HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

China’s new plan to seize the world’s tech crown from the U.S (bloomberg.com)

94 points by pseudolus on May 20, 2020 | 178 comments

1502.

Comparing Covid-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is Like Comparing Apples to Oranges (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

94 points by pmorici on May 1, 2020 | 173 comments

1503.

Show HN: Solid, a free and MIT licensed design system / UI kit for Bootstrap 4 (docs.vantage-design.com)

94 points by vantagedesign on May 12, 2020 | 70 comments

1504.

Metaphors in Man Pages (jvns.ca)

94 points by todsacerdoti on May 8, 2020 | 46 comments

1505.

Lessons from Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Aids Disinformation Campaign (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

94 points by anarbadalov on May 26, 2020 | 35 comments

1506.

Ask HN: How to Study Mathematics?

94 points by hypersurface on May 4, 2020 | 31 comments

1507.

Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes (1988) (web.mit.edu)

94 points by itsspring on May 29, 2020 | 25 comments

1508.

Self-Contained Systems (scs-architecture.org)

94 points by altyuva on May 7, 2020 | 23 comments

1509.

Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector (github.com)

94 points by illuminated on May 30, 2020 | 17 comments

1510.

The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: 16M Historic Newspaper Pages (arxiv.org)

94 points by T-A on May 8, 2020 | 7 comments

1511.

Startup Offense and Defense in the Recession (blog.eladgil.com)

94 points by todsacerdoti on May 1, 2020 | 6 comments

1512.

ImPlot: Advanced 2D Plotting for Dear ImGui (github.com)

94 points by matt_d on May 9, 2020 | 6 comments

1513.

YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy (unherd.com)

94 points by s9w on May 21, 2020 | 1 comments

1514.

What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (space.stackexchange.com)

94 points by raybb on May 31, 2020 | 1 comments

1515.

Podcasts are my new Wikipedia (lnns.co)

93 points by wenbin on May 15, 2020 | 94 comments

1516.

Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

93 points by sebastianconcpt on May 15, 2020 | 77 comments

1517.

FDA halts coronavirus testing program backed by Bill Gates (nytimes.com)

93 points by pulisse on May 16, 2020 | 76 comments

1518.

Chekhov's Gun (en.wikipedia.org)

93 points by void_nill on May 14, 2020 | 72 comments

1519.

State of Emacs Lisp on Guile (emacsninja.com)

93 points by todsacerdoti on May 18, 2020 | 65 comments

1520.

PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000 (virtuallyfun.com)

93 points by bcantrill on May 28, 2020 | 58 comments

1521.

List of companies going full remote after Covid (officestatus.fyi)

93 points by geoffreyy on May 22, 2020 | 47 comments

1522.

An Implementation of Tempest in GNU Radio (github.com)

93 points by adulau on May 12, 2020 | 35 comments

1523.

Save your Linux machine – Recovering your root password and more (medium.com)

93 points by MartinHeinz on May 1, 2020 | 33 comments

1524.

An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007) (mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk)

93 points by doener on May 25, 2020 | 27 comments

1525.

How venture capital follows the economy down and curtails innovation (nber.org)

93 points by hhs on May 18, 2020 | 24 comments

1526.

Scientists Waited Two and a Half Years to See Whether Bacteria Can Eat Rock (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

93 points by headalgorithm on May 2, 2020 | 22 comments

1527.

Vibe: Video Human Pose Estimation (github.com)

93 points by ericsson_puma on May 31, 2020 | 15 comments

1528.

The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform (enterprisesystemsmedia.com)

92 points by rbanffy on May 19, 2020 | 193 comments

1529.

Why our economy may be headed for a decade of depression (nymag.com)

92 points by Balgair on May 22, 2020 | 127 comments

1530.

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (2017) (theverge.com)

92 points by doener on May 3, 2020 | 102 comments