HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise (coindesk.com)

71 points by jpkoning on Oct 22, 2020 | 98 comments

1682.

Dr.Mario 64's gzip implementation is taken almost verbatim from gzip source code (twitter.com)

71 points by blacktulip on Oct 19, 2020 | 61 comments

1683.

Overcoming Writer's Block (blog.streetwriters.co)

71 points by thecodrr on Oct 31, 2020 | 35 comments

1684.

Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of) (utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by protomyth on Oct 10, 2020 | 34 comments

1685.

Ask HN: How to Think Clearly?

71 points by stevofolife on Oct 26, 2020 | 29 comments

1686.

Custom domains now available on Substack (blog.substack.com)

71 points by tylerwince on Oct 22, 2020 | 28 comments

1687.

What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school (offlinemark.com)

71 points by luu on Oct 17, 2020 | 24 comments

1688.

The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar (2018) (blog.robertelder.org)

71 points by giancarlostoro on Oct 9, 2020 | 19 comments

1689.

Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin (theverge.com)

71 points by aeontech on Oct 30, 2020 | 19 comments

1690.

Digital Camera Know-Hows (av.jpn.support.panasonic.com)

71 points by IndySun on Oct 26, 2020 | 11 comments

1691.

House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split (arstechnica.com)

71 points by Deinos on Oct 7, 2020 | 9 comments

1692.

Probability and Statistics with Applications to Computing [pdf] (alextsun.com)

71 points by ArtWomb on Oct 6, 2020 | 7 comments

1693.

Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era (publicdomainreview.org)

71 points by Hooke on Oct 9, 2020 | 7 comments

1694.

I switched to Linux after using Windows for 10 years (shalithasuranga.medium.com)

70 points by delvin0 on Oct 15, 2020 | 111 comments

1695.

Show HN: Chat bot powered by GPT-3 (blog.quickchat.ai)

70 points by piotrgrudzien on Oct 6, 2020 | 79 comments

1696.

Archive of tech interview questions of Google, Amazon, FB, Samsung and et al. (github.com)

70 points by ramoji564 on Oct 6, 2020 | 68 comments

1697.

Former Google CEO Calls Social Networks ‘Amplifiers for Idiots’ (bloomberg.com)

70 points by Cantbekhan on Oct 22, 2020 | 60 comments

1698.

Microsoft Overhauls Excel with Custom Data Types (theverge.com)

70 points by applecrazy on Oct 29, 2020 | 46 comments

1699.

What gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe (nature.com)

70 points by headalgorithm on Oct 30, 2020 | 39 comments

1700.

Raindrop 5.0 (medium.com)

70 points by kfdm on Oct 15, 2020 | 38 comments

1701.

RTX3090 TensorFlow, NAMD and HPCG Performance on Linux (pugetsystems.com)

70 points by polymorph1sm on Oct 2, 2020 | 36 comments

1702.

What Colour are your bits? (2004) (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)

70 points by dredmorbius on Oct 28, 2020 | 35 comments

1703.

Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for (polygon.com)

70 points by wcerfgba on Oct 27, 2020 | 32 comments

1704.

Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing (thecorrespondent.com)

70 points by nightfuryx on Oct 20, 2020 | 28 comments

1705.

2,000-Year-Old Nazca Line Featuring Lounging Cat Found in Peru (smithsonianmag.com)

70 points by diodorus on Oct 25, 2020 | 25 comments

1706.

I Met the Reclusive Georgia O’Keeffe (newyorker.com)

70 points by prismatic on Oct 1, 2020 | 19 comments

1707.

Uber sends political ads through push notifications

70 points by jridgewell on Oct 14, 2020 | 17 comments

1708.

How to Write a Better Weblog (2002) (alistapart.com)

70 points by Tomte on Oct 20, 2020 | 8 comments

1709.

Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal (thetimes.co.uk)

70 points by cracker_jacks on Oct 11, 2020 | 5 comments

1710.

Raymarching with Fennel and LÖVE (andreyorst.gitlab.io)

70 points by forgotpwd16 on Oct 20, 2020 | 3 comments