HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

The disappearance of a Soviet skiing party in 1959 (newyorker.com)

121 points by lermontov on May 10, 2021 | 38 comments

1202.

Computer Calculus Reading Group (compcalc.github.io)

121 points by bmc7505 on May 1, 2021 | 16 comments

1203.

For soccer players, the less brain they use, the better for penalty kicks (cbc.ca)

120 points by pseudolus on May 23, 2021 | 101 comments

1204.

The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) (furbo.org)

120 points by pcr910303 on May 5, 2021 | 49 comments

1205.

Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?

120 points by austinjp on May 27, 2021 | 34 comments

1206.

Red Cross honors Igiugig woman for helping light runway during nighttime medevac (alaskapublic.org)

120 points by DoreenMichele on May 20, 2021 | 30 comments

1207.

How to port your OS to EC2 (2018) (daemonology.net)

120 points by valleyer on May 21, 2021 | 30 comments

1208.

Using QEMU-user emulation to reverse engineer binaries (ariadne.space)

120 points by todsacerdoti on May 5, 2021 | 13 comments

1209.

John Tiller has died (johntillersoftware.com)

120 points by danielrpa on May 1, 2021 | 9 comments

1210.

Legal documents from the Philippines government have been exposed online (restofworld.org)

120 points by 1cvmask on May 1, 2021 | 5 comments

1211.

“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf] (techrights.org)

119 points by rasengan on May 21, 2021 | 290 comments

1212.

Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020) (mercatus.org)

119 points by jseliger on May 3, 2021 | 279 comments

1213.

Lumber mania is sweeping North America (vox.com)

119 points by RickJWagner on May 4, 2021 | 237 comments

1214.

Negative interest: Danske Bank changes threshold for personal customers (danskebank.com)

119 points by awb on May 2, 2021 | 194 comments

1215.

My MacBook Air M1 is dead (medium.com)

119 points by itg on May 6, 2021 | 184 comments

1216.

Dave Ramsey sues former employees for making blog posts about leaving company (twitter.com)

119 points by sithlord on May 24, 2021 | 101 comments

1217.

Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office (apnews.com)

119 points by AndrewBissell on May 15, 2021 | 88 comments

1218.

Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed?

119 points by gnicholas on May 3, 2021 | 67 comments

1219.

Unreal Engine 5 Early Access Release Notes (docs.unrealengine.com)

119 points by ksec on May 31, 2021 | 65 comments

1220.

You Don't Need to Rebuild Your Development Docker Image on Every Code Change (vsupalov.com)

119 points by one2three4 on May 31, 2021 | 62 comments

1221.

Finding CSV files that start with a BOM using ripgrep (til.simonwillison.net)

119 points by pcr910303 on May 29, 2021 | 54 comments

1222.

The fastest and shortest algorithm for all well-defined problems (2002) (researchgate.net)

119 points by pengstrom on May 25, 2021 | 24 comments

1223.

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017) (stackoverflow.blog)

118 points by amin on May 17, 2021 | 259 comments

1224.

Functional Programming in Go with Generics (ani.dev)

118 points by ngaut on May 27, 2021 | 114 comments

1225.

How necessary are the programming fundamentals? (swiftrocks.com)

118 points by rockbruno on May 18, 2021 | 112 comments

1226.

Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys (bigthink.com)

118 points by yamrzou on May 21, 2021 | 91 comments

1227.

Why Is JRuby Slow? (earthly.dev)

118 points by kristianp on May 29, 2021 | 60 comments

1228.

The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, not the Software (medium.com)

118 points by mokarma on May 20, 2021 | 55 comments

1229.

TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption (github.com)

118 points by illuminated on May 31, 2021 | 37 comments

1230.

A Pixel Purse LED Cube Controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem (tomverbeure.github.io)

118 points by picture on May 17, 2021 | 18 comments