HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2101.

SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching with launch tower (techcrunch.com)

48 points by drannex on Dec 30, 2020 | 10 comments

2102.

Sci-Hub and Libgen Face ISP Blocking in India After High Court Complaint (torrentfreak.com)

48 points by parsecs on Dec 27, 2020 | 8 comments

2103.

Facebook account banned after posting about breaking neck while playing VR (old.reddit.com)

48 points by throwaway13337 on Dec 19, 2020 | 7 comments

2104.

Feedback: Errors, filesystems, magic numbers, and more (rachelbythebay.com)

48 points by zdw on Dec 12, 2020 | 2 comments

2105.

Accidental Observations (itp.uni-hannover.de)

48 points by bondarchuk on Dec 12, 2020 | 1 comments

2106.

My Ken Williams Story (blitter.net)

48 points by EvanAnderson on Dec 18, 2020 | 1 comments

2107.

Go on ARM and Beyond (blog.golang.org)

48 points by dawkins on Dec 18, 2020 | 0 comments

2108.

Nobody says hi in San Francisco (noahpinion.substack.com)

47 points by jashkenas on Dec 24, 2020 | 67 comments

2109.

Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos (arstechnica.com)

47 points by admiralspoo on Dec 11, 2020 | 57 comments

2110.

Why I keep a personal log of bugs (josemdev.com)

47 points by josem on Dec 3, 2020 | 27 comments

2111.

AMD rumored to have a prototype Apple M1 competitor in the works (notebookcheck.net)

47 points by WaxProlix on Dec 4, 2020 | 18 comments

2112.

The U.S. Army Is Creating Robots with Synthetically Grown Muscle (smosa.com)

47 points by bookofjoe on Dec 20, 2020 | 13 comments

2113.

iPhone 6s falls out of a plane and survives, with all the action recorded (9to5mac.com)

47 points by amatheus on Dec 15, 2020 | 12 comments

2114.

Knotwork Designer (birrell.org)

47 points by blewboarwastake on Dec 20, 2020 | 11 comments

2115.

J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85 (1984) (theparisreview.org)

47 points by deepbow on Dec 23, 2020 | 11 comments

2116.

What the Church Meant for James Baldwin (nytimes.com)

47 points by samclemens on Dec 6, 2020 | 8 comments

2117.

Graphik: An identity-aware document and graph database (github.com)

47 points by yagizdegirmenci on Dec 11, 2020 | 6 comments

2118.

Show HN: A convenient graphical image annotation tool (github.com)

47 points by andywang0607 on Dec 14, 2020 | 6 comments

2119.

PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing (arxiv.org)

47 points by matt_d on Dec 28, 2020 | 6 comments

2120.

Game of Life running on Penrose tiles (boingboing.net)

47 points by ColinWright on Dec 31, 2020 | 5 comments

2121.

Double fetches, scheduling algorithms, and onion rings (offlinemark.com)

47 points by markmossberg on Dec 10, 2020 | 3 comments

2122.

The Galileo Eccentric Satellite Surprise (berthub.eu)

47 points by kwk1 on Dec 7, 2020 | 1 comments

2123.

What caused Shimano's Coasting-program to fail? (2010) (yannigroth.com)

46 points by wx196 on Dec 31, 2020 | 113 comments

2124.

Twitch bans Confederate flag, racist emote usage in new conduct policy (polygon.com)

46 points by admiralspoo on Dec 11, 2020 | 109 comments

2125.

Ask HN: Why do they make cars go so fast if it’s illegal?

46 points by EleanorLily on Dec 14, 2020 | 79 comments

2126.

'New variant' of coronavirus identified (bbc.co.uk)

46 points by kjakm on Dec 14, 2020 | 78 comments

2127.

Why Bitcoin Could Be Banned or Criminalized in the Coming Years (medium.com)

46 points by Master_Rashi on Dec 30, 2020 | 76 comments

2128.

Why Tesla stock is vastly overpriced (twitter.com)

46 points by amin on Dec 20, 2020 | 70 comments

2129.

Officials seize 27k artifacts looted by a single French treasure hunter (smithsonianmag.com)

46 points by samizdis on Dec 23, 2020 | 60 comments

2130.

Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned into Jet Fuel? (wired.com)

46 points by scottbucks on Dec 23, 2020 | 44 comments