HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping (scientificamerican.com)

239 points by ystad on Dec 27, 2020 | 121 comments

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Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation (venturebeat.com)

239 points by webmaven on Dec 20, 2020 | 103 comments

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SEC formally sues cryptocurrency company Ripple (axios.com)

239 points by coloneltcb on Dec 22, 2020 | 2 comments

544.

FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack (fireeye.com)

238 points by anigbrowl on Dec 8, 2020 | 241 comments

545.

How I read books: a guide on how to learn (denzhadanov.com)

238 points by ingve on Dec 3, 2020 | 141 comments

546.

Raft Visualization (thesecretlivesofdata.com)

238 points by dedalus on Dec 6, 2020 | 35 comments

547.

Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google (twitter.com)

237 points by sandGorgon on Dec 3, 2020 | 268 comments

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The State of Linux Debuggers (scattered-thoughts.net)

237 points by pyb on Dec 13, 2020 | 154 comments

549.

Show HN: Simple-graph – a graph database in SQLite (github.com)

237 points by dpapathanasiou on Dec 26, 2020 | 42 comments

550.

Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work?

236 points by Akcium on Dec 14, 2020 | 176 comments

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Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing (bottosson.github.io)

236 points by ingve on Dec 24, 2020 | 89 comments

552.

Salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River, first in 80 years (spokesman.com)

236 points by shartshooter on Dec 25, 2020 | 69 comments

553.

Executable PNGs (djharper.dev)

236 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 26, 2020 | 39 comments

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Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra (diem.com)

235 points by obilgic on Dec 6, 2020 | 405 comments

555.

Little Tasks, Little Trust (adamard.com)

235 points by aard on Dec 8, 2020 | 86 comments

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1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88k [video] (youtube.com)

234 points by jbverschoor on Dec 11, 2020 | 198 comments

557.

Joining Apple 40 years ago (mondaynote.com)

233 points by tardyp on Dec 21, 2020 | 148 comments

558.

An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26M (entrepreneurshandbook.co)

233 points by pseudolus on Dec 7, 2020 | 89 comments

559.

Sockets in Your Shell (who23.github.io)

233 points by signa11 on Dec 3, 2020 | 57 comments

560.

Cider 1.0 (metaredux.com)

233 points by rayxi271828 on Dec 29, 2020 | 30 comments

561.

Buy Don't Build (jrott.com)

232 points by jrott on Dec 12, 2020 | 218 comments

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Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (1975) (nytimes.com)

232 points by AndrewBissell on Dec 31, 2020 | 164 comments

563.

Zoomquilt 2 (2007) (zoomquilt2.com)

231 points by shlomir on Dec 28, 2020 | 63 comments

564.

GameLisp: Scripting language for Rust game development (gamelisp.rs)

231 points by sundarurfriend on Dec 21, 2020 | 41 comments

565.

What Shape Are You? (tynan.com)

230 points by neilkakkar on Dec 24, 2020 | 64 comments

566.

Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration (aeon.co)

229 points by agronaut on Dec 17, 2020 | 124 comments

567.

ARM and Lock-Free Programming (randomascii.wordpress.com)

229 points by markdog12 on Dec 1, 2020 | 107 comments

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Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in test after crashes (bbc.com)

229 points by aluket on Dec 19, 2020 | 106 comments

569.

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (aws.amazon.com)

229 points by luhn on Dec 15, 2020 | 57 comments

570.

Fixing a 3 year old bug in Nvidia GeForce Experience (details-of-note.blogspot.com)

229 points by dsafonov on Dec 6, 2020 | 56 comments