HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

Trinidadian fishers film ‘half-hearted’ oil spill clean-up (theguardian.com)

132 points by x14km2d on Aug 13, 2021 | 35 comments

1082.

Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use (fedoramagazine.org)

132 points by marbu on Aug 27, 2021 | 29 comments

1083.

Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018) (people.csail.mit.edu)

132 points by optimalsolver on Aug 7, 2021 | 20 comments

1084.

A Bit Overcomplicated (thedailywtf.com)

131 points by jjgreen on Aug 5, 2021 | 249 comments

1085.

Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors? (news.uchicago.edu)

131 points by mzs on Aug 31, 2021 | 221 comments

1086.

U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate (text.npr.org)

131 points by everybodyknows on Aug 13, 2021 | 208 comments

1087.

The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago (twitter.com)

131 points by edward on Aug 12, 2021 | 122 comments

1088.

Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form (axios.com)

131 points by montalbano on Aug 13, 2021 | 94 comments

1089.

“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks” (twitter.com)

131 points by dejawu on Aug 19, 2021 | 88 comments

1090.

I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic (airspacemag.com)

131 points by areoform on Aug 22, 2021 | 41 comments

1091.

Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search (yurichev.com)

131 points by kulikov009 on Aug 22, 2021 | 20 comments

1092.

A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself (therecord.media)

131 points by colinprince on Aug 30, 2021 | 17 comments

1093.

Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

130 points by dang on Aug 5, 2021 | 161 comments

1094.

Canada to require vaccinations for air and train passengers (cbc.ca)

130 points by miles on Aug 14, 2021 | 157 comments

1095.

World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast (afr.com)

130 points by jay_kyburz on Aug 7, 2021 | 138 comments

1096.

Why are so many knowledge workers quitting? (newyorker.com)

130 points by irtefa on Aug 17, 2021 | 124 comments

1097.

Cproc C Compiler (github.com)

130 points by oenetan on Aug 20, 2021 | 45 comments

1098.

Facebook shouldn't be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator (theverge.com)

130 points by elorant on Aug 15, 2021 | 38 comments

1099.

JAMMA Video Standard (mistys-internet.website)

130 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2021 | 23 comments

1100.

Clickbait is unreasonably effective [video] (youtube.com)

129 points by underscore_ku on Aug 22, 2021 | 105 comments

1101.

The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

129 points by prismatic on Aug 8, 2021 | 81 comments

1102.

Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading (msn.com)

129 points by jryle70 on Aug 7, 2021 | 66 comments

1103.

The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf] (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)

129 points by animal_spirits on Aug 11, 2021 | 38 comments

1104.

A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations (about.sourcegraph.com)

129 points by janisz on Aug 19, 2021 | 37 comments

1105.

Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort (duckdb.org)

129 points by hfmuehleisen on Aug 27, 2021 | 27 comments

1106.

Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters (itch.io)

129 points by polm23 on Aug 16, 2021 | 20 comments

1107.

LLVM Internals: The Bitcode Format (blog.yossarian.net)

129 points by woodruffw on Aug 19, 2021 | 8 comments

1108.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)

128 points by whoishiring on Aug 2, 2021 | 216 comments

1109.

Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast (forbes.com)

128 points by dmitrygr on Aug 16, 2021 | 193 comments

1110.

Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS (support.google.com)

128 points by yellow_lead on Aug 19, 2021 | 70 comments