HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1561.

Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators (github.com)

77 points by kamocyc on Aug 4, 2020 | 15 comments

1562.

The Door Problem (2014) (lizengland.com)

77 points by windsurfer on Aug 29, 2020 | 11 comments

1563.

Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?

76 points by itronitron on Aug 20, 2020 | 184 comments

1564.

TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app (reuters.com)

76 points by pseudolus on Aug 21, 2020 | 133 comments

1565.

Amazon launches Halo: tracks activity, body fat, emotions (press.aboutamazon.com)

76 points by matco11 on Aug 27, 2020 | 114 comments

1566.

Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal (apnews.com)

76 points by jonbaer on Aug 21, 2020 | 93 comments

1567.

Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management (arstechnica.com)

76 points by mariuz on Aug 31, 2020 | 89 comments

1568.

Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing (thecorrespondent.com)

76 points by lxm on Aug 23, 2020 | 57 comments

1569.

Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients (thelancet.com)

76 points by seesawtron on Aug 6, 2020 | 44 comments

1570.

The Social Fabric of the U.S. Is Fraying Severely, If Not Unravelling (theintercept.com)

76 points by guildwriter on Aug 28, 2020 | 37 comments

1571.

Stepping away from open source (omar.yt)

76 points by vuldin on Aug 1, 2020 | 33 comments

1572.

Jetpack Compose Alpha is released (android-developers.googleblog.com)

76 points by yrezgui on Aug 26, 2020 | 27 comments

1573.

The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015) (mbio.asm.org)

76 points by medymed on Aug 9, 2020 | 25 comments

1574.

A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World (scientificamerican.com)

76 points by anarbadalov on Aug 5, 2020 | 18 comments

1575.

Chadwick Boseman Is Dead (bbc.com)

76 points by DarkContinent on Aug 29, 2020 | 15 comments

1576.

Child sexual abuse material could be going undetected because of ‘false reports’ (iwf.org.uk)

75 points by buisi on Aug 2, 2020 | 130 comments

1577.

Melancholy of obsolete futures: on Soviet Brutalism (thecritic.co.uk)

75 points by prismatic on Aug 26, 2020 | 77 comments

1578.

IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security (searchdatacenter.techtarget.com)

75 points by rbanffy on Aug 20, 2020 | 75 comments

1579.

‘A Partial Freedom’: What Latvia Found in the KGB Archives (2019) (nybooks.com)

75 points by prostoalex on Aug 6, 2020 | 62 comments

1580.

ZX Spectrum Next – Issue 2 (kickstarter.com)

75 points by ibobev on Aug 12, 2020 | 61 comments

1581.

Ask HN: Has anyone built a SaaS for local municipalities?

75 points by jokull on Aug 29, 2020 | 47 comments

1582.

“Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure” (smithsonianmag.com)

75 points by whocansay on Aug 25, 2020 | 40 comments

1583.

Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point (onezero.medium.com)

75 points by raybb on Aug 6, 2020 | 38 comments

1584.

Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation (arxiv.org)

75 points by polm23 on Aug 27, 2020 | 23 comments

1585.

Fossilised 429-million-year-old eye mirrors modern insect vision (phys.org)

75 points by bookofjoe on Aug 17, 2020 | 19 comments

1586.

Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016) (iquilezles.org)

75 points by plancien on Aug 28, 2020 | 15 comments

1587.

System on Chip wrapping the SERV RISC-V soft processor (rotwang.co.uk)

75 points by homarp on Aug 4, 2020 | 7 comments

1588.

Greenland Ice Sheet has melted to the point of no return (nature.com)

75 points by brainless on Aug 15, 2020 | 1 comments

1589.

Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service (abc.net.au)

74 points by rstuart4133 on Aug 12, 2020 | 120 comments

1590.

Don't Get Stuck (stitcher.io)

74 points by brendt_gd on Aug 31, 2020 | 65 comments