HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

Implementing Traceroute in Go – Blog (blog.kalbhor.xyz)

53 points by rbanffy on Aug 21, 2020 | 6 comments

1952.

Kiruna, Forever Changing (placesjournal.org)

53 points by Thevet on Aug 14, 2020 | 5 comments

1953.

Sharing Knowledge in a Remote team, across Timezones (erickhun.com)

53 points by guillaumec on Aug 1, 2020 | 4 comments

1954.

Simple Bacteria Offer Clues to the Origins of Photosynthesis (quantamagazine.org)

53 points by rbanffy on Aug 13, 2020 | 4 comments

1955.

Building FunctionTrace, a graphical Python profiler (hacks.mozilla.org)

53 points by whocanfly on Aug 16, 2020 | 4 comments

1956.

China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI (zdnet.com)

53 points by tonyztan on Aug 9, 2020 | 2 comments

1957.

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion (scmp.com)

53 points by gscott on Aug 10, 2020 | 2 comments

1958.

Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool (blog.trailofbits.com)

53 points by ingve on Aug 28, 2020 | 1 comments

1959.

Allowing CMake functions to return(value) (oleksandrkvl.github.io)

52 points by ingve on Aug 17, 2020 | 94 comments

1960.

The Unraveling of America (rollingstone.com)

52 points by nouveaux on Aug 15, 2020 | 84 comments

1961.

The Anti-Capitalist Software License (anticapitalist.software)

52 points by jarmitage on Aug 19, 2020 | 82 comments

1962.

Why is my Nest Thermostat talking to Facebook? (twitter.com)

52 points by donohoe on Aug 9, 2020 | 42 comments

1963.

Anti-Racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart (theatlantic.com)

52 points by hprotagonist on Aug 20, 2020 | 36 comments

1964.

IoT Smart Lock Vulnerability Spotlights Bigger Issues (tripwire.com)

52 points by axsharma on Aug 8, 2020 | 32 comments

1965.

Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process (nytimes.com)

52 points by zffr on Aug 13, 2020 | 29 comments

1966.

Google killed a small smart glass maker after acquiring it (androidrookies.com)

52 points by vvpvijay on Aug 2, 2020 | 24 comments

1967.

Apple's App Store Polices Mean Xbox Game Streaming Not Allowed (businessinsider.com)

52 points by gfxgirl on Aug 7, 2020 | 24 comments

1968.

Origins of Venmo (2014) (kortina.nyc)

52 points by saadalem on Aug 24, 2020 | 23 comments

1969.

Apple Is Taking Legal Action Against a Small Company Because of Its Logo (simturax.com)

52 points by Simturax on Aug 10, 2020 | 22 comments

1970.

On Blockchain Commit Times: How miners choose Bitcoin transactions [pdf] (people.mpi-sws.org)

52 points by johnnatan20 on Aug 18, 2020 | 16 comments

1971.

OneLook – Dictionary Search with Wildcards (onelook.com)

52 points by gitgud on Aug 3, 2020 | 15 comments

1972.

Cracking Phobos UUID (breakpoint.purrfect.fr)

52 points by tux1968 on Aug 31, 2020 | 14 comments

1973.

An overview of the parasitic plant Langsdorffia (phys.org)

52 points by lelf on Aug 5, 2020 | 11 comments

1974.

Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems (brooker.co.za)

52 points by MindGods on Aug 7, 2020 | 6 comments

1975.

The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes into View (abstractions.nautil.us)

52 points by rbanffy on Aug 25, 2020 | 5 comments

1976.

Ex-NSA Hacker Finds a Way to Hack Mac Users via Microsoft Office (vice.com)

52 points by SQL2219 on Aug 5, 2020 | 5 comments

1977.

Abstracting Abstract Machines (2010) [pdf] (matt.might.net)

52 points by azhenley on Aug 26, 2020 | 3 comments

1978.

University Endowment Sued for Under performing the S&P 500 (institutionalinvestor.com)

51 points by kamaraju on Aug 19, 2020 | 72 comments

1979.

How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (2019) (spectrum.ieee.org)

51 points by ciconia on Aug 21, 2020 | 72 comments

1980.

Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019) (techdirt.com)

51 points by dredmorbius on Aug 12, 2020 | 57 comments