HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Two capacitor paradox (en.wikipedia.org)

438 points by rathel on May 25, 2020 | 169 comments

1982.

A small but complete JavaScript engine (bellard.org)

438 points by marcobambini on Oct 23, 2020 | 146 comments

1983.

Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers (phoronix.com)

438 points by thg on Dec 24, 2020 | 122 comments

1984.

Essays on programming I think about a lot (benkuhn.net)

438 points by jchook on Jul 21, 2020 | 94 comments

1985.

Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice (statnews.com)

438 points by adventured on Feb 21, 2020 | 89 comments

1986.

Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack (github.com)

438 points by ftreml on Jan 26, 2020 | 85 comments

1987.

Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs (abe-winter.github.io)

437 points by awinter-py on Mar 8, 2020 | 338 comments

1988.

Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

437 points by noddly on Jun 5, 2020 | 329 comments

1989.

To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo (themarkup.org)

437 points by caution on Aug 7, 2020 | 304 comments

1990.

Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea (mobile.reuters.com)

437 points by BerislavLopac on Jun 27, 2020 | 260 comments

1991.

Body Camera Once Again Catches an NYPD Officer Planting Drugs in Someone's Car (techdirt.com)

437 points by miles on Mar 19, 2020 | 199 comments

1992.

You might not need machine learning (nullprogram.com)

437 points by chmaynard on Nov 24, 2020 | 193 comments

1993.

Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere (blog.mozilla.org)

437 points by kibwen on May 5, 2020 | 179 comments

1994.

Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?

437 points by vanilla-almond on Feb 14, 2020 | 175 comments

1995.

The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia (twitter.com)

437 points by noyesno on Aug 20, 2020 | 114 comments

1996.

MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust (github.com)

437 points by qdequelen on Mar 25, 2020 | 113 comments

1997.

Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) (gkogan.co)

436 points by jeremylevy on Sep 26, 2020 | 272 comments

1998.

Open Problems in Robotics (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

436 points by haltingproblem on Aug 19, 2020 | 227 comments

1999.

Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years (krebsonsecurity.com)

436 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 17, 2020 | 169 comments

2000.

Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64 (github.com)

436 points by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Jun 2, 2020 | 158 comments

2001.

That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)

436 points by marinintim on Oct 28, 2020 | 155 comments

2002.

Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days (kasvith.me)

436 points by astdb on May 2, 2020 | 139 comments

2003.

C4: C in Four Functions (2014) (github.com)

436 points by azhenley on Feb 18, 2020 | 131 comments

2004.

Habits of High-Functioning Teams (deniseyu.io)

436 points by zbentley on May 24, 2020 | 107 comments

2005.

Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data (simonwillison.net)

436 points by simonw on Nov 14, 2020 | 59 comments

2006.

Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 (hackernoon.com)

435 points by caution on Jun 10, 2020 | 288 comments

2007.

Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf] (docs.house.gov)

435 points by mosiuerbarso on Aug 10, 2020 | 265 comments

2008.

Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island (grumpygamer.com)