HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1381.

Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday (twitter.com)

96 points by yarapavan on Oct 2, 2020 | 87 comments

1382.

Banks help scammers with their bad UI (zainrizvi.io)

96 points by ZainRiz on Oct 17, 2020 | 76 comments

1383.

Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account (volkskrant.nl)

96 points by huijzer on Oct 22, 2020 | 73 comments

1384.

Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

96 points by mikhailfranco on Oct 23, 2020 | 67 comments

1385.

CSS Layout – Grid vs. Flexbox (codecoda.com)

96 points by xxlcloudinc on Oct 13, 2020 | 66 comments

1386.

The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (1945) (lewisiana.nl)

96 points by benbreen on Oct 30, 2020 | 57 comments

1387.

Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock (instructables.com)

96 points by fortran77 on Oct 11, 2020 | 25 comments

1388.

Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce (dfirmadness.com)

96 points by wglb on Oct 12, 2020 | 15 comments

1389.

Why Europe Wins (foreignpolicy.com)

95 points by mpweiher on Oct 4, 2020 | 119 comments

1390.

Breach at Dickey’s BBQ Smokes 3M Cards (krebsonsecurity.com)

95 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 15, 2020 | 83 comments

1391.

Custom Allocators Demystified (slembcke.github.io)

95 points by deafcalculus on Oct 13, 2020 | 67 comments

1392.

Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh (blog.hartwork.org)

95 points by spyc on Oct 22, 2020 | 57 comments

1393.

The Developer Experience Gap (redmonk.com)

95 points by mooreds on Oct 12, 2020 | 56 comments

1394.

Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing trojans on phones to monitor WhatsApp (afp.com)

95 points by Cantbekhan on Oct 21, 2020 | 55 comments

1395.

Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (2016) (brainpickings.org)

95 points by Hooke on Oct 21, 2020 | 39 comments

1396.

Show HN: NasNas, a new intuitive and user friendly C++ game framework (github.com)

95 points by Madour on Oct 3, 2020 | 19 comments

1397.

Generative Music – Brian Eno (1996) (inmotionmagazine.com)

95 points by jmats on Oct 6, 2020 | 15 comments

1398.

Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications for the Covid-19 Response (medrxiv.org)

94 points by avoidboringppl on Oct 8, 2020 | 156 comments

1399.

Is your programming language unreasonable? (2015) (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)

94 points by ColinWright on Oct 10, 2020 | 130 comments

1400.

Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018) (dl.acm.org)

94 points by bshanks on Oct 22, 2020 | 114 comments

1401.

CBR 1000RR LEDs (pages.cs.wisc.edu)

94 points by eitland on Oct 31, 2020 | 85 comments

1402.

Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning (comet.ml)

94 points by ChefboyOG on Oct 14, 2020 | 76 comments

1403.

Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?

94 points by dojitza1 on Oct 1, 2020 | 57 comments

1404.

“Less than one”-shot learning (technologyreview.com)

94 points by monsieurpng on Oct 18, 2020 | 44 comments

1405.

BMW fined $18M for providing inaccurate retail sales information to investors (yourautoadvocate.com)

94 points by zachshefska on Oct 2, 2020 | 33 comments

1406.

Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent? (cliffmass.blogspot.com)

94 points by luu on Oct 5, 2020 | 32 comments

1407.

Ransom gangs increasingly outsource their work (krebsonsecurity.com)

94 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 8, 2020 | 31 comments

1408.

Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to (tomsguide.com)

94 points by yvoschaap on Oct 22, 2020 | 26 comments

1409.

Audio’s opportunity and who will capture it (matthewball.vc)

94 points by hunglee2 on Oct 18, 2020 | 19 comments

1410.

Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response (timesunion.com)

94 points by AndrewBissell on Oct 23, 2020 | 18 comments