HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2431.

The Physics of Brute Force (2016) (pthree.org)

34 points by tiord on Jul 28, 2020 | 12 comments

2432.

Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857 (rootsofprogress.org)

34 points by jasoncrawford on Jul 14, 2020 | 10 comments

2433.

A Roundtable on Covid-19 and the Attention Economy (blog.lareviewofbooks.org)

34 points by apollinaire on Jul 1, 2020 | 5 comments

2434.

The Essential Bradbury (2018) (samweller.net)

34 points by benbreen on Jul 1, 2020 | 5 comments

2435.

Watching the Skies in Japan: Mishima Yukio and Other UFO Enthusiasts (nippon.com)

34 points by Thevet on Jul 1, 2020 | 5 comments

2436.

Blender green screen VFX of incredible detail – made by a single person (twitter.com)

34 points by open-source-ux on Jul 6, 2020 | 5 comments

2437.

Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987) (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)

34 points by scarybeast on Jul 10, 2020 | 5 comments

2438.

Chronicles of Charnia (damninteresting.com)

34 points by ca98am79 on Jul 16, 2020 | 5 comments

2439.

I built a deep learning-powered emoji Slackbot (towardsdatascience.com)

34 points by chenggang on Jul 23, 2020 | 5 comments

2440.

AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code That Learns (ai.googleblog.com)

34 points by theafh on Jul 9, 2020 | 4 comments

2441.

Amazon will start displaying 3rd party seller names and addresses on its US site (businessinsider.com)

34 points by hbcondo714 on Jul 9, 2020 | 3 comments

2442.

Nostalgia Reimagined (aeon.co)

34 points by tintinnabula on Jul 21, 2020 | 3 comments

2443.

People with hidden immunity against Covid-19 (bbc.com)

34 points by onetimemanytime on Jul 21, 2020 | 3 comments

2444.

Tell HN: The Programming Language Jam and Grant (blog.repl.it)

34 points by amasad on Jul 21, 2020 | 3 comments

2445.

U.S. tech giants face hard choices under Hong Kong's new security law (reuters.com)

34 points by partingshots on Jul 8, 2020 | 2 comments

2446.

“AI bookkeeper” startup that raised $100M and failed used humans instead of AI (forbes.com)

34 points by ilarum on Jul 21, 2020 | 2 comments

2447.

A Silk Road Renaissance (archaeology.org)

34 points by Thevet on Jul 14, 2020 | 1 comments

2448.

How not to suck at eventual consistency (medium.com)

34 points by hugorocha on Jul 3, 2020 | 0 comments

2449.

Bugs and Battleships (2011) (blog.ezyang.com)

34 points by gklitt on Jul 20, 2020 | 0 comments

2450.

Be More Unlikeable (gritlist.co)

33 points by elijahmurray on Jul 13, 2020 | 73 comments

2451.

You don’t need SMS-2FA (blog.cmpxchg8b.com)

33 points by beefhash on Jul 29, 2020 | 66 comments

2452.

Tesla Model Y Road Trip Review: a no-compromise electric SUV (electrek.co)

33 points by evo_9 on Jul 23, 2020 | 51 comments

2453.

Ask HN: If you could start your career all over again, what would you change?

33 points by daolf on Jul 18, 2020 | 43 comments

2454.

Ceasefire – Where cooler heads prevail. App launched today (ceasefire.net)

33 points by SuchAPerfectDay on Jul 23, 2020 | 42 comments

2455.

Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share (cato.org)

33 points by bko on Jul 24, 2020 | 40 comments

2456.

Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public (baltimoresun.com)

33 points by aww_dang on Jul 25, 2020 | 36 comments

2457.

Is It Okay to Go to the Beach? (theatlantic.com)

33 points by prostoalex on Jul 5, 2020 | 29 comments

2458.

Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of reading books?

33 points by hamsterbooster on Jul 26, 2020 | 26 comments

2459.

Flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking (blog.cloudflare.com)

33 points by jgrahamc on Jul 14, 2020 | 21 comments

2460.

Persuasion: A Free Society Is Worth Fighting For (persuasion.community)

33 points by dsr12 on Jul 3, 2020 | 20 comments