HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1111.

U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come (nytimes.com)

128 points by deegles on Dec 3, 2020 | 287 comments

1112.

Going All in on the Mac App Store (unboundapp.com)

128 points by s3cur3 on Dec 23, 2020 | 231 comments

1113.

Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering (c0de517e.blogspot.com)

128 points by Koiwai on Dec 28, 2020 | 185 comments

1114.

Dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible (2015) (fivethirtyeight.com)

128 points by tosh on Dec 13, 2020 | 114 comments

1115.

Free Pascal (freepascal.org)

128 points by doener on Dec 13, 2020 | 82 comments

1116.

Commoditize your complement (2019) (gwern.net)

128 points by harperlee on Dec 19, 2020 | 80 comments

1117.

Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages (github.com)

128 points by susam on Dec 6, 2020 | 58 comments

1118.

BlocklySQL: A new block-based editor for SQL (dbinf.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de)

128 points by leeuw01 on Dec 23, 2020 | 38 comments

1119.

Niex: Jupyter Notebooks but Using Elixir (github.com)

128 points by niels_bom on Dec 28, 2020 | 21 comments

1120.

What Did the Past Smell Like? (nautil.us)

127 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2020 | 134 comments

1121.

What Is Life? (2019) (berthub.eu)

127 points by marcobambini on Dec 31, 2020 | 113 comments

1122.

An unemployed trader who became a $700M exile (bloomberg.com)

127 points by simonebrunozzi on Dec 8, 2020 | 96 comments

1123.

Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript (hierogly.ph)

127 points by herbertl on Dec 4, 2020 | 59 comments

1124.

The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me (wired.com)

127 points by DamnInteresting on Dec 23, 2020 | 54 comments

1125.

Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese (polygon.com)

127 points by polm23 on Dec 24, 2020 | 53 comments

1126.

Periodic table of the web's APIs (wwwperiodictable.surge.sh)

127 points by crazypython on Dec 12, 2020 | 44 comments

1127.

Areweyet (wiki.mozilla.org)

127 points by URfejk on Dec 6, 2020 | 42 comments

1128.

If you can't play the new VR version of Myst, why not play the Apple II demake (deater.net)

127 points by deater on Dec 13, 2020 | 27 comments

1129.

Show HN: Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust (github.com)

127 points by matsche on Dec 14, 2020 | 19 comments

1130.

Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers (docs.google.com)

127 points by ibobev on Dec 5, 2020 | 9 comments

1131.

Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio] (bbc.co.uk)

126 points by respinal on Dec 31, 2020 | 231 comments

1132.

Why nullable types? (medium.com)

126 points by ceronman on Dec 8, 2020 | 115 comments

1133.

Teaching the Unfortunate Parts (executeprogram.com)

126 points by gary_bernhardt on Dec 28, 2020 | 95 comments

1134.

Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters (futurehuman.medium.com)

126 points by minikites on Dec 11, 2020 | 61 comments

1135.

A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp (airplanes3d.wordpress.com)

126 points by app4soft on Dec 17, 2020 | 35 comments

1136.

Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks (nationalgeographic.com)

126 points by backing on Dec 10, 2020 | 33 comments

1137.

Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern (qr.new)

126 points by koch on Dec 19, 2020 | 32 comments

1138.

Rancher Lab Acquired by SUSE (rancher.com)

126 points by blopeur on Dec 1, 2020 | 20 comments

1139.

Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer (washingtonpost.com)

125 points by tempsy on Dec 16, 2020 | 264 comments

1140.

Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020 (oceansasia.org)

125 points by Element_ on Dec 15, 2020 | 165 comments