HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1711.

SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016) (stackoverflow.com)

65 points by tillulen on Sep 24, 2020 | 22 comments

1712.

I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III (gizmodo.com)

65 points by benbreen on Sep 30, 2020 | 19 comments

1713.

Show HN: Ballpoint.io (ballpoint.io)

65 points by artursapek on Sep 11, 2020 | 10 comments

1714.

Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says former spokeswoman (bbc.com)

64 points by sandGorgon on Sep 11, 2020 | 154 comments

1715.

Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades (m.dw.com)

64 points by tejado on Sep 10, 2020 | 110 comments

1716.

Bazel For Open-Source C/C++ Libraries Distribution (liuliu.me)

64 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 16, 2020 | 76 comments

1717.

Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days (gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com)

64 points by haunter on Sep 24, 2020 | 71 comments

1718.

Technology has created a barrage of notifications and interactions (wired.com)

64 points by elorant on Sep 27, 2020 | 70 comments

1719.

Floating Point in the Browser, Part 1: Impossible Expectations (randomascii.wordpress.com)

64 points by nikbackm on Sep 28, 2020 | 64 comments

1720.

Why San Francisco is in trouble – highly compensated city employees (forbes.com)

64 points by bgentry on Sep 1, 2020 | 60 comments

1721.

Britain has offensive cyberwar capability, top general admits (theguardian.com)

64 points by elorant on Sep 28, 2020 | 54 comments

1722.

Daniel J. Bernstein's IM2000 email proposal is not a good idea (utcc.utoronto.ca)

64 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 6, 2020 | 51 comments

1723.

How big is a neutron star? (symmetrymagazine.org)

64 points by raattgift on Sep 2, 2020 | 49 comments

1724.

Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio (cloud.google.com)

64 points by caution on Sep 8, 2020 | 39 comments

1725.

Some thoughts on JSON vs. S-expressions (2012) (eli.thegreenplace.net)

64 points by wglb on Sep 9, 2020 | 39 comments

1726.

A Handwritten Math Parser in 100 lines of Python (github.com)

64 points by gnebehay on Sep 17, 2020 | 38 comments

1727.

A deep dive into Swift’s function builders (swiftbysundell.com)

64 points by taksintikk on Sep 25, 2020 | 38 comments

1728.

Why SMS Refuses to Die (xkcd.com)

64 points by chynkm on Sep 30, 2020 | 25 comments

1729.

DayStar Genesis MP (sixcolors.com)

64 points by rbanffy on Sep 9, 2020 | 24 comments

1730.

Doom Emacs (github.com)

64 points by gjvc on Sep 27, 2020 | 21 comments

1731.

How on earth can I ever think of a solution like that in an interview? (github.com)

64 points by gibuloto on Sep 23, 2020 | 17 comments

1732.

Getting Better at Understanding Academic Papers: A Brief Guide for Beginners (habr.com)

64 points by itmouniversity on Sep 5, 2020 | 12 comments

1733.

Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation (2018) [pdf] (dacemirror.sci-hub.tw)

64 points by Anon84 on Sep 17, 2020 | 10 comments

1734.

Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x Fewer Parameters (syncedreview.com)

64 points by Yuqing7 on Sep 23, 2020 | 2 comments

1735.

New GitHub repos to have default branches named “main” instead of “master” (zdnet.com)

63 points by davecyen on Sep 20, 2020 | 116 comments

1736.

Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts (axios.com)

63 points by bmcn2020 on Sep 9, 2020 | 99 comments

1737.

Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcasts aren’t edited/removed (digitalmusicnews.com)

63 points by drak0n1c on Sep 25, 2020 | 88 comments

1738.

Facebook to block news on Australian sites after new law, riling lawmakers (reuters.com)

63 points by 80mph on Sep 1, 2020 | 78 comments

1739.

Stripe Employees Who Relocate to Get $20k Bonus and a Pay Cut (bloomberg.com)

63 points by siftrics on Sep 15, 2020 | 59 comments

1740.

The Lancet: World population projections by 2100 (thelancet.com)

63 points by wslin on Sep 5, 2020 | 55 comments