HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research [pdf] (clinic.cyber.harvard.edu)

111 points by headalgorithm on Oct 30, 2020 | 20 comments

1232.

Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k devices, not destroying (iphoneincanada.ca)

110 points by geuis on Oct 4, 2020 | 130 comments

1233.

A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn (npr.org)

110 points by pseudolus on Oct 11, 2020 | 113 comments

1234.

Ask HN: What are some good methods to prove current time?

110 points by sigmaprimus on Oct 11, 2020 | 66 comments

1235.

Translation Units Considered Harmful? (cor3ntin.github.io)

110 points by ingve on Oct 7, 2020 | 61 comments

1236.

The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave (cnn.com)

110 points by pseudolus on Oct 22, 2020 | 61 comments

1237.

1M Cell Minesweeper (bl.ocks.org)

110 points by texodus on Oct 13, 2020 | 54 comments

1238.

Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops (math.uci.edu)

110 points by zorked on Oct 18, 2020 | 13 comments

1239.

Gray Wolves to Be Removed from Endangered Species List (npr.org)

109 points by tima101 on Oct 30, 2020 | 230 comments

1240.

Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising against sweeping lockdowns (beta.ctvnews.ca)

109 points by mrfusion on Oct 1, 2020 | 175 comments

1241.

Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home (twitter.com)

109 points by leothekim on Oct 1, 2020 | 142 comments

1242.

Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese innovation (classic.qz.com)

109 points by mrtedbear on Oct 16, 2020 | 93 comments

1243.

Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis (nytimes.com)

109 points by dredmorbius on Oct 4, 2020 | 86 comments

1244.

Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM (turingpi.com)

109 points by nsky-world on Oct 19, 2020 | 71 comments

1245.

Parallel Tracks (defmacro.substack.com)

109 points by gringoDan on Oct 5, 2020 | 62 comments

1246.

Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack (beckershospitalreview.com)

109 points by weinzierl on Oct 29, 2020 | 54 comments

1247.

Tools I use: argparse builder (blog.rfox.eu)

109 points by zdw on Oct 5, 2020 | 46 comments

1248.

Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement (terrytao.wordpress.com)

109 points by vo2maxer on Oct 11, 2020 | 13 comments

1249.

Does C++ still deserve a bad rap? (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

108 points by signa11 on Oct 16, 2020 | 301 comments

1250.

Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues (status.slack.com)

108 points by oplav on Oct 16, 2020 | 109 comments

1251.

Homotopy Type Theory (2012) [pdf] (hottheory.files.wordpress.com)

108 points by luu on Oct 26, 2020 | 87 comments

1252.

PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros (python.org)

108 points by rbanffy on Oct 14, 2020 | 78 comments

1253.

A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul (butwhatfor.substack.com)

108 points by stanrivers on Oct 18, 2020 | 73 comments

1254.

Colorized and upscaled footage of a snowball fight filmed in 1896 (petapixel.com)

108 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 6, 2020 | 59 comments

1255.

Espruino: JavaScript for Microcontrollers (github.com)

108 points by tosh on Oct 13, 2020 | 53 comments

1256.

Show HN: Gurlic – Free and Open Communities (gurlic.com)

108 points by SubGenius on Oct 4, 2020 | 45 comments

1257.

Show HN: GridRoyale, a life simulation for exploring social dynamics (github.com)

108 points by cool-RR on Oct 11, 2020 | 22 comments

1258.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970) (jofreeman.com)

108 points by benjaminjosephw on Oct 9, 2020 | 19 comments

1259.

The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 (nature.com)

108 points by Ice_cream_suit on Oct 15, 2020 | 19 comments

1260.

Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF (pixielabs.ai)

108 points by zasgar on Oct 1, 2020 | 18 comments