HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet (sciencemag.org)

474 points by bookofjoe on Sep 9, 2020 | 126 comments

122.

We Don’t Like Our Underground House (dengarden.com)

473 points by jelliclesfarm on Sep 17, 2020 | 311 comments

123.

Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory (elemental.medium.com)

469 points by mvgoogler on Sep 2, 2020 | 147 comments

124.

Use long flags when scripting (2013) (changelog.com)

468 points by maple3142 on Sep 18, 2020 | 189 comments

125.

Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors (lunar.fyi)

468 points by car on Sep 1, 2020 | 137 comments

126.

How HTTPS Works (howhttps.works)

466 points by kirillzubovsky on Sep 14, 2020 | 64 comments

127.

FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices (propublica.org)

463 points by justinpropub on Sep 8, 2020 | 194 comments

128.

Why do so many people want us back in the office? (paulitaylor.com)

458 points by ingve on Sep 12, 2020 | 601 comments

129.

How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors (haim.dev)

458 points by car on Sep 2, 2020 | 228 comments

130.

Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io)

456 points by leeny on Sep 15, 2020 | 380 comments

131.

Bardcore (en.wikipedia.org)

454 points by ogogmad on Sep 2, 2020 | 164 comments

132.

We need physical audio kill switches (rubenerd.com)

453 points by stargrave on Sep 20, 2020 | 434 comments

133.

The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday (unixtimestamp.com)

453 points by dezmou on Sep 12, 2020 | 203 comments

134.

X-COM (filfre.net)

449 points by jqcoffey on Sep 22, 2020 | 234 comments

135.

Makani source code released (github.com)

449 points by johmathe on Sep 12, 2020 | 123 comments

136.

PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence (savepandadoc.org)

448 points by perch56 on Sep 8, 2020 | 192 comments

137.

Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates (letsencrypt.org)

448 points by arkadiyt on Sep 20, 2020 | 174 comments

138.

People expect technology to suck because it sucks (tonsky.me)

447 points by ivanche on Sep 25, 2020 | 434 comments

139.

Zig's New Relationship with LLVM (kristoff.it)

446 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 28, 2020 | 284 comments

140.

Annoying website features I face as a blind person (bighack.org)

445 points by Garbage on Sep 10, 2020 | 218 comments

141.

China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet (reuters.com)

444 points by adventured on Sep 22, 2020 | 425 comments

142.

Doom running on a pregnancy test (twitter.com)

443 points by boyter on Sep 7, 2020 | 119 comments

143.

Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993 (medium.com)

440 points by KoftaBob on Sep 1, 2020 | 562 comments

144.

Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work (bloomberg.com)

440 points by Umofomia on Sep 1, 2020 | 241 comments

145.

React is becoming a black box (jaredpalmer.com)

439 points by keenondrums on Sep 3, 2020 | 370 comments

146.

Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) (gkogan.co)

436 points by jeremylevy on Sep 26, 2020 | 272 comments

147.

Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island (grumpygamer.com)

435 points by D_Guidi on Sep 3, 2020 | 165 comments

148.

A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation (buzzfeednews.com)