HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

378 points by jelliclesfarm on Dec 11, 2020 | 840 comments

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Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity (e360.yale.edu)

378 points by thread_id on Dec 10, 2020 | 479 comments

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Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (ourworldindata.org)

376 points by yurisagalov on Dec 1, 2020 | 624 comments

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Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK (bbc.co.uk)

376 points by agd on Dec 30, 2020 | 417 comments

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I assume I’m below average (2010) (sive.rs)

376 points by enigmatic02 on Dec 15, 2020 | 224 comments

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How We Built the GitHub Globe (github.blog)

376 points by scalableUnicon on Dec 30, 2020 | 101 comments

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HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash (twitter.com)

375 points by tosh on Dec 30, 2020 | 364 comments

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Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old (hystoria.100millionbooks.org)

375 points by moksha256 on Dec 9, 2020 | 97 comments

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A computer science study plan to become a software engineer (github.com)

374 points by sturza on Dec 16, 2020 | 216 comments

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FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services (ftc.gov)

373 points by g0xA52A2A on Dec 14, 2020 | 276 comments

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System76 – Pangolin (system76.com)

371 points by digdigdag on Dec 4, 2020 | 381 comments

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Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday (psychnewsdaily.com)

371 points by whx23 on Dec 16, 2020 | 208 comments

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No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding (occamstypewriter.org)

369 points by jocker12 on Dec 4, 2020 | 154 comments

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Hexagonal Grids (2013) (redblobgames.com)

368 points by siliconmountain on Dec 8, 2020 | 74 comments

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Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development (tech.ssut.me)

367 points by ssut on Dec 14, 2020 | 457 comments

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Lode Runner (filfre.net)

367 points by doppp on Dec 20, 2020 | 104 comments

257.

A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM (blogs.windows.com)

366 points by Tepix on Dec 11, 2020 | 396 comments

258.

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (how.complexsystems.fail)

366 points by mxschumacher on Dec 27, 2020 | 83 comments

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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (news.mit.edu)

365 points by chmaynard on Dec 15, 2020 | 229 comments

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Analog TV Station on ESP8266 (github.com)

365 points by dvfjsdhgfv on Dec 7, 2020 | 73 comments

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Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform (vice.com)

364 points by chromosome on Dec 14, 2020 | 523 comments

262.

Voat Is Shutting Down (voat.co)

363 points by xyzzy667 on Dec 22, 2020 | 619 comments

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) (prog21.dadgum.com)

363 points by jakelazaroff on Dec 3, 2020 | 143 comments

264.

Oracle Moving HQ to Austin (sec.gov)

361 points by whatok on Dec 11, 2020 | 437 comments

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019) (steveblank.com)

361 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 21, 2020 | 360 comments

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Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry (vgdensetsu.tumblr.com)

361 points by tosh on Dec 8, 2020 | 71 comments

267.

It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine (theness.com)

360 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 18, 2020 | 323 comments

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Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs (annoying.technology)

359 points by matrixagent on Dec 16, 2020 | 317 comments

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The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’ (bbc.com)

359 points by sebwi on Dec 1, 2020 | 267 comments

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Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display (github.com)

357 points by sgroppino on Dec 29, 2020 | 129 comments