HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5071.

U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources (reuters.com)

264 points by hhs on Dec 3, 2020 | 309 comments

5072.

'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland (reason.com)

264 points by Bostonian on Sep 6, 2020 | 303 comments

5073.

Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps (theverge.com)

264 points by adrian_mrd on Oct 17, 2020 | 300 comments

5074.

Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC study (thinkpol.ca)

264 points by deegles on Apr 8, 2020 | 295 comments

5075.

Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations (healthcareitnews.com)

264 points by nsriv on Jan 20, 2020 | 245 comments

5076.

I Worked for a Criminal Organization (openmonstervision.github.io)

264 points by bsdpunk on Feb 18, 2020 | 226 comments

5077.

JDK 15 (jdk.java.net)

264 points by aib on Sep 15, 2020 | 212 comments

5078.

2020 Stock Market Crash (en.wikipedia.org)

264 points by smnthermes on Mar 16, 2020 | 199 comments

5079.

Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready (globalhealthnow.org)

264 points by rsfern on Mar 22, 2020 | 195 comments

5080.

Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices (bloomberg.com)

264 points by gumby on Jul 30, 2020 | 191 comments

5081.

Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team (sifive.com)

264 points by pedrow on Jan 27, 2020 | 182 comments

5082.

Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers (cbc.ca)

264 points by voisin on Oct 29, 2020 | 176 comments

5083.

The tragic physics of the deadly explosion in Beirut (wired.com)

264 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 10, 2020 | 175 comments

5084.

Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate (investors.biontech.de)

264 points by doener on Nov 18, 2020 | 171 comments

5085.

I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator (erikwinter.nl)

264 points by mpweiher on Nov 27, 2020 | 167 comments

5086.

Law firms pay Supreme Court clerks $400k bonuses – what are they buying? (nytimes.com)

264 points by elsewhen on Sep 27, 2020 | 162 comments

5087.

Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?

264 points by tmaly on Sep 30, 2020 | 139 comments

5088.

Mojeek: Independent search engine with its own spider (mojeek.com)

264 points by jhoechtl on Dec 10, 2020 | 139 comments

5089.

Blender 2.83 LTS (blender.org)

264 points by doener on Jun 6, 2020 | 134 comments

5090.

Amazon hid its safety crisis (revealnews.org)

264 points by mcspecter on Sep 29, 2020 | 133 comments

5091.

Desolate English path has killed more than 100 people (2017) (bbc.com)

264 points by twoodfin on Sep 6, 2020 | 130 comments

5092.

Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality (bmj.com)

264 points by evo_9 on Nov 12, 2020 | 128 comments

5093.

Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014) (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)

264 points by tosh on Aug 21, 2020 | 123 comments

5094.

Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

264 points by borisandcrispin on Aug 20, 2020 | 110 comments

5095.

Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators to target modders (twitter.com)

264 points by areoform on Dec 30, 2020 | 108 comments

5096.

MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983 (reverb.com)

264 points by davio on Jan 29, 2020 | 105 comments

5097.

Ask HN: How to improve my abstract thinking?

264 points by max_ on Jun 29, 2020 | 104 comments

5098.

Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures (lowtechmagazine.com)