HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2671.

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [video] (youtube.com)

29 points by pdkl95 on Oct 2, 2020 | 4 comments

2672.

Snowball fight 124 years ago. Lyon, France, 1896. Colorized and speed adjusted (reddit.com)

29 points by bra-ket on Oct 5, 2020 | 4 comments

2673.

Celebrities Explain DevOps (cto.ai)

29 points by jacksonpollock on Oct 6, 2020 | 4 comments

2674.

Internal Documents Reveal Covid-19 Data Government Keeps Hidden (npr.org)

29 points by everybodyknows on Oct 30, 2020 | 4 comments

2675.

The implementation of epoll (2014) (idndx.com)

29 points by bhaavan on Oct 11, 2020 | 3 comments

2676.

Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced Table Plugin (gridjs.io)

29 points by afshinmeh on Oct 15, 2020 | 3 comments

2677.

Classified knots: Researchers create optical framed knots to encode information (phys.org)

29 points by everbody on Oct 18, 2020 | 3 comments

2678.

Glenn Greenwald on His Resignation from the Intercept (taibbi.substack.com)

29 points by dgudkov on Oct 30, 2020 | 2 comments

2679.

Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers (utcc.utoronto.ca)

29 points by zdw on Oct 8, 2020 | 1 comments

2680.

Fast reinforcement learning through composition of behavior (deepmind.com)

29 points by atg_abhishek on Oct 13, 2020 | 1 comments

2681.

PyTorch 1.7 Released with CUDA 11, New APIs for FFTs, Win Distributed Training (github.com)

29 points by DreamFlasher on Oct 27, 2020 | 1 comments

2682.

Why I Left My Tenured Academic Job (reyammer.io)

29 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 4, 2020 | 0 comments

2683.

Sharp tools for emergencies and the –clowntown flag (rachelbythebay.com)

29 points by zdw on Oct 27, 2020 | 0 comments

2684.

California Property Taxes Mapped (officialdata.org)

28 points by vqc on Oct 30, 2020 | 103 comments

2685.

Why Look at Flying Saucers? (lareviewofbooks.org)

28 points by pseudolus on Oct 11, 2020 | 69 comments

2686.

Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away (wsj.com)

28 points by uptown on Oct 16, 2020 | 52 comments

2687.

Ask HN: Why can't nuclear waste be launched into the sun?

28 points by jamestimmins on Oct 26, 2020 | 37 comments

2688.

The First 1940s Coders Were Women (2017) (history.com)

28 points by rbanffy on Oct 13, 2020 | 36 comments

2689.

How should we pursue human longevity? (milan.cvitkovic.net)

28 points by mwcvitkovic on Oct 24, 2020 | 31 comments

2690.

Centurylink to begin imposing 1TB cap on gigabit fiber service (reddit.com)

28 points by unlimitedint on Oct 23, 2020 | 30 comments

2691.

Hanford unprepared for another radioactive tank waste leak, says federal audit (tri-cityherald.com)

28 points by AndrewBissell on Oct 6, 2020 | 25 comments

2692.

The Case for Unique Email Addresses (musings.tychi.me)

28 points by tylerchilds on Oct 17, 2020 | 19 comments

2693.

America Is About to Enter Its Years of Lead (foreignpolicy.com)

28 points by AndrewBissell on Oct 1, 2020 | 17 comments

2694.

Array-Oriented Programming with NumPy-1 (pythoniseasytolearn.blogspot.com)

28 points by rbanffy on Oct 7, 2020 | 16 comments

2695.

Earth just had its hottest September on record (noaa.gov)

28 points by perfunctory on Oct 19, 2020 | 11 comments

2696.

Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots (news.mit.edu)

28 points by asah on Oct 9, 2020 | 10 comments

2697.

College Enrollment Slid This Fall, with First-Year Populations Down 16% (wsj.com)

28 points by burnaboy on Oct 15, 2020 | 9 comments

2698.

AOC plays Among Us live on Twitch and has 330k viewers (twitch.tv)

28 points by tomashertus on Oct 21, 2020 | 8 comments

2699.

Christopher Strachey’s Nineteen-Fifties Love Machine (2017) (newyorker.com)

28 points by Petiver on Oct 9, 2020 | 7 comments

2700.

Expensify's CEO emailed users to encourage them to 'vote for Biden' (protocol.com)

28 points by donsupreme on Oct 23, 2020 | 7 comments