HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? (grubstreet.com)

844 points by polm23 on Dec 29, 2020 | 323 comments

32.

Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder (github.com)

833 points by andyjpb on Dec 16, 2020 | 533 comments

33.

Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course (cs.cornell.edu)

827 points by matt_d on Dec 11, 2020 | 232 comments

34.

All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) (theguardian.com)

826 points by chesterfield on Dec 20, 2020 | 446 comments

35.

Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions. (brandons.me)

825 points by brundolf on Dec 21, 2020 | 352 comments

36.

Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions (npr.org)

809 points by pdkl95 on Dec 3, 2020 | 445 comments

37.

Why can’t you buy a good webcam? (vsevolod.net)

783 points by murkt on Dec 22, 2020 | 773 comments

38.

Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned (cnn.com)

783 points by antfarm on Dec 21, 2020 | 248 comments

39.

Ruby 3.0 (ruby-lang.org)

779 points by 0x54MUR41 on Dec 25, 2020 | 281 comments

40.

Arecibo Observatory Collapsed (space.com)

776 points by BrentOzar on Dec 1, 2020 | 309 comments

41.

U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources (reuters.com)

773 points by re_re on Dec 13, 2020 | 362 comments

42.

Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust (tokio.rs)

769 points by carllerche on Dec 23, 2020 | 402 comments

43.

More challenging projects every programmer should try (web.eecs.utk.edu)

757 points by pavehawk2007 on Dec 20, 2020 | 223 comments

44.

Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) (web.archive.org)

755 points by brandrick on Dec 4, 2020 | 455 comments

45.

The web is 30 years old today (home.cern)

754 points by Anon84 on Dec 20, 2020 | 163 comments

46.

Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts (techcrunch.com)

752 points by Liriel on Dec 10, 2020 | 237 comments

47.

Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics (therobotreport.com)

748 points by tazlor on Dec 9, 2020 | 248 comments

48.

I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee (shkspr.mobi)

745 points by edent on Dec 18, 2020 | 314 comments

49.

Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 (status.cloud.google.com)

729 points by saifulwebid on Dec 18, 2020 | 198 comments

50.

Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

729 points by sid6376 on Dec 25, 2020 | 170 comments

51.

Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor (reddit.com)

725 points by tyler109 on Dec 25, 2020 | 382 comments

52.

Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained (github.com)

717 points by mkirchner on Dec 6, 2020 | 326 comments

53.

Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy (teddit.net)

716 points by oftenwrong on Dec 5, 2020 | 293 comments

54.

A former Uber engineer's disaster story (twitter.com)

710 points by epaga on Dec 10, 2020 | 332 comments

55.

Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?

705 points by luizfelberti on Dec 8, 2020 | 192 comments

56.

GitHub Releases Dark Mode (github.com)

700 points by m1 on Dec 8, 2020 | 251 comments

57.

S3 Strong Consistency (aws.amazon.com)

699 points by juliansimioni on Dec 2, 2020 | 227 comments

58.

Being kind to others is good for your health (bbc.com)

690 points by diminish on Dec 19, 2020 | 254 comments

59.

Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

689 points by Winterflow3r on Dec 25, 2020 | 312 comments

60.

Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square (justice.gov)

685 points by imraj96 on Dec 19, 2020 | 228 comments