HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1531.

Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (1969) (nybooks.com)

83 points by mitchbob on Oct 20, 2020 | 34 comments

1532.

Smash: An efficient compression algorithm for microcontrollers (blog.segger.com)

83 points by g0xA52A2A on Oct 29, 2020 | 29 comments

1533.

Viral effects are not network effects (nfx.com)

83 points by allenleein on Oct 7, 2020 | 23 comments

1534.

Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy (cacm.acm.org)

83 points by kiyanwang on Oct 12, 2020 | 22 comments

1535.

For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin (ferrous-systems.com)

83 points by quyleanh on Oct 30, 2020 | 22 comments

1536.

What Was Remote YC Like? (richardesigns.co.uk)

83 points by crowdhailer on Oct 28, 2020 | 10 comments

1537.

Facebook Q3 2020 (investor.fb.com)

82 points by tosh on Oct 29, 2020 | 120 comments

1538.

Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf] (philpapers.org)

82 points by xamuel on Oct 21, 2020 | 115 comments

1539.

Launch HN: Openland (YC W18) – Community platform with automation

82 points by yurylifshits on Oct 15, 2020 | 39 comments

1540.

The Niche I am Looking to Fill (eclogiselle.com)

82 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 13, 2020 | 36 comments

1541.

How Did Things Ever Get This Good? (2009) (prog21.dadgum.com)

82 points by Tomte on Oct 27, 2020 | 36 comments

1542.

Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time (github.com)

82 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 4, 2020 | 21 comments

1543.

Big O, Little N (adamzerner.bearblog.dev)

81 points by adamzerner on Oct 2, 2020 | 139 comments

1544.

California Is Built to Burn (spiegel.de)

81 points by tomohawk on Oct 4, 2020 | 112 comments

1545.

Giving up on wlroots-rs (2019) (way-cooler.org)

81 points by dgellow on Oct 12, 2020 | 77 comments

1546.

Issue Grooming (github.com)

81 points by pcr910303 on Oct 21, 2020 | 68 comments

1547.

Zoom and Gloom (economist.com)

81 points by prostoalex on Oct 12, 2020 | 57 comments

1548.

Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots (spectrum.ieee.org)

81 points by headalgorithm on Oct 31, 2020 | 46 comments

1549.

ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf] (developer.apple.com)

81 points by tobr on Oct 8, 2020 | 42 comments

1550.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates (engineering.kablamo.com.au)

81 points by boyter on Oct 2, 2020 | 40 comments

1551.

The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX (phoronix.com)

81 points by varbhat on Oct 28, 2020 | 36 comments

1552.

Why Twilio Acquired Segment (rudderstack.com)

81 points by cpard on Oct 14, 2020 | 26 comments

1553.

“Powered by” buttons for customer acquisition (zerotousers.substack.com)

81 points by justiceforsaas on Oct 11, 2020 | 23 comments

1554.

PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts (github.com)

81 points by galacticdessert on Oct 20, 2020 | 22 comments

1555.

Big Companies Are Starting to Swallow the World (nytimes.com)

81 points by yarapavan on Oct 4, 2020 | 20 comments

1556.

Deno 1.5 (deno.land)

81 points by lucacasonato on Oct 27, 2020 | 11 comments

1557.

Dissecting the Gzip Format (2011) (infinitepartitions.com)

81 points by WoodenChair on Oct 4, 2020 | 9 comments

1558.

First-ever footage of a ram's horn squid in its natural habitat 800m deep (sciencealert.com)

81 points by bookofjoe on Oct 31, 2020 | 9 comments

1559.

Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf] (who.int)

80 points by wsc981 on Oct 17, 2020 | 382 comments

1560.

Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird? (sapiens.org)

80 points by anthrocurious on Oct 24, 2020 | 129 comments