HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

An update to storage policies across your Google Account (blog.google)

407 points by e2e4 on Dec 3, 2020 | 419 comments

212.

Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact (psychnewsdaily.com)

407 points by Bologo on Dec 15, 2020 | 246 comments

213.

Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?

406 points by swyx on Dec 12, 2020 | 304 comments

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How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017) (thehustle.co)

406 points by 80mph on Dec 22, 2020 | 261 comments

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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine (arxiv.org)

406 points by scottlocklin on Dec 5, 2020 | 107 comments

216.

EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech (bbc.com)

405 points by adrian_mrd on Dec 15, 2020 | 319 comments

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Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world (thruhikes.net)

405 points by oguzcanhuner on Dec 29, 2020 | 131 comments

218.

Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole (labzilla.io)

405 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 5, 2020 | 2 comments

219.

Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person (theguardian.com)

404 points by jelliclesfarm on Dec 28, 2020 | 226 comments

220.

Shitlist Driven Development (2016) (sirupsen.com)

404 points by r4um on Dec 15, 2020 | 137 comments

221.

A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators (mukulrathi.co.uk)

402 points by mseri on Dec 25, 2020 | 44 comments

222.

Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V (erik-engheim.medium.com)

401 points by socialdemocrat on Dec 20, 2020 | 305 comments

223.

Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer

399 points by fortydegrees on Dec 22, 2020 | 413 comments

224.

Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage (developers.facebook.com)

399 points by iag on Dec 10, 2020 | 238 comments

225.

Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China (washingtonpost.com)

398 points by mzs on Dec 29, 2020 | 727 comments

226.

Rails 6.1 (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

396 points by jonathanhefner on Dec 9, 2020 | 82 comments

227.

WebAssembly Studio (webassembly.studio)

394 points by _zhqs on Dec 31, 2020 | 214 comments

228.

Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence (edition.cnn.com)

390 points by Tomte on Dec 14, 2020 | 349 comments

229.

Why do I care the open web is dying? (insightbrowser.com)

390 points by archajain on Dec 1, 2020 | 339 comments

230.

Games people play with cash flow (commoncog.com)

389 points by kalonis on Dec 9, 2020 | 141 comments

231.

Expanding Fuchsia's open source model (opensource.googleblog.com)

387 points by tbodt on Dec 8, 2020 | 323 comments

232.

LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative (github.com)

386 points by hanklazard on Dec 31, 2020 | 136 comments

233.

I wired a Christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates (youtube.com)

386 points by liotier on Dec 24, 2020 | 87 comments

234.

EmacsConf 2020 Talks (emacsconf.org)

386 points by AlexeyBrin on Dec 6, 2020 | 83 comments

235.

Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy (businessinsider.com)

383 points by jacksonpollock on Dec 7, 2020 | 948 comments

236.

Self-Hosting Still Pays (servethehome.com)

382 points by emperor_ on Dec 1, 2020 | 331 comments

237.

EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants (dw.com)

381 points by dcgudeman on Dec 15, 2020 | 367 comments

238.

Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year (socketsite.com)

380 points by elsewhen on Dec 28, 2020 | 537 comments

239.

GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark (blog.karenying.com)

380 points by karenying7 on Dec 12, 2020 | 194 comments

240.

Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds (playstation.com)

379 points by Kapura on Dec 18, 2020 | 618 comments