HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

How to Drive on Sand Without Getting Stuck (2017) (offroaddiscovery.com)

152 points by luu on Sep 23, 2020 | 74 comments

842.

Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017) (nathanmarz.com)

152 points by amgreg on Sep 4, 2020 | 37 comments

843.

Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka (karimarttila.fi)

152 points by Borkdude on Sep 2, 2020 | 36 comments

844.

Exploring new forms of chess using artificial intelligence (wired.com)

151 points by x43b on Sep 10, 2020 | 133 comments

845.

Cameras on San Diego streetlights turned off until ordinance in place (sandiegouniontribune.com)

151 points by loteck on Sep 10, 2020 | 132 comments

846.

Sync vs. Async Python: What Is the Difference? (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

151 points by gilad on Sep 10, 2020 | 112 comments

847.

Please stop calling databases CP or AP (2015) (martin.kleppmann.com)

151 points by reese_john on Sep 7, 2020 | 51 comments

848.

Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled (straitstimes.com)

150 points by doppp on Sep 30, 2020 | 426 comments

849.

Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?

150 points by awalsh128 on Sep 12, 2020 | 282 comments

850.

Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars (theinformation.com)

150 points by bobsil1 on Sep 28, 2020 | 223 comments

851.

Microsoft Statement on TikTok (blogs.microsoft.com)

150 points by myth17 on Sep 13, 2020 | 108 comments

852.

Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will replicate successfully (journals.sagepub.com)

150 points by apsec112 on Sep 12, 2020 | 69 comments

853.

Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another (github.com)

150 points by GordonS on Sep 17, 2020 | 68 comments

854.

Twister OS: Make Raspberry Pi Look Like Windows or macOS (twisteros.com)

150 points by yboris on Sep 19, 2020 | 64 comments

855.

Spritely – leveling up the federated social web (spritelyproject.org)

150 points by pabs3 on Sep 28, 2020 | 52 comments

856.

Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today” (independent.co.uk)

149 points by danso on Sep 8, 2020 | 173 comments

857.

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? (2016) (jpl.nasa.gov)

149 points by totaldude87 on Sep 28, 2020 | 147 comments

858.

What is the value of browser diversity? (daverupert.com)

149 points by kiyanwang on Sep 20, 2020 | 117 comments

859.

Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language (elv.sh)

149 points by fmakunbound on Sep 9, 2020 | 49 comments

860.

Social Media Analysis Toolkit: Open-Source Tool for Tracking Disinformation (foundation.mozilla.org)

149 points by rapnie on Sep 23, 2020 | 40 comments

861.

Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac (theverge.com)

148 points by ideals on Sep 26, 2020 | 115 comments

862.

Dune Official Trailer (youtube.com)

148 points by 0-_-0 on Sep 9, 2020 | 91 comments

863.

Cloudflare’s privacy crusade continues with a challenge to Google Analytics (fortune.com)

148 points by dylan604 on Sep 29, 2020 | 65 comments

864.

Writing an x86 bootloader in Rust that can launch vmlinux (vmm.dev)

148 points by lukastyrychtr on Sep 18, 2020 | 52 comments

865.

Learning@home hivemind – train large neural networks across the internet (learning-at-home.github.io)

148 points by sebg on Sep 4, 2020 | 38 comments

866.

Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification (zenodo.org)

147 points by ycombonator on Sep 14, 2020 | 144 comments

867.

Designing an Overkill workbench for home office (techprowd.com)

147 points by gcds on Sep 14, 2020 | 99 comments

868.

Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it (ghacks.net)

147 points by maproot on Sep 6, 2020 | 79 comments

869.

Traefik, Now With Native Go Plugins (traefik.io)

147 points by emilevauge on Sep 23, 2020 | 63 comments

870.

Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4 (theregister.com)

147 points by sohkamyung on Sep 29, 2020 | 35 comments