HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2581.

Why Richard Branson’s flight matters (arstechnica.com)

38 points by yusuf_giftworks on Jul 13, 2021 | 91 comments

2582.

Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side languages?

38 points by dcminter on Jul 30, 2021 | 69 comments

2583.

One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study (theverge.com)

38 points by joeyespo on Jul 24, 2021 | 51 comments

2584.

Far more adults don’t want children than previously thought (theconversation.com)

38 points by akvadrako on Jul 9, 2021 | 43 comments

2585.

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021 (academic.oup.com)

38 points by jonbaer on Jul 28, 2021 | 36 comments

2586.

How Amazon turned a generation against labor (harpers.org)

38 points by gstipi on Jul 16, 2021 | 35 comments

2587.

Steven Weinberg: What Is Quantum Field Theory, and What Did We Think It Is? (1997) (arxiv.org)

38 points by nabla9 on Jul 26, 2021 | 30 comments

2588.

15 States Reach a $4.5B Settlement with Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma (nytimes.com)

38 points by nceqs3 on Jul 8, 2021 | 25 comments

2589.

Pine64's $30 Linux Smartwatch Launches (pcmag.com)

38 points by teleforce on Jul 21, 2021 | 25 comments

2590.

Millions of student loan borrowers don't have a diploma to show for their debt (cnbc.com)

38 points by indigodaddy on Jul 24, 2021 | 22 comments

2591.

Rackspace literally decimates workforce: One in ten staffers let go this week (theregister.com)

38 points by LinuxBender on Jul 25, 2021 | 20 comments

2592.

The C++ Type Loophole (C++14) (alexpolt.github.io)

38 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 28, 2021 | 20 comments

2593.

Apple boots app that called BS on fake Amazon reviews from App Store (mashable.com)

38 points by alistairSH on Jul 18, 2021 | 19 comments

2594.

‘Father Ted’ poked fun at Catholic Ireland; a faithful audience appreciated it (americamagazine.org)

38 points by mellosouls on Jul 24, 2021 | 17 comments

2595.

How to format text in Twitter (johndcook.com)

38 points by ColinWright on Jul 29, 2021 | 17 comments

2596.

Supermarket chain Coop closes 800 stores following Kaseya ransomware attack (therecord.media)

38 points by prostoalex on Jul 3, 2021 | 16 comments

2597.

The work of art in the age of second-order observation (mediastudies.asia)

38 points by cton on Jul 1, 2021 | 15 comments

2598.

Richard C. Lewontin, eminent geneticist with a sharp pen, has died (nytimes.com)

38 points by Hooke on Jul 13, 2021 | 14 comments

2599.

Video shows fire in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline rupture (youtube.com)

38 points by giuliomagnifico on Jul 3, 2021 | 13 comments

2600.

Want Better Policing? Make It Easier to Fire Bad Cops (reason.com)

38 points by DocFeind on Jul 5, 2021 | 13 comments

2601.

The Time Tax (theatlantic.com)

38 points by jbegley on Jul 27, 2021 | 13 comments

2602.

The Hiveswap Fiasco (2020) (blog.giovanh.com)

38 points by luu on Jul 6, 2021 | 10 comments

2603.

South African investment firm vanishes with $3.6B in Bitcoin (indiatoday.in)

38 points by mgh2 on Jul 7, 2021 | 9 comments

2604.

Machine-learning improves the prediction of stroke recovery (actu.epfl.ch)

38 points by rustoo on Jul 11, 2021 | 8 comments

2605.

Steve Jobs was talking about the power of remote working back in 1990 (cultofmac.com)

38 points by sanmak on Jul 28, 2021 | 8 comments

2606.

AtGames Legends virtual pinball review: The better pre-built choice mostly (arstechnica.com)

38 points by Tomte on Jul 5, 2021 | 7 comments

2607.

Blender CAD Tools is a collection of Blender addons for solid modeling (github.com)

38 points by danboarder on Jul 9, 2021 | 6 comments

2608.

Opening the gate to electromagnonics information processing (news.uchicago.edu)

38 points by rbanffy on Jul 18, 2021 | 5 comments

2609.

Let's go on strike Let's stop reviewing for venues that sell research

38 points by ieee8023 on Jul 10, 2021 | 4 comments

2610.

The Air Force weather team that keeps canceling your rocket launches (2020) (theverge.com)

38 points by Tomte on Jul 12, 2021 | 4 comments