HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

91.

Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can (herts.ac.uk)

610 points by lnguyen on Dec 12, 2020 | 107 comments

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California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M (propublica.org)

609 points by js2 on Dec 27, 2020 | 247 comments

93.

The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design (gameuidatabase.com)

609 points by homarp on Dec 5, 2020 | 101 comments

94.

Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan (mirrorlessrumors.com)

608 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 21, 2020 | 363 comments

95.

Show HN: This website is valid JSON (webdatarender.com)

604 points by gpnt on Dec 8, 2020 | 229 comments

96.

Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year (reddit.com)

602 points by barry-cotter on Dec 14, 2020 | 431 comments

97.

Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library (justine.lol)

599 points by pantalaimon on Dec 28, 2020 | 166 comments

98.

The Case of the Extra 40ms (netflixtechblog.com)

597 points by atg_abhishek on Dec 15, 2020 | 197 comments

99.

Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone (foundation.mozilla.org)

591 points by nojito on Dec 15, 2020 | 386 comments

100.

Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify (open.spotify.com)

585 points by I-M-S on Dec 2, 2020 | 568 comments

101.

iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers (9to5mac.com)

575 points by notRobot on Dec 29, 2020 | 1 comments

102.

Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online (csgordon.github.io)

574 points by MrXOR on Dec 29, 2020 | 53 comments

103.

Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores' (bbc.co.uk)

571 points by edward on Dec 30, 2020 | 329 comments

104.

Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100% (fuelcellsworks.com)

570 points by bookofjoe on Dec 26, 2020 | 284 comments

105.

Firefox 84.0 (mozilla.org)

565 points by easton on Dec 15, 2020 | 315 comments

106.

CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs (clig.dev)

564 points by bfirsh on Dec 4, 2020 | 212 comments

107.

Facebook: Free as in Bullshit (daringfireball.net)

555 points by throw0101a on Dec 19, 2020 | 249 comments

108.

Distributed Systems Reading List (dancres.github.io)

554 points by dedalus on Dec 6, 2020 | 76 comments

109.

EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home (m.dw.com)

553 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 4, 2020 | 524 comments

110.

YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices (torrentfreak.com)

552 points by picture on Dec 21, 2020 | 126 comments

111.

Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK (bbc.com)

551 points by ascorbic on Dec 2, 2020 | 728 comments

112.

Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (berthub.eu)

549 points by ahubert on Dec 25, 2020 | 60 comments

113.

Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back (telegra.ph)

548 points by monort on Dec 23, 2020 | 239 comments

114.

72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings (labzilla.io)

546 points by boramalper on Dec 5, 2020 | 649 comments

115.

Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

545 points by advaitruia on Dec 17, 2020 | 339 comments

116.

CSS in GitHub Readmes (github.com)

544 points by MH15 on Dec 8, 2020 | 193 comments

117.

Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry (vice.com)

542 points by lxm on Dec 3, 2020 | 446 comments

118.

Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH (blog.cloudflare.com)

541 points by websirnik on Dec 8, 2020 | 349 comments

119.

Things You're Allowed to Do (milan.cvitkovic.net)

537 points by thesephist on Dec 23, 2020 | 416 comments

120.

Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill (commondreams.org)

536 points by CharlesW on Dec 22, 2020 | 198 comments