HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1711.

Kit-Kat Xclock (github.com)

70 points by 29athrowaway on Dec 24, 2020 | 16 comments

1712.

Essentials of Compilation (github.com)

70 points by swatson741 on Dec 21, 2020 | 6 comments

1713.

Sin and Siege: The End of the Crusades (historytoday.com)

70 points by gofiggy on Dec 3, 2020 | 3 comments

1714.

Facebook to police anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White (washingtonpost.com)

69 points by burnthrow on Dec 3, 2020 | 81 comments

1715.

Talk about “AI” in the press these days tends to conflate two things (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

69 points by luu on Dec 12, 2020 | 77 comments

1716.

Beowulf: A New Translation (us.macmillan.com)

69 points by flannery on Dec 31, 2020 | 68 comments

1717.

Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2 (nature.com)

69 points by divbzero on Dec 10, 2020 | 58 comments

1718.

John Urschel tackles his lifelong balance of math and football in new memoir (news.mit.edu)

69 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 19, 2020 | 48 comments

1719.

Binary Search Reconsidered (2018) (solipsys.co.uk)

69 points by tomcam on Dec 25, 2020 | 48 comments

1720.

What Happened In 2020 (avc.com)

69 points by pixelmonkey on Dec 31, 2020 | 47 comments

1721.

Snebu – Simple Network Encrypting Backup Utility (snebu.com)

69 points by derekp7 on Dec 27, 2020 | 40 comments

1722.

SEC filed an emergency action against Silicon Sage Builders for securities fraud (sec.gov)

69 points by chmaynard on Dec 21, 2020 | 17 comments

1723.

Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today (hacks.mozilla.org)

69 points by feross on Dec 17, 2020 | 9 comments

1724.

Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)

68 points by joeyespo on Dec 30, 2020 | 104 comments

1725.

Ask HN: How did Apple manage to create such a better chip than Intel?

68 points by aarkay on Dec 11, 2020 | 81 comments

1726.

High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets (mortoray.com)

68 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2020 | 56 comments

1727.

Are you a “harbinger of failure”? (2015) (news.mit.edu)

68 points by traumivator on Dec 31, 2020 | 51 comments

1728.

Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies (twitter.com)

68 points by jdkee on Dec 15, 2020 | 35 comments

1729.

64-bit RISC-V core claims 10x better CoreMarks/Watt compared to other 3-5GHz CPU (linuxgizmos.com)

68 points by vanburen on Dec 3, 2020 | 34 comments

1730.

Chemicals in Plastic Waste Are Killing Us (smosa.com)

68 points by buddhacobbler on Dec 19, 2020 | 18 comments

1731.

An Update on PromQL Compatibility Across Vendors (promlabs.com)

68 points by jrv on Dec 1, 2020 | 12 comments

1732.

PicoLisp Chess (software-lab.de)

68 points by simonpure on Dec 21, 2020 | 12 comments

1733.

‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states (princeton.edu)

68 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 20, 2020 | 10 comments

1734.

Original CentOS founder intends to create new fork of RHEL (rockylinux.org)

68 points by bluedays on Dec 9, 2020 | 8 comments

1735.

Turning vaguely reassuring finite-state machines into regular expressions (qntm.org)

68 points by Ivoah on Dec 21, 2020 | 6 comments

1736.

Andrew Yang Leads in NYC Mayoral Race (youtube.com)

68 points by Circumnavigate on Dec 9, 2020 | 3 comments

1737.

Peertube 3.0-rc1 released, with P2P livestreaming (joinpeertube.org)

68 points by MayeulC on Dec 17, 2020 | 3 comments

1738.

A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ (thephd.github.io)

67 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2020 | 110 comments

1739.

Big Tech is getting cozy with computer science departments (the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com)

67 points by tchalla on Dec 3, 2020 | 98 comments

1740.

Havana syndrome: 'directed' radio frequency likely cause of illness (theguardian.com)

67 points by tomduncalf on Dec 6, 2020 | 76 comments