HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

22741.

Why did Slack win out over IRC? (2018) (vice.com)

56 points by d99kris on Apr 26, 2020 | 76 comments

22742.

Ask HN: How do I escape webdev?

56 points by valleyforge on Mar 3, 2020 | 74 comments

22743.

Did Apple build MagSafe so that cases can “stick” to the new iPhones? (twitter.com)

56 points by nicolascom on Oct 17, 2020 | 71 comments

22744.

Emptier US roads more lethal in coronavirus pandemic, report says (bbc.com)

56 points by thisistheend123 on May 21, 2020 | 65 comments

22745.

Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America (smithsonianmag.com)

56 points by pseudolus on Jan 25, 2020 | 63 comments

22746.

The Case for Adding 672 Million More Americans (nymag.com)

56 points by pseudolus on Sep 6, 2020 | 63 comments

22747.

Google is shutting down Neighbourly (support.google.com)

56 points by ykm on Apr 2, 2020 | 62 comments

22748.

Why do electron shells have set limits? (1999) (madsci.org)

56 points by xingyzt on Jul 4, 2020 | 62 comments

22749.

Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?

56 points by mettamage on Aug 15, 2020 | 62 comments

22750.

AI Assistants Have Poor Usability: Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri (2018) (nngroup.com)

56 points by spideymans on Aug 29, 2020 | 61 comments

22751.

WD SN850 delivers the best performing SSD we've tested (tweaktown.com)

56 points by giuliomagnifico on Nov 9, 2020 | 59 comments

22752.

Show HN: NotePlan 3 – Native (Mac/iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files (noteplan.co)

56 points by EduardMe on Nov 24, 2020 | 59 comments

22753.

UK government releases scientific evidence supporting Covid-19 response (gov.uk)

56 points by helsinkiandrew on Mar 20, 2020 | 58 comments

22754.

Facebook engineer Ashok Chandwaney quits with scathing letter (gizmodo.com)

56 points by Kroeler on Sep 8, 2020 | 58 comments

22755.

After 4 Years of Silence, a Call to Mom on Mother’s Day (nytimes.com)

56 points by danso on May 10, 2020 | 57 comments

22756.

Usability of Footnotes (shkspr.mobi)

56 points by edent on Jul 27, 2020 | 57 comments

22757.

Ask HN: Wouldn't it be great to be able to follow fellow HN users?

56 points by reimertz on Nov 11, 2020 | 57 comments

22758.

Ask HN: Why are jobs gotten via referrals but online blind dating is now normal?

56 points by tempsy on Jan 7, 2020 | 56 comments

22759.

The Gap: Where Machine Learning Education Falls Short (thegradient.pub)

56 points by andreyk on Oct 10, 2020 | 56 comments

22760.

Build your next app with a graph database (dgraph.io)

56 points by fernandogmo on Jul 9, 2020 | 55 comments

22761.

Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnerability (groups.google.com)

56 points by panarky on May 3, 2020 | 54 comments

22762.

5k people have pledged to give 10%+ of their income to effective charities (givingwhatwecan.org)

56 points by lukefreeman on Sep 27, 2020 | 54 comments

22763.

Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests (sciencemag.org)

56 points by Hooke on Mar 1, 2020 | 53 comments

22764.

The Many-Worlds Interpretation of JavaScript (hachibu.net)

56 points by hachibu on May 15, 2020 | 52 comments

22765.

Counterintuitive things that helped me fix my insomnia (medium.com)

56 points by jkuria on Mar 19, 2020 | 50 comments

22766.

Let's Make the Web Weird Again [audio] (podcasts.apple.com)

56 points by jeffmorrisjr on Nov 17, 2020 | 50 comments

22767.

Coronavirus outbreak won't peak in every state at once (axios.com)

56 points by JumpCrisscross on Mar 31, 2020 | 49 comments

22768.

The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real (washingtonpost.com)

56 points by TakakiTohno on May 3, 2020 | 49 comments

22769.

Tesla set to join S&P 500 (spglobal.com)

56 points by xoxoy on Nov 16, 2020 | 49 comments

22770.

Covid-19: Impact on business sectors and the economy (blog.smallcase.com)

56 points by rbansode0588 on May 3, 2020 | 48 comments