HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4321.

Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t (theverge.com)

292 points by jedimind on Apr 4, 2020 | 284 comments

4322.

Mutated Covid-19 strain confirmed in Japan as case tally hits record high (japantimes.co.jp)

292 points by Circumnavigate on Dec 25, 2020 | 277 comments

4323.

On Resigning from Google (alphabetworkers.org)

292 points by matthewmacleod on Feb 7, 2020 | 252 comments

4324.

Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?

292 points by AnonC on Apr 15, 2020 | 176 comments

4325.

Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes (blogs.nvidia.com)

292 points by doener on May 22, 2020 | 149 comments

4326.

Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf] (damtp.cam.ac.uk)

292 points by sytelus on Apr 8, 2020 | 144 comments

4327.

Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble (dyno-might.github.io)

292 points by dyno-might on Dec 16, 2020 | 144 comments

4328.

Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement? (arstechnica.com)

292 points by callwaiting on Jan 5, 2020 | 123 comments

4329.

Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable or Google Sheets

292 points by skellystudios on Aug 3, 2020 | 116 comments

4330.

Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000) (bluesnews.com)

292 points by jdmoreira on Nov 29, 2020 | 64 comments

4331.

KnightOS was an interesting operating system (drewdevault.com)

292 points by akalin on Jan 27, 2020 | 60 comments

4332.

Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment (dailydot.com)

291 points by admiralspoo on May 21, 2020 | 452 comments

4333.

That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think (fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com)

291 points by LinuxBender on Aug 10, 2020 | 412 comments

4334.

Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit (twitter.com)

291 points by dootah on Jun 5, 2020 | 409 comments

4335.

Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (nytimes.com)

291 points by megacorp on Jun 24, 2020 | 294 comments

4336.

How and why I stopped buying new laptops (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

291 points by pencil_ on Dec 20, 2020 | 279 comments

4337.

GPT-3 (gwern.net)

291 points by cocoflunchy on Jun 24, 2020 | 200 comments

4338.

The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet (electrek.co)

291 points by evo_9 on Aug 27, 2020 | 183 comments

4339.

GitHub was down (githubstatus.com)

291 points by arparthasarathi on Feb 27, 2020 | 165 comments

4340.

Sonos is spying on me (and you) (blog.gingerlime.com)

291 points by gingerlime on Oct 4, 2020 | 149 comments

4341.

What if we had Local-First Software? (adlrocha.substack.com)

291 points by adlrocha on Oct 15, 2020 | 144 comments

4342.

Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago (news.agu.org)

291 points by sohkamyung on Mar 11, 2020 | 131 comments

4343.

Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove (bbc.co.uk)

291 points by davnicwil on Feb 26, 2020 | 101 comments

4344.

Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model (neherlab.org)

291 points by nbnoll on Mar 18, 2020 | 100 comments

4345.

A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune (gizmodo.com)

291 points by Osiris30 on Jul 4, 2020 | 93 comments

4346.

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data (krebsonsecurity.com)

291 points by feross on Feb 28, 2020 | 68 comments

4347.

China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership (asia.nikkei.com)

290 points by shalmanese on Aug 12, 2020 | 412 comments

4348.

Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now (virologydownunder.com)