HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1861.

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) (mjt.me.uk)

60 points by gk1 on Oct 29, 2020 | 62 comments

1862.

To protect democracy, journalists need to learn to think like hackers and spies (thecorrespondent.com)

60 points by dredmorbius on Oct 29, 2020 | 55 comments

1863.

The Rise and Rise of Creativity (aeon.co)

60 points by headalgorithm on Oct 12, 2020 | 51 comments

1864.

Escaping Science's Paradox (worksinprogress.co)

60 points by stuart_buck on Oct 21, 2020 | 40 comments

1865.

Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C (greg-calendar.vercel.app)

60 points by zamfofex on Oct 23, 2020 | 34 comments

1866.

Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School (2013) (theatlantic.com)

60 points by hawkoy on Oct 15, 2020 | 31 comments

1867.

The Usability of HTML Elements (shkspr.mobi)

60 points by edent on Oct 9, 2020 | 26 comments

1868.

China's Draft 'Personal Information Protection Law' (Full Translation) (newamerica.org)

60 points by detaro on Oct 31, 2020 | 26 comments

1869.

An artist who does extreme close-ups of utility poles (atlasobscura.com)

60 points by fortran77 on Oct 17, 2020 | 16 comments

1870.

Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (zainrizvi.io)

60 points by Gedxx on Oct 23, 2020 | 16 comments

1871.

Bombshell on Bribe Claims Threatens States’ Google Probe (bloomberg.com)

60 points by pseudolus on Oct 6, 2020 | 12 comments

1872.

Git filter-repo: much easier/faster alternative to filter-branch (github.com)

60 points by dmart on Oct 4, 2020 | 9 comments

1873.

Git 2.29 Highlights (github.blog)

60 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 19, 2020 | 2 comments

1874.

Thank you, uBlock Origin (twitter.com)

60 points by dkthehuman on Oct 19, 2020 | 0 comments

1875.

Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada (2018) [pdf] (lhc.ca.gov)

59 points by mistrial9 on Oct 19, 2020 | 95 comments

1876.

Crypto scammers piggybacking Trump’s Twitter, cloning Medium, stealing crypto (medium.com)

59 points by joegaebel on Oct 14, 2020 | 91 comments

1877.

Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police (taskandpurpose.com)

59 points by seigando on Oct 11, 2020 | 76 comments

1878.

Nvidia Driver not yet supported for Linux Kernel 5.9 (forums.developer.nvidia.com)

59 points by simonpure on Oct 19, 2020 | 74 comments

1879.

Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters (jamanetwork.com)

59 points by voisin on Oct 10, 2020 | 66 comments

1880.

Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com)

59 points by tr1ll10nb1ll on Oct 6, 2020 | 60 comments

1881.

Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?

59 points by artembugara on Oct 4, 2020 | 43 comments

1882.

A novel polymer should make 3D printing more effective (economist.com)

59 points by bookofjoe on Oct 15, 2020 | 42 comments

1883.

A Neighbourly Solution to the 'X Is Deprecated? ' Conundrum (divergent-desktop.org)

59 points by zdw on Oct 30, 2020 | 36 comments

1884.

The Carver Challenge (1985) (stereophile.com)

59 points by anonymousab on Oct 10, 2020 | 28 comments

1885.

iMac PowerPC G4 (twitter.com)

59 points by tosh on Oct 11, 2020 | 27 comments

1886.

'changeme' is valid base64 (blog.3fx.ch)

59 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 24, 2020 | 27 comments

1887.

From Vector Spaces to Periodic Functions (2019) (susam.in)

59 points by susam on Oct 23, 2020 | 25 comments

1888.

Precomp: Further compress files that are already compressed (github.com)

59 points by marcopolis on Oct 31, 2020 | 25 comments

1889.

Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events

59 points by amellin794 on Oct 25, 2020 | 24 comments

1890.

Email to Former Board Member (docs.google.com)

59 points by devlife on Oct 17, 2020 | 22 comments