HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1861.

An Honest Look at Urbit (jayriverlong.substack.com)

68 points by riverlong on Oct 4, 2021 | 74 comments

1862.

The history of what we call work (thenation.com)

68 points by akakievich on Oct 10, 2021 | 64 comments

1863.

It's not your imagination – Microsoft's sofware has gone downhill (arstechnica.com)

68 points by rstuart4133 on Oct 22, 2021 | 51 comments

1864.

Generic CRC algorithm generator, from Mark Adler (github.com)

68 points by childintime on Oct 9, 2021 | 44 comments

1865.

Byte Magazine – Atari Articles (1979-1993) (archive.org)

68 points by vo2maxer on Oct 9, 2021 | 22 comments

1866.

China PCR test orders soared before first reported Covid case (asia.nikkei.com)

68 points by johntfella on Oct 4, 2021 | 21 comments

1867.

The Math Behind “Spot It” (smithsonianmag.com)

68 points by bobbiechen on Oct 14, 2021 | 21 comments

1868.

Before Pong, There Was Computer Space (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

68 points by benbreen on Oct 18, 2021 | 16 comments

1869.

EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board (eff.org)

68 points by thecoffman on Oct 22, 2021 | 12 comments

1870.

NetBSD is Looking for various WiFi hardware (mail-index.netbsd.org)

68 points by jayp1418 on Oct 29, 2021 | 12 comments

1871.

Reactive, DAG-based notebooks in Hex 2.0 (hex.tech)

68 points by barrrrald on Oct 6, 2021 | 8 comments

1872.

Beyond inductive datatypes: exploring Self types (github.com)

68 points by danny00 on Oct 30, 2021 | 5 comments

1873.

China PCR test orders soared before first confirmed Covid case (asia.nikkei.com)

68 points by nradov on Oct 5, 2021 | 4 comments

1874.

SFC files lawsuit against Vizio Inc. for GPL violations (sfconservancy.org)

68 points by jdorfman on Oct 19, 2021 | 3 comments

1875.

First Principles of Interaction Design (2014) (asktog.com)

68 points by dotancohen on Oct 3, 2021 | 1 comments

1876.

Ask HN: How to start learning about investments?

67 points by DeathArrow on Oct 31, 2021 | 100 comments

1877.

Too big to cover alone: Newsrooms team up (axios.com)

67 points by samizdis on Oct 26, 2021 | 68 comments

1878.

Ask HN: Best way to organize 100-200 emails/day in Outlook?

67 points by cwwc on Oct 16, 2021 | 58 comments

1879.

Windows 11: Microsoft's pointless update (computerworld.com)

67 points by behnamoh on Oct 18, 2021 | 57 comments

1880.

Toxoplasmosis associated with entrepreneurial initiation and performance (2020) (researchgate.net)

67 points by mastax on Oct 25, 2021 | 55 comments

1881.

The Facebook whistleblower is heroic and terribly wrong (mattstoller.substack.com)

67 points by null_object on Oct 7, 2021 | 53 comments

1882.

Art Vote (artvote.net)

67 points by if-curious on Oct 25, 2021 | 46 comments

1883.

Declassified docs reveal truth about FBI’s contribution to Hemingway’s demise (history101.com)

67 points by pseudolus on Oct 16, 2021 | 42 comments

1884.

‘When We Cease to Understand the World’ (nytimes.com)

67 points by prismatic on Oct 12, 2021 | 36 comments

1885.

Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters (theguardian.com)

67 points by isaacfrond on Oct 4, 2021 | 33 comments

1886.

Meet The Extropians (1994) (wired.com)

67 points by optimalsolver on Oct 2, 2021 | 28 comments

1887.

A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (1997) (bmj.com)

67 points by signa11 on Oct 18, 2021 | 28 comments

1888.

OS/360 on Hercules: Overview (2003) (conmicro.com)

67 points by Koshkin on Oct 6, 2021 | 20 comments

1889.

Pong using browser windows as the paddles and ball (2009) (stewd.io)

67 points by jstrieb on Oct 24, 2021 | 19 comments

1890.

Premortems will keep your code alive (cobaltrobotics.com)

67 points by eschluntz on Oct 13, 2021 | 13 comments