HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas (bloomberg.com)

498 points by OminousWeapons on Jul 14, 2020 | 257 comments

1502.

Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security (reuters.com)

498 points by longdefeat on Nov 16, 2020 | 172 comments

1503.

Speed.cloudflare.com (speed.cloudflare.com)

498 points by manigandham on May 26, 2020 | 151 comments

1504.

1937 film explains how a car differential works (roadandtrack.com)

498 points by oedmarap on Dec 26, 2020 | 144 comments

1505.

Brown: color is weird [video] (youtube.com)

498 points by pmarin on Feb 14, 2020 | 138 comments

1506.

Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy (sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu)

498 points by MindGods on Jul 22, 2020 | 121 comments

1507.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)

498 points by tosh on Jan 11, 2020 | 115 comments

1508.

Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups (framablog.org)

498 points by staz on Oct 27, 2020 | 98 comments

1509.

Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life? (ras.ac.uk)

497 points by istinetz on Sep 14, 2020 | 265 comments

1510.

ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable (github.com)

497 points by c-smile on Oct 16, 2020 | 191 comments

1511.

Ruby on Rails in a week (simplethread.com)

497 points by Tenhundfeld on Oct 29, 2020 | 171 comments

1512.

Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques (hot3eed.github.io)

497 points by 3eed on Jun 17, 2020 | 167 comments

1513.

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools (thesephist.com)

497 points by thesephist on Aug 22, 2020 | 150 comments

1514.

Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’ (nytimes.com)

496 points by haasted on Apr 4, 2020 | 421 comments

1515.

I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm (annoying.technology)

496 points by dewey on Sep 17, 2020 | 316 comments

1516.

A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship (thehustle.co)

496 points by zackcrockett on May 3, 2020 | 225 comments

1517.

Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?

496 points by programbreeding on Feb 14, 2020 | 207 comments

1518.

We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make (scientificamerican.com)

496 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 | 167 comments

1519.

The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus [pdf] (minervanett.no)

495 points by 2a0c40 on Jul 17, 2020 | 463 comments

1520.

WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency (cbc.ca)

495 points by colinprince on Jan 30, 2020 | 439 comments

1521.

US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 (rhg.com)

495 points by prostoalex on Jan 8, 2020 | 409 comments

1522.

Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? (rachelbythebay.com)

495 points by lwhsiao on Apr 12, 2020 | 279 comments

1523.

EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app (politico.eu)

495 points by maxbaines on Feb 24, 2020 | 278 comments

1524.

What happened to Mint? (fastcompany.com)

494 points by vontzy on Jan 23, 2020 | 440 comments

1525.

Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? (sloanreview.mit.edu)

494 points by sarapeyton on Mar 19, 2020 | 315 comments

1526.

South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius (arirang.com)

494 points by airstrike on Dec 1, 2020 | 310 comments

1527.

Minimal safe Bash script template (betterdev.blog)

494 points by signa11 on Dec 15, 2020 | 276 comments

1528.

OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover (github.com)

494 points by tambourine_man on Apr 19, 2020 | 165 comments

1529.

Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online (kosmi.io)

494 points by hauxir on Mar 14, 2020 | 93 comments

1530.

Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns (riccardoscalco.it)

494 points by bryanrasmussen on Jun 29, 2020 | 43 comments