HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) (web.archive.org)

755 points by brandrick on Dec 4, 2020 | 455 comments

542.

Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur (twitter.com)

754 points by polyrand on Nov 14, 2020 | 235 comments

543.

The web is 30 years old today (home.cern)

754 points by Anon84 on Dec 20, 2020 | 163 comments

544.

The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations (arxiv.org)

754 points by lnyan on Jul 2, 2020 | 92 comments

545.

Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts (techcrunch.com)

752 points by Liriel on Dec 10, 2020 | 237 comments

546.

Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel (newatlas.com)

751 points by bornelsewhere on Nov 5, 2020 | 252 comments

547.

David Graeber has died (theguardian.com)

749 points by frabbit on Sep 3, 2020 | 263 comments

548.

I Learned French in 12 Months (runwes.com)

748 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2020 | 312 comments

549.

Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far (boilingsteam.com)

748 points by ekianjo on Apr 20, 2020 | 312 comments

550.

Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics (therobotreport.com)

748 points by tazlor on Dec 9, 2020 | 248 comments

551.

List of Twitter mute words for your timeline (gist.github.com)

748 points by rmason on Jan 24, 2020 | 209 comments

552.

Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS (kylehalladay.com)

747 points by ingve on May 20, 2020 | 101 comments

553.

Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? (krebsonsecurity.com)

746 points by MindGods on Jul 16, 2020 | 499 comments

554.

I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee (shkspr.mobi)

745 points by edent on Dec 18, 2020 | 314 comments

555.

Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better (psyche.co)

745 points by _zhqs on Aug 21, 2020 | 305 comments

556.

John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code (marc.info)

744 points by hellschreiber on May 18, 2020 | 257 comments

557.

A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers (arstechnica.com)

743 points by elsewhen on Nov 2, 2020 | 343 comments

558.

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians (zdnet.com)

741 points by afrcnc on Sep 22, 2020 | 613 comments

559.

Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak (reportcybercrime.com)

741 points by Yeri on Sep 30, 2020 | 380 comments

560.

WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN (wired.com)

741 points by axiomdata316 on Mar 2, 2020 | 295 comments

561.

Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?

738 points by faang0722 on Jul 22, 2020 | 614 comments

562.

Moving from YouTube to PeerTube (battlepenguin.com)

738 points by djsumdog on Aug 20, 2020 | 451 comments

563.

Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics (lwn.net)

738 points by Tomte on Jun 18, 2020 | 319 comments

564.

Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn (pcmaffey.com)

737 points by rohmanhakim on Jun 11, 2020 | 448 comments

565.

Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google (lwn.net)

737 points by beachwood23 on Jul 28, 2020 | 332 comments

566.

Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data (floridatoday.com)

736 points by tmountain on May 19, 2020 | 191 comments

567.

Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt (scotthelme.co.uk)

736 points by c0r0n3r on Nov 23, 2020 | 160 comments

568.

When good ideas make bad business (tjcx.me)

735 points by tomjcleveland on Jan 3, 2020 | 341 comments

569.

US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days (asia.nikkei.com)

734 points by baylearn on Aug 7, 2020 | 1265 comments

570.

Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) (quora.com)

734 points by webdva on Apr 22, 2020 | 661 comments