212.

Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches (economist.com)

386 points by prostoalex on Nov 7, 2020 | 225 comments

213.

My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania (portal.drewdevault.com)

382 points by catacombs on Nov 10, 2020 | 332 comments

214.

We made our SaaS home page cookie-free (blog.leavemealone.app)

382 points by jivings on Nov 3, 2020 | 181 comments

215.

Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust (ruffle.rs)

381 points by rane on Nov 29, 2020 | 89 comments

216.

WordPerfect for DOS Updated (columbia.edu)

380 points by elvis70 on Nov 1, 2020 | 236 comments

217.

Mmhmm (mmhmm.app)

378 points by definetheword on Nov 25, 2020 | 171 comments

218.

Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack (cnbc.com)

377 points by jcalabro on Nov 25, 2020 | 350 comments

219.

Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript (dwitter.net)

377 points by tomxor on Nov 13, 2020 | 55 comments

220.

Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan (phoronix.com)

374 points by Fnoord on Nov 10, 2020 | 304 comments

221.

An Introduction to ZFS (servethehome.com)

374 points by arm on Nov 20, 2020 | 250 comments

222.

New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression (psychnewsdaily.com)

373 points by neom on Nov 4, 2020 | 189 comments

223.

YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization” (twitter.com)

372 points by pimpampum on Nov 29, 2020 | 275 comments

224.

How Go helped save HealthCare.gov (changelog.com)

371 points by ra7 on Nov 9, 2020 | 148 comments

225.

I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM (twitter.com)

369 points by nickmqb on Nov 21, 2020 | 50 comments

226.

16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile (twitter.com)

368 points by DarmokJalad1701 on Nov 17, 2020 | 513 comments

227.

No Config for Old Men (datagubbe.se)

368 points by zdw on Nov 28, 2020 | 299 comments

228.

A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food (boredpanda.com)

368 points by matthewsinclair on Nov 22, 2020 | 102 comments

229.

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) (randomwire.com)

367 points by Fiveplus on Nov 19, 2020 | 207 comments

230.

1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland (theguardian.com)

366 points by jelliclesfarm on Nov 25, 2020 | 214 comments

231.

Gron – Make JSON Greppable (github.com)

366 points by capableweb on Nov 6, 2020 | 91 comments

232.

OpenZFS 2.0 (github.com)

364 points by ascom on Nov 30, 2020 | 148 comments

233.

Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing (stripe.com)

363 points by corentin88 on Nov 12, 2020 | 315 comments

234.

Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should (blog.spencermounta.in)

363 points by enz on Nov 10, 2020 | 272 comments

235.

Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators (foxglove.org.uk)

363 points by ynac on Nov 18, 2020 | 206 comments

236.

Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential (jmmv.dev)

362 points by r0sk on Nov 19, 2020 | 241 comments

237.

A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg (ffmpegwasm.github.io)

362 points by pier25 on Nov 4, 2020 | 125 comments

238.

Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus (vox.com)

361 points by uptown on Nov 9, 2020 | 379 comments

239.

Marketers are addicted to bad data (jacquescorbytuech.com)

360 points by iamacyborg on Nov 7, 2020 | 113 comments

240.

Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux (platform.uno)

359 points by octopoc on Nov 5, 2020 | 197 comments