HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

The Spanish Witches of Cartagena (historytoday.com)

60 points by Thevet on May 14, 2021 | 7 comments

2012.

Chip-8 in Common Lisp: The CPU (2016) (stevelosh.com)

60 points by tosh on May 31, 2021 | 4 comments

2013.

Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vaccination (nytimes.com)

59 points by laurex on May 13, 2021 | 78 comments

2014.

Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is (washingtonpost.com)

59 points by mooreds on May 15, 2021 | 77 comments

2015.

Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain (theverge.com)

59 points by gmays on May 27, 2021 | 55 comments

2016.

America’s Forgotten Tea Rooms (eater.com)

59 points by Thevet on May 29, 2021 | 31 comments

2017.

Recall the Forced Landing of Bolivia's Plane to Find Snowden (greenwald.substack.com)

59 points by lobo_tuerto on May 25, 2021 | 29 comments

2018.

Berkshire Hathaway Down 99.5% (google.com)

59 points by evilotto on May 6, 2021 | 21 comments

2019.

Google user asks Google support for help, user ends up helping support employee (twitter.com)

59 points by davidbarker on May 5, 2021 | 19 comments

2020.

Shel Silverstein and the Missing Piece Meets the Big O (newsletter.butwhatfor.com)

59 points by stanrivers on May 25, 2021 | 18 comments

2021.

Granting a 14-year-old’s wish for a dragon (denverpost.com)

59 points by tpoindex on May 8, 2021 | 9 comments

2022.

Programming language subreddits and their choice of words (github.com)

59 points by smusamashah on May 29, 2021 | 7 comments

2023.

Steve Finberg, W1GSL, SK (wma.arrl.org)

59 points by salgernon on May 2, 2021 | 6 comments

2024.

The Remarkable Life of Eugène-François Vidocq, Inventor of Modern Detective Work (allthatsinteresting.com)

59 points by intellaughs on May 30, 2021 | 5 comments

2025.

Whole body regeneration in marine life (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

59 points by stefanv on May 6, 2021 | 2 comments

2026.

Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that changed your life?

58 points by behnamoh on May 23, 2021 | 87 comments

2027.

Why Ethereum Will Win Store of Value (michaelmcguiness.com)

58 points by throwkeep on May 19, 2021 | 81 comments

2028.

When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs (reasonstobecheerful.world)

58 points by toomuchtodo on May 11, 2021 | 80 comments

2029.

How Long Can We Live? (nytimes.com)

58 points by khartig on May 3, 2021 | 79 comments

2030.

Executives don’t decide if the company culture is good, employees do (warzel.substack.com)

58 points by DrKnow on May 2, 2021 | 66 comments

2031.

Apple incentives are the largest in NC history (newsobserver.com)

58 points by watchdogtimer on May 3, 2021 | 62 comments

2032.

Machine Learning Is a Marvelously Executed Scam (lastweekinaws.com)

58 points by cratermoon on May 14, 2021 | 50 comments

2033.

The Digital Wallet of the Future (1996) (buffalonews.com)

58 points by Lammy on May 31, 2021 | 50 comments

2034.

Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places (propublica.org)

58 points by raybb on May 20, 2021 | 49 comments

2035.

Girls need higher entrance exam scores than boys at 80% of Tokyo high schools (mainichi.jp)

58 points by fodmap on May 28, 2021 | 49 comments

2036.

Cox Hotspots with Panoramic Wifi (cox.com)

58 points by foobarbecue on May 15, 2021 | 47 comments

2037.

Ford “Volume knob” is “finger” on set of bearings epoxied directly onto display (twitter.com)

58 points by edward on May 29, 2021 | 42 comments

2038.

A Man on Death Row Has Waited Years for GitHub to Provide Key Evidence (gizmodo.com)

58 points by gabea on May 28, 2021 | 37 comments

2039.

Show HN: I built uFincs – a privacy-first, encrypted personal finance app (ufincs.com)

58 points by devinsit on May 11, 2021 | 33 comments

2040.

The 1788 Doctors' Riot (en.wikipedia.org)

58 points by tuxxy on May 18, 2021 | 28 comments