HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

Cotton Candy (2010) (cottoncandy.net)

109 points by lelf on Feb 8, 2020 | 37 comments

1082.

Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service (thenextweb.com)

109 points by ianwalter on Feb 19, 2020 | 28 comments

1083.

Video Game Keyboard Diagrams (isometricland.net)

109 points by app4soft on Feb 16, 2020 | 26 comments

1084.

Three Types of Data (brandons.me)

109 points by brundolf on Feb 15, 2020 | 23 comments

1085.

A Regular Expression Matcher (2007) (cs.princeton.edu)

109 points by ville on Feb 13, 2020 | 22 comments

1086.

A Human's Guide to Words (2010) (wiki.lesswrong.com)

109 points by Symmetry on Feb 14, 2020 | 15 comments

1087.

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005) (charlespetzold.com)

108 points by goranmoomin on Feb 6, 2020 | 118 comments

1088.

Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?

108 points by vsareto on Feb 9, 2020 | 89 comments

1089.

Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November (utoronto.ca)

108 points by hardmaru on Feb 10, 2020 | 73 comments

1090.

SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch (reddit.com)

108 points by gokhan on Feb 17, 2020 | 66 comments

1091.

How ‘big law’ makes big money (nybooks.com)

108 points by prostoalex on Feb 5, 2020 | 61 comments

1092.

Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found (arstechnica.com)

108 points by GraemeL on Feb 6, 2020 | 60 comments

1093.

Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance 16 to 128 Threads with Threadripper 3990X (phoronix.com)

108 points by jjuhl on Feb 15, 2020 | 52 comments

1094.

Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development (blog.alexellis.io)

108 points by alexellisuk on Feb 3, 2020 | 50 comments

1095.

Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors (freightwaves.com)

108 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Feb 26, 2020 | 44 comments

1096.

Writing a DSL in Lua (2015) (leafo.net)

108 points by ColinWright on Feb 3, 2020 | 41 comments

1097.

Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics (mathpendium.org)

108 points by CatsAreCool on Feb 10, 2020 | 36 comments

1098.

NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon with Arm64, Updated ZFS, HW-Accelerated Virtualization (phoronix.com)

108 points by rbanffy on Feb 3, 2020 | 24 comments

1099.

Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants (bbc.com)

108 points by m-i-l on Feb 14, 2020 | 20 comments

1100.

The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction (olivercameron.substack.com)

107 points by edward on Feb 20, 2020 | 153 comments

1101.

Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers (theatlantic.com)

107 points by laurex on Feb 6, 2020 | 117 comments

1102.

Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant (nytimes.com)

107 points by vo2maxer on Feb 27, 2020 | 116 comments

1103.

NanoTritium 20-Year Betavoltaic Battery (citylabs.net)

107 points by peter_d_sherman on Feb 5, 2020 | 87 comments

1104.

The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments (blog.testdouble.com)

107 points by mooreds on Feb 23, 2020 | 74 comments

1105.

Ancestry lays off 6% of staff (techcrunch.com)

107 points by lxm on Feb 6, 2020 | 62 comments

1106.

Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading (topfantasyreads.com)