HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust (techradar.com)

207 points by eddieoz on Dec 3, 2020 | 235 comments

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FDA Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First Covid-19 Vaccine (fda.gov)

207 points by simonpure on Dec 12, 2020 | 228 comments

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Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses (theguardian.com)

207 points by samizdis on Dec 22, 2020 | 126 comments

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Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education (instituteforpubliceducation.org)

207 points by partingshots on Dec 6, 2020 | 124 comments

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Google, Facebook Had Illegal Deal to Rig Ad Market (bloomberg.com)

207 points by akashshah87 on Dec 16, 2020 | 19 comments

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Google Analytics Opt Out (tools.google.com)

206 points by sturza on Dec 16, 2020 | 172 comments

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Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier (palant.info)

206 points by a2x0 on Dec 10, 2020 | 146 comments

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How the novel coronavirus has evolved (graphics.reuters.com)

206 points by jonbaer on Dec 12, 2020 | 122 comments

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Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix (matrix.org)

206 points by ignoramous on Dec 18, 2020 | 55 comments

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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) (algorithmicbotany.org)

206 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2020 | 22 comments

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Choose Boring Technology (panelbear.com)

205 points by amzans on Dec 6, 2020 | 204 comments

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Bug drone for UK army that weights 196g, has 40 mins autonomy and 2km range (baesystems.com)

205 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 29, 2020 | 179 comments

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Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life (nationalgeographic.com)

205 points by BlanketLogic on Dec 22, 2020 | 139 comments

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How does Brown University know where you are? (jack.wrenn.fyi)

205 points by jswrenn on Dec 5, 2020 | 138 comments

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Security expert warned SolarWinds in 2019 that anyone could access server (businessinsider.com.au)

205 points by 1cvmask on Dec 20, 2020 | 52 comments

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Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (aws.amazon.com)

204 points by ahachete on Dec 15, 2020 | 66 comments

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Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms (wsj.com)

203 points by lxm on Dec 4, 2020 | 464 comments

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Adobe has released the last Flash update ever (theverge.com)

203 points by velmu on Dec 10, 2020 | 159 comments

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Noise-canceling headphones without the headphone (spectrum.ieee.org)

203 points by ystad on Dec 26, 2020 | 117 comments

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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) (brandon.invergo.net)

203 points by matthberg on Dec 27, 2020 | 113 comments

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Major Flaws of Human Thinking (dandanua.github.io)

203 points by dandanua on Dec 5, 2020 | 105 comments

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USDS Digital Services Playbook (playbook.cio.gov)

203 points by tomrod on Dec 31, 2020 | 98 comments

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Hypercore protocol: a distributed (P2P) append-only log (hypercore-protocol.org)

203 points by thinkmassive on Dec 13, 2020 | 47 comments

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The Architecture of IMGZ (imgz.org)

202 points by sirodoht on Dec 7, 2020 | 92 comments

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mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug? (science.sciencemag.org)

201 points by mudil on Dec 18, 2020 | 206 comments

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The Danish climate minister closing down the nation’s oil and gas industry (theguardian.com)

201 points by orf on Dec 7, 2020 | 169 comments

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Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015) (web.archive.org)

201 points by tslocum on Dec 14, 2020 | 93 comments

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Materialize Raises a $32M Series B (materialize.com)

201 points by austinbirch on Dec 2, 2020 | 86 comments

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How Payment Transaction Processing Works (blog.privacy.com)

201 points by mooreds on Dec 7, 2020 | 79 comments

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I've designed UI Flow Cards because I couldn't find one like it (flowcards.io)

201 points by fatihguner on Dec 11, 2020 | 54 comments