HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2101.

Is it time to stop counselling patients to “finish the course of antibiotics”? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

48 points by lelf on Oct 27, 2020 | 24 comments

2102.

Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of (spectrum.ieee.org)

48 points by headalgorithm on Oct 29, 2020 | 20 comments

2103.

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Review (jeffgeerling.com)

48 points by moreati on Oct 19, 2020 | 19 comments

2104.

Pepsi Once Owned the World’s 6th Largest Military Fleet (medium.com)

48 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 18, 2020 | 13 comments

2105.

Sony Unveils 'Spatial Reality Display' with Eye-Tracking for Glasses-Free 3D (roadtovr.com)

48 points by evo_9 on Oct 17, 2020 | 12 comments

2106.

Learning to Decapsulate Integrated Circuits Using Acid Deposition (jcjc-dev.com)

48 points by garaetjjte on Oct 21, 2020 | 8 comments

2107.

Microsoft Edge WebView2 is production ready (blogs.windows.com)

48 points by hellojs on Oct 19, 2020 | 7 comments

2108.

MusicNet (2016) (homes.cs.washington.edu)

48 points by asamant on Oct 13, 2020 | 6 comments

2109.

Tech gig worker underclass: customer service reps who have to pay to talk to you (news.slashdot.org)

48 points by MilnerRoute on Oct 4, 2020 | 5 comments

2110.

Diving into /proc/pid/mem (blog.cloudflare.com)

48 points by chmaynard on Oct 27, 2020 | 4 comments

2111.

Berlin's 'new' BER Airport: A story of incompetence and corruption – DW News (youtube.com)

48 points by leptoniscool on Oct 30, 2020 | 4 comments

2112.

Planka – an open-source self-hosted Trello-like app (github.com)

48 points by meltyshev on Oct 17, 2020 | 3 comments

2113.

A company whose name was an XSS injection attack (suite.endole.co.uk)

48 points by franze on Oct 28, 2020 | 0 comments

2114.

Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience (twitter.com)

47 points by ardit33 on Oct 12, 2020 | 85 comments

2115.

Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support (support.google.com)

47 points by bricestacey on Oct 28, 2020 | 75 comments

2116.

“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates” (tekdeeps.com)

47 points by draugadrotten on Oct 6, 2020 | 72 comments

2117.

What is the PDP-11 instruction set? (ftp.dbit.com)

47 points by elvis70 on Oct 18, 2020 | 44 comments

2118.

Federal Agents Say They Thwarted a Miltia Plot to Kidnap Michigan (detroitnews.com)

47 points by diffrinse on Oct 8, 2020 | 28 comments

2119.

FEATool Multiphysics – Physics Simulation Made Easy (featool.com)

47 points by precsim on Oct 26, 2020 | 27 comments

2120.

Draw on a PDF Online (goodannotations.com)

47 points by perrys on Oct 28, 2020 | 27 comments

2121.

The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004) (mpg.de)

47 points by firebaze on Oct 29, 2020 | 23 comments

2122.

A Digital Euro (ecb.europa.eu)

47 points by perfunctory on Oct 5, 2020 | 19 comments

2123.

AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics (spectrum.ieee.org)

47 points by ohjeez on Oct 8, 2020 | 15 comments

2124.

Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the long run (pnas.org)

47 points by doener on Oct 20, 2020 | 15 comments

2125.

The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System (1981) [pdf] (lass.cs.umass.edu)

47 points by tjalfi on Oct 7, 2020 | 13 comments

2126.

Quantopian’s Community Services Are Closing (quantopian.com)

47 points by jpn on Oct 29, 2020 | 8 comments

2127.

Evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker (sr.ht)

47 points by tomekw on Oct 2, 2020 | 6 comments

2128.

The Last Ent of Affric (2019) (ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk)

47 points by arethuza on Oct 22, 2020 | 2 comments

2129.

Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom's End-to-End Encryption (soatok.blog)

47 points by some_furry on Oct 28, 2020 | 0 comments

2130.

The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas (qz.com)

46 points by noahhh on Oct 10, 2020 | 90 comments