HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos (acoup.blog)

260 points by danso on May 30, 2020 | 40 comments

512.

Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scooters following Jump sale (bbc.com)

259 points by finphil on May 28, 2020 | 224 comments

513.

15 years later: remote code execution in qmail (qualys.com)

259 points by fanf2 on May 20, 2020 | 159 comments

514.

Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents (bloomberg.com)

258 points by kjhughes on May 14, 2020 | 405 comments

515.

Android Studio 4.0 (android-developers.googleblog.com)

258 points by raybb on May 28, 2020 | 281 comments

516.

Secessio plebis (en.wikipedia.org)

258 points by alasarmas on May 9, 2020 | 97 comments

517.

Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine (deezer.io)

258 points by jph98 on May 18, 2020 | 63 comments

518.

Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?

257 points by grimwall on May 7, 2020 | 259 comments

519.

Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s (statnews.com)

255 points by vo2maxer on May 6, 2020 | 121 comments

520.

What the heck happened with .org? (blog.mozilla.org)

255 points by soheilpro on May 12, 2020 | 101 comments

521.

Real time image animation in opencv using first order model (github.com)

255 points by abhas9 on May 26, 2020 | 31 comments

522.

Port knocking (en.wikipedia.org)

254 points by simonpure on May 15, 2020 | 178 comments

523.

Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017) (jsomers.net)

254 points by jasim on May 24, 2020 | 151 comments

524.

The Hard Part of Learning a Language (hillelwayne.com)

254 points by lelf on May 29, 2020 | 136 comments

525.

Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display (techcrunch.com)

253 points by lxm on May 26, 2020 | 145 comments

526.

The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning (cybernews.com)

252 points by nicedicerice on May 21, 2020 | 179 comments

527.

Featherweight Go (arxiv.org)

252 points by 4ad on May 31, 2020 | 160 comments

528.

A casino card shark’s first time getting caught (narratively.com)

252 points by smoyer on May 9, 2020 | 122 comments

529.

Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger) (sr.ht)

251 points by kick on May 13, 2020 | 75 comments

530.

Show HN: `fzf` * `Git` done right (github.com)

251 points by parentheses on May 30, 2020 | 63 comments

531.

My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video] (youtube.com)

251 points by o10449366 on May 11, 2020 | 52 comments

532.

Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds? (newyorker.com)

250 points by seek3r00 on May 16, 2020 | 477 comments

533.

‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’ (nytimes.com)

250 points by rbanffy on May 7, 2020 | 343 comments

534.

China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong (greenwichtime.com)

250 points by onetimemanytime on May 21, 2020 | 265 comments

535.

The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) (digitalmars.com)

250 points by goranmoomin on May 2, 2020 | 204 comments

536.

The PEPs of Python 3.9 (lwn.net)

250 points by zdw on May 28, 2020 | 185 comments

537.

Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence (psyarxiv.com)

250 points by Osiris30 on May 11, 2020 | 154 comments

538.

An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles (nature.com)