HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

I Did the Math on My Town’s Cul-de-Sacs. Here's What I Found (strongtowns.org)

72 points by oftenwrong on Dec 11, 2020 | 85 comments

1682.

Stressed banks: evidence from the largest-ever supervisory review [pdf] (fdic.gov)

72 points by luu on Dec 12, 2020 | 80 comments

1683.

The Children of Pornhub (nytimes.com)

72 points by fforflo on Dec 4, 2020 | 51 comments

1684.

Generating Cryptographically Secure Random Numbers with Coins and a Cup (blog.sia.tech)

72 points by Taek on Dec 21, 2020 | 49 comments

1685.

John Le Carré Missed Nothing (newyorker.com)

72 points by benbreen on Dec 19, 2020 | 45 comments

1686.

The Laws of Core Data (davedelong.com)

72 points by Austin_Conlon on Dec 19, 2020 | 38 comments

1687.

Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January (arstechnica.com)

72 points by pjmlp on Dec 18, 2020 | 24 comments

1688.

Ripple: A wireless token-passing protocol for multi-hop wireless mesh networks (researchgate.net)

72 points by based2 on Dec 22, 2020 | 24 comments

1689.

How New York became a metropolis of stoops (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)

72 points by animalcule on Dec 27, 2020 | 23 comments

1690.

Firefox to ship 'network partitioning' as a new anti-tracking defense (zdnet.com)

72 points by conductor on Dec 19, 2020 | 20 comments

1691.

Whitewood Under Siege: The front lines of the pallet wars (2013) (cabinetmagazine.org)

72 points by firloop on Dec 14, 2020 | 17 comments

1692.

ReScript 8.4 (rescript-lang.org)

71 points by jesperlang on Dec 14, 2020 | 63 comments

1693.

AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 VCPUs (aws.amazon.com)

71 points by yandie on Dec 1, 2020 | 43 comments

1694.

Time to get excited about the growing Windows on ARM Ecosystem (community.arm.com)

71 points by pjmlp on Dec 22, 2020 | 43 comments

1695.

Owncast Instances (directory.owncast.online)

71 points by URfejk on Dec 27, 2020 | 33 comments

1696.

Nomad v1.0 release – workload orchestration (github.com)

71 points by jrnkntl on Dec 8, 2020 | 26 comments

1697.

Kevin Kelly on Why Technology Has a Will (palladiummag.com)

71 points by imartin2k on Dec 11, 2020 | 25 comments

1698.

The Atari 2600 Webserver (humanclock.com)

71 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 14, 2020 | 25 comments

1699.

Combinatorial Theory Journal Launches with Innovative Open Access Funding Model (osc.universityofcalifornia.edu)

71 points by tingletech on Dec 11, 2020 | 14 comments

1700.

How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners (wsj.com)

71 points by juokaz on Dec 22, 2020 | 7 comments

1701.

What comes after Git? (twitter.com)

70 points by mariuz on Dec 25, 2020 | 173 comments

1702.

Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made with little forethought? (circuitbored.com)

70 points by winternett on Dec 14, 2020 | 113 comments

1703.

Orthodox C++ (gist.github.com)

70 points by generichuman on Dec 27, 2020 | 102 comments

1704.

React's UseRef Deep Dive (giovannibenussi.com)

70 points by giovannibenussi on Dec 17, 2020 | 85 comments

1705.

Singapore approves lab-grown 'chicken' meat (bbc.com)

70 points by tellarin on Dec 9, 2020 | 82 comments

1706.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real (mcgill.ca)

70 points by ingve on Dec 26, 2020 | 67 comments

1707.

Fractal Architectures: A Software Craftsman's take to Infrastructure as Code (yanchware.com)