HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems (scattered-thoughts.net)

163 points by mpweiher on May 4, 2021 | 27 comments

872.

Ransomware gang threatens release of Washington D.C. police records (apnews.com)

162 points by danso on May 12, 2021 | 216 comments

873.

Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024 (bbc.co.uk)

162 points by intunderflow on May 27, 2021 | 174 comments

874.

The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming languages (arraycast.com)

162 points by srpeck on May 19, 2021 | 138 comments

875.

Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door? (bbc.co.uk)

162 points by bananapear on May 23, 2021 | 129 comments

876.

Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups (staycaffeinated.com)

162 points by frenchie4111 on May 2, 2021 | 115 comments

877.

Introverts can make great leaders (2018) (thehustle.co)

162 points by Anon84 on May 16, 2021 | 114 comments

878.

Ant parasites that prolong the life of their host (theatlantic.com)

162 points by Vaslo on May 19, 2021 | 77 comments

879.

What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives? (tomsguide.com)

161 points by fortran77 on May 1, 2021 | 254 comments

880.

WWDC21 (developer.apple.com)

161 points by tosh on May 24, 2021 | 184 comments

881.

Stars that race through space at nearly the speed of light (scientificamerican.com)

161 points by thedday on May 2, 2021 | 156 comments

882.

Branchless Coding in Go (mattnakama.com)

161 points by gnum4n on May 4, 2021 | 55 comments

883.

RFC.fyi: Browse RFCs by keywords, id or collection (rfc.fyi)

161 points by amjd on May 30, 2021 | 24 comments

884.

AmigaOS 3.2 (hyperion-entertainment.com)

160 points by andy_herbert on May 14, 2021 | 86 comments

885.

Launch HN: UPchieve (YC W21 Nonprofit) – Live tutoring for low-income students

160 points by alymurray on May 11, 2021 | 66 comments

886.

Six Years of Rust (blog.rust-lang.org)

160 points by GolDDranks on May 15, 2021 | 37 comments

887.

Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism (usenix.org)

160 points by zdw on May 4, 2021 | 25 comments

888.

Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10% (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

159 points by ve55 on May 31, 2021 | 120 comments

889.

Good data scientist, bad data scientist (ianwhitestone.work)

159 points by ian-whitestone on May 11, 2021 | 91 comments

890.

Grain: WebAssembly-First Programming Language (infoq.com)

159 points by todsacerdoti on May 7, 2021 | 70 comments

891.

HAProxy 2.4 (haproxy.com)

159 points by throwaway888abc on May 23, 2021 | 68 comments

892.

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) (medium.engineering)

159 points by dsr12 on May 21, 2021 | 33 comments

893.

Use the WiFi Chip on RaspberryPi/Broadcom as Software-Defined Radio (SDR) (github.com)

159 points by punnerud on May 15, 2021 | 30 comments

894.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab-Leak Theory (donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com)

159 points by InTheArena on May 18, 2021 | 6 comments

895.

The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)

158 points by donohoe on May 3, 2021 | 357 comments

896.

Tesla is found guilty of throttling charging speed (electrek.co)

158 points by doener on May 24, 2021 | 158 comments

897.

The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010) (scatter.wordpress.com)

158 points by ksangeelee on May 30, 2021 | 142 comments

898.

Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers (newscientist.com)

158 points by mef51 on May 26, 2021 | 78 comments

899.

Terra: Low-level system programming language meta-programmed from Lua (terralang.org)

158 points by teleforce on May 30, 2021 | 32 comments

900.

U.S. Backs 15% Global Minimum Tax to Curb Profit Shifting Overseas (nytimes.com)

157 points by noego on May 24, 2021 | 252 comments