HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

91.

Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being (theatlantic.com)

548 points by DarkContinent on Oct 18, 2020 | 316 comments

92.

Python 3.9 (docs.python.org)

547 points by sertsa on Oct 5, 2020 | 263 comments

93.

Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists (twitter.com)

546 points by mortenjorck on Oct 23, 2020 | 128 comments

94.

My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf (reddit.com)

536 points by frans on Oct 1, 2020 | 238 comments

95.

Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up (cbc.ca)

535 points by jgneff on Oct 10, 2020 | 338 comments

96.

Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers (twitter.com)

535 points by ColinWright on Oct 27, 2020 | 195 comments

97.

So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (jaycarlson.net)

535 points by cushychicken on Oct 16, 2020 | 111 comments

98.

Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself (unionleader.com)

534 points by coloneltcb on Oct 28, 2020 | 311 comments

99.

Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B (forbes.com)

533 points by harryzhang on Oct 9, 2020 | 93 comments

100.

The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement (joindiaspora.com)

530 points by URfejk on Oct 25, 2020 | 217 comments

101.

Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest (axios.com)

528 points by cwwc on Oct 25, 2020 | 383 comments

102.

Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground (old.reddit.com)

526 points by a5withtrrs on Oct 12, 2020 | 326 comments

103.

Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently (theverge.com)

525 points by theBashShell on Oct 9, 2020 | 268 comments

104.

Hum to Search Song (blog.google)

524 points by kodisha on Oct 15, 2020 | 214 comments

105.

Notes on My Colon Cancer (charlieharrington.com)

516 points by whatrocks on Oct 21, 2020 | 291 comments

106.

Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin (theverge.com)

515 points by rhd1729 on Oct 19, 2020 | 247 comments

107.

A Theory of Software Architecture (danuker.go.ro)

507 points by nreece on Oct 28, 2020 | 241 comments

108.

Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless (smh.com.au)

505 points by shortweb3 on Oct 28, 2020 | 353 comments

109.

Pressing YubiKeys (bert.org)

505 points by bertrandom on Oct 2, 2020 | 235 comments

110.

Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship” (buzzfeednews.com)

505 points by aspenmayer on Oct 25, 2020 | 187 comments

111.

There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) (randomascii.wordpress.com)

501 points by tape_measure on Oct 11, 2020 | 175 comments

112.

Fuck You Sunday (fuckyousunday.com)

499 points by greatNespresso on Oct 11, 2020 | 356 comments

113.

Foundations of Software Engineering (cmu-313.github.io)

499 points by charlysl on Oct 31, 2020 | 125 comments

114.

Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups (framablog.org)

498 points by staz on Oct 27, 2020 | 98 comments

115.

ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable (github.com)

497 points by c-smile on Oct 16, 2020 | 191 comments

116.

Ruby on Rails in a week (simplethread.com)

497 points by Tenhundfeld on Oct 29, 2020 | 171 comments

117.

We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make (scientificamerican.com)

496 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 | 167 comments

118.

The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it (forbes.com)

493 points by bra-ket on Oct 23, 2020 | 466 comments

119.

PS5 Teardown [video] (youtube.com)

490 points by zdw on Oct 7, 2020 | 426 comments

120.

If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour (commondreams.org)

486 points by deegles on Oct 9, 2020 | 438 comments