HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7981.

Up to 3M devices infected by malware-laced Chrome and Edge add-ons (arstechnica.com)

3 points by elorant on Dec 18, 2020 | 2 comments

7982.

First transmission of 1 Petabit/S on a Single-core Multimode Optical Fiber (nict.go.jp)

3 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 18, 2020 | 2 comments

7983.

The Shadow Request: Troubleshooting OkCupid’s First GraphQL Release (tech.okcupid.com)

3 points by mgeraci on Dec 18, 2020 | 2 comments

7984.

Uber’s Real-Time Push Platform (eng.uber.com)

3 points by dayanruben on Dec 18, 2020 | 2 comments

7985.

EVs Could Soon Cost Same as Gas Cars as Battery Costs Drop (caranddriver.com)

3 points by elorant on Dec 18, 2020 | 2 comments

7986.

Ask HN: Best app you discovered in 2020?

3 points by myrloc on Dec 18, 2020 | 2 comments

7987.

Offline BTC wallet generator based on common Unix tools fits in 2 tweets (twitter.com)

3 points by ribasushi on Dec 19, 2020 | 2 comments

7988.

Internet-in-a-Box (github.com)

3 points by rolph on Dec 19, 2020 | 2 comments

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Covid mortality by country, per 100k people (coronavirus.jhu.edu)

3 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 19, 2020 | 2 comments

7990.

Realtime Stock Quotes (Browser extension) (chrome.google.com)

3 points by Laksh11 on Dec 19, 2020 | 2 comments

7991.

Cognitect and Nubank will be sponsoring dozens of open source developers (inside.com)

3 points by MilnerRoute on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7992.

Sharing Code Between Projects (smashingmagazine.com)

3 points by eterps on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7993.

Ask HN: What happens when you press “Ask App not to Track”?

3 points by bwwilliams06 on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7994.

Two Senators Launch Joint Bill Proposing Adult Site Regs (avn.com)

3 points by saurik on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7995.

People Thought Covid Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong (nytimes.com)

3 points by est31 on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7996.

Ask HN: How do you decide which programming language to use?

3 points by javaguy1 on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7997.

A Man Is Betting $1.7B on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs (nytimes.com)

3 points by fortran77 on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7998.

Army Secretary and Chief of Staff disavow intention to participation in a coup (theatlantic.com)

3 points by adamsea on Dec 20, 2020 | 2 comments

7999.

SolarWinds hack exploited weaknesses we continue to tolerate (ft.com)

3 points by samizdis on Dec 21, 2020 | 2 comments

8000.

Mutant coronavirus in the UK sets off alarms but its importance remains unclear (sciencemag.org)

3 points by leonidasv on Dec 21, 2020 | 2 comments

8001.

Entire Linux Source Code Development History Visualized (visualsource.net)

3 points by pro_metheu5 on Dec 21, 2020 | 2 comments

8002.

WHO says no need for major alarm over new coronavirus strain – CTV News (ctvnews.ca)

3 points by mrfusion on Dec 22, 2020 | 2 comments

8003.

2020 US deaths top 3M, by far most ever counted (apnews.com)

3 points by FlyMoreRockets on Dec 22, 2020 | 2 comments

8004.

Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption (bbc.com)

3 points by mikesabbagh on Dec 22, 2020 | 2 comments

8005.

Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn high performance image processing?

3 points by algodance on Dec 23, 2020 | 2 comments

8006.

Somethings are never meant to be invented. The story of BlockEvent (ruky.me)

3 points by rukshn on Dec 23, 2020 | 2 comments

8007.

Ohio legislature passes bill allowing home delivery of liquor (news5cleveland.com)

3 points by ohiovr on Dec 23, 2020 | 2 comments

8008.

Tether is my biggest concern with crypto (endlessmetrics.substack.com)

3 points by makaimc on Dec 24, 2020 | 2 comments

8009.

Why the aspect ratio change from 4:3 to 16:9 to even wider formats? (movies.stackexchange.com)

3 points by tosh on Dec 24, 2020 | 2 comments

8010.

Ask HN: Where can I share my NPM packages?

3 points by aabbcc1241 on Dec 25, 2020 | 2 comments