HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy (theguardian.com)

167 points by pseudolus on May 24, 2021 | 102 comments

842.

Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010) (lwn.net)

167 points by wmanley on May 17, 2021 | 75 comments

843.

The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems (openbookpublishers.com)

167 points by ArtWomb on May 23, 2021 | 31 comments

844.

The problem with reinforced concrete (2016) (theconversation.com)

166 points by hrl on May 25, 2021 | 186 comments

845.

What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? (shkspr.mobi)

166 points by edent on May 21, 2021 | 84 comments

846.

Hy: A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python (github.com)

166 points by lnyan on May 5, 2021 | 55 comments

847.

How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World (evoniuk.github.io)

166 points by weare138 on May 10, 2021 | 29 comments

848.

Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps (bloomberg.com)

165 points by jmsflknr on May 18, 2021 | 339 comments

849.

Four years after a man was executed, someone else’s DNA found on murder weapon (cnn.com)

165 points by MilnerRoute on May 22, 2021 | 198 comments

850.

There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore (techradar.com)

165 points by FridayoLeary on May 9, 2021 | 190 comments

851.

ABI Mistakes (elronnd.net)

165 points by yagizdegirmenci on May 8, 2021 | 135 comments

852.

The Amish as a source of tech-savvy guidance (psyche.co)

165 points by choult on May 19, 2021 | 118 comments

853.

Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and compile C files directly (github.com)

165 points by ingve on May 10, 2021 | 105 comments

854.

Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label (techcrunch.com)

165 points by jmsflknr on May 24, 2021 | 104 comments

855.

TSMC Claims Breakthrough on 1nm Chip Production (techpowerup.com)

165 points by 0-_-0 on May 20, 2021 | 63 comments

856.

Hacker News Classics (2018) (jsomers.net)

165 points by katzeilla on May 10, 2021 | 42 comments

857.

Making Your Own Tools (futureofcoding.org)

165 points by axiomdata316 on May 15, 2021 | 31 comments

858.

Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?

164 points by cgb223 on May 10, 2021 | 253 comments

859.

I still like C and strongly dislike C++ (codecs.multimedia.cx)

164 points by todsacerdoti on May 26, 2021 | 165 comments

860.

After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism (monocle.com)

164 points by fortran77 on May 31, 2021 | 84 comments

861.

Racket 8.1 (blog.racket-lang.org)

164 points by lycopodiopsida on May 7, 2021 | 82 comments

862.

Fly’s Prometheus Metrics (fly.io)

164 points by elithrar on May 13, 2021 | 79 comments

863.

Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor (apnews.com)

164 points by tareqak on May 9, 2021 | 64 comments

864.

Yuan Longping has died (en.wikipedia.org)

164 points by zhte415 on May 23, 2021 | 60 comments

865.

Apple tries to get Epic to admit there's porn on its store (kotaku.com)

163 points by HieronymusBosch on May 8, 2021 | 317 comments

866.

First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language (w3.org)

163 points by bpierre on May 18, 2021 | 117 comments

867.

So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) (varnish-cache.org)

163 points by nethunters on May 8, 2021 | 102 comments

868.

The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something (outsideonline.com)

163 points by danboarder on May 19, 2021 | 70 comments

869.

Elementary OS 6 beta (blog.elementary.io)

163 points by jamesponddotco on May 1, 2021 | 69 comments

870.

Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other Soviet architecture (reddit.com)

163 points by xenocratus on May 24, 2021 | 48 comments