HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone (thelightphone.com)

119 points by keiferski on Aug 14, 2021 | 157 comments

1202.

The End of Social Media (miikavonbell.com)

119 points by miikavonbell on Aug 20, 2021 | 112 comments

1203.

Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017) (rogerjohansson.blog)

119 points by alfiedotwtf on Aug 13, 2021 | 97 comments

1204.

Wild claims about K performance (mlochbaum.github.io)

119 points by tosh on Aug 31, 2021 | 70 comments

1205.

Xsolla lays off 150 after an algorithm ruled staff 'unengaged and unproductive' (gamasutra.com)

119 points by Audiophilip on Aug 12, 2021 | 69 comments

1206.

RG3D (Rust game engine) feature highlights (rg3d.rs)

119 points by adamnemecek on Aug 21, 2021 | 68 comments

1207.

FBI Seized $900K from Safe Deposit Box on 'Pure Conjecture,' Federal Judge Says (reason.com)

119 points by starkd on Aug 1, 2021 | 44 comments

1208.

Data brokers sell access to the backbone of the internet (vice.com)

119 points by mattei on Aug 25, 2021 | 39 comments

1209.

Tesla AI Day [video] (livestream.tesla.com)

118 points by Geee on Aug 20, 2021 | 176 comments

1210.

Life Before Unicode (baturin.org)

118 points by sidcool on Aug 24, 2021 | 171 comments

1211.

Strange domain names that developers bought (stackoverflow.blog)

118 points by luord on Aug 12, 2021 | 162 comments

1212.

Friendship ended with the garbage collector (yorickpeterse.com)

118 points by adamrezich on Aug 25, 2021 | 137 comments

1213.

Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust (crowdstrike.com)

118 points by zbentley on Aug 13, 2021 | 96 comments

1214.

A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important (butwhatfor.substack.com)

118 points by stanrivers on Aug 2, 2021 | 91 comments

1215.

Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather (theconversation.com)

118 points by heldsteel7 on Aug 9, 2021 | 86 comments

1216.

Sigstore – A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software (sigstore.dev)

118 points by decodebytes on Aug 9, 2021 | 79 comments

1217.

Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages (renato.athaydes.com)

118 points by mahmoudimus on Aug 8, 2021 | 71 comments

1218.

When Police Lie, the Innocent Pay. Some Are Fighting Back (nytimes.com)

118 points by pseudolus on Aug 29, 2021 | 57 comments

1219.

Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf] (2013) (training.nih.gov)

118 points by Tomte on Aug 25, 2021 | 47 comments

1220.

Satan should chair your meetings: A literature lover’s guide to office politics (economist.com)

118 points by dctoedt on Aug 3, 2021 | 43 comments

1221.

Kobol Team Is Pulling the Plug from “Helios64 Open Source NAS” (blog.kobol.io)

118 points by nixcraft on Aug 25, 2021 | 40 comments

1222.

Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Pérez Reflects on How It Started (data.berkeley.edu)

118 points by infodocket on Aug 21, 2021 | 34 comments

1223.

Wild boars are able to open traps to free their fellows (nature.com)

118 points by giuliomagnifico on Aug 30, 2021 | 29 comments

1224.

Show HN: Open by Design (openby.design)

118 points by krm01 on Aug 2, 2021 | 18 comments

1225.

Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration (wf.lavatech.top)

118 points by jayp1418 on Aug 8, 2021 | 9 comments

1226.

Afghan President Ghani relinquishes power, Taliban form interim gov't (dailysabah.com)

117 points by notRobot on Aug 15, 2021 | 164 comments

1227.

The world needs a proper investigation into how Covid-19 started (economist.com)

117 points by antognini on Aug 22, 2021 | 139 comments

1228.

Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS (pcgamer.com)

117 points by jrepinc on Aug 9, 2021 | 121 comments

1229.

Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers (smithsonianmag.com)

117 points by malingo on Aug 22, 2021 | 108 comments

1230.

VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (danbricklin.com)

117 points by marcodiego on Aug 19, 2021 | 57 comments