HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1381.

We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India (adinocap.com)

99 points by aramachandran7 on Dec 27, 2020 | 35 comments

1382.

Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess (slack.engineering)

99 points by talonx on Dec 6, 2020 | 34 comments

1383.

Dialup: Serendipitous Voice Chat (dialup.com)

99 points by hliyan on Dec 28, 2020 | 23 comments

1384.

Florida Agents Raid Home of Rebekah Jones, Former State Data Scientist (npr.org)

99 points by tspike on Dec 8, 2020 | 20 comments

1385.

FAA and Boeing manipulated 737 Max tests during recertification (theverge.com)

99 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 18, 2020 | 18 comments

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Evolution of my role as a founder CTO (miguelcarranza.es)

99 points by kwindla on Dec 8, 2020 | 16 comments

1387.

Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network (pnas.org)

99 points by Anon84 on Dec 6, 2020 | 5 comments

1388.

Canada's 350-year-old department store Hudson's Bay locked out by landlords (timescolonist.com)

98 points by walrus01 on Dec 10, 2020 | 128 comments

1389.

Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?

98 points by peterlk on Dec 29, 2020 | 80 comments

1390.

When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers' (cbc.ca)

98 points by avery42 on Dec 31, 2020 | 57 comments

1391.

Oso – open-source policy engine for authorization in Rust (github.com)

98 points by dragonsh on Dec 16, 2020 | 35 comments

1392.

An open source portable terminal for every dev (clockworkpi.com)

98 points by jerodsanto on Dec 1, 2020 | 28 comments

1393.

Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries (arxiv.org)

98 points by matt_d on Dec 2, 2020 | 22 comments

1394.

Static Calls in Linux 5.10 (blog.yossarian.net)

98 points by ingve on Dec 17, 2020 | 20 comments

1395.

Foundations of Probabilistic Programming (cambridge.org)

98 points by blopeur on Dec 1, 2020 | 8 comments

1396.

How neutering dogs became the norm (moosenuggets.substack.com)

97 points by evilsimon on Dec 22, 2020 | 222 comments

1397.

Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online (thinkpol.ca)

97 points by 63labs on Dec 2, 2020 | 127 comments

1398.

How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit? (getmeflyingcars.medium.com)

97 points by watfly on Dec 18, 2020 | 107 comments

1399.

Best online communities for software developers (thehiveindex.com)

97 points by thefedoration on Dec 14, 2020 | 81 comments

1400.

Free software needs free documentation (gnu.org)

97 points by crazypython on Dec 15, 2020 | 46 comments

1401.

Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (1964) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)

97 points by incanus77 on Dec 17, 2020 | 33 comments

1402.

Tell HN: Merry Christmas!

97 points by garritfra on Dec 24, 2020 | 32 comments

1403.

Vacietis, a C compiler targeting Common Lisp (github.com)

97 points by reikonomusha on Dec 24, 2020 | 27 comments

1404.

Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] (lse.ac.uk)

96 points by SQL2219 on Dec 29, 2020 | 204 comments

1405.

Is the US Banning Crypto Wallets? (blog.shrimpy.io)

96 points by mkmccarty3 on Dec 3, 2020 | 119 comments

1406.

US deaths in 2020 top 3M, by far most ever counted (apnews.com)

96 points by tempsy on Dec 23, 2020 | 116 comments

1407.

Gamers allege EA uses dynamic difficulty adjustment so players spend more money (slate.com)

96 points by tekdude on Dec 12, 2020 | 97 comments

1408.

A drone pilot was fined $182K by the FAA (dpreview.com)

96 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 27, 2020 | 97 comments

1409.

Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS (zdnet.com)

96 points by praveenscience on Dec 10, 2020 | 78 comments

1410.

Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug (eclecticlight.co)

96 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 26, 2020 | 62 comments