HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20191.

The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are Faring (2017) (antropy.co.uk)

69 points by segfaultbuserr on Oct 16, 2020 | 120 comments

20192.

Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012) (pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org)

69 points by jnxx on Jul 18, 2020 | 110 comments

20193.

Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence (theconversation.com)

69 points by imaliesiera on Jul 19, 2020 | 110 comments

20194.

Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong (themarshallproject.org)

69 points by epistasis on Jun 5, 2020 | 107 comments

20195.

Ask HN: First hire offered to work part-time – what should I do?

69 points by bluestreak on Feb 28, 2020 | 100 comments

20196.

Qt 5.15 LTS (qt.io)

69 points by reddotX on May 27, 2020 | 98 comments

20197.

US Navy Patent Antigravity Device (blopeur.com)

69 points by blopeur on May 4, 2020 | 96 comments

20198.

Future gun control has been shot down (thoughtleader.co.za)

69 points by ismail on Oct 12, 2020 | 94 comments

20199.

Postmodernism and Its Impact (2017) (areomagazine.com)

69 points by bluetomcat on Jun 4, 2020 | 91 comments

20200.

Tesla is not essential business as defined in the Alameda County Health Order (twitter.com)

69 points by olivermarks on Mar 18, 2020 | 88 comments

20201.

State of Linux Desktop Security (bjornpagen.com)

69 points by zeva on Jun 18, 2020 | 85 comments

20202.

Wirelessly charging electric cars as they drive (news.stanford.edu)

69 points by hhs on May 7, 2020 | 84 comments

20203.

Targeted MitM attacks using information leakage in SSH clients [pdf] (fzi.de)

69 points by based2 on Jul 4, 2020 | 83 comments

20204.

Facebook to police anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White (washingtonpost.com)

69 points by burnthrow on Dec 3, 2020 | 81 comments

20205.

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (marianamazzucato.com)

69 points by SkyMarshal on Jul 19, 2020 | 80 comments

20206.

Ask HN: How do you write code so it's easy to change?

69 points by mtm7 on Mar 16, 2020 | 77 comments

20207.

Talk about “AI” in the press these days tends to conflate two things (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

69 points by luu on Dec 12, 2020 | 77 comments

20208.

Launch HN: Mindset Health (YC S19) – Hypnotherapy apps for chronic conditions

69 points by alexnaoumidis on Jul 17, 2020 | 74 comments

20209.

Why Silicon Valley has so many Bad Managers (getlighthouse.com)

69 points by ohjeez on Nov 6, 2020 | 74 comments

20210.

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus vs. Gen10 Hardware Overview (servethehome.com)

69 points by mchan on Feb 27, 2020 | 72 comments

20211.

Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV infection (medrxiv.org)

69 points by fortani on Feb 25, 2020 | 70 comments

20212.

“Baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again (arstechnica.com)

69 points by pwg on Apr 28, 2020 | 70 comments

20213.

Free Transit for Riders Under 18? In Paris, It’s Here (bloomberg.com)

69 points by danso on Sep 6, 2020 | 70 comments

20214.

4chan reveals online voter exploit that can be used to cancel ballots? (twitter.com)

69 points by michannne on Oct 18, 2020 | 70 comments

20215.

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation (hbr.org)

69 points by robmaceachern on Oct 27, 2020 | 69 comments

20216.

Ask HN: How do you answer “where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

69 points by mud_dauber on May 16, 2020 | 68 comments

20217.

Beowulf: A New Translation (us.macmillan.com)

69 points by flannery on Dec 31, 2020 | 68 comments

20218.

Private Equity Investing Now Allowed in 401(k) Retirement Funds (news.bloomberglaw.com)

69 points by joeyespo on Jun 19, 2020 | 67 comments

20219.

Serverless: I'm a Big Kid Now (simplethread.com)

69 points by jetheredge on Aug 13, 2020 | 66 comments

20220.

Army Dissects Black Hawk Helicopter, Scans Parts for 3D Printing (breakingdefense.com)

69 points by dfsegoat on Oct 15, 2020 | 66 comments