HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5101.

Gollum – A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend (github.com)

268 points by dsr12 on Oct 2, 2021 | 39 comments

5102.

Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual on solving 'impossible' puzzles (phys.org)

268 points by sandebert on Jun 5, 2021 | 38 comments

5103.

Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015) (economist.com)

267 points by ddtaylor on Mar 9, 2021 | 559 comments

5104.

There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic (economist.com)

267 points by pranshum on May 16, 2021 | 458 comments

5105.

ProPublica's tax story (savingjournalism.substack.com)

267 points by imgabe on Jun 8, 2021 | 397 comments

5106.

When McDonalds Came to Denmark (mattbruenig.com)

267 points by mpweiher on Sep 21, 2021 | 390 comments

5107.

GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website (gizmodo.com)

267 points by HiroProtagonist on Sep 4, 2021 | 366 comments

5108.

Fuck Domainparkers (indiehackers.com)

267 points by wolframhempel on Mar 11, 2021 | 300 comments

5109.

Ubuntu 21.10 (ubuntu.com)

267 points by zathan on Oct 14, 2021 | 291 comments

5110.

Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks (utcc.utoronto.ca)

267 points by zdw on Nov 16, 2021 | 269 comments

5111.

Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty (2020) (gist.github.com)

267 points by sph on Nov 26, 2021 | 233 comments

5112.

I was sick, tired and had lost myself until I began lifting weights at 71 (theguardian.com)

267 points by Tomte on Jul 25, 2021 | 195 comments

5113.

Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014) (news.virginia.edu)

267 points by looperhacks on Jun 13, 2021 | 194 comments

5114.

The Fourier transform is a neural network (sidsite.com)

267 points by montebicyclelo on Apr 29, 2021 | 163 comments

5115.

Assertiveness is a virtue that anyone can develop with practice (psyche.co)

267 points by arkj on Jul 14, 2021 | 155 comments

5116.

Facebook faces ‘devastating’ EU-to-US data transfer ban (aje.io)

267 points by underseacables on May 15, 2021 | 148 comments

5117.

The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video] (youtube.com)

267 points by WithinReason on Dec 10, 2021 | 145 comments

5118.

Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick (2018) (cantorsparadise.com)

267 points by TheTrotters on Jun 15, 2021 | 139 comments

5119.

Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own (gizmodo.com)

267 points by DyslexicAtheist on Mar 16, 2021 | 136 comments

5120.

Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver (twin-cities.umn.edu)

267 points by mnming on Jul 30, 2021 | 129 comments

5121.

Lawsuit against TSA and DEA over airport seizures achieves first victory (ij.org)

267 points by tomohawk on Apr 3, 2021 | 111 comments

5122.

New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors (spectrum.ieee.org)

267 points by ofou on Oct 19, 2021 | 92 comments

5123.

S.Korea fines Google $177M for blocking Android customisation (reuters.com)

267 points by quasisphere on Sep 14, 2021 | 91 comments

5124.

Python Programming and Numerical Methods: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists (pythonnumericalmethods.berkeley.edu)

267 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 17, 2021 | 90 comments

5125.

You can't tell people anything (2004) (habitatchronicles.com)

267 points by xojoc on Oct 6, 2021 | 90 comments

5126.

Scanning “private” content (lwn.net)

267 points by lisptime on Aug 12, 2021 | 77 comments

5127.

Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021 (asahilinux.org)

267 points by t4h4 on Mar 11, 2021 | 65 comments

5128.

How to Learn Complex Things Quickly: A Guide (product.hubspot.com)

267 points by fmccaffrey on Apr 8, 2021 | 61 comments

5129.

Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar (xbarapp.com)

267 points by rjmunro on Mar 19, 2021 | 51 comments

5130.

Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization (symphony.iohk.io)

267 points by runpat on Apr 19, 2021 | 43 comments