HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Exotic Programming Ideas (stephendiehl.com)

176 points by elorm on Dec 5, 2020 | 83 comments

812.

I accidentally built a spying app (withblue.ink)

176 points by akeck on Dec 5, 2020 | 60 comments

813.

When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet (glinden.blogspot.com)

175 points by nkurz on Dec 16, 2020 | 404 comments

814.

Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash (cnn.com)

175 points by pseudolus on Dec 14, 2020 | 145 comments

815.

Getting started with C (not.cafe)

175 points by hdante on Dec 16, 2020 | 103 comments

816.

I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years (framelabs.eu)

175 points by clash on Dec 12, 2020 | 82 comments

817.

Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax (dyno-might.github.io)

174 points by dyno-might on Dec 11, 2020 | 154 comments

818.

The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor (arstechnica.com)

174 points by furcyd on Dec 20, 2020 | 145 comments

819.

How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser (shkspr.mobi)

174 points by edent on Dec 11, 2020 | 74 comments

820.

SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0 (sbcl.org)

174 points by susam on Dec 30, 2020 | 74 comments

821.

Bootstrap 5 Beta 1 (blog.getbootstrap.com)

174 points by mkurz on Dec 7, 2020 | 63 comments

822.

AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly (assemblyscript.org)

174 points by washclothjr on Dec 18, 2020 | 54 comments

823.

GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 (sourceforge.net)

173 points by rhabarba on Dec 11, 2020 | 225 comments

824.

Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data (washingtonpost.com)

173 points by scott_s on Dec 10, 2020 | 168 comments

825.

Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures (bbc.co.uk)

173 points by g_p on Dec 24, 2020 | 151 comments

826.

A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests (bbc.com)

173 points by williamsharris on Dec 15, 2020 | 136 comments

827.

What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study (zeynep.substack.com)

173 points by haltingproblem on Dec 4, 2020 | 106 comments

828.

Some Differences Between macOS and Common Unix Systems (dyx.name)

173 points by dongyx on Dec 25, 2020 | 76 comments

829.

Where Did Combinators Come From? Hunting the Story of Moses Schönfinkel (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

173 points by abiboudis on Dec 7, 2020 | 52 comments

830.

Legally Free Python Books List (pythonkitchen.com)

173 points by osdotsystem on Dec 15, 2020 | 41 comments

831.

Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS (plausible.io)

173 points by markosaric on Dec 17, 2020 | 41 comments

832.

Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: Self-Destructive Last Months of Zappos Visionary (forbes.com)

173 points by AlexMuir on Dec 4, 2020 | 40 comments

833.

The best things and stuff of 2020 (blog.fogus.me)

173 points by geospeck on Dec 31, 2020 | 37 comments

834.

Pixar's Universal Scene Description Now on Pypi (pypi.org)

173 points by dagmx on Dec 1, 2020 | 20 comments

835.

Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook (inc.com)

172 points by evo_9 on Dec 24, 2020 | 183 comments

836.

Neverware is now part of Google (cloudreadykb.neverware.com)

172 points by jccalhoun on Dec 15, 2020 | 110 comments

837.

Jepsen: Scylla 4.2-rc3 (jepsen.io)

172 points by aphyr on Dec 23, 2020 | 31 comments

838.

Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as group rejects substitute (theguardian.com)