HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us? (scientificamerican.com)

125 points by laybak on Jan 21, 2021 | 286 comments

1232.

The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing (nytimes.com)

125 points by doener on Jan 10, 2021 | 134 comments

1233.

The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-Stage Major Bubble (gmo.com)

125 points by monsieurpng on Jan 10, 2021 | 127 comments

1234.

FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S. Capitol Building (tips.fbi.gov)

125 points by tony101 on Jan 10, 2021 | 125 comments

1235.

Rollerball Pens of 2021 (unsharpen.com)

125 points by thomas on Jan 23, 2021 | 125 comments

1236.

Campaign Monitor has suspended President Trump (twitter.com)

125 points by awnird on Jan 9, 2021 | 108 comments

1237.

Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?

125 points by JoshuaRowe on Jan 27, 2021 | 94 comments

1238.

Computer codes that transformed science (nature.com)

125 points by sohkamyung on Jan 20, 2021 | 74 comments

1239.

ZX81 Webserver (zx81-siggi.zx-team.org)

125 points by nickt on Jan 4, 2021 | 54 comments

1240.

Ask HN: What was your favorite comment in 2020?

125 points by gftsantana on Jan 1, 2021 | 41 comments

1241.

How to Build an Escrow Product (moderntreasury.com)

125 points by qin on Jan 21, 2021 | 29 comments

1242.

The RustyHermit Unikernel (rust-osdev.com)

125 points by adamnemecek on Jan 24, 2021 | 28 comments

1243.

Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019) (theringer.com)

124 points by samclemens on Jan 5, 2021 | 142 comments

1244.

Tencent is acquiring a majority stake in Klei Entertainment (forums.kleientertainment.com)

124 points by doppp on Jan 23, 2021 | 103 comments

1245.

Crony Beliefs (meltingasphalt.com)

124 points by apsec112 on Jan 27, 2021 | 71 comments

1246.

US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs (edition.cnn.com)

124 points by sahin on Jan 10, 2021 | 62 comments

1247.

Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine (blog.vpetkov.net)

124 points by fanf2 on Jan 26, 2021 | 57 comments

1248.

Navalny team releases investigation into ′Putin′s Palace′ (dw.com)

124 points by neom on Jan 20, 2021 | 45 comments

1249.

30 years since the Human Genome Project began – what's next? (wired.com)

124 points by oedmarap on Jan 4, 2021 | 42 comments

1250.

Differentiable Rasterizer for Vector Graphics (people.csail.mit.edu)

124 points by ArtWomb on Jan 12, 2021 | 40 comments

1251.

Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books (thesmartcoder.dev)

124 points by simon-holdorf on Jan 9, 2021 | 32 comments

1252.

The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (2016) (blog.joshhaas.com)

124 points by olvy0 on Jan 10, 2021 | 31 comments

1253.

Metaballs and Marching Squares (jamie-wong.com)

124 points by bobbiechen on Jan 7, 2021 | 27 comments

1254.

A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow (arxiv.org)

123 points by jsnell on Jan 30, 2021 | 145 comments

1255.

CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it (theregister.com)

123 points by samizdis on Jan 26, 2021 | 136 comments

1256.

How Ray Kurzweil’s 1998 predictions about 2019 are faring (militantfuturist.com)

123 points by apsec112 on Jan 2, 2021 | 115 comments

1257.

Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020) (sciencemag.org)

123 points by wombatmobile on Jan 18, 2021 | 83 comments

1258.

Establishment of a closed artificial ecosystem to ensure human survival on moon (biorxiv.org)