HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1021.

What Is a Gamma Squeeze in the Context of Stock Trading? (swfinstitute.org)

151 points by carminefalconi1 on Jan 11, 2021 | 138 comments

1022.

ACLU Statement Opposing the 'Confronting the Threat of Domestic Terrorism Act' (2019) (aclu.org)

151 points by AndrewBissell on Jan 9, 2021 | 110 comments

1023.

Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland (vice.com)

151 points by waynekerr on Jan 30, 2021 | 106 comments

1024.

UPS sells trucking unit (themiddlemarket.com)

151 points by cwwc on Jan 26, 2021 | 66 comments

1025.

They spent 12 years solving a puzzle. It yielded the first Covid-19 vaccines (nationalgeographic.com)

151 points by sytelus on Jan 9, 2021 | 44 comments

1026.

Rebuilding the spellchecker (zverok.github.io)

151 points by zverok on Jan 15, 2021 | 24 comments

1027.

How to teach technical concepts with cartoons (jvns.ca)

151 points by Tomte on Jan 23, 2021 | 12 comments

1028.

Ask HN: Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?

150 points by phenkdo on Jan 4, 2021 | 192 comments

1029.

Python's Type Checking Renaissance (dafoster.net)

150 points by davidfstr on Jan 26, 2021 | 180 comments

1030.

Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013) (techtinkering.com)

150 points by elvis70 on Jan 29, 2021 | 115 comments

1031.

Things I Didn't Learn in 2020 (damnoptimist.substack.com)

150 points by obesacantavit on Jan 1, 2021 | 76 comments

1032.

Ferrum: An actor-based programming language (quizzical-dijkstra-2acb9c.netlify.app)

150 points by coolvision on Jan 10, 2021 | 2 comments

1033.

Mozilla announces Open Web Docs (hacks.mozilla.org)

150 points by __henil on Jan 26, 2021 | 1 comments

1034.

Clearview AI being used to identify Capitol rioters (nytimes.com)

149 points by nonprofiteer on Jan 9, 2021 | 164 comments

1035.

Arrests of Hong Kong democrats shows why EU must reject China investment (hongkongwatch.org)

149 points by eternalban on Jan 9, 2021 | 162 comments

1036.

What is good and bad about the F-35 cockpit (hushkit.net)

149 points by edward on Jan 21, 2021 | 146 comments

1037.

Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android (getaegis.app)

149 points by ignitionmonkey on Jan 16, 2021 | 113 comments

1038.

Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic (drewdevault.com)

149 points by arghwhat on Jan 19, 2021 | 89 comments

1039.

Our Dumb Security Questionnaire (hangar.tech)

149 points by zdw on Jan 15, 2021 | 88 comments

1040.

LibreSSL Languishes on Linux (lwn.net)

149 points by lukastyrychtr on Jan 4, 2021 | 68 comments

1041.

Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks (singlelunch.com)

149 points by VHRanger on Jan 4, 2021 | 47 comments

1042.

Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss (theguardian.com)

149 points by rustoo on Jan 26, 2021 | 40 comments

1043.

Apply to YC on Your Schedule (blog.ycombinator.com)

149 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 14, 2021 | 39 comments

1044.

Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians arrested (asia.nikkei.com)

149 points by 1ark on Jan 6, 2021 | 16 comments

1045.

California’s container-ship traffic jam (freightwaves.com)

148 points by elsewhen on Jan 21, 2021 | 128 comments

1046.

Food Grammar: Unspoken rules of cuisine (atlasobscura.com)

148 points by pseudolus on Jan 31, 2021 | 126 comments

1047.

Unlocking LUKS2 Volumes with TPM2, FIDO2, PKCS#11 Security HW on Systemd 248 (0pointer.net)

148 points by uggedal on Jan 21, 2021 | 99 comments

1048.

At-home test for colon cancer is as reliable as traditional screening: experts (nytimes.com)