HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1441.

How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization (palladiummag.com)

90 points by saadalem on Jul 14, 2020 | 23 comments

1442.

Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf] (metamodular.com)

90 points by ska80 on Jul 4, 2020 | 22 comments

1443.

Very Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (qvault.io)

90 points by igoose1 on Jul 22, 2020 | 18 comments

1444.

Homemade Analytics with Ecto and Elixir (dashbit.co)

90 points by lobo_tuerto on Jul 16, 2020 | 11 comments

1445.

The Rise and Rise of JSON (2017) (twobithistory.org)

89 points by mariuz on Jul 22, 2020 | 167 comments

1446.

Apparent absence of covid transmission at hair salon with face covering policy (cdc.gov)

89 points by AlphaWeaver on Jul 15, 2020 | 166 comments

1447.

Scientists warn of potential wave of Covid-linked brain damage (reuters.com)

89 points by stevenjgarner on Jul 11, 2020 | 92 comments

1448.

GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years (github.blog)

89 points by seesawtron on Jul 19, 2020 | 64 comments

1449.

The Meddling Middlemen of Academia (bastian.rieck.me)

89 points by Topolomancer on Jul 13, 2020 | 58 comments

1450.

Could predictive database queries replace machine learning models? (aito.ai)

89 points by tlarkworthy on Jul 14, 2020 | 49 comments

1451.

PIFuHD: High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization (shunsukesaito.github.io)

89 points by jonbaer on Jul 18, 2020 | 19 comments

1452.

Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change (worldweatherattribution.org)

88 points by tannhaeuser on Jul 23, 2020 | 126 comments

1453.

Defining the ’90s Music Canon (pudding.cool)

88 points by feross on Jul 22, 2020 | 110 comments

1454.

Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review (dxomark.com)

88 points by luu on Jul 3, 2020 | 91 comments

1455.

Stitch Labs has been acquired by Square (stitchlabs.com)

88 points by simonsarris on Jul 10, 2020 | 60 comments

1456.

Aquarius builds an engine others only dreamed of (haaretz.com)

88 points by rmason on Jul 11, 2020 | 54 comments

1457.

Browser Font Rendering Inconsistencies (blog.stephaniestimac.com)

88 points by jermier on Jul 7, 2020 | 48 comments

1458.

Zucchinis linked to rare poisonings in England (foodsafetynews.com)

88 points by lightlyused on Jul 26, 2020 | 48 comments

1459.

Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems (gwern.net)

88 points by Nicholas_Kross on Jul 6, 2020 | 39 comments

1460.

Things I wish I had known when I started programming, Part 4 (2019) (brainstobytes.com)

88 points by juanorozcov on Jul 2, 2020 | 37 comments

1461.

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)

88 points by froasty on Jul 3, 2020 | 14 comments

1462.

Machine Learning for a Better Developer Experience (netflixtechblog.com)

88 points by caution on Jul 21, 2020 | 11 comments

1463.

A man trying to automate Thailand’s hospitals (restofworld.org)

88 points by danso on Jul 20, 2020 | 7 comments

1464.

Six arrested after 'Dutch torture chambers' found (bbc.com)

87 points by tomcooks on Jul 9, 2020 | 122 comments

1465.

Wikimedia FontCDN – an anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts (fontcdn.toolforge.org)

87 points by supercucumber on Jul 9, 2020 | 53 comments

1466.

Twilio Acquires Electric Imp (twilio.com)

87 points by dsalzman on Jul 14, 2020 | 52 comments

1467.

Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018) (ancientmedicine.org)

87 points by benbreen on Jul 22, 2020 | 25 comments

1468.

Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007) (math.andrej.com)

87 points by ogogmad on Jul 10, 2020 | 23 comments

1469.

Using GPT-3 to generate user interfaces (twitter.com)

87 points by Samin100 on Jul 13, 2020 | 19 comments

1470.

NeurIPS 2020 “English to Bash” Competition Goes Live (nlc2cmd.us-east.mybluemix.net)

87 points by ArtWomb on Jul 21, 2020 | 17 comments