HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

991.

Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates (newscientist.com)

140 points by caution on Apr 7, 2020 | 37 comments

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Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour (venturebeat.com)

139 points by pcshah1996 on Apr 17, 2020 | 172 comments

993.

U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

139 points by anarbadalov on Apr 13, 2020 | 144 comments

994.

A Little Clojure (blog.cleancoder.com)

139 points by ingve on Apr 6, 2020 | 114 comments

995.

Restarts in Common Lisp (sulami.github.io)

139 points by sulami on Apr 1, 2020 | 75 comments

996.

FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller (deviceside.com)

139 points by zaxcellent on Apr 24, 2020 | 74 comments

997.

An Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click RCE (insinuator.net)

139 points by faebi on Apr 24, 2020 | 61 comments

998.

New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns (techcrunch.com)

139 points by fyrefoxboy12 on Apr 6, 2020 | 59 comments

999.

Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

139 points by selimthegrim on Apr 11, 2020 | 52 comments

1000.

Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test (bloomberg.com)

138 points by lordmax on Apr 3, 2020 | 110 comments

1001.

Surprisingly Turing-Complete (gwern.net)

138 points by telekid on Apr 11, 2020 | 49 comments

1002.

MySQL Sharding at Quora (quora.com)

138 points by jinqueeny on Apr 26, 2020 | 39 comments

1003.

Libcsp: a fast C concurrency library influenced by the CSP model (github.com)

138 points by lime66 on Apr 6, 2020 | 24 comments

1004.

Mort Drucker has died (nytimes.com)

138 points by jdhzzz on Apr 10, 2020 | 23 comments

1005.

Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa (smithsonianmag.com)

138 points by reedwolf on Apr 3, 2020 | 21 comments

1006.

We’re Testing the Wrong People (theatlantic.com)

137 points by elorant on Apr 23, 2020 | 150 comments

1007.

Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of smaller repos (github.com)

137 points by deepaksurti on Apr 26, 2020 | 102 comments

1008.

Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will last, health experts say (statnews.com)

136 points by hhs on Apr 3, 2020 | 439 comments

1009.

Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not (blog.metaobject.com)

136 points by mpweiher on Apr 25, 2020 | 149 comments

1010.

PCem – An emulator of old PC hardware platforms (pcem-emulator.co.uk)

136 points by peter_d_sherman on Apr 13, 2020 | 52 comments

1011.

Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software (kanboard.org)

136 points by BerislavLopac on Apr 16, 2020 | 34 comments

1012.

Nebula Graph: A Linearly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database Written in C++ (nebula-graph.io)

136 points by jamie-vesoft on Apr 27, 2020 | 21 comments

1013.

Timely Dataflow in Fifteen Minutes [video] (youtube.com)

136 points by mpweiher on Apr 9, 2020 | 17 comments

1014.

Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research (theconversation.com)

135 points by grecy on Apr 5, 2020 | 191 comments

1015.

California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining (ucdavis.edu)

135 points by dsr12 on Apr 19, 2020 | 185 comments

1016.

Is the world's best butter worth 50 dollars a pound? (2017) (saveur.com)

135 points by emptybits on Apr 19, 2020 | 171 comments

1017.

Oil is selling for less than $10 across key North American hubs (worldoil.com)

135 points by toomuchtodo on Apr 1, 2020 | 153 comments

1018.

Tell HN: Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars

135 points by saimiam on Apr 1, 2020 | 113 comments

1019.

Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs (chrome.google.com)

135 points by slymax on Apr 11, 2020 | 79 comments

1020.

Lambda School lays off 19 employees (lambdaschool.com)

135 points by dsr12 on Apr 21, 2020 | 78 comments