HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1561.

What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory (quantamagazine.org)

79 points by pseudolus on Jul 17, 2020 | 18 comments

1562.

Facebook and CMU Introduce TaBERT for Understanding Tabular Data Queries (syncedreview.com)

79 points by Yuqing7 on Jul 14, 2020 | 1 comments

1563.

N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds (newyorker.com)

78 points by apollinaire on Jul 8, 2020 | 59 comments

1564.

Three spacecraft heading to Mars this summer (nytimes.com)

78 points by Hooke on Jul 26, 2020 | 43 comments

1565.

The Super Duper Universal Binary (tenfourfox.blogspot.com)

78 points by Wowfunhappy on Jul 6, 2020 | 39 comments

1566.

Lessons learned from building a commercial open-source bot development platform (livablesoftware.com)

78 points by softmodeling on Jul 3, 2020 | 35 comments

1567.

Why GNU grep is fast (2010) (lists.freebsd.org)

78 points by letientai299 on Jul 23, 2020 | 35 comments

1568.

Creating randomness Without Math.random (healeycodes.com)

78 points by healeycodes on Jul 12, 2020 | 32 comments

1569.

A voice separation model that distinguishes multiple speakers simultaneously (ai.facebook.com)

78 points by venmul on Jul 11, 2020 | 25 comments

1570.

Reading Hard-to-Read Gravestones (2014) (organizeyourfamilyhistory.com)

78 points by vinnyglennon on Jul 27, 2020 | 25 comments

1571.

Show HN: Dyna-Kinematics – A 2D physics simulator with some unique features (github.com)

78 points by diegomacario on Jul 2, 2020 | 15 comments

1572.

List of computer vision pretrained models (github.com)

78 points by balavenkatesh on Jul 17, 2020 | 5 comments

1573.

Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation (opb.org)

77 points by growlix on Jul 17, 2020 | 97 comments

1574.

Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It (ipos.fyi)

77 points by jkaykin on Jul 23, 2020 | 67 comments

1575.

Could IPOs be replaced by blank check acquisitions (SPAC)? (quora.com)

77 points by kaboro on Jul 18, 2020 | 65 comments

1576.

Building the ultimate home office again (troyhunt.com)

77 points by GordonS on Jul 24, 2020 | 62 comments

1577.

People loved Nikola but not its warrants (bloomberg.com)

77 points by kgwgk on Jul 22, 2020 | 53 comments

1578.

There's never been an easier time to write your own language (2016) (joshsharp.com.au)

77 points by lowmemcpu on Jul 3, 2020 | 48 comments

1579.

Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space (vice.com)

77 points by pseudolus on Jul 13, 2020 | 47 comments

1580.

Quantum Bayesianism Explained by Its Founder (quantamagazine.org)

77 points by guerrilla on Jul 7, 2020 | 39 comments

1581.

NeurIPS 2020 Optimization Competition (bbochallenge.com)

77 points by mccourt on Jul 9, 2020 | 23 comments

1582.

The Rise of the Solo Capitalists (nbt.substack.com)

77 points by yarapavan on Jul 9, 2020 | 18 comments

1583.

What Makes a Picture Good? (phillipreeve.net)

77 points by luu on Jul 16, 2020 | 15 comments

1584.

Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (vitalik.ca)

77 points by davidmurdoch on Jul 22, 2020 | 15 comments

1585.

Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style (able.bio)

77 points by new_here on Jul 3, 2020 | 14 comments

1586.

The futility of “I told you so” in software engineering teams (humza.sh)

76 points by shs7777 on Jul 24, 2020 | 83 comments

1587.

I changed my LinkedIn avatar to include my toddler (twitter.com)

76 points by luu on Jul 15, 2020 | 73 comments

1588.

In 2020, Words Are 'Violence,' Arson Is Not (reason.com)

76 points by fortran77 on Jul 6, 2020 | 72 comments

1589.

After Quarantine, 28% of People Report Feeling Overwhelmed by Driving (reviews.com)

76 points by sharkweek on Jul 15, 2020 | 56 comments

1590.

The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics (nature.com)

76 points by memexy on Jul 4, 2020 | 54 comments