HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6241.

Where has all the productivity gone? (johndcook.com)

236 points by wellpast on Jul 31, 2021 | 211 comments

6242.

Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work (briananglin.me)

236 points by anglinb on Nov 6, 2021 | 199 comments

6243.

The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams (madned.substack.com)

236 points by mad_ned on Nov 24, 2021 | 181 comments

6244.

Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name (twitter.com)

236 points by appwiz on Mar 6, 2021 | 170 comments

6245.

Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions (eurekalert.org)

236 points by starkd on Aug 29, 2021 | 170 comments

6246.

China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover (bbc.com)

236 points by pseudolus on Jun 28, 2021 | 167 comments

6247.

Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012) (blog.garrytan.com)

236 points by domrdy on Sep 10, 2021 | 164 comments

6248.

Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study (u-fukui.ac.jp)

236 points by elorant on Mar 30, 2021 | 153 comments

6249.

Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency (arstechnica.com)

236 points by pseudolus on Feb 23, 2021 | 143 comments

6250.

How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang? (krebsonsecurity.com)

236 points by wyldfire on Jun 16, 2021 | 139 comments

6251.

Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

236 points by todsacerdoti on Jun 2, 2021 | 138 comments

6252.

Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal (macrumors.com)

236 points by jordigg on Jan 2, 2021 | 128 comments

6253.

Show HN: Low-latency jamming over the internet (sub.live)

236 points by weepy on Oct 23, 2021 | 119 comments

6254.

Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function (microsoft.com)

236 points by elemeno on Apr 22, 2021 | 109 comments

6255.

A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website (theguardian.com)

236 points by 4ndrewl on Dec 24, 2021 | 90 comments

6256.

Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation (zdnet.com)

236 points by alexrustic on Jun 7, 2021 | 89 comments

6257.

Software should convey a sense of calm (patrickjuchli.com)

236 points by pajuc on Sep 13, 2021 | 87 comments

6258.

File Descriptor Limits (0pointer.net)

236 points by ingve on May 19, 2021 | 85 comments

6259.

Conditionally setting your gitconfig (utf9k.net)

236 points by zdw on Aug 23, 2021 | 81 comments

6260.

A recruiter lined me up an interview. With the employer that just fired me (twitter.com)

236 points by charlieirish on Nov 8, 2021 | 80 comments

6261.

MuseScore 3.6 (musescore.org)

236 points by app4soft on Jan 17, 2021 | 78 comments

6262.

Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale (github.blog)

236 points by sergiomattei on Sep 28, 2021 | 78 comments

6263.

Schnorr confirms paper is his, claims it “destroys RSA cryptosystem” (twitter.com)

236 points by EthanHeilman on Mar 3, 2021 | 72 comments

6264.

Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker (github.com)

236 points by matt_d on Dec 15, 2021 | 65 comments

6265.

Rust Design Patterns as a Book (rust-unofficial.github.io)

236 points by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 on Jan 3, 2021 | 48 comments

6266.

Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy (dev.yorhel.nl)

236 points by signa11 on Jul 25, 2021 | 42 comments

6267.

Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance (roughjs.com)

236 points by thunderbong on Dec 14, 2021 | 23 comments

6268.

Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round (reuters.com)

235 points by mathattack on Feb 9, 2021 | 411 comments

6269.

Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers (axios.com)

235 points by sofixa on Dec 20, 2021 | 288 comments

6270.

Why Not Rust? (2020) (matklad.github.io)

235 points by spekcular on Dec 18, 2021 | 269 comments