HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes (QRpicture.com)

482 points by pickledcods on Aug 14, 2020 | 106 comments

1622.

Escaping strings in Bash using !:q (til.simonwillison.net)

482 points by goranmoomin on Oct 2, 2020 | 81 comments

1623.

The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS (thomaspark.co)

482 points by thomaspark on Jun 8, 2020 | 43 comments

1624.

Hiring Without Whiteboards (github.com)

481 points by kipply on Jul 28, 2020 | 450 comments

1625.

Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster (abramov.io)

481 points by timooo on May 30, 2020 | 273 comments

1626.

Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy (finance.yahoo.com)

480 points by jrs235 on Jan 12, 2020 | 479 comments

1627.

Dear Apple: Your Services Are No Longer Required (lowendmac.com)

480 points by raydev on Aug 18, 2020 | 216 comments

1628.

I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves (twitter.com)

480 points by todsacerdoti on May 2, 2020 | 140 comments

1629.

Vim rendered on a cube for no reason (github.com)

480 points by ohjeez on Mar 31, 2020 | 113 comments

1630.

How Does Sqlite Work? (2014) (jvns.ca)

480 points by _tw9j on Jun 27, 2020 | 62 comments

1631.

A crash course in compilers (2018) (increment.com)

480 points by cristoperb on Apr 2, 2020 | 42 comments

1632.

Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it (cfenollosa.com)

479 points by notRobot on Jun 2, 2020 | 547 comments

1633.

Quibi Is Shutting Down (wsj.com)

479 points by jaredwiener on Oct 21, 2020 | 528 comments

1634.

Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?

479 points by davidn20 on Nov 6, 2020 | 332 comments

1635.

Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash (csun.io)

479 points by igpay on May 19, 2020 | 319 comments

1636.

How SEO Ruined the Internet (superhighway98.com)

479 points by midef on Apr 6, 2020 | 286 comments

1637.

Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online (buzzfeednews.com)

479 points by edward on Jan 7, 2020 | 269 comments

1638.

Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load (khanacademy.org)

479 points by karimf on Mar 29, 2020 | 217 comments

1639.

Surviving Depression (vishnu.tech)

479 points by vishnumohandas on May 20, 2020 | 206 comments

1640.

Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk (theguardian.com)

479 points by RealityVoid on Sep 7, 2020 | 114 comments

1641.

Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit (thirtythreeforty.net)

479 points by wilsonfiifi on Jul 16, 2020 | 89 comments

1642.

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem (quantamagazine.org)

479 points by theafh on May 19, 2020 | 68 comments

1643.

The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen (economist.com)

478 points by xenocratus on Oct 29, 2020 | 526 comments

1644.

Tired of note-taking apps (akkshaya.blog)

478 points by akkshu92 on Jul 19, 2020 | 464 comments

1645.

Video Games Are the Future of Education (nabeelqu.co)

478 points by nqureshi on Jun 21, 2020 | 378 comments

1646.

Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion (wired.com)

478 points by headalgorithm on May 28, 2020 | 370 comments

1647.

Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster (bbc.com)

478 points by mepian on Aug 15, 2020 | 303 comments

1648.

Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place (zdnet.com)

478 points by pul on Mar 29, 2020 | 259 comments

1649.

AWS Snowcone (aws.amazon.com)

478 points by jeffbarr on Jun 17, 2020 | 217 comments

1650.

eBay is port scanning visitors to their website (blog.nem.ec)

478 points by joering2 on Jun 6, 2020 | 143 comments