HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

24931.

Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) (news.bbc.co.uk)

47 points by lelf on Jul 28, 2020 | 86 comments

24932.

Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience (twitter.com)

47 points by ardit33 on Oct 12, 2020 | 85 comments

24933.

ARM Macs and Virtualization: It's going to be great (ml-illustrated.com)

47 points by mlillustrated on Jun 26, 2020 | 83 comments

24934.

US states set to reopen as coronavirus could push jobless rate to 16% (reuters.com)

47 points by yogiUSA on Apr 27, 2020 | 82 comments

24935.

Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators (mattstoller.substack.com)

47 points by bryanrasmussen on Sep 30, 2020 | 82 comments

24936.

Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012) (arstechnica.com)

47 points by CaptainZapp on Jun 19, 2020 | 78 comments

24937.

Ask HN: Economy after coronavirus – what can we do?

47 points by TeMPOraL on Mar 15, 2020 | 75 comments

24938.

Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support (support.google.com)

47 points by bricestacey on Oct 28, 2020 | 75 comments

24939.

Privacy-preserving features in the Mobile Driving License (security.googleblog.com)

47 points by headalgorithm on Nov 6, 2020 | 75 comments

24940.

Ask HN: Getting depressed about money. How do I make a meaningful amount “fast”?

47 points by mcdoug on Jul 22, 2020 | 74 comments

24941.

The housing market faces its next crisis as May rent and mortgages come due (washingtonpost.com)

47 points by jseliger on May 4, 2020 | 72 comments

24942.

A practical case on why we need the humanities (acoup.blog)

47 points by jpeanuts on Jul 3, 2020 | 72 comments

24943.

“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates” (tekdeeps.com)

47 points by draugadrotten on Oct 6, 2020 | 72 comments

24944.

A dead PC game that can't come back (kotaku.com)

47 points by smacktoward on Jan 19, 2020 | 71 comments

24945.

How we scrape 300k prices per day from Google Flights (medium.com)

47 points by gusgordon on Jun 13, 2020 | 67 comments

24946.

Nobody says hi in San Francisco (noahpinion.substack.com)

47 points by jashkenas on Dec 24, 2020 | 67 comments

24947.

Consciousness Isn’t Self-Centered (nautil.us)

47 points by dnetesn on Feb 28, 2020 | 66 comments

24948.

Format Python Code Using YAPF (leimao.github.io)

47 points by keyboardman on Feb 9, 2020 | 65 comments

24949.

Reddit bans 2000 communities including The_Donald (reddit.com)

47 points by subroutine on Jun 30, 2020 | 65 comments

24950.

Philly Restaurants Revolt over Unauthorized Food Delivery “Partnerships” (phillymag.com)

47 points by damontal on Jan 20, 2020 | 62 comments

24951.

Biggest Oil ETF Could Go ‘Lights Out,’ Warns Wall Street Strategist (bloomberg.com)

47 points by JumpCrisscross on Apr 22, 2020 | 60 comments

24952.

How to write good Git commit messages (altcampus.io)

47 points by ashitlerferad on Jun 10, 2020 | 60 comments

24953.

Does computing make the world better? (brandons.me)

47 points by brundolf on Jun 21, 2020 | 60 comments

24954.

Ask HN: How do I learn to write better code?

47 points by momofuku on Sep 22, 2020 | 59 comments

24955.

Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals (bloomberg.com)

47 points by tosh on Feb 22, 2020 | 58 comments

24956.

Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos (arstechnica.com)

47 points by admiralspoo on Dec 11, 2020 | 57 comments

24957.

DuckDuckGo Billboards (duckduckgo.com)

47 points by fukumoto on May 29, 2020 | 55 comments

24958.

Ask HN: How to nab and block a creepy user?

47 points by desaiguddu on Jul 15, 2020 | 55 comments

24959.

Show HN: SessionForward – Simple user session replays and heatmaps (sessionforward.com)

47 points by mahesh_rm on Jul 23, 2020 | 54 comments

24960.

The yuan has been one of the world’s most stable major currencies (economist.com)

47 points by known on Jun 12, 2020 | 53 comments