HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Why Software Should Be Free (2002) (gnu.org)

218 points by finolex1 on Aug 10, 2020 | 143 comments

542.

NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography (nerf-w.github.io)

218 points by tambourine_man on Aug 6, 2020 | 124 comments

543.

C.I.A. Lacing (2014) (fieggen.com)

218 points by scrps on Aug 8, 2020 | 89 comments

544.

Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes (spectrum.ieee.org)

217 points by pross356 on Aug 19, 2020 | 176 comments

545.

Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok (jacobinmag.com)

217 points by jrepinc on Aug 7, 2020 | 162 comments

546.

How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)

217 points by pitterpatter on Aug 5, 2020 | 48 comments

547.

Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go (github.com)

217 points by mastabadtomm on Aug 10, 2020 | 27 comments

548.

Using Microsoft Word with Git (blog.martinfenner.org)

216 points by the_dripper on Aug 28, 2020 | 134 comments

549.

Entropy explained, with sheep (2016) (aatishb.com)

216 points by mlejva on Aug 13, 2020 | 97 comments

550.

Build Your Own FPGA (2012) (blog.notdot.net)

216 points by hinzundcode on Aug 23, 2020 | 15 comments

551.

Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML (unscreen.com)

215 points by groe on Aug 5, 2020 | 107 comments

552.

A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy (bbc.com)

215 points by awk on Aug 6, 2020 | 94 comments

553.

More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6 (google.com)

214 points by AndrewDucker on Aug 5, 2020 | 224 comments

554.

Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide (haydenjames.io)

214 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 25, 2020 | 180 comments

555.

What's new in PHP 8? (stitcher.io)

214 points by maydemir on Aug 13, 2020 | 168 comments

556.

Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering (drewdevault.com)

214 points by trulyrandom on Aug 1, 2020 | 107 comments

557.

RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible (github.com)

214 points by hawkoy on Aug 19, 2020 | 75 comments

558.

GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain (gitenberg.org)

214 points by bilinualcom on Aug 2, 2020 | 42 comments

559.

Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands (bnnbloomberg.ca)

213 points by finphil on Aug 6, 2020 | 268 comments

560.

Kali Linux 2020.3 (kali.org)

213 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 24, 2020 | 99 comments

561.

Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer (ezh.es)

213 points by djsumdog on Aug 20, 2020 | 49 comments

562.

One Year of Nushell (nushell.sh)

213 points by rainworld on Aug 24, 2020 | 47 comments

563.

Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?

212 points by thatcodingdude on Aug 12, 2020 | 317 comments

564.

Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?

212 points by trevett on Aug 5, 2020 | 222 comments

565.

Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (2005) (chronicle.com)

211 points by haltingproblem on Aug 22, 2020 | 297 comments

566.

Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light (eurekalert.org)

211 points by omarchowdhury on Aug 7, 2020 | 84 comments

567.

Metcalf Sniper Attack (en.wikipedia.org)

210 points by rococode on Aug 29, 2020 | 161 comments

568.

Let's Build a 28-Core Raspberry Pi Cluster (ikarus.sg)

210 points by ColinWright on Aug 11, 2020 | 150 comments

569.

The Legend of GayBlade (blog.archive.org)

210 points by polm23 on Aug 29, 2020 | 123 comments

570.

Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be (sourcelevel.io)

210 points by bmgoss on Aug 11, 2020 | 54 comments