HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2911.

Hexagonal Grids (2013) (redblobgames.com)

368 points by siliconmountain on Dec 8, 2020 | 74 comments

2912.

Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac

368 points by vicken on Apr 3, 2020 | 47 comments

2913.

Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development (tech.ssut.me)

367 points by ssut on Dec 14, 2020 | 457 comments

2914.

Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak (businessinsider.com)

367 points by angrygoat on Mar 7, 2020 | 351 comments

2915.

Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers (zdnet.com)

367 points by spzx on Feb 4, 2020 | 231 comments

2916.

The Failed Promise of Web Components (lea.verou.me)

367 points by lemonberry on Sep 30, 2020 | 229 comments

2917.

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) (randomwire.com)

367 points by Fiveplus on Nov 19, 2020 | 207 comments

2918.

Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally (sciencemag.org)

367 points by ycombonator on Jan 31, 2020 | 206 comments

2919.

Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls (bloomberg.com)

367 points by jrepinc on Mar 21, 2020 | 204 comments

2920.

Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model (microsoft.com)

367 points by XnoiVeX on Feb 10, 2020 | 139 comments

2921.

Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned (reddit.com)

367 points by ko3us on Jun 29, 2020 | 128 comments

2922.

Lode Runner (filfre.net)

367 points by doppp on Dec 20, 2020 | 104 comments

2923.

Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand (sfconservancy.org)

367 points by pabs3 on Oct 26, 2020 | 74 comments

2924.

A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM (blogs.windows.com)

366 points by Tepix on Dec 11, 2020 | 396 comments

2925.

Hotel guest in Thailand jailed for defamation after posting bad online reviews (loyaltylobby.com)

366 points by lxm on Sep 27, 2020 | 270 comments

2926.

1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland (theguardian.com)

366 points by jelliclesfarm on Nov 25, 2020 | 214 comments

2927.

2+1=4, by quinoa (efavdb.com)

366 points by efavdb on Jul 3, 2020 | 168 comments

2928.

Cloudflare One (blog.cloudflare.com)

366 points by jgrahamc on Oct 12, 2020 | 139 comments

2929.

Godot 3.2 (godotengine.org)

366 points by makepanic on Jan 29, 2020 | 138 comments

2930.

Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire (newyorker.com)

366 points by alienreborn on Jul 21, 2020 | 131 comments

2931.

When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery (obscuritory.com)

366 points by danso on May 19, 2020 | 114 comments

2932.

Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis (technologynetworks.com)

366 points by karimford on Aug 15, 2020 | 104 comments

2933.

Gron – Make JSON Greppable (github.com)

366 points by capableweb on Nov 6, 2020 | 91 comments

2934.

A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic (abstreet.org)

366 points by zackham on Jun 22, 2020 | 87 comments

2935.

How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (how.complexsystems.fail)

366 points by mxschumacher on Dec 27, 2020 | 83 comments

2936.

Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes (dungeonscrawl.com)

366 points by Caseee on Jun 23, 2020 | 68 comments

2937.

Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick (adsp.ai)

366 points by datashrimp on Jun 22, 2020 | 66 comments

2938.

Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater (forbes.com)

366 points by sethbannon on Jul 6, 2020 | 64 comments

2939.

Ronin – A Lisp-based image processing tool (100r.co)

366 points by Gormisdomai on May 17, 2020 | 35 comments

2940.

The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf] (inthepublicinterest.org)

365 points by Firebrand on Jul 21, 2020 | 542 comments