HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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14 nations commit to protect oceans (nationalgeographic.co.uk)

357 points by hassanahmad on Dec 7, 2020 | 121 comments

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This is Real, That's Not (streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com)

356 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 5, 2020 | 339 comments

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SEC charges Ripple and two executives (sec.gov)

356 points by tempsy on Dec 22, 2020 | 272 comments

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Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death (aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de)

355 points by gmays on Dec 23, 2020 | 99 comments

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HTTP/2 Push is dead (evertpot.com)

354 points by lostmsu on Dec 3, 2020 | 168 comments

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Linux 5.10 (lore.kernel.org)

354 points by jrepinc on Dec 14, 2020 | 143 comments

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A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars (jalopnik.com)

354 points by BuildTheRobots on Dec 2, 2020 | 130 comments

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API pagination design (solovyov.net)

353 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 27, 2020 | 139 comments

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Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance (theguardian.com)

352 points by tompagenet2 on Dec 2, 2020 | 174 comments

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Police say civil asset forfeiture reduces crime – new study shows they’re wrong (propublica.org)

352 points by oftenwrong on Dec 14, 2020 | 124 comments

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Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it (rootclaim.com)

351 points by delbarital on Dec 30, 2020 | 351 comments

282.

How to buy gifts that people actually want (willpatrick.co.uk)

351 points by willpatrick on Dec 1, 2020 | 271 comments

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Xfce 4.16 (xfce.org)

351 points by KindOne on Dec 23, 2020 | 105 comments

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How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs (evilmartians.com)

351 points by iskin on Dec 23, 2020 | 82 comments

285.

Vercel raise $40M Series B (vercel.com)

350 points by sdan on Dec 16, 2020 | 197 comments

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How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (tedium.co)

349 points by chris_f on Dec 19, 2020 | 228 comments

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U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors (nytimes.com)

349 points by wglb on Dec 9, 2020 | 182 comments

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Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes (recipe-search.typesense.org)

349 points by jabo on Dec 9, 2020 | 126 comments

289.

The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system (lynalden.com)

348 points by paulsb on Dec 13, 2020 | 344 comments

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Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative (newatlas.com)

348 points by bookofjoe on Dec 21, 2020 | 179 comments

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Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B (techcrunch.com)

347 points by seaucre on Dec 7, 2020 | 360 comments

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Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses (dangoldin.com)

347 points by dangoldin on Dec 12, 2020 | 357 comments

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FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test (axios.com)

347 points by KoftaBob on Dec 16, 2020 | 262 comments

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Ask HN: What are the best advanced computer science courses online?

345 points by st1x7 on Dec 1, 2020 | 89 comments

295.

New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform (blog.pixielabs.ai)

345 points by htroisi on Dec 10, 2020 | 63 comments

296.

Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber (abooklikefoo.com)

344 points by padolsey on Dec 13, 2020 | 254 comments

297.

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii (reuters.com)

344 points by pseudolus on Dec 26, 2020 | 210 comments

298.

John le Carré has died (bbc.com)

344 points by 1cvmask on Dec 13, 2020 | 136 comments

299.

Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon (nytimes.com)

343 points by lxm on Dec 15, 2020 | 148 comments

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Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and Theaters (hollywoodreporter.com)

341 points by yurisagalov on Dec 3, 2020 | 303 comments