HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1021.

Build your own SPARC workstation (learn.adafruit.com)

139 points by marcodiego on Aug 5, 2021 | 54 comments

1022.

Book Exploring Async Basics (cfsamson.github.io)

139 points by ibobev on Aug 23, 2021 | 7 comments

1023.

Thought-Terminating Cliché (en.wikipedia.org)

138 points by deegles on Aug 20, 2021 | 138 comments

1024.

Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL (growkudos.com)

138 points by gousiosg on Aug 29, 2021 | 126 comments

1025.

Tensions rise as Iranian dams cut off Iraqi water supplies (dw.com)

138 points by samizdis on Aug 19, 2021 | 91 comments

1026.

System on SO-DIMM (twitter.com)

138 points by _Microft on Aug 5, 2021 | 72 comments

1027.

Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance (nbcnews.com)

138 points by freddier on Aug 9, 2021 | 57 comments

1028.

Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns (washingtonpost.com)

138 points by us0r on Aug 26, 2021 | 43 comments

1029.

Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video] (bbc.co.uk)

138 points by iqtidar on Aug 15, 2021 | 28 comments

1030.

I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem (streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com)

137 points by DoreenMichele on Aug 28, 2021 | 305 comments

1031.

Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days (tbray.org)

137 points by timbray on Aug 6, 2021 | 290 comments

1032.

There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now (vice.com)

137 points by elsewhen on Aug 13, 2021 | 239 comments

1033.

Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’ (theverge.com)

137 points by arunsivadasan on Aug 4, 2021 | 192 comments

1034.

Gpsd bug may create a 1024 week time warp on October 23 (gitlab.com)

137 points by oger on Aug 2, 2021 | 98 comments

1035.

Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants (easyzoom.com)

137 points by Yenrabbit on Aug 24, 2021 | 62 comments

1036.

Plants, heavy metals, and the lingering scars of World War I (atlasobscura.com)

137 points by bcaulfield on Aug 11, 2021 | 55 comments

1037.

An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions (arxiv.org)

137 points by pramodbiligiri on Aug 23, 2021 | 42 comments

1038.

Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die photos (righto.com)

137 points by parsecs on Aug 18, 2021 | 39 comments

1039.

Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019) (apenwarr.ca)

136 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 28, 2021 | 114 comments

1040.

Am I stuck in a local maximum? (blog.ploeh.dk)

136 points by dustinmoris on Aug 9, 2021 | 108 comments

1041.

Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

136 points by privacyisntdead on Aug 12, 2021 | 107 comments

1042.

The 3x+1 Problem [video] (youtube.com)

136 points by tosh on Aug 9, 2021 | 94 comments

1043.

I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS (ldeming.posthaven.com)

136 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 11, 2021 | 86 comments

1044.

Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014) (monkeyandcrow.com)

136 points by dredmorbius on Aug 17, 2021 | 71 comments

1045.

Summary of the semantics of inline in C and C++ (lists.llvm.org)

136 points by ingve on Aug 10, 2021 | 51 comments

1046.

Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo (redcrafter.github.io)

136 points by linux_is_nice on Aug 4, 2021 | 19 comments

1047.

Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story (graplsecurity.com)

136 points by arkadiyt on Aug 8, 2021 | 18 comments

1048.

The case against crisis-mongering (slowboring.com)

135 points by cjbest on Aug 13, 2021 | 124 comments

1049.

SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020) (blog.zachwf.com)

135 points by zachthewf on Aug 3, 2021 | 122 comments

1050.

The secretive, semi-illicit world of WhatsApp mango importing (eater.com)

135 points by ryzvonusef on Aug 13, 2021 | 92 comments