HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom (dailymail.co.uk)

78 points by frellus on May 11, 2020 | 52 comments

1682.

Tesla employees who don’t return to work could lose unemployment benefits (techcrunch.com)

78 points by sharemywin on May 14, 2020 | 48 comments

1683.

JetBlue Funded a Stanford Study That Said the Coronavirus Wasn’t That Deadly (buzzfeednews.com)

78 points by elorant on May 15, 2020 | 41 comments

1684.

Typing 共匪 (communist bandit) in YouTube comments will automatically be deleted (twitter.com)

78 points by sfj on May 13, 2020 | 34 comments

1685.

Sod – An Embedded Computer Vision and Machine Learning Tiny C Library (sod.pixlab.io)

78 points by symisc_devel on May 26, 2020 | 29 comments

1686.

Show HN: Rssfs – An RSS reader written as a file system (github.com)

78 points by rhabarba on May 10, 2020 | 19 comments

1687.

Embedding Objective-Smalltalk (blog.metaobject.com)

78 points by mpweiher on May 14, 2020 | 7 comments

1688.

Latency in Asynchronous Python (nullprogram.com)

78 points by chmaynard on May 24, 2020 | 6 comments

1689.

Travels with John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions (nytimes.com)

78 points by furcyd on May 16, 2020 | 3 comments

1690.

Accretor Cellular Automata (2018) (softologyblog.wordpress.com)

78 points by gtsnexp on May 31, 2020 | 3 comments

1691.

PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers (theverge.com)

77 points by aspenmayer on May 9, 2020 | 157 comments

1692.

The Trolley Problem Problem (aeon.co)

77 points by Hooke on May 31, 2020 | 115 comments

1693.

Policymakers must consider the harms of pandemic policies, not just benefits (bostonreview.net)

77 points by lilrhody on May 26, 2020 | 103 comments

1694.

The Third Age of JavaScript (swyx.io)

77 points by swyx on May 20, 2020 | 85 comments

1695.

Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era Interconnect (fuse.wikichip.org)

77 points by blopeur on May 5, 2020 | 54 comments

1696.

How Payments Providers Screw You (2015) (jackkinsella.ie)

77 points by saadalem on May 9, 2020 | 39 comments

1697.

Arm is offering early-stage startups free access to its chip designs (techcrunch.com)

77 points by lihaciudaniel on May 1, 2020 | 35 comments

1698.

Lighting controlled by a OralB Bluetooth toothbrush (twitter.com)

77 points by imduffy15 on May 3, 2020 | 25 comments

1699.

Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter (internetofthieves.org)

77 points by randomwalker on May 20, 2020 | 25 comments

1700.

The Mount St. Helens Eruption Was the Volcanic Warning We Needed (nytimes.com)

77 points by jandrewrogers on May 18, 2020 | 22 comments

1701.

Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join (joaoapps.com)

77 points by hadrien01 on May 14, 2020 | 16 comments

1702.

Rules for Writers (locusmag.com)

77 points by fanf2 on May 6, 2020 | 15 comments

1703.

Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf] (mboehme.github.io)

77 points by luu on May 20, 2020 | 10 comments

1704.

If landlords get wiped out, Wall Street wins, not renters (bloomberg.com)

76 points by bkohlmann on May 13, 2020 | 231 comments

1705.

Show HN: Raspberry Pi garage door opener (github.com)

76 points by zaabis on May 14, 2020 | 114 comments

1706.

Death of the Office (1843magazine.com)

76 points by eplanit on May 1, 2020 | 68 comments

1707.

America’s Havana: Thousands Say “Ciao” to San Francisco (city-journal.org)

76 points by jseliger on May 12, 2020 | 67 comments

1708.

Junk-Bond Sellers Desperate for Funding Swallow Yields over 10% (bloomberg.com)

76 points by SREinSF on May 6, 2020 | 65 comments

1709.

Research on the benefits of “weak ties” – connecting with casual acquaintances (hbr.org)

76 points by MaysonL on May 2, 2020 | 38 comments

1710.

Making game engines is a waste of time – I probably won’t stop making them (benwiser.com)

76 points by RupertWiser on May 17, 2020 | 38 comments