HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot (vice.com)

140 points by jxub on Feb 24, 2020 | 84 comments

842.

Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage (youtube.com)

140 points by doener on Feb 4, 2020 | 79 comments

843.

RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India (cbc.ca)

140 points by the_unknown on Feb 15, 2020 | 61 comments

844.

AI thinks like a corporation (2018) (economist.com)

140 points by samclemens on Feb 3, 2020 | 60 comments

845.

Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers (shkspr.mobi)

140 points by edent on Feb 20, 2020 | 42 comments

846.

The Navy SEAL and His Doctor: An experimental brain treatment blows up two lives (rewired.inewsource.org)

140 points by tomohawk on Feb 13, 2020 | 41 comments

847.

Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

140 points by archimag0 on Feb 12, 2020 | 27 comments

848.

Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus (bbc.com)

139 points by kgwgk on Feb 8, 2020 | 134 comments

849.

Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes (arstechnica.com)

139 points by Deinos on Feb 12, 2020 | 91 comments

850.

Critical PayPal Security Hack: Multiple Thefts Now Reported–Check Your Settings (forbes.com)

139 points by teslademigod1 on Feb 25, 2020 | 81 comments

851.

A list of companies using Elm in production (github.com)

139 points by mc3 on Feb 5, 2020 | 77 comments

852.

Jonathan Blow on Rust (np.reddit.com)

139 points by faitswulff on Feb 2, 2020 | 47 comments

853.

These Lyrics Do Not Exist (theselyricsdonotexist.com)

139 points by brogrammer2018 on Feb 15, 2020 | 46 comments

854.

Inertial Locking Box (2013) (tessmyers.com)

139 points by luu on Feb 6, 2020 | 26 comments

855.

How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them (2017) (mathwithbaddrawings.com)

139 points by vo2maxer on Feb 13, 2020 | 15 comments

856.

Systemd Home Directories (systemd.io)

138 points by signa11 on Feb 10, 2020 | 191 comments

857.

An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program (popularmechanics.com)

138 points by weare138 on Feb 17, 2020 | 149 comments

858.

Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install (techradar.com)

138 points by fraqed on Feb 21, 2020 | 129 comments

859.

Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record (blog.timothymullican.com)

138 points by olvy0 on Feb 17, 2020 | 79 comments

860.

Prepared statements and their surprising performance implications (blog.soykaf.com)

138 points by panic on Feb 23, 2020 | 36 comments

861.

USB armory: an open-source hardware design, flash-drive sized computer (inversepath.com)

138 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 11, 2020 | 33 comments

862.

Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index (github.com)

138 points by mkirchner on Feb 17, 2020 | 27 comments

863.

Null Values in SQL Queries (mitchum.blog)

137 points by maynman on Feb 3, 2020 | 152 comments

864.

Why do so many developers get DRY wrong? (changelog.com)

137 points by jerodsanto on Feb 14, 2020 | 150 comments

865.

Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users (mytextarea.com)

137 points by ent101 on Feb 6, 2020 | 90 comments

866.

Pointer Compression in V8 (blog.infosectcbr.com.au)

137 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 2, 2020 | 71 comments

867.

Show HN: Hacker News Trends (eliot-jones.com)

137 points by UglyToad on Feb 4, 2020 | 68 comments

868.

Persisting React State in LocalStorage (joshwcomeau.com)

137 points by joshwcomeau on Feb 28, 2020 | 64 comments

869.

Brothels of Ancient Pompeii (historytoday.com)

137 points by diodorus on Feb 19, 2020 | 51 comments

870.

Racket-on-Chez Status (blog.racket-lang.org)

137 points by ausimian on Feb 21, 2020 | 50 comments