HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3121.

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

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

3122.

Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber? (superuser.com)

354 points by personjerry on Jan 25, 2020 | 113 comments

3123.

Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data (chicagotribune.com)

353 points by nkurz on Jan 9, 2020 | 409 comments

3124.

Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study (thelancet.com)

353 points by bjourne on Feb 21, 2020 | 390 comments

3125.

Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents (bbc.co.uk)

353 points by sjcsjc on Jul 1, 2020 | 378 comments

3126.

New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads (medium.com)

353 points by remotists on Jul 17, 2020 | 377 comments

3127.

Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11 (support.google.com)

353 points by distalx on Nov 8, 2020 | 374 comments

3128.

The TikTok War (stratechery.com)

353 points by migueldemoura on Jul 14, 2020 | 355 comments

3129.

What Armenians should know about life in America (2014) (likewise.am)

353 points by _gfwu on Apr 4, 2020 | 347 comments

3130.

The Death of Couchsurfing? (medium.com)

353 points by peterburkimsher on May 17, 2020 | 304 comments

3131.

India announces nationwide lockdown to stop spread of coronavirus (axios.com)

353 points by JumpCrisscross on Mar 24, 2020 | 286 comments

3132.

For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earned-Now They Want Bailout (thesoundingline.com)

353 points by baronmunchausen on Mar 18, 2020 | 264 comments

3133.

Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931 (washingtonpost.com)

353 points by jbegley on Aug 17, 2020 | 223 comments

3134.

Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency (reuters.com)

353 points by 0xedb on Oct 22, 2020 | 214 comments

3135.

Permanent.org – Nonprofit, secure cloud storage (permanent.org)

353 points by c1c2c3 on Apr 22, 2020 | 211 comments

3136.

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) (spectrum.ieee.org)

353 points by abhiminator on Sep 11, 2020 | 196 comments

3137.

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record (quantamagazine.org)

353 points by theafh on Oct 8, 2020 | 173 comments

3138.

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (2017) (neustadt.fr)

353 points by stargrave on May 28, 2020 | 163 comments

3139.

API pagination design (solovyov.net)

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

3140.

RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS (rssbox.herokuapp.com)

353 points by mrzool on Jun 20, 2020 | 104 comments

3141.

Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks (blog.balthazar-rouberol.com)

353 points by pcr910303 on Apr 25, 2020 | 96 comments

3142.

Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-from-Home Shift (bloomberg.com)

353 points by uptown on May 21, 2020 | 11 comments

3143.

Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea (fair.org)

352 points by ideals on Oct 22, 2020 | 465 comments

3144.

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications (acoup.blog)

352 points by picture on Nov 20, 2020 | 302 comments

3145.

Facebook's PR feels broken (themargins.substack.com)

352 points by cjbest on Jan 10, 2020 | 242 comments

3146.

Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices (cybernews.com)

352 points by bmcn2020 on Nov 23, 2020 | 232 comments

3147.

Assange Hearing Day 16 (craigmurray.org.uk)

352 points by jjgreen on Sep 24, 2020 | 204 comments

3148.

Everything I Know About SSDs (kcall.co.uk)

352 points by classified on Jan 15, 2020 | 185 comments

3149.

Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19 (bosch.com)

352 points by doener on Mar 26, 2020 | 181 comments

3150.

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

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