HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017) (washingtoncitypaper.com)

128 points by pmontra on Jul 27, 2020 | 124 comments

1052.

The Floppy Disk of Floating Point (evanmiller.org)

128 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 13, 2020 | 92 comments

1053.

Things You Should Never Do (2000) (joelonsoftware.com)

128 points by HugoDias on Jul 3, 2020 | 83 comments

1054.

Venice test brings up floodgates for first time (bbc.com)

128 points by pseudolus on Jul 10, 2020 | 75 comments

1055.

Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?

128 points by throwaway25239 on Jul 17, 2020 | 53 comments

1056.

Elements C++ GUI Library (github.com)

128 points by turrini on Jul 6, 2020 | 45 comments

1057.

Vue v3.0.0-RC.1 (github.com)

128 points by calibas on Jul 18, 2020 | 27 comments

1058.

Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine (github.com)

128 points by MindGods on Jul 5, 2020 | 20 comments

1059.

GPT-3 Examples (gpt3examples.com)

128 points by simonebrunozzi on Jul 30, 2020 | 16 comments

1060.

Bullshit Jobs (2018) (bloomberg.com)

127 points by tux1968 on Jul 6, 2020 | 157 comments

1061.

Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets in $10B deal (cnbc.com)

127 points by finphil on Jul 6, 2020 | 129 comments

1062.

Imperial Wars Always Come Home (patrickwyman.substack.com)

127 points by ahelwer on Jul 27, 2020 | 65 comments

1063.

Drone footage of Reddit's major investor rounding up people for religious belief (reddit.com)

127 points by missosoup on Jul 15, 2020 | 44 comments

1064.

Show HN: Dendron – a roam like open source markdown note taking app (dendron.so)

127 points by kevinslin on Jul 19, 2020 | 39 comments

1065.

Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell (medium.com)

127 points by jose_zap on Jul 16, 2020 | 37 comments

1066.

A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations (zerodivs.com)

127 points by aaadult on Jul 9, 2020 | 25 comments

1067.

Q2 2020 Update (ir.tesla.com)

126 points by marc__1 on Jul 22, 2020 | 291 comments

1068.

Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database (tarynpivots.com)

126 points by ksec on Jul 30, 2020 | 120 comments

1069.

“LibreOffice is at serious risk” (lwn.net)

126 points by rsecora on Jul 10, 2020 | 108 comments

1070.

Do We Need a Theory of Everything? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

126 points by COGlory on Jul 13, 2020 | 79 comments

1071.

Ghislaine Maxwell arrested by the FBI (thedailybeast.com)

126 points by longdefeat on Jul 2, 2020 | 78 comments

1072.

A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers in mice (sciencedaily.com)

126 points by kn8 on Jul 25, 2020 | 66 comments

1073.

Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (blog.higashi.tech)

126 points by yuedongze on Jul 3, 2020 | 30 comments

1074.

CoreBGP – Plugging in to BGP (jordanwhited.com)

126 points by jordanwhited on Jul 6, 2020 | 8 comments

1075.

Explaining RNNs without neural networks (explained.ai)

126 points by parrt on Jul 10, 2020 | 7 comments

1076.

Windows on Raspberry (worproject.ml)

125 points by T-A on Jul 18, 2020 | 108 comments

1077.

Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app (github.com)

125 points by shahinrostami on Jul 18, 2020 | 101 comments

1078.

Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands (nature.com)

125 points by simonpure on Jul 14, 2020 | 90 comments

1079.

The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video] (youtube.com)

125 points by tosh on Jul 28, 2020 | 36 comments

1080.

Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac? (macrumors.com)

124 points by jedimind on Jul 11, 2020 | 278 comments