HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

I no longer build software (github.com)

1287 points by tagawa on Sep 21, 2020 | 856 comments

122.

Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad (roguelazer.com)

1285 points by Spellman on Jul 14, 2020 | 630 comments

123.

Thank You MDN (ilovemdn.org)

1283 points by peterbe on Aug 12, 2020 | 319 comments

124.

On the Use of a Life (daemonology.net)

1275 points by cperciva on Sep 20, 2020 | 265 comments

125.

Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back (github.blog)

1275 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 16, 2020 | 1 comments

126.

Tips for a Better Life (ideopunk.com)

1271 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 23, 2020 | 463 comments

127.

Most-favorited Hacker News posts (observablehq.com)

1266 points by tlarkworthy on Sep 2, 2020 | 259 comments

128.

A warning about Glassdoor (reddit.com)

1262 points by nosmokewhereiam on Oct 15, 2020 | 329 comments

129.

Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life (degoogle.jmoore.dev)

1257 points by ra7 on Aug 22, 2020 | 616 comments

130.

Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay (wsj.com)

1256 points by grej on Oct 6, 2020 | 1363 comments

131.

Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption (act.eff.org)

1252 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 6, 2020 | 342 comments

132.

Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China (citizenlab.ca)

1248 points by gasull on Apr 3, 2020 | 302 comments

133.

Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help (bloomberg.com)

1245 points by OJFord on Dec 18, 2020 | 514 comments

134.

Just Wanted to Say Thanks (github.com)

1244 points by compumike on Dec 27, 2020 | 241 comments

135.

Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says (npr.org)

1243 points by tmlee on Mar 11, 2020 | 1038 comments

136.

A Sad Day for Rust (words.steveklabnik.com)

1243 points by pjmlp on Jan 17, 2020 | 991 comments

137.

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited] (twitter.com)

1243 points by tomduncalf on Jul 29, 2020 | 548 comments

138.

I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps (varsity.co.uk)

1242 points by yk42bb on Oct 24, 2020 | 536 comments

139.

Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] (usenix.org)

1239 points by ketanmaheshwari on May 18, 2020 | 269 comments

140.

Freeman Dyson Has Died (nytimes.com)

1238 points by ChickeNES on Feb 28, 2020 | 248 comments

141.

New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data (axios.com)

1237 points by jbegley on May 19, 2020 | 549 comments

142.

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time (quantamagazine.org)

1235 points by theafh on Oct 14, 2020 | 354 comments

143.

Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner (neilwithdata.com)

1232 points by nsainsbury on Feb 23, 2020 | 210 comments

144.

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing (theintercept.com)

1230 points by tony101 on Mar 31, 2020 | 339 comments

145.

Medium-hard SQL interview questions (quip.com)

1230 points by thomzi12 on May 2, 2020 | 287 comments

146.

Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive (wsj.com)

1227 points by longdefeat on May 26, 2020 | 977 comments

147.

BitTorrent v2 (blog.libtorrent.org)

1227 points by jakobdabo on Sep 7, 2020 | 560 comments

148.

Not everyone has an internal monologue (ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com)

1225 points by altacc on Jan 30, 2020 | 875 comments

149.

We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology (saagarjha.com)

1224 points by gok on May 11, 2020 | 200 comments

150.

What's SAP? (retool.com)

1221 points by dvdhsu on Feb 5, 2020 | 600 comments