HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2971.

Git Worktrees: The Best Git Feature You’ve Never Heard Of (medium.com)

21 points by troysultan on Apr 29, 2020 | 0 comments

2972.

Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now Its Falling Apart (onezero.medium.com)

20 points by gHeadphone on Apr 12, 2020 | 23 comments

2973.

Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No (wsj.com)

20 points by mrfusion on Apr 29, 2020 | 21 comments

2974.

Ask HN: Have you ever hit absolute rock bottom?

20 points by raceconditioner on Apr 26, 2020 | 19 comments

2975.

Taleb: The only man who has a clue (nakedcapitalism.com)

20 points by mjirv on Apr 16, 2020 | 17 comments

2976.

Making a crow box for a rooster (2018) (backyardchickens.com)

20 points by pvaldes on Apr 18, 2020 | 17 comments

2977.

Airbnb raises $1B to weather the coronavirus crisis (axios.com)

20 points by JumpCrisscross on Apr 6, 2020 | 16 comments

2978.

Ask HN: I'm declaring dotfile bankruptcy. How to start from scratch effectively?

20 points by gjvc on Apr 23, 2020 | 16 comments

2979.

Trump Plans to Suspend Immigration to U.S. (nytimes.com)

20 points by jashkenas on Apr 21, 2020 | 15 comments

2980.

Why is there no Git workflow for non-devs?

20 points by mesutandtie on Apr 25, 2020 | 13 comments

2981.

NIH Clinical Trial Shows Remdesivir Accelerates Recovery from Advanced Covid-19 (niaid.nih.gov)

20 points by vikramkr on Apr 29, 2020 | 13 comments

2982.

Preppers Are Quite Prepared to Enjoy Some Vindication (nytimes.com)

20 points by discocrisco on Apr 24, 2020 | 12 comments

2983.

Why SpaceX desperately needs a government bailout (tmfassociates.com)

20 points by dankohn1 on Apr 7, 2020 | 10 comments

2984.

Equinox will not be making invoice payments until further notice (twitter.com)

20 points by undefined1 on Apr 7, 2020 | 10 comments

2985.

Covid-19 Projections (covid19.healthdata.org)

20 points by robomartin on Apr 8, 2020 | 10 comments

2986.

The Contradictions of Eric Hobsbawm (2019) (newstatesman.com)

20 points by apollinaire on Apr 18, 2020 | 10 comments

2987.

Facebook launches Messenger app for desktop (about.fb.com)

20 points by Lagogarda on Apr 2, 2020 | 9 comments

2988.

Appeal for volunteers in UK to be tested for COVID-19 to see how widespead it is (oxford.onlinesurveys.ac.uk)

20 points by robertwiblin on Apr 2, 2020 | 9 comments

2989.

Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi (matrix.org)

20 points by Arathorn on Apr 6, 2020 | 9 comments

2990.

Gnome Shell is moving towards a convergent, mobile-friendly UI (tuxphones.com)

20 points by caution on Apr 8, 2020 | 9 comments

2991.

Vodafone chief speaks out after hospital-serving phone mast torched (theregister.co.uk)

20 points by samizdis on Apr 15, 2020 | 9 comments

2992.

Bitcoin stealer infected 700 libraries of major programming language (decrypt.co)

20 points by woliveirajr on Apr 20, 2020 | 9 comments

2993.

Open Floor Plan Could Help Spread Coronavirus (wsj.com)

20 points by petilon on Apr 25, 2020 | 9 comments

2994.

Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash (youtube.com)

20 points by lucgommans on Apr 13, 2020 | 8 comments

2995.

LibRaptorQ: Fountain Codes for C/C++ (fenrirproject.org)

20 points by bb88 on Apr 19, 2020 | 8 comments

2996.

Show HN: Slack app to control your team's Amazon purchases (controlhub.com)

20 points by santiba on Apr 22, 2020 | 8 comments

2997.

Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial (ft.com)

20 points by balola on Apr 23, 2020 | 6 comments

2998.

Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom (rmsol.de)

20 points by Redeyes on Apr 25, 2020 | 6 comments

2999.

Magnetocapacitance (en.wikipedia.org)

20 points by peter_d_sherman on Apr 26, 2020 | 6 comments

3000.

The iPad Magic Keyboard (daringfireball.net)

20 points by robenkleene on Apr 21, 2020 | 5 comments