HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

Auden on No-Platforming Pound (2019) (nybooks.com)

74 points by hodgesrm on Aug 7, 2020 | 43 comments

1592.

Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years (theguardian.com)

74 points by seigando on Aug 23, 2020 | 41 comments

1593.

Live HDR+ and Dual Exposure Controls on Pixel 4 and 4a (ai.googleblog.com)

74 points by theafh on Aug 3, 2020 | 41 comments

1594.

Language-Agnostic Bert Sentence Embedding (ai.googleblog.com)

74 points by theafh on Aug 18, 2020 | 35 comments

1595.

Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf] (ams.org)

74 points by benbreen on Aug 1, 2020 | 30 comments

1596.

Solaris 10 Zones on Illumos Tribblix (ptribble.blogspot.com)

74 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 24, 2020 | 27 comments

1597.

In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it (a16z.com)

74 points by naftaliharris on Aug 28, 2020 | 21 comments

1598.

Excessive phone use linked to problems with productivity, relationships, health (cognitiontoday.com)

74 points by Terretta on Aug 8, 2020 | 16 comments

1599.

Retrobatch – flexible batch image processing for Mac (flyingmeat.com)

74 points by firloop on Aug 27, 2020 | 14 comments

1600.

How to update U-Boot for PostmarketOS on the Pine Phone (bloggerbust.ca)

74 points by dustfinger on Aug 22, 2020 | 8 comments

1601.

The Social Media Problem (jacquesmattheij.com)

73 points by janvdberg on Aug 12, 2020 | 166 comments

1602.

Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits (theverge.com)

73 points by 0xedb on Aug 20, 2020 | 158 comments

1603.

Why Uber's business model is doomed (theguardian.com)

73 points by donsupreme on Aug 24, 2020 | 108 comments

1604.

Upcoming changes to Cortana (support.microsoft.com)

73 points by waltherp on Aug 1, 2020 | 71 comments

1605.

TikTok to Sue Trump Administration over Ban, as Soon as Tuesday (npr.org)

73 points by miscon on Aug 8, 2020 | 71 comments

1606.

How to Vote in the 2020 Election (projects.fivethirtyeight.com)

73 points by mkr-hn on Aug 14, 2020 | 63 comments

1607.

EBS Storage Improvements (aws.amazon.com)

73 points by yaalok on Aug 25, 2020 | 55 comments

1608.

Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card (l-o-o-s-e-d.net)

73 points by l00sed on Aug 17, 2020 | 50 comments

1609.

Former VW Executive Is Arrested in Croatia in Emissions Case (nytimes.com)

73 points by tosh on Aug 9, 2020 | 42 comments

1610.

The Ecommerce Surge (ben-evans.com)

73 points by prostoalex on Aug 30, 2020 | 42 comments

1611.

Bcrypt Step-by-Step (qvault.io)

73 points by lanecwagner on Aug 28, 2020 | 26 comments

1612.

Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network (arxiv.org)

73 points by fanf2 on Aug 19, 2020 | 24 comments

1613.

Android 11 is taking away the camera picker, forcing use of the built-in camera (androidpolice.com)

73 points by lladnar on Aug 18, 2020 | 20 comments

1614.

Karate: Test Automation Made Simple (github.com)

73 points by based2 on Aug 16, 2020 | 19 comments

1615.

In Ashgabat (lrb.co.uk)

73 points by flannery on Aug 27, 2020 | 13 comments

1616.

The fastest USB storage options for Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)

73 points by geerlingguy on Aug 6, 2020 | 11 comments

1617.

The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old ZIP file (arstechnica.com)

73 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 8, 2020 | 10 comments

1618.

Analyzing Python Code with Python (rotemtam.com)

73 points by rbanffy on Aug 20, 2020 | 5 comments

1619.

Georgia School Reopening Photo Even Worse Than It Appears (buzzfeednews.com)

72 points by laurex on Aug 6, 2020 | 130 comments

1620.

Not enough foreigners applied for H1B visas this year, govt ran a second lottery (theregister.com)

72 points by jeffreygoesto on Aug 15, 2020 | 111 comments