HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

961.

Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007) (msfn.org)

147 points by Lammy on Aug 30, 2021 | 52 comments

962.

How the pandemic has affected people’s perspective on travelling to work (theguardian.com)

146 points by ingve on Aug 29, 2021 | 168 comments

963.

China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies (reuters.com)

146 points by mooreds on Aug 3, 2021 | 155 comments

964.

In Go, pointers (mostly) don't go with slices in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)

146 points by deafcalculus on Aug 29, 2021 | 95 comments

965.

Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style (superuser.com)

146 points by thangalin on Aug 15, 2021 | 61 comments

966.

Use Phoenix Channels (info.codecast.io)

146 points by clessg on Aug 4, 2021 | 47 comments

967.

How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed? (stackoverflow.com)

146 points by segfaultbuserr on Aug 15, 2021 | 36 comments

968.

The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made? (bbc.com)

145 points by DrNuke on Aug 17, 2021 | 154 comments

969.

Google is dismantling its health division (businessinsider.com)

145 points by ra7 on Aug 20, 2021 | 100 comments

970.

What Is the Most Free TLD? (slc.is)

145 points by splch on Aug 30, 2021 | 88 comments

971.

Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life (japantimes.co.jp)

145 points by mikhael on Aug 19, 2021 | 66 comments

972.

Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years (smithsonianmag.com)

145 points by pseudolus on Aug 6, 2021 | 38 comments

973.

Using a laser to blast away a Bayer filter array from a CCD (hackaday.com)

145 points by _Microft on Aug 18, 2021 | 38 comments

974.

Mosh's tolerance for high packet loss helps a guy escape from an elevator (mosh.org)

145 points by kumarharsh on Aug 12, 2021 | 34 comments

975.

Y Combinator’s European founder intake continues to grow (sifted.eu)

144 points by tommatsuda on Aug 24, 2021 | 235 comments

976.

U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry (decrypt.co)

144 points by creese on Aug 9, 2021 | 159 comments

977.

Second largest US mortgage lender will accept crypto payments this year (fxstreet.com)

144 points by gmays on Aug 19, 2021 | 130 comments

978.

Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time (theguardian.com)

144 points by hiddencache on Aug 23, 2021 | 103 comments

979.

The history of Google messaging apps (arstechnica.com)

144 points by TangerineDream on Aug 25, 2021 | 80 comments

980.

EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library (github.com)

144 points by optimalsolver on Aug 4, 2021 | 79 comments

981.

Zoom settles US class action privacy lawsuit for $86m (bbc.com)

144 points by williamsharris on Aug 2, 2021 | 65 comments

982.

Cap'n Proto 0.9 (capnproto.org)

144 points by Shelnutt2 on Aug 15, 2021 | 36 comments

983.

Dubai Is a Parody of the 21st Century (youtube.com)

144 points by tartoran on Aug 18, 2021 | 36 comments

984.

Ask HN: My friend made it big. How to handle?

143 points by throwaway_poor on Aug 14, 2021 | 227 comments

985.

How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets (bbc.com)

143 points by hiddencache on Aug 30, 2021 | 81 comments

986.

Mario Paint Masterpiece (charlieharrington.com)

143 points by whatrocks on Aug 4, 2021 | 57 comments

987.

Computer simulation helps test land management techniques to help bumblebees (exeter.ac.uk)

143 points by rbanffy on Aug 16, 2021 | 28 comments

988.

AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982) (youtube.com)

143 points by neilpanchal on Aug 28, 2021 | 28 comments

989.

Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones (bloomberg.com)

142 points by tim_sw on Aug 22, 2021 | 216 comments

990.

Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks (economist.com)

142 points by martincmartin on Aug 11, 2021 | 215 comments