HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6271.

Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

235 points by anarbadalov on Sep 29, 2021 | 258 comments

6272.

Telegram Ad Platform (promote.telegram.org)

235 points by decrypt on Nov 8, 2021 | 245 comments

6273.

London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming back to life (npr.org)

235 points by pseudolus on Nov 12, 2021 | 190 comments

6274.

Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

235 points by leohonexus on Sep 19, 2021 | 185 comments

6275.

John Carmack on Hiring (twitter.com)

235 points by tosh on Sep 7, 2021 | 172 comments

6276.

The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army (newyorker.com)

235 points by mitchbob on Apr 22, 2021 | 170 comments

6277.

Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (theverge.com)

235 points by kyleShropshire on Mar 29, 2021 | 166 comments

6278.

FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment (reuters.com)

235 points by yyyk on Jul 31, 2021 | 166 comments

6279.

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) (bbc.com)

235 points by Hooke on Dec 20, 2021 | 165 comments

6280.

What does a Principal Software Engineer do? (blog.devgenius.io)

235 points by awesometechguy on Dec 14, 2021 | 164 comments

6281.

WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back (niemarwinget.medium.com)

235 points by lucumo on Apr 17, 2021 | 157 comments

6282.

3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective (middleendian.com)

235 points by MiddleEndian on Oct 29, 2021 | 152 comments

6283.

Nim 2.0 thoughts (forum.nim-lang.org)

235 points by michaelsbradley on May 15, 2021 | 145 comments

6284.

macOS 11’s hidden security improvements (blog.malwarebytes.com)

235 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2021 | 145 comments

6285.

Larry Flynt has died (bbc.com)

235 points by SirLJ on Feb 11, 2021 | 144 comments

6286.

Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video] (bbc.com)

235 points by hmart on Jan 9, 2021 | 143 comments

6287.

How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video] (youtube.com)

235 points by helsinkiandrew on Jul 6, 2021 | 134 comments

6288.

Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter (pages.erau.edu)

235 points by HiroProtagonist on Oct 23, 2021 | 131 comments

6289.

Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf] (commerce.senate.gov)

235 points by sohkamyung on Dec 15, 2021 | 124 comments

6290.

Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying (arxiv.org)

235 points by moinnadeem on Sep 1, 2021 | 122 comments

6291.

Why does it take so long to get to Mercury? (esa.int)

235 points by 5faulker on Aug 9, 2021 | 116 comments

6292.

Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects (schleiss.io)

235 points by nreece on May 17, 2021 | 112 comments

6293.

PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) (github.com)

235 points by kruuuder on Jan 28, 2021 | 103 comments

6294.

Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence (arxiv.org)

235 points by ColinWright on Dec 7, 2021 | 103 comments

6295.

Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C (github.com)

235 points by dmart on May 18, 2021 | 95 comments

6296.

Malware in open-source web extensions (lwn.net)

235 points by chmaynard on Feb 16, 2021 | 90 comments

6297.

Truck Art in Pakistan (2018) (mymodernmet.com)

235 points by brudgers on Jan 5, 2021 | 88 comments

6298.

New campaign targeting security researchers (blog.google)

235 points by el_duderino on Jan 26, 2021 | 87 comments

6299.

Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (quantamagazine.org)

235 points by guerrilla on Mar 3, 2021 | 82 comments

6300.

Repeat Yourself, a Lot (tomtunguz.com)

235 points by kiyanwang on Oct 31, 2021 | 80 comments