HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8731.

Roman Finger Counting (tookmund.com)

180 points by JNRowe on May 14, 2020 | 86 comments

8732.

Google Will Eat Itself (2005) (gwei.org)

180 points by viraptor on Jul 31, 2020 | 85 comments

8733.

End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux (coreos.com)

180 points by thebeardisred on Feb 5, 2020 | 78 comments

8734.

Extra salty sodium battery performs on par with lithium (newatlas.com)

180 points by bornelsewhere on Jun 1, 2020 | 78 comments

8735.

Wildlife Services, a US agency planting 'cyanide bombs' to kill predators (theguardian.com)

180 points by rainhacker on Jun 26, 2020 | 78 comments

8736.

Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against NSO (venturebeat.com)

180 points by KoftaBob on Dec 22, 2020 | 70 comments

8737.

Show HN: 100% offline Shamir's Secret Sharing GUI (simon-frey.com)

180 points by l1am0 on Jun 16, 2020 | 67 comments

8738.

Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine (cloud.google.com)

180 points by v7p1Qbt1im on May 14, 2020 | 66 comments

8739.

Emulating Windows system calls in Linux (lwn.net)

180 points by mfilion on Aug 11, 2020 | 64 comments

8740.

The largest cave owner in the U.S. (outsideonline.com)

180 points by aaron695 on Jun 22, 2020 | 46 comments

8741.

Normalization of Deviance (2015) (danluu.com)

180 points by pabs3 on Jan 25, 2020 | 43 comments

8742.

Python for Kids: A Comprehensive Python Development Tutorial for Kids (github.com)

180 points by rbanffy on Sep 29, 2020 | 42 comments

8743.

Iconic Star Wars Book Author Claims Disney Owes Him 4 Years of Overdue Royalties (movieweb.com)

180 points by Flamingo94 on Nov 23, 2020 | 41 comments

8744.

Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps (gpfault.net)

180 points by nice_byte on Aug 18, 2020 | 38 comments

8745.

The Mystery of Deceased Hiker ‘Mostly Harmless’ Is at Long Last Solved (adventure-journal.com)

180 points by rdegges on Dec 24, 2020 | 37 comments

8746.

Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language (github.com)

180 points by headalgorithm on Nov 10, 2020 | 34 comments

8747.

Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads (studio.polotno.dev)

180 points by lavrton on Dec 15, 2020 | 32 comments

8748.

SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives (github.com)

180 points by app4soft on Apr 1, 2020 | 31 comments

8749.

The Hash Monster: ESP-32 Tamagotchi for WiFi Cracking (telescope.ac)

180 points by wolframio on Sep 2, 2020 | 28 comments

8750.

Emacs Org Files in a Browser (organice.200ok.ch)

180 points by risktaker on May 12, 2020 | 27 comments

8751.

Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk (github.com)

180 points by rethab on Jun 23, 2020 | 27 comments

8752.

Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust (plv.mpi-sws.org)

180 points by pjmlp on Feb 9, 2020 | 26 comments

8753.

Testing Sync at Dropbox (dropbox.tech)

180 points by rbtying on Apr 20, 2020 | 25 comments

8754.

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf] (cs.auckland.ac.nz)

180 points by jeremylevy on Aug 26, 2020 | 17 comments

8755.

Rocket Lab gets NASA certification for official smallsat launches (techcrunch.com)

180 points by ajaviaad on Mar 17, 2020 | 9 comments

8756.

One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong (vox.com)

179 points by satchet on Nov 10, 2020 | 536 comments

8757.

Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web (withblue.ink)

179 points by talhah on Dec 5, 2020 | 452 comments

8758.

Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms? (theatlantic.com)

179 points by prostoalex on Jan 27, 2020 | 451 comments

8759.

EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US (politico.eu)

179 points by colinjoy on Oct 18, 2020 | 333 comments

8760.

How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost? (strongtowns.org)

179 points by oftenwrong on Jan 27, 2020 | 312 comments