HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event (axios.com)

2003 points by surajama on Jun 10, 2020 | 517 comments

32.

Grant Imahara Has Died (hollywoodreporter.com)

1963 points by jmcgough on Jul 14, 2020 | 255 comments

33.

The Day AppGet Died (keivan.io)

1930 points by lostmsu on May 27, 2020 | 535 comments

34.

Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls (autocar.co.uk)

1922 points by trenning on Mar 31, 2020 | 743 comments

35.

Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension (blog.pushbullet.com)

1915 points by cimnine on May 13, 2020 | 788 comments

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Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection (bbc.co.uk)

1887 points by isp on Nov 9, 2020 | 1148 comments

37.

Zoom Acquires Keybase (keybase.io)

1879 points by vikram7 on May 7, 2020 | 711 comments

38.

Factorio 1.0 (factorio.com)

1878 points by Akronymus on Aug 14, 2020 | 615 comments

39.

Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs (theverge.com)

1869 points by happyopossum on Jun 22, 2020 | 1436 comments

40.

Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices (oculus.com)

1858 points by superted on Aug 18, 2020 | 1025 comments

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iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes (twitter.com)

1847 points by georgespencer on Jun 24, 2020 | 591 comments

42.

NPM Is Joining GitHub (github.blog)

1829 points by mholt on Mar 16, 2020 | 557 comments

43.

It’s Time to Build (a16z.com)

1820 points by jger15 on Apr 18, 2020 | 1008 comments

44.

Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube (support.google.com)

1783 points by zaggynl on May 18, 2020 | 1177 comments

45.

Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study (news.ncsu.edu)

1782 points by sizzle on Jul 15, 2020 | 1141 comments

46.

GitHub Codespaces (github.com)

1769 points by CraftThatBlock on May 6, 2020 | 601 comments

47.

FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization (ftc.gov)

1752 points by minimaxir on Dec 9, 2020 | 709 comments

48.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died (npr.org)

1738 points by _zhqs on Sep 18, 2020 | 1452 comments

49.

A first look at Unreal Engine 5 (unrealengine.com)

1734 points by HammadB on May 13, 2020 | 676 comments

50.

Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal (politico.com)

1722 points by AndrewBissell on Sep 2, 2020 | 472 comments

51.

Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store (theverge.com)

1704 points by ardit33 on Aug 13, 2020 | 1432 comments

52.

Goodbye, Clean Code (overreacted.io)

1678 points by danabramov on Jan 11, 2020 | 575 comments

53.

Shirt Without Stripes (github.com)

1676 points by elsamuko on Apr 20, 2020 | 617 comments

54.

AWS services explained in one line each (adayinthelifeof.nl)

1668 points by jaytaph on May 26, 2020 | 344 comments

55.

This electrical transmission tower has a problem (twitter.com)

1666 points by danso on Sep 17, 2020 | 460 comments

56.

Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

1656 points by wasteme on Sep 17, 2020 | 729 comments

57.

How journalists use youtube-dl (freedom.press)

1651 points by thisisparker on Oct 26, 2020 | 328 comments

58.

Del.icio.us (del.icio.us)

1649 points by kome on Jul 29, 2020 | 506 comments

59.

Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it (deprocrastination.co)

1636 points by vitabenes on Jan 21, 2020 | 368 comments

60.

Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up (calpaterson.com)

1624 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 23, 2020 | 1286 comments