HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31291.

FBI Informant Spent a Decade Committing Fraud (theintercept.com)

29 points by jbegley on Dec 29, 2020 | 0 comments

31292.

California Property Taxes Mapped (officialdata.org)

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

31293.

Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish stereotypes (mashable.com)

28 points by the-dude on Aug 12, 2020 | 85 comments

31294.

Ask HN: What is your biggest problem?

28 points by dazzlevolta on Nov 12, 2020 | 72 comments

31295.

Why Look at Flying Saucers? (lareviewofbooks.org)

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

31296.

Starting a blog has never been this difficult (ruky.me)

28 points by rukshn on Dec 18, 2020 | 63 comments

31297.

FreeBSD Renames “Master Boot Record” to “Main Boot Record” (lists.freebsd.org)

28 points by caughtinsight on Jun 21, 2020 | 61 comments

31298.

App Will Help You Follow Election Results Without Triggering Your Anxiety (lifehacker.com)

28 points by jacksonpollock on Nov 3, 2020 | 61 comments

31299.

Heathrow third runway plans ruled illegal: not consistent with Paris agreement (theguardian.com)

28 points by perfunctory on Feb 27, 2020 | 56 comments

31300.

Pointers are Easy, Optimization is Complicated (blog.metaobject.com)

28 points by goranmoomin on Sep 15, 2020 | 55 comments

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From Oct 1, 2021, you will need a REAL ID-compliant license to fly in the USA (tsa.gov)

28 points by edward on Jun 1, 2020 | 54 comments

31302.

Drones are poised to reshape home design (wsj.com)

28 points by maxejennings on Dec 7, 2020 | 54 comments

31303.

Ask HN: How do you decide what books to read?

28 points by redelbee on Dec 9, 2020 | 54 comments

31304.

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

31305.

U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout (2018) (pewresearch.org)

28 points by wickedwiesel on Jun 4, 2020 | 51 comments

31306.

How Tiffany moved 114k gems without getting robbed (nytimes.com)

28 points by CapitalistCartr on Jan 17, 2020 | 49 comments

31307.

TypeScript is weakening the JavaScript ecosystem (timdaub.github.io)

28 points by timdaub on Sep 1, 2020 | 49 comments

31308.

Zeroing in on Decarbonization (news.mit.edu)

28 points by chmaynard on Jan 15, 2020 | 47 comments

31309.

Spreadsheet of San Francisco Bay Area Covid-19 Data and Charts (docs.google.com)

28 points by andfrob on Apr 2, 2020 | 47 comments

31310.

Steven Pinker on the Tribal Roots of Defying Social Distancing (nautil.us)

28 points by dnetesn on Jun 27, 2020 | 47 comments

31311.

Ask HN: What can a technologist do about climate change?

28 points by mnbbrown on Dec 15, 2020 | 47 comments

31312.

Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers (patchgirl.io)

28 points by matsutsu on Nov 9, 2020 | 46 comments

31313.

Mailchimp has terminated Stefan Molyneux’s account (twitter.com)

28 points by PKop on Jan 14, 2020 | 43 comments

31314.

Naming Law (en.wikipedia.org)

28 points by tosh on Nov 10, 2020 | 43 comments

31315.

Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US (arstechnica.com)

28 points by dgrin91 on Aug 3, 2020 | 40 comments

31316.

Ask HN: Job prospects for pure C and C++ programmers?

28 points by rrao84 on Sep 19, 2020 | 39 comments

31317.

I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats (fivilab.com)

28 points by francescovaglia on Mar 15, 2020 | 38 comments

31318.

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

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

31319.

'Moonshot' hype illustrates the UK government's obsession with tech hyperbole (theguardian.com)

28 points by gemmamilne on Sep 15, 2020 | 36 comments

31320.

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

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