HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve (2018) (quantamagazine.org)

46 points by theonemind on Nov 8, 2020 | 14 comments

2012.

Console Spreadsheets (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

46 points by laktak on Nov 27, 2020 | 11 comments

2013.

Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases (rakyll.medium.com)

46 points by PretzelFisch on Nov 17, 2020 | 4 comments

2014.

Genode OS Framework 20.11 (genode.org)

46 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 28, 2020 | 3 comments

2015.

Learn Assembly by Writing Too Many Brainfuck Compilers in Rust (github.com)

46 points by AlexeyBrin on Nov 12, 2020 | 1 comments

2016.

The West has failed – US and Europe have made a mess of handling the crisis (irishtimes.com)

45 points by sampo on Nov 2, 2020 | 117 comments

2017.

Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Working Class (dennissanders.medium.com)

45 points by denminn on Nov 11, 2020 | 105 comments

2018.

Metatrends shaping the next decade (peterhdiamandis.medium.com)

45 points by yarapavan on Nov 13, 2020 | 73 comments

2019.

Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor to WebP Image Format (phoronix.com)

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

2020.

Did Neanderthals go to war with our ancestors? (bbc.com)

45 points by diodorus on Nov 6, 2020 | 58 comments

2021.

The Great Cannonball Boom (gq.com)

45 points by Digit-Al on Nov 4, 2020 | 56 comments

2022.

YouTube adds ads but won't pay all content-makers (bbc.com)

45 points by khaledh on Nov 20, 2020 | 41 comments

2023.

Why Proof of Stake? (vitalik.ca)

45 points by alokrai on Nov 6, 2020 | 35 comments

2024.

The Philosophical Implications of the Four-Color Problem (1980) [pdf] (maa.org)

45 points by prismatic on Nov 24, 2020 | 21 comments

2025.

Objects in Functional Languages (journal.infinitenegativeutility.com)

45 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 30, 2020 | 21 comments

2026.

How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending? (jvns.ca)

45 points by LaSombra on Nov 16, 2020 | 19 comments

2027.

Show HN: Keenforms – Form Builder with No-Code Rules Engine (keenforms.com)

45 points by padseeker on Nov 30, 2020 | 18 comments

2028.

Lockdown mentioned by 80% of callers to suicide prevention helpline – ITV News (itv.com)

45 points by mrfusion on Nov 7, 2020 | 16 comments

2029.

Having Fun with Signal Handlers (giovannimascellani.eu)

45 points by edward on Nov 22, 2020 | 15 comments

2030.

FreeBSD should not adopt launchd (2015) (blog.darknedgy.net)

45 points by moonchild on Nov 7, 2020 | 14 comments

2031.

Newton’s Daunting Masterpiece Had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find (nytimes.com)

45 points by pseudolus on Nov 14, 2020 | 13 comments

2032.

Console Living Room (archive.org)

45 points by jka on Nov 27, 2020 | 11 comments

2033.

Computer Crime: Pirates and Phone Phreaks (1983) (archive.org)

45 points by elvis70 on Nov 8, 2020 | 10 comments

2034.

U.S. Groups Linked to CCP Influence Effort with Ambition Beyond Election (newsweek.com)

45 points by libpcap on Nov 2, 2020 | 9 comments

2035.

Racket v7.9, with parallel garbage collection (blog.racket-lang.org)

45 points by poga on Nov 3, 2020 | 7 comments

2036.

Facebook is using Kotlin to pave the way to Software 2.0 (ai.facebook.com)

45 points by mostdefinite1 on Nov 17, 2020 | 3 comments

2037.

Lambda Calculus with Brainfuck for side effects (reddit.com)

45 points by azhenley on Nov 29, 2020 | 3 comments

2038.

Aspects of Reasonableness (meaningness.com)

45 points by feross on Nov 22, 2020 | 2 comments

2039.

CXX – safe interop between Rust and C++ (cxx.rs)

45 points by hobofan on Nov 17, 2020 | 1 comments

2040.

U of Miami uses facial recognition to intimidate protestors (fightfortheftr.medium.com)

45 points by eightorbit on Nov 4, 2020 | 0 comments