HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1711.

Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

469 points by ingve on Aug 19, 2020 | 392 comments

1712.

Linux on iPad (ipadlinux.org)

469 points by homarp on Nov 21, 2020 | 281 comments

1713.

What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics (scopeblog.stanford.edu)

469 points by chmaynard on Apr 2, 2020 | 194 comments

1714.

Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory (elemental.medium.com)

469 points by mvgoogler on Sep 2, 2020 | 147 comments

1715.

Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements (community.letsencrypt.org)

469 points by mmoez on Feb 19, 2020 | 137 comments

1716.

How to Take Smart Notes (praxis.fortelabs.co)

469 points by Anon84 on Feb 16, 2020 | 111 comments

1717.

U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession (bloomberg.com)

468 points by chollida1 on Apr 29, 2020 | 837 comments

1718.

Linux kernel in-tree Rust support (lore.kernel.org)

468 points by littlestymaar on Jul 11, 2020 | 491 comments

1719.

As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever (engadget.com)

468 points by indigodaddy on Nov 19, 2020 | 447 comments

1720.

I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager (i3wm.org)

468 points by Gedxx on Dec 16, 2020 | 443 comments

1721.

Use long flags when scripting (2013) (changelog.com)

468 points by maple3142 on Sep 18, 2020 | 189 comments

1722.

On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services (bunniestudios.com)

468 points by zdw on Jul 24, 2020 | 186 comments

1723.

Full text search on 400M US court cases (judyrecords.com)

468 points by richardbarosky on Nov 19, 2020 | 163 comments

1724.

Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors (lunar.fyi)

468 points by car on Sep 1, 2020 | 137 comments

1725.

Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems (chromium.org)

467 points by solarengineer on May 24, 2020 | 458 comments

1726.

Back pain is a problem which is badly treated (economist.com)

467 points by pseudolus on Jan 16, 2020 | 280 comments

1727.

Hard deadlines are not user-first (jatins.gitlab.io)

467 points by jatins on Jan 1, 2020 | 246 comments

1728.

Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018) (journals.plos.org)

467 points by lxm on Jul 25, 2020 | 214 comments

1729.

Transitioning from Docker to Podman (developers.redhat.com)

466 points by indentit on Nov 20, 2020 | 268 comments

1730.

How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? (blog.leavemealone.app)

466 points by jivings on May 29, 2020 | 261 comments

1731.

Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates (news.uark.edu)

466 points by rajnathani on Mar 6, 2020 | 194 comments

1732.

DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev (clockworkpi.com)

466 points by cocoflunchy on Nov 23, 2020 | 162 comments

1733.

MF DOOM Has Died (consequenceofsound.net)

466 points by laurex on Dec 31, 2020 | 99 comments

1734.

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (crypto.stanford.edu)

466 points by throw0101a on Jan 10, 2020 | 76 comments

1735.

How HTTPS Works (howhttps.works)

466 points by kirillzubovsky on Sep 14, 2020 | 64 comments

1736.

Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition [pdf] (users.aalto.fi)

466 points by malshe on May 6, 2020 | 48 comments

1737.

‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study (theguardian.com)

465 points by archiepeach on Oct 26, 2020 | 637 comments

1738.

Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?

465 points by kkdaemas on Mar 12, 2020 | 371 comments

1739.

Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot (medium.com)

465 points by artemisart on Aug 3, 2020 | 250 comments

1740.

How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People (callmenish.com)

465 points by nish1500 on Nov 29, 2020 | 250 comments