HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

451.

Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations (driveandlisten.herokuapp.com)

804 points by herval on Jun 16, 2020 | 171 comments

452.

What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple? (kqed.org)

803 points by vo2maxer on Jan 3, 2020 | 116 comments

453.

Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime (timhutton.github.io)

801 points by tim_hutton on Oct 18, 2020 | 433 comments

454.

DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features (duckdb.org)

801 points by goranmoomin on Sep 20, 2020 | 160 comments

455.

Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

800 points by Peretus on Mar 18, 2020 | 645 comments

456.

I should have loved biology (jsomers.net)

800 points by jsomers on Nov 18, 2020 | 298 comments

457.

Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month

800 points by frits1993 on Jan 20, 2020 | 187 comments

458.

Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book (fast.ai)

799 points by amardeep on Aug 21, 2020 | 81 comments

459.

Products I Wish Existed (blog.eladgil.com)

798 points by eladgil on Jan 6, 2020 | 419 comments

460.

It’s Time to Get Back to RSS (danielmiessler.com)

798 points by danielrm26 on May 17, 2020 | 365 comments

461.

Abstract Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

798 points by infodocket on Jul 2, 2020 | 227 comments

462.

How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’ (twitter.com)

796 points by _Microft on Mar 31, 2020 | 325 comments

463.

Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse (washingtonpost.com)

795 points by coldsnap427 on Jun 29, 2020 | 851 comments

464.

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator (gatesfoundation.org)

795 points by sandGorgon on Mar 10, 2020 | 148 comments

465.

My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works (propublica.org)

792 points by danso on Jun 23, 2020 | 603 comments

466.

Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level (drive.google.com)

792 points by zuhayeer on Jan 6, 2020 | 589 comments

467.

I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency (twitter.com)

792 points by caiobegotti on Aug 9, 2020 | 185 comments

468.

Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce (techcrunch.com)

791 points by dancric on May 5, 2020 | 901 comments

469.

.NET 5.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

791 points by benaadams on Nov 10, 2020 | 455 comments

470.

Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims (infoq.com)

791 points by anarchyrucks on May 23, 2020 | 399 comments

471.

TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor (theintercept.com)

790 points by Gonzih on Mar 17, 2020 | 341 comments

472.

A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space (microg.org)

790 points by doener on Nov 30, 2020 | 187 comments

473.

Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 (blog.mozilla.org)

789 points by LinuxBender on Aug 5, 2020 | 471 comments

474.

New Grad vs. Senior Dev (ericlippert.com)

788 points by kogir on Mar 28, 2020 | 379 comments

475.

How to Get Promoted (defmacro.substack.com)

788 points by thatonewhere on Sep 28, 2020 | 317 comments

476.

Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)

788 points by tosh on Nov 19, 2020 | 254 comments

477.

Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera (support.apple.com)

787 points by ra7 on Jul 10, 2020 | 954 comments

478.

Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country (bbc.com)

787 points by colinprince on Mar 9, 2020 | 854 comments

479.

One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 (joel.net)

787 points by Sandeepg33k on Oct 2, 2020 | 480 comments

480.

Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees (courdecassation.fr)

786 points by Aissen on Mar 4, 2020 | 588 comments