HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1741.

The Allure of Supercavitating Torpedoes (naval-technology.com)

59 points by rbanffy on Nov 5, 2020 | 45 comments

1742.

A Short History of Romaji (dampfkraft.com)

59 points by polm23 on Nov 16, 2020 | 45 comments

1743.

Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook (2014) (arstechnica.com)

59 points by rbanffy on Nov 27, 2020 | 38 comments

1744.

Tab throttling and more performance improvements in Chrome M87 (blog.chromium.org)

59 points by headalgorithm on Nov 17, 2020 | 35 comments

1745.

Kansas welcomed my immigrant parents. Then I built Dropbox (kansascity.com)

59 points by ingve on Nov 14, 2020 | 29 comments

1746.

Option Hacking the Tektronix TDS 420A (tomverbeure.github.io)

59 points by segfaultbuserr on Nov 11, 2020 | 21 comments

1747.

Demo or Die (1995) (wired.com)

59 points by susam on Nov 8, 2020 | 18 comments

1748.

When Objects Become Extensions of You (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

59 points by anarbadalov on Nov 10, 2020 | 17 comments

1749.

Wittgenstein wrote a dictionary for elementary school students (laphamsquarterly.org)

59 points by Hooke on Nov 5, 2020 | 16 comments

1750.

Honour among thieves: the study of a cybercrime marketplace in action (cam.ac.uk)

59 points by rustoo on Nov 8, 2020 | 16 comments

1751.

TildeRadio is Internet radio streamed by/for users of the tildeverse (tilderadio.org)

59 points by URfejk on Nov 13, 2020 | 3 comments

1752.

YouTube Down

59 points by hi5eyes on Nov 12, 2020 | 2 comments

1753.

Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning (arxiv.org)

59 points by lambdamore on Nov 15, 2020 | 2 comments

1754.

The total PC market (including tablets) had 23% year-on-year growth (canalys.com)

58 points by elsewhen on Nov 13, 2020 | 87 comments

1755.

Germany raided 83 homes in coordinated raids against online hate speech (pressfrom.info)

58 points by s9w on Nov 3, 2020 | 86 comments

1756.

How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality (thedrive.com)

58 points by clouddrover on Nov 26, 2020 | 57 comments

1757.

Bitcoin has surpassed $15k for the first time since January 2018 (theblockcrypto.com)

58 points by rfcenturies on Nov 5, 2020 | 56 comments

1758.

The foul-smelling fuel that could power big ships (bbc.co.uk)

58 points by asplake on Nov 6, 2020 | 56 comments

1759.

Study links mindfulness and meditation to narcissism and “spiritual superiority” (psychnewsdaily.com)

58 points by Bologo on Nov 29, 2020 | 55 comments

1760.

Ask HN: Instead of picking a party, why can’t we vote on issues

58 points by jelliclesfarm on Nov 8, 2020 | 53 comments

1761.

MacBook Pro 13-inch with M1 (apple.com)

58 points by axg on Nov 10, 2020 | 51 comments

1762.

Ask HN: Programming 101 online course recommendations?

58 points by brittpart_ on Nov 29, 2020 | 42 comments

1763.

Essay: How do you describe TikTok? (kylechayka.substack.com)

58 points by merrier on Nov 16, 2020 | 38 comments

1764.

Interpretation of confidence intervals and Bayesian credible intervals (thestatsgeek.com)

58 points by jwb133 on Nov 21, 2020 | 36 comments

1765.

Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs (github.com)

58 points by rootVIII on Nov 22, 2020 | 36 comments

1766.

The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works (wired.com)

58 points by prostoalex on Nov 1, 2020 | 33 comments

1767.

Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs. M1 (roland.zone)

58 points by jeremylevy on Nov 20, 2020 | 33 comments

1768.

Ask HN: Is it OK to not have a “thing”?

58 points by bhub on Nov 26, 2020 | 26 comments

1769.

Ask HN: How's the Kickstarter Union Going?

58 points by zachrose on Nov 2, 2020 | 21 comments

1770.

Reverse-Engineered GeoWrite 2.1 for C64 Source Code (pagetable.com)

58 points by kencausey on Nov 23, 2020 | 6 comments