HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Developing affordable, gene-based cures for sickle cell and HIV (futurehuman.medium.com)

54 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 1, 2020 | 22 comments

1982.

Reddit reveals daily active user count for the first time: 52M (theverge.com)

54 points by finphil on Dec 1, 2020 | 22 comments

1983.

Build an 8-bit CPU from scratch (eater.net)

54 points by punnerud on Dec 14, 2020 | 19 comments

1984.

Using JAX to Accelerate Research (deepmind.com)

54 points by umangkeshri on Dec 17, 2020 | 14 comments

1985.

Countries build 9 mile wide tree wall across Africa to prevent Sahara advancing (2014) (alearned.com)

54 points by Circumnavigate on Dec 19, 2020 | 13 comments

1986.

This happened to me while I was scrolling through Twitter (twitter.com)

54 points by odomojuli on Dec 15, 2020 | 12 comments

1987.

Leaving the Grace of This World (outsideonline.com)

54 points by mighty-fine on Dec 17, 2020 | 11 comments

1988.

'This is not science fiction,' say scientists pushing for 'neuro-rights' (reuters.com)

54 points by pseudolus on Dec 4, 2020 | 10 comments

1989.

Reverse Engineering my Christmas Tree (kc3nwj.com)

54 points by pabs3 on Dec 27, 2020 | 5 comments

1990.

Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages (laphamsquarterly.org)

54 points by diodorus on Dec 5, 2020 | 4 comments

1991.

4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur (egpu.io)

53 points by FireBeyond on Dec 16, 2020 | 97 comments

1992.

Haynes Stops Printing Famous Workshop Manuals (classicsworld.co.uk)

53 points by Kaibeezy on Dec 12, 2020 | 60 comments

1993.

Thinking About Decentralized Communities (gurlic.com)

53 points by SubGenius on Dec 13, 2020 | 47 comments

1994.

Paul Graham on Replit's Growth (twitter.com)

53 points by amasad on Dec 2, 2020 | 37 comments

1995.

Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Architecture and Pricing (fauna.com)

53 points by evanweaver on Dec 9, 2020 | 34 comments

1996.

The Historical Cost of Light (pudding.cool)

53 points by gok on Dec 25, 2020 | 24 comments

1997.

When DevSecOps goes wrong: a short lesson from Huawei's source code (r2c.dev)

53 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 19, 2020 | 22 comments

1998.

What Privacy Is For (2012) (papers.ssrn.com)

53 points by freddyym on Dec 24, 2020 | 16 comments

1999.

SameBoy – emulating how Game Boy SoC electrically interferes with the speakers (twitter.com)

53 points by retro_guy on Dec 30, 2020 | 11 comments

2000.

Windows Subsystem for Linux performance is close to bare-metal Linux (phoronix.com)

53 points by ta988 on Dec 17, 2020 | 10 comments

2001.

Growing the .NET Ecosystem (github.com)

53 points by atraac on Dec 15, 2020 | 9 comments

2002.

Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves (nytimes.com)

53 points by benbreen on Dec 24, 2020 | 8 comments

2003.

Strange Things LINK Knows about 80x86 Processors (1997) (geoffchappell.com)

53 points by mmastrac on Dec 30, 2020 | 2 comments

2004.

Interesting Research Programs from the 2010s (bcmullins.github.io)

53 points by wannabebarista on Dec 30, 2020 | 1 comments

2005.

Show HN: Visa – Easy third party auth (OAuth 2.0) for flutter apps (github.com)

53 points by e-oj on Dec 24, 2020 | 0 comments

2006.

Twin – Tailwind with the flexibility of CSS-in-JS (github.com)

52 points by fmoronzirfas on Dec 3, 2020 | 95 comments

2007.

Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? (lesswrong.com)

52 points by never-the-bride on Dec 18, 2020 | 76 comments

2008.

Anticipating vaccine, forecast expects recovery to begin in spring 2021 (anderson.ucla.edu)