HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

Europe has now created more $1bn ‘unicorn’ companies than China (sifted.eu)

135 points by dukeyukey on Aug 24, 2021 | 75 comments

1052.

Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes (traveller.com.au)

135 points by Stratoscope on Aug 15, 2021 | 70 comments

1053.

On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words (lithub.com)

135 points by signor_bosco on Aug 1, 2021 | 42 comments

1054.

Unit testing a TCP stack (2015) (snellman.net)

135 points by PuercoPop on Aug 26, 2021 | 35 comments

1055.

Latency Sneaks Up on You (brooker.co.za)

135 points by luord on Aug 27, 2021 | 25 comments

1056.

Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions (docker.com)

135 points by forrestbrazeal on Aug 31, 2021 | 1 comments

1057.

Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores (latimes.com)

134 points by thunderbong on Aug 8, 2021 | 116 comments

1058.

JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0 (github.com)

134 points by codewiz on Aug 18, 2021 | 101 comments

1059.

Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL (per.quest)

134 points by soheil on Aug 13, 2021 | 82 comments

1060.

Deno 1.13 Release (deno.com)

134 points by 0xedb on Aug 10, 2021 | 74 comments

1061.

A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf] (ese.wustl.edu)

134 points by michaelsbradley on Aug 17, 2021 | 51 comments

1062.

A plain text note-taking system for problem solving (calculist.io)

134 points by thomascountz on Aug 7, 2021 | 46 comments

1063.

Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten (github.com)

134 points by coldblues on Aug 1, 2021 | 44 comments

1064.

BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video] (bbc.co.uk)

134 points by OJFord on Aug 9, 2021 | 42 comments

1065.

Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads (macrumors.com)

133 points by arkadiyt on Aug 4, 2021 | 96 comments

1066.

An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object (searchvoidstar.tumblr.com)

133 points by norescue on Aug 27, 2021 | 89 comments

1067.

NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars (theblaze.com)

133 points by RickJWagner on Aug 7, 2021 | 88 comments

1068.

Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii (smithsonianmag.com)

133 points by benbreen on Aug 31, 2021 | 44 comments

1069.

Essence – An Operating System (gitlab.com)

133 points by nonbirithm on Aug 9, 2021 | 42 comments

1070.

What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019) (quora.com)

132 points by ColinWright on Aug 17, 2021 | 223 comments

1071.

California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being (phys.org)

132 points by boshomi on Aug 15, 2021 | 184 comments

1072.

Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610 (twitter.com)

132 points by superphil0 on Aug 23, 2021 | 131 comments

1073.

Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010) (theguardian.com)

132 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2021 | 100 comments

1074.

I use Attrs instead of Pydantic (threeofwands.com)

132 points by YohAsakura on Aug 25, 2021 | 74 comments

1075.

ANSI Escape Codes (gist.github.com)

132 points by grafelic on Aug 11, 2021 | 57 comments

1076.

Rain at the Summit of Greenland (nsidc.org)

132 points by Kaibeezy on Aug 19, 2021 | 45 comments

1077.

CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors (6502.org)

132 points by amrcnimgrnt on Aug 20, 2021 | 45 comments

1078.

Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public (theguardian.com)

132 points by diodorus on Aug 17, 2021 | 41 comments

1079.

Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons (quantamagazine.org)

132 points by theafh on Aug 12, 2021 | 38 comments

1080.

Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine (tesseract.projectnaptha.com)

132 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2021 | 37 comments