HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2641.

Hacker releases PII on Las Vegas-area students after officials don’t pay ransom (wsj.com)

29 points by sizzle on Oct 2, 2020 | 56 comments

2642.

Ask HN: How to deal with an abusive co-worker?

29 points by lessthanseventy on Oct 26, 2020 | 34 comments

2643.

Show HN: Virtual Corn Maze (noisyowl.com)

29 points by jtolmar on Oct 20, 2020 | 28 comments

2644.

Scientific consensus on the Covid-19 pandemic: we need to act now (thelancet.com)

29 points by boshomi on Oct 17, 2020 | 20 comments

2645.

2020 is on course to be the warmest year on record (weforum.org)

29 points by makerofspoons on Oct 26, 2020 | 20 comments

2646.

Emerging JavaScript pattern: multiple return values (loige.co)

29 points by loige on Oct 28, 2020 | 20 comments

2647.

I made a simple Alexa knockoff that doesn’t spy on me (debugger.medium.com)

29 points by davebots on Oct 7, 2020 | 18 comments

2648.

Programmers need to think like hackers (gexos.org)

29 points by gexos on Oct 1, 2020 | 17 comments

2649.

Search Engine for Free Music Ranked by Usage of Youtubers

29 points by vlogr3950 on Oct 5, 2020 | 17 comments

2650.

Could a fecal transplant one day restore cognitive function in elderly? (medicaldialogues.in)

29 points by laurex on Oct 11, 2020 | 17 comments

2651.

Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (2011) (npr.org)

29 points by moultano on Oct 14, 2020 | 16 comments

2652.

Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages – Lex Fridman (youtube.com)

29 points by doppp on Oct 19, 2020 | 15 comments

2653.

Transhumanism and Augmented Reality – A brave new augmented world (qaautomation.dev)

29 points by brna on Oct 28, 2020 | 13 comments

2654.

Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell (nautil.us)

29 points by prostoalex on Oct 15, 2020 | 11 comments

2655.

How to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence (taibbi.substack.com)

29 points by andrenth on Oct 27, 2020 | 11 comments

2656.

Facebook is radicalising your parents (unherd.com)

29 points by freddyym on Oct 9, 2020 | 10 comments

2657.

An open letter to my friends with fuck you money (defmacro.substack.com)

29 points by tictac-toe on Oct 19, 2020 | 9 comments

2658.

Apple sues GEEP for not shredding reusable iPhones (washingtonpost.com)

29 points by quyleanh on Oct 14, 2020 | 8 comments

2659.

Sym Raises $12M to Help Engineers Reclaim Security (compliance.dev)

29 points by abuggia on Oct 20, 2020 | 8 comments

2660.

The Real McKee: Lessons of a screenwriting guru (2003) (newyorker.com)

29 points by samclemens on Oct 26, 2020 | 8 comments

2661.

The Basic Internet Fanzine (1995) (petesqbsite.com)

29 points by tosh on Oct 6, 2020 | 7 comments

2662.

Qcdoc: Quantum Chromodynamics on a Chip (2015) (social.shorthand.com)

29 points by rbanffy on Oct 19, 2020 | 7 comments

2663.

Technologists have failed to listen to non-technologists (theguardian.com)

29 points by rbanffy on Oct 11, 2020 | 6 comments

2664.

A Brief History of Word Games (theparisreview.org)

29 points by prostoalex on Oct 16, 2020 | 6 comments

2665.

Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say (motherjones.com)

29 points by pulisse on Oct 21, 2020 | 6 comments

2666.

Why Corporate Incubators Fail (dweekly.medium.com)

29 points by dweekly on Oct 24, 2020 | 6 comments

2667.

The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life (publicdomainreview.org)

29 points by Petiver on Oct 21, 2020 | 5 comments

2668.

The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented (2017) (nationalgeographic.com)

29 points by bryanrasmussen on Oct 22, 2020 | 5 comments

2669.

SEC Issues Record $114M Whistleblower Award (sec.gov)

29 points by daegloe on Oct 23, 2020 | 5 comments

2670.

Mozilla's Fix the Internet Showcase (talium.co)

29 points by lightninglu10 on Oct 27, 2020 | 5 comments