HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

The World That Twitter Made (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

52 points by chkaloon on Jul 11, 2020 | 15 comments

1982.

Global brands employ Uyghur Muslims as ‘forced labour’ (sundayguardianlive.com)

52 points by Shared404 on Jul 13, 2020 | 9 comments

1983.

SIGRed: A 17 Year-Old Bug in Windows DNS Servers (research.checkpoint.com)

52 points by bonfire on Jul 14, 2020 | 9 comments

1984.

Modelling the lanuage of the immune system with machine learning (first steps) (github.com)

52 points by jostmey on Jul 19, 2020 | 9 comments

1985.

Quantum Computing May Help Us Study Quantum Gravity (quantamagazine.org)

52 points by MindGods on Jul 15, 2020 | 4 comments

1986.

Solving Sudoku with Graph Theory (rakhman.info)

52 points by cypressious on Jul 20, 2020 | 3 comments

1987.

A Nixon Deepfake, a 'Moon Disaster' Speech and an Information Ecosystem at Risk (scientificamerican.com)

52 points by LinuxBender on Jul 20, 2020 | 2 comments

1988.

Best 15 Email Finder Tools of 2020: How to Quickly Find Business Emails (icyleads.com)

52 points by dotcomcj on Jul 10, 2020 | 0 comments

1989.

Can Our Ballots Be Both Secret and Secure? (newyorker.com)

51 points by ryandvm on Jul 8, 2020 | 194 comments

1990.

WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal (reuters.com)

51 points by stx on Jul 28, 2020 | 139 comments

1991.

Lego Helicopter Kit Cancelled 10 Days Before Release (gizmodo.co.uk)

51 points by rbanffy on Jul 22, 2020 | 107 comments

1992.

Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States (2016) (fee.org)

51 points by twsttest on Jul 4, 2020 | 92 comments

1993.

Tech Sector Feeling Covid-19’s Economic Pain (hiringlab.org)

51 points by jakearmitage on Jul 31, 2020 | 76 comments

1994.

What Does 1GB of Mobile Data Cost in Every Country? (visualcapitalist.com)

51 points by swatkat on Jul 10, 2020 | 69 comments

1995.

Do you struggle with anxiety from work?

51 points by tracer4201 on Jul 28, 2020 | 45 comments

1996.

Police unions aren't “unions” in the traditional sense (twitter.com)

51 points by vo2maxer on Jul 30, 2020 | 38 comments

1997.

The Navy Says It's Not Recruiting on Twitch. This Handbook Shows It Is (vice.com)

51 points by tareqak on Jul 23, 2020 | 35 comments

1998.

Ask HN: Dynamic memory/CPU provisioning for VMs?

51 points by sscarduzio on Jul 18, 2020 | 31 comments

1999.

The major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neandertals (biorxiv.org)

51 points by drocer88 on Jul 4, 2020 | 28 comments

2000.

Stripe Atlas includes $5k in AWS credits – we recevied $1k (formcake.com)

51 points by CoreSet on Jul 7, 2020 | 28 comments

2001.

VCs Are Destructive Predators (joelx.com)

51 points by silexia on Jul 22, 2020 | 26 comments

2002.

Huawei Hacked My Laptop (sunburnt.com.au)

51 points by realguybrush on Jul 25, 2020 | 24 comments

2003.

Astronomers watch a black hole's corona disappear, then reappear (news.mit.edu)

51 points by el_duderino on Jul 16, 2020 | 6 comments

2004.

Identifying Knowledge Graph Entities in Google Images Results (blog.google)

51 points by fluffernutter on Jul 9, 2020 | 3 comments

2005.

Online Virtual Oscilloscope (academo.org)

51 points by ablanco on Jul 14, 2020 | 3 comments

2006.

Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines (phoronix.com)

50 points by caution on Jul 11, 2020 | 150 comments

2007.

Ask HN: How do you learn new libraries without much documentation?

50 points by vedant_shety on Jul 11, 2020 | 51 comments

2008.

Hands-on: The $300 Kano PC, a “build-it-yourself” Chromebook competitor (arstechnica.com)

50 points by tomerbd on Jul 22, 2020 | 49 comments

2009.

Forget VCs, this accelerator lets you invest directly in startups fighting Covid (wefunder.com)

50 points by johnwaldie on Jul 28, 2020 | 39 comments

2010.

Seven year coronavirus trail from mine deaths to a Wuhan lab (thetimes.co.uk)

50 points by adventured on Jul 7, 2020 | 25 comments