HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004) (ericsink.com)

116 points by luu on Dec 21, 2020 | 104 comments

1232.

Repairability (psankar.blogspot.com)

116 points by psankar on Dec 28, 2020 | 65 comments

1233.

Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport (smithsonianmag.com)

116 points by commons-tragedy on Dec 17, 2020 | 59 comments

1234.

Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe (quantamagazine.org)

116 points by theafh on Dec 2, 2020 | 52 comments

1235.

Eyes hint at hidden mental-health conditions (2019) (nature.com)

116 points by svrma on Dec 25, 2020 | 42 comments

1236.

Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf] (pnas.org)

116 points by gregwebs on Dec 6, 2020 | 39 comments

1237.

NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi (nixos.wiki)

116 points by botayhard on Dec 25, 2020 | 20 comments

1238.

Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany (pnas.org)

115 points by _Microft on Dec 4, 2020 | 129 comments

1239.

ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ (jrs-s.net)

115 points by segfaultbuserr on Dec 9, 2020 | 127 comments

1240.

WireGuard: Great protocol, but skip the Mac app (rachelbythebay.com)

115 points by picture on Dec 25, 2020 | 104 comments

1241.

PC DOS Reimagined (pcjs.org)

115 points by ingve on Dec 23, 2020 | 73 comments

1242.

The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads (theintercept.com)

115 points by sudoaza on Dec 19, 2020 | 52 comments

1243.

CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars (greenwald.substack.com)

115 points by jules-jules on Dec 1, 2020 | 34 comments

1244.

RoboScan: Lego+Raspberry Pi-powered analog film roll scanner (github.com)

115 points by ingve on Dec 16, 2020 | 34 comments

1245.

Contributing Without Code (popey.com)

115 points by pabs3 on Dec 30, 2020 | 26 comments

1246.

Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon (petapixel.com)

115 points by ColinWright on Dec 31, 2020 | 25 comments

1247.

Macs with T2, M1 chips cannot be restored to factory state without Apple (sneak.berlin)

114 points by sharjeelsayed on Dec 6, 2020 | 93 comments

1248.

“I took FSFE to court. This is my story” (write.as)

114 points by yannovitch on Dec 21, 2020 | 76 comments

1249.

Debian 10.7 Released (debian.org)

114 points by jbergstroem on Dec 5, 2020 | 44 comments

1250.

The mythical “fast” web page (calendar.perfplanet.com)

113 points by saranshk on Dec 8, 2020 | 162 comments

1251.

Some U.S. Colleges Cut Tuition (bloomberg.com)

113 points by burnaboy on Dec 21, 2020 | 156 comments

1252.

Can developer productivity be measured? (stackoverflow.blog)

113 points by 97amarnathk on Dec 10, 2020 | 150 comments

1253.

No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time (theguardian.com)

113 points by jger15 on Dec 2, 2020 | 134 comments

1254.

Coronavirus kills more people in the US in one day than on September 11 (abc.net.au)

113 points by karimford on Dec 10, 2020 | 102 comments

1255.

Monoliths as a Service (themostfamousartist.com)

113 points by gdeglin on Dec 4, 2020 | 57 comments

1256.

Re: Flex Dance: open-source dance pad (reflex.dance)

113 points by kadoban on Dec 12, 2020 | 37 comments

1257.

PFAS “forever” chemicals found in hundreds more everyday products (theintercept.com)

113 points by mimixco on Dec 3, 2020 | 25 comments

1258.

Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust (bevyengine.org)

113 points by _cart on Dec 19, 2020 | 23 comments

1259.

The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System (lynalden.com)

113 points by graderjs on Dec 28, 2020 | 17 comments

1260.

Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election (thehill.com)

112 points by 1cvmask on Dec 12, 2020 | 280 comments