HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It (nytimes.com)

221 points by doener on Dec 26, 2020 | 87 comments

602.

Things I Learnt in 2020 (drobinin.com)

221 points by valzevul on Dec 30, 2020 | 65 comments

603.

Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams (streaming.media.ccc.de)

221 points by doener on Dec 27, 2020 | 35 comments

604.

South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn (bbc.co.uk)

220 points by EwanToo on Dec 2, 2020 | 408 comments

605.

Baltimore police lied about almost every aspect of its spy plane program (vice.com)

220 points by jbegley on Dec 30, 2020 | 101 comments

606.

An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM (docs.google.com)

219 points by alokrai on Dec 29, 2020 | 190 comments

607.

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems (reuters.com)

219 points by 0xedb on Dec 17, 2020 | 183 comments

608.

'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves – US report (bbc.com)

219 points by kpetermeni on Dec 6, 2020 | 158 comments

609.

Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter (typefully.app)

219 points by linuz90 on Dec 9, 2020 | 91 comments

610.

Show HN: Slices – puzzle game (slices.ovh)

219 points by parisianka on Dec 9, 2020 | 75 comments

611.

Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US (usatoday.com)

218 points by andygcook on Dec 30, 2020 | 203 comments

612.

Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads (theverge.com)

218 points by Tomte on Dec 16, 2020 | 185 comments

613.

The Impossible Mirror Scene in 'Contact' (filmschoolrejects.com)

218 points by blindm on Dec 30, 2020 | 73 comments

614.

Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles (citizenlab.ca)

218 points by sroussey on Dec 2, 2020 | 65 comments

615.

How I Manage My Random Daily Notes (hachibu.net)

217 points by hachibu on Dec 4, 2020 | 188 comments

616.

TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B transistor GPUs (pcgamer.com)

217 points by Chazprime on Dec 2, 2020 | 185 comments

617.

In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating? (aljazeera.com)

217 points by lelf on Dec 14, 2020 | 159 comments

618.

Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks (theintercept.com)

217 points by jbegley on Dec 24, 2020 | 128 comments

619.

How I Met My Wife (1994) (newyorker.com)

217 points by Lammy on Dec 17, 2020 | 125 comments

620.

Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse (github.com)

217 points by MrXOR on Dec 15, 2020 | 77 comments

621.

TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming from a smartphone (github.com)

217 points by sciurus on Dec 3, 2020 | 52 comments

622.

Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks (supabase.io)

217 points by kiwicopple on Dec 3, 2020 | 50 comments

623.

Introducing the Open Library Explorer (blog.openlibrary.org)

217 points by mekarpeles on Dec 21, 2020 | 37 comments

624.

Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’ (itsinternational.com)

216 points by amin on Dec 4, 2020 | 343 comments

625.

DRY Is a Trade-Off (orbifold.xyz)

216 points by soopurman on Dec 17, 2020 | 233 comments

626.

A singular mind: Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize (spectator.co.uk)

216 points by miobrien on Dec 28, 2020 | 141 comments

627.

Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface (wjwh.eu)

216 points by WJW on Dec 28, 2020 | 94 comments

628.

U.S. physicists rally around plan to build fusion power plant (sciencemag.org)

215 points by pmastela on Dec 9, 2020 | 236 comments

629.

Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader (brave.com)

215 points by nsnante on Dec 11, 2020 | 155 comments

630.

Japan developing wooden satellites to cut down on space junk (bbc.com)

215 points by mmhsieh on Dec 29, 2020 | 121 comments