HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3001.

100-year-old former Nazi guard has gone on trial, facing charges for 3518 deaths (npr.org)

29 points by _Microft on Oct 8, 2021 | 54 comments

3002.

Billionaire Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Reappears in Hong Kong (reuters.com)

29 points by doppp on Oct 14, 2021 | 51 comments

3003.

The delights and the dangers of deplatforming extremists (conversationalist.org)

29 points by cratermoon on Oct 4, 2021 | 47 comments

3004.

IBM and airlines won’t comply with Texas governor’s ban on vaccine mandates (arstechnica.com)

29 points by rbanffy on Oct 14, 2021 | 34 comments

3005.

Facebook is planning to change its name, report says (cnn.com)

29 points by IgorPartola on Oct 20, 2021 | 31 comments

3006.

FDA authorizes use of Pfizer's Covid vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds (npr.org)

29 points by EastOfTruth on Oct 29, 2021 | 27 comments

3007.

Chicago creates one of the nation’s largest ‘guaranteed basic income’ programs (washingtonpost.com)

29 points by mesofile on Oct 26, 2021 | 23 comments

3008.

Ask HN: Where are secular source of crypto space knowledge?

29 points by Existenceblinks on Oct 31, 2021 | 22 comments

3009.

Solar Panels on Half the World’s Roofs Would Power the Planet (thedailybeast.com)

29 points by CapitalistCartr on Oct 12, 2021 | 21 comments

3010.

Tenex, a Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10 (opost.com)

29 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 8, 2021 | 19 comments

3011.

Philippine 2021 Nobel winner Ressa calls Facebook “biased against facts” (reuters.com)

29 points by graderjs on Oct 9, 2021 | 18 comments

3012.

PNC Bank app blocks access for “security reasons” if not allowed to scan files (storage.googleapis.com)

29 points by grateful on Oct 14, 2021 | 18 comments

3013.

Ask HN: How has Hacker News changed over the years?

29 points by hidden-spyder on Oct 9, 2021 | 17 comments

3014.

The Obsessive Life of the Fisherman Who Discovered the Loch Ness Monster (2020) (narratively.com)

29 points by samclemens on Oct 2, 2021 | 16 comments

3015.

A new history of the race to decipher DNA (nautil.us)

29 points by dnetesn on Oct 23, 2021 | 15 comments

3016.

MenuetOS (menuetos.net)

29 points by mdp2021 on Oct 25, 2021 | 15 comments

3017.

Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo (aeon.co)

29 points by Tomte on Oct 19, 2021 | 14 comments

3018.

Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers (bbc.co.uk)

29 points by bencollier49 on Oct 29, 2021 | 14 comments

3019.

My experience at and around MIRI and CFAR (lesswrong.com)

29 points by luu on Oct 17, 2021 | 13 comments

3020.

A probe intended to study the Trojan asteroids takes off shortly (economist.com)

29 points by varyherb on Oct 9, 2021 | 11 comments

3021.

There Is Shadow Inflation Taking Place All Around Us (nytimes.com)

29 points by mariojv on Oct 11, 2021 | 6 comments

3022.

Don’t Worry, These Gangly-Armed Cartoons Are Here to Protect You from Big Tech (eyeondesign.aiga.org)

29 points by jkestner on Oct 16, 2021 | 6 comments

3023.

Darwin’s Barnacles (sciencehistory.org)

29 points by benbreen on Oct 10, 2021 | 5 comments

3024.

Facebook boss ‘not willing to protect public from harm’ (theguardian.com)

29 points by luxpir on Oct 24, 2021 | 4 comments

3025.

European Investment Bank to end all loans to oil and gas firms (theguardian.com)

29 points by perfunctory on Oct 28, 2021 | 4 comments

3026.

US CDC Page on Zombie Preparedness (cdc.gov)

29 points by notRobot on Oct 2, 2021 | 3 comments

3027.

Creatures of the Popol Vuh (aeon.co)

29 points by Thevet on Oct 3, 2021 | 3 comments

3028.

A new, cheaper form of meth is creating a wave of severe mental illness (theatlantic.com)

29 points by swearwolf on Oct 21, 2021 | 3 comments

3029.

AnandTech Interviews Mike Clark, AMD’s Chief Architect of Zen (anandtech.com)

29 points by neogodless on Oct 26, 2021 | 3 comments

3030.

TikTok dodges questions about biometric data collection in Senate hearing (techcrunch.com)

29 points by arkadiyt on Oct 27, 2021 | 3 comments