HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump (businessofbusiness.com)

49 points by smalera on Feb 17, 2021 | 81 comments

1982.

Facebook to restore news pages in Australia (bbc.com)

49 points by frob on Feb 23, 2021 | 71 comments

1983.

Dependency on rust removes support for a number of platforms (github.com)

49 points by allanbreyes on Feb 8, 2021 | 56 comments

1984.

When did “disturb” became the default mode?

49 points by dgrcode on Feb 3, 2021 | 55 comments

1985.

Launch HN: Xix.ai (YC W17) – Securely authenticate in web apps by face

49 points by emilxix on Feb 28, 2021 | 51 comments

1986.

A Follow-Up to “Location-Based Pay” (blackshaw.substack.com)

49 points by blackshaw on Feb 19, 2021 | 50 comments

1987.

Athenian Democracy in the Political Imagination (laphamsquarterly.org)

49 points by diodorus on Feb 17, 2021 | 26 comments

1988.

Blue Beads in the Tundra (news.uaf.edu)

49 points by _Microft on Feb 7, 2021 | 23 comments

1989.

A love letter to ISC bind (ungleich.ch)

49 points by telmich on Feb 22, 2021 | 23 comments

1990.

Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding (scientificamerican.com)

49 points by gscho on Feb 2, 2021 | 17 comments

1991.

A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013) (arxiv.org)

49 points by JNRowe on Feb 24, 2021 | 17 comments

1992.

Parable of the Butler: A science-fiction pioneer finds posthumous fame (harpers.org)

49 points by apollinaire on Feb 7, 2021 | 16 comments

1993.

The Caltech Sweepstakes Caper (hoaxes.org)

49 points by turtlegrids on Feb 9, 2021 | 15 comments

1994.

Lean into Procrastination (jodent.io)

49 points by patapizza on Feb 28, 2021 | 14 comments

1995.

DALL-E Paper and Code (github.com)

49 points by david2016 on Feb 24, 2021 | 13 comments

1996.

I'm the Amazon Worker the Media Doesn't Want You to Meet (newsweek.com)

49 points by remote_phone on Feb 25, 2021 | 11 comments

1997.

Show HN: TurnShift, I turned an Algolia internal scheduling tool into a SaaS (turnshift.app)

49 points by vvoyer on Feb 4, 2021 | 8 comments

1998.

How to Record Great Sounding / High Quality Audio at Home (nickjanetakis.com)

49 points by nickjj on Feb 10, 2021 | 8 comments

1999.

Megastructures Superweapons and Global Architectures in Sci-Fi Computer Games (academia.edu)

49 points by niDistinct on Feb 27, 2021 | 8 comments

2000.

Unfortunate things about performance reviews (rachelbythebay.com)

49 points by picture on Feb 19, 2021 | 7 comments

2001.

Show HN: Svgasm – SVG animation from single GIF using tracer (github.com)

49 points by tomkwok on Feb 28, 2021 | 6 comments

2002.

One year on, Namecheap still fighting aborted .org takeover (domainincite.com)

49 points by ca98am79 on Feb 15, 2021 | 4 comments

2003.

Everything Is Buggy (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)

49 points by hacksilver on Feb 13, 2021 | 3 comments

2004.

Schools Are Abandoning Invasive Proctoring Software After Student Backlash (vice.com)

49 points by elsewhen on Feb 27, 2021 | 3 comments

2005.

Daft Punk – Epilogue (youtube.com)

49 points by doener on Feb 22, 2021 | 1 comments

2006.

MicroStrategy Acquires Additional 19,452 Bitcoins for $1.026B (microstrategy.com)

48 points by pcaversaccio on Feb 24, 2021 | 90 comments

2007.

Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period? (daily.jstor.org)

48 points by apollinaire on Feb 1, 2021 | 86 comments

2008.

Training Makes Runners More Efficient, but Not Cyclists (2018) (outsideonline.com)

48 points by dfgdghdf on Feb 22, 2021 | 65 comments

2009.

The trial of a child soldier who became a brutal rebel commander (narratively.com)

48 points by whocansay on Feb 18, 2021 | 50 comments

2010.

Implementing "defer" (c3.handmade.network)

48 points by lerno on Feb 24, 2021 | 48 comments