HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Factorio 1.0 (factorio.com)

1878 points by Akronymus on Aug 14, 2020 | 615 comments

2.

Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices (oculus.com)

1858 points by superted on Aug 18, 2020 | 1025 comments

3.

Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store (theverge.com)

1704 points by ardit33 on Aug 13, 2020 | 1432 comments

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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products (blog.mozilla.org)

1602 points by rebelwebmaster on Aug 11, 2020 | 1456 comments

5.

American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time (aasm.org)

1600 points by oftenwrong on Aug 29, 2020 | 486 comments

6.

Mozilla Lifeboat (mozillalifeboat.com)

1518 points by gkoberger on Aug 12, 2020 | 308 comments

7.

ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper (remarkable.com)

1410 points by punnerud on Aug 27, 2020 | 685 comments

8.

Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?

1403 points by blickentwapft on Aug 19, 2020 | 644 comments

9.

Africa declared free of wild polio (bbc.com)

1387 points by riffraff on Aug 25, 2020 | 241 comments

10.

I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (newyorker.com)

1383 points by fergie on Aug 29, 2020 | 667 comments

11.

Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework (arwes.dev)

1326 points by keiferski on Aug 26, 2020 | 225 comments

12.

Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store (qoto.org)

1313 points by mynameismonkey on Aug 28, 2020 | 935 comments

13.

Thank You MDN (ilovemdn.org)

1283 points by peterbe on Aug 12, 2020 | 319 comments

14.

Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life (degoogle.jmoore.dev)

1257 points by ra7 on Aug 22, 2020 | 616 comments

15.

Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects (msn.com)

1194 points by Shivetya on Aug 6, 2020 | 469 comments

16.

Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account (macrumors.com)

1169 points by tosh on Aug 28, 2020 | 1474 comments

17.

Can't you just right click? (lapcatsoftware.com)

1169 points by bangonkeyboard on Aug 19, 2020 | 746 comments

18.

20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions (twitter.com)

1062 points by phoe-krk on Aug 6, 2020 | 444 comments

19.

Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime (reddit.com)

1043 points by huhtenberg on Aug 5, 2020 | 400 comments

20.

Laws of UX (lawsofux.com)

1037 points by seesawtron on Aug 2, 2020 | 293 comments

21.

I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] (judiciary.house.gov)

985 points by atarian on Aug 17, 2020 | 357 comments

22.

Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi (ptx2.net)

967 points by ptx2 on Aug 1, 2020 | 230 comments

23.

Level 3 Global Outage (puck.nether.net)

914 points by dknecht on Aug 30, 2020 | 368 comments

24.

Frances Allen has died (ibm.com)

892 points by ntumlin on Aug 5, 2020 | 101 comments

25.

Single Page Applications using Rust (sheshbabu.com)

886 points by rkwz on Aug 11, 2020 | 482 comments

26.

New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others (cbc.ca)

884 points by apsec112 on Aug 20, 2020 | 202 comments

27.

Scrollbar Blindness (svenkadak.com)

877 points by _maye on Aug 27, 2020 | 563 comments

28.

Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies (storycreatorapp.com)

868 points by michaelaubry on Aug 4, 2020 | 291 comments

29.

Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com (heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com)

843 points by thesephist on Aug 26, 2020 | 192 comments

30.

Being OK with not being extraordinary (tiffanymatthe.com)

830 points by tmatthe on Aug 24, 2020 | 382 comments