HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6151.

DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI (venturebeat.com)

238 points by webmaven on Jun 10, 2021 | 299 comments

6152.

Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables (bbc.com)

238 points by doener on Mar 26, 2021 | 274 comments

6153.

Corona Game: A simulation of how Covid-19 spreads (koronahra.cz)

238 points by pmontra on Jul 7, 2021 | 234 comments

6154.

The Kotlin Foundation (kotlinlang.org)

238 points by ta988 on Feb 13, 2021 | 230 comments

6155.

What really happened to Jack Ma? (forbes.com)

238 points by Invictus0 on Jul 7, 2021 | 195 comments

6156.

At the world's oldest social housing, rent hasn't changed since 1521 (cbc.ca)

238 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2021 | 194 comments

6157.

Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (1995) [pdf] (theanarchistlibrary.org)

238 points by asterialite on Feb 16, 2021 | 191 comments

6158.

Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform (blog.mozilla.org)

238 points by TangerineDream on Jun 25, 2021 | 187 comments

6159.

International coalition calls for action against surveillance-based advertising (forbrukerradet.no)

238 points by dredmorbius on Jun 24, 2021 | 175 comments

6160.

Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel (cbc.ca)

238 points by curmudgeon22 on Oct 24, 2021 | 162 comments

6161.

Linux with “memory folios”: a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel (lore.kernel.org)

238 points by marcodiego on Jun 15, 2021 | 158 comments

6162.

Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018) (arstechnica.com)

238 points by Tomte on Apr 15, 2021 | 150 comments

6163.

Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019) (blog.kellybrazil.com)

238 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 22, 2021 | 146 comments

6164.

The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse (arstechnica.com)

238 points by dwynings on Dec 21, 2021 | 138 comments

6165.

Ask HN: Coping with cancer in the family

238 points by parvatzar on Nov 5, 2021 | 136 comments

6166.

The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S. (nps.gov)

238 points by hairytrog on Dec 26, 2021 | 127 comments

6167.

Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python (pola.rs)

238 points by daureg on Dec 16, 2021 | 124 comments

6168.

Handwriting is better than typing when learning a new language, study finds (sciencealert.com)

238 points by lnyan on Jul 12, 2021 | 123 comments

6169.

Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons (bef.no)

238 points by AgoRapide on Apr 17, 2021 | 117 comments

6170.

Roblox has been down for over 24 hours (status.roblox.com)

238 points by intunderflow on Oct 29, 2021 | 117 comments

6171.

NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised (ddosecrets.substack.com)

238 points by afrcnc on Jun 29, 2021 | 116 comments

6172.

Servo Engine contributions this year (github.com)

238 points by maverick74 on Jul 1, 2021 | 115 comments

6173.

Debian for Mobile (mobian-project.org)

238 points by wwarner on Jul 26, 2021 | 109 comments

6174.

Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish (google.com)

238 points by ik8s on Jul 30, 2021 | 105 comments

6175.

Analysis of blood markers predicts human lifespan limit (nature.com)

238 points by Kinrany on May 26, 2021 | 100 comments

6176.

Plan 9 Desktop Guide (pspodcasting.net)

238 points by signa11 on Oct 4, 2021 | 100 comments

6177.

Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager (asdf-vm.com)

238 points by BerislavLopac on Feb 3, 2021 | 96 comments

6178.

Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases (amazon.com)

238 points by daenz on Jul 31, 2021 | 96 comments

6179.

Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019) (research.google)

238 points by themarkers on Apr 29, 2021 | 95 comments

6180.

Bouba/Kiki Effect (en.wikipedia.org)

238 points by thunderbong on Jul 19, 2021 | 94 comments