HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

27211.

Call it the ‘boss tax:’ Seattle finally finds a potent way to tax the rich (seattletimes.com)

39 points by wallflower on Jul 5, 2020 | 48 comments

27212.

The Subtle Dangers of the Comma Operator (C++) (humanreadablemag.com)

39 points by pekalicious on May 30, 2020 | 47 comments

27213.

Rust's Complexity Problem – A Warning (medium.com)

39 points by jcirclee on Mar 17, 2020 | 46 comments

27214.

Which countries have protected both health and the economy in the pandemic? (ourworldindata.org)

39 points by _Microft on Sep 1, 2020 | 46 comments

27215.

‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists (voiceofaction.org)

39 points by 1qazxsw23edc on Jul 5, 2020 | 45 comments

27216.

Ask HN: Do you miss Steve Jobs in 2020?

39 points by behnamoh on May 14, 2020 | 44 comments

27217.

Why Most Founders Don’t Take Good Advice (hardfork.substack.com)

39 points by deppp on Jul 23, 2020 | 44 comments

27218.

Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress (ibtimes.sg)

39 points by elorant on Dec 25, 2020 | 44 comments

27219.

A website has “stolen” my program and reselling it

39 points by reliefs on Jan 22, 2020 | 43 comments

27220.

French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries amid coronavirus risk (politico.eu)

39 points by Quanttek on Apr 25, 2020 | 43 comments

27221.

Airbnb Pulled Back from the Brink (wsj.com)

39 points by prostoalex on Oct 12, 2020 | 43 comments

27222.

DRY is a footgun, remember to YAGNI (swizec.com)

39 points by dsego on Dec 5, 2020 | 43 comments

27223.

First release of quantum operating system, Deltaflow (riverlane.com)

39 points by kristianpaul on Dec 21, 2020 | 43 comments

27224.

California, Los Angeles see jump in new cases, Bay Area continues down (eastbaytimes.com)

39 points by MilnerRoute on May 1, 2020 | 42 comments

27225.

My doctor gave a wrong neurological diagnosis. I should know: I'm a neurologist (washingtonpost.com)

39 points by MilnerRoute on Oct 4, 2020 | 41 comments

27226.

The real world is mutable – consequences for system design (utcc.utoronto.ca)

39 points by ash on Jan 30, 2020 | 40 comments

27227.

Flight AC837 on an Emergency Call

39 points by ainiriand on Feb 3, 2020 | 40 comments

27228.

Show HN: Built an extension to put an end to paywalls and popups (chrome.google.com)

39 points by adawg4 on Apr 13, 2020 | 39 comments

27229.

Best Consumer Hard Drives: August 2020 (anandtech.com)

39 points by rbanffy on Aug 29, 2020 | 38 comments

27230.

Ask HN: How will the world change post pandemic?

39 points by zarkov99 on Apr 12, 2020 | 37 comments

27231.

The effectiveness of cloth masks has been misrepresented (rssdss.design.blog)

39 points by martingoodson on Apr 24, 2020 | 36 comments

27232.

Monads and Intensionality – Lucid is not an aberration (billwadge.wordpress.com)

39 points by rutenspitz on Aug 4, 2020 | 36 comments

27233.

Show HN: Willow Patch Games - online games with friends and family (willowpatchgames.com)

39 points by cipherboy on Oct 18, 2020 | 36 comments

27234.

Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5M?

39 points by gooeykabuki on Oct 5, 2020 | 35 comments

27235.

Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?

39 points by dpapathanasiou on Feb 17, 2020 | 34 comments

27236.

Is our fight against coronavirus worse than the disease? (nytimes.com)

39 points by hecubus on Mar 20, 2020 | 34 comments

27237.

Twitter removes Trump campaign tribute to Floyd claiming copyright complaint (thehill.com)

39 points by drocer88 on Jun 6, 2020 | 34 comments

27238.

Huawei says it’s running out of chips for smartphones because of US sanctions (theverge.com)

39 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2020 | 34 comments

27239.

Guillotine Placed Outside Jeff Bezos' D.C. Home by Anti-Amazon Protesters (newsweek.com)

39 points by koolba on Jun 30, 2020 | 33 comments

27240.

Gimp project gets $68.34 monthly

39 points by randomzerg on Aug 31, 2020 | 33 comments