HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

On the problems with automated contact tracing (twitter.com)

69 points by dotcoma on Aug 23, 2020 | 44 comments

1682.

How to Build an Iconic Company – Keith Rabois [audio] (nugget.fm)

69 points by craigcannon on Aug 17, 2020 | 42 comments

1683.

Medical debt collection firm R1 RCM hit in ransomware attack (krebsonsecurity.com)

69 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 14, 2020 | 32 comments

1684.

An Ecology of Mind: A daughter's portrait of Gregory Bateson (anecologyofmind.com)

69 points by apsec112 on Aug 17, 2020 | 24 comments

1685.

A newsletter about mental models and rational thinking (models.substack.com)

69 points by remotists on Aug 11, 2020 | 23 comments

1686.

Building a Basic Interpreter, '80s Style, Part 2 (able.bio)

69 points by new_here on Aug 9, 2020 | 17 comments

1687.

What I've learned about scaling OSPF in Datacenters (elegantnetwork.github.io)

69 points by signa11 on Aug 16, 2020 | 14 comments

1688.

Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs (slack.engineering)

69 points by oedmarap on Aug 31, 2020 | 14 comments

1689.

The Mothers of the Mother of All Demos (schmud.de)

69 points by schmudde on Aug 5, 2020 | 12 comments

1690.

The Language of Science (scientificamerican.com)

69 points by HugoDaniel on Aug 19, 2020 | 6 comments

1691.

Tunable Delete Aware LSM Engine (disc-projects.bu.edu)

69 points by abby_3017 on Aug 8, 2020 | 5 comments

1692.

The Medieval University Monopoly (historytoday.com)

69 points by diodorus on Aug 18, 2020 | 4 comments

1693.

Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing (bloomberg.com)

68 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 17, 2020 | 180 comments

1694.

Huawei CEO: After September 15 No More Kirin Chips (sparrowsnews.com)

68 points by ytch on Aug 7, 2020 | 158 comments

1695.

The week old Hollywood finally died (nytimes.com)

68 points by woldemariam on Aug 17, 2020 | 101 comments

1696.

‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted – It’s Why You Feel Awful (elemental.medium.com)

68 points by hliyan on Aug 28, 2020 | 99 comments

1697.

Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page (theverge.com)

68 points by fortran77 on Aug 18, 2020 | 77 comments

1698.

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo Intends to Step Down (www3.nhk.or.jp)

68 points by benrbray on Aug 28, 2020 | 73 comments

1699.

Albanian Civil War (en.wikipedia.org)

68 points by apsec112 on Aug 30, 2020 | 60 comments

1700.

Rethinking the Science of Skin (newyorker.com)

68 points by haltingproblem on Aug 2, 2020 | 56 comments

1701.

Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too (sapiens.org)

68 points by Hooke on Aug 13, 2020 | 56 comments

1702.

Show HN: MyDeskTour – Show off your desk setup (mydesktour.com)

68 points by jonathancai11 on Aug 9, 2020 | 51 comments

1703.

American Express to Acquire Kabbage (businesswire.com)

68 points by prostoalex on Aug 21, 2020 | 44 comments

1704.

Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird (technologyreview.com)

68 points by jpindar on Aug 28, 2020 | 33 comments

1705.

Wilford Brimley has died (nytimes.com)

68 points by uptown on Aug 2, 2020 | 31 comments

1706.

Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood (youtube.com)

68 points by ColinWright on Aug 24, 2020 | 22 comments

1707.

Show HN: Made in India CSS (nishantpainter.github.io)

68 points by amitmerchant on Aug 18, 2020 | 22 comments

1708.

The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Open (randomascii.wordpress.com)

68 points by nikbackm on Aug 31, 2020 | 13 comments

1709.

Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the Moon race (jatan.space)

68 points by uncertainquark on Aug 8, 2020 | 3 comments

1710.

Painting a better life through side SaaS hustles (getmakerlog.com)

68 points by sergiomattei on Aug 28, 2020 | 3 comments