HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1531.

How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better (2008) (dreamhost.com)

81 points by bluedino on Jul 19, 2020 | 60 comments

1532.

Global CO2 Emissions in 2019 (iea.org)

81 points by simonebrunozzi on Jul 17, 2020 | 47 comments

1533.

An overview of V8 (blog.appsignal.com)

81 points by Liriel on Jul 1, 2020 | 29 comments

1534.

Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs (krebsonsecurity.com)

81 points by feross on Jul 22, 2020 | 25 comments

1535.

Low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles (blog.janestreet.com)

81 points by jsnell on Jul 3, 2020 | 20 comments

1536.

Riding the Rays (1992) (douglasadams.com)

81 points by rfreytag on Jul 28, 2020 | 15 comments

1537.

Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?

80 points by psxuaw on Jul 13, 2020 | 167 comments

1538.

The Rise of the “Liberaltarian” (gsb.stanford.edu)

80 points by zackhsi on Jul 11, 2020 | 153 comments

1539.

Candy Land was invented for polio wards (2019) (theatlantic.com)

80 points by EndXA on Jul 12, 2020 | 64 comments

1540.

The rise and fall of Adobe Flash (arstechnica.com)

80 points by bpierre on Jul 7, 2020 | 62 comments

1541.

Mozilla VPN exits beta, launches on Android and Windows for $5 a month (venturebeat.com)

80 points by input_sh on Jul 16, 2020 | 60 comments

1542.

A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines (wired.com)

80 points by cpeterso on Jul 5, 2020 | 53 comments

1543.

Teaching isn’t about managing behavior (theatlantic.com)

80 points by pabo on Jul 25, 2020 | 50 comments

1544.

Ancient human ancestors carved handaxe from a hippo femur 1.4M years ago: study (edition.cnn.com)

80 points by clouddrover on Jul 18, 2020 | 42 comments

1545.

Discovery of oldest bow and arrow technology in Eurasia (phys.org)

80 points by diodorus on Jul 7, 2020 | 41 comments

1546.

The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991) (cs.utexas.edu)

80 points by rutenspitz on Jul 3, 2020 | 33 comments

1547.

Lincos language (en.wikipedia.org)

80 points by feltsense on Jul 20, 2020 | 32 comments

1548.

BMG: A Production Ready Relational Algebra in Ruby (github.com)

80 points by iovrthoughtthis on Jul 14, 2020 | 20 comments

1549.

How LSD Almost Became the 13th Step (2019) (prohbtd.com)

80 points by pmoriarty on Jul 25, 2020 | 16 comments

1550.

A new material helps transistors become vanishingly small (economist.com)

80 points by prostoalex on Jul 17, 2020 | 10 comments

1551.

Bezos: No guarantee Amazon didn't exploit third-party seller data (axios.com)

80 points by hhs on Jul 29, 2020 | 3 comments

1552.

Pentagon's UFO Unit to Disclose Some of Its Findings to the Public (sciencetimes.com)

79 points by tosh on Jul 24, 2020 | 96 comments

1553.

Complete Guide to Buying Lumber (2015) (artofmanliness.com)

79 points by devy on Jul 11, 2020 | 67 comments

1554.

Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021 (engadget.com)

79 points by behnamoh on Jul 31, 2020 | 61 comments

1555.

Hard is not defensible (2017) (alexcrompton.com)

79 points by saadalem on Jul 9, 2020 | 52 comments

1556.

Whose bug is it anyway? (shkspr.mobi)

79 points by edent on Jul 23, 2020 | 43 comments

1557.

Redux Overview and Concepts – Reimagined Redux Tutorial (redux.js.org)

79 points by kiyanwang on Jul 25, 2020 | 37 comments

1558.

Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene (realclearscience.com)

79 points by DamnInteresting on Jul 28, 2020 | 37 comments

1559.

Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vision API (itnext.io)

79 points by jmfcurti on Jul 25, 2020 | 33 comments

1560.

The illusion of control, and how to give it up (nautil.us)

79 points by dnetesn on Jul 11, 2020 | 25 comments