HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8971.

LSD, cargo shorts and the fall of a tech CEO (bloomberg.com)

181 points by 1cvmask on May 5, 2021 | 238 comments

8972.

Google no longer requires AMP, but the replacement might be worse (theregister.com)

181 points by pseudolus on Jun 28, 2021 | 230 comments

8973.

Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018) (scmp.com)

181 points by danso on Jul 16, 2021 | 223 comments

8974.

What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants (laphamsquarterly.org)

181 points by diodorus on Feb 11, 2021 | 195 comments

8975.

Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (techcrunch.com)

181 points by jmsflknr on Jul 6, 2021 | 191 comments

8976.

Chamath Palihapitiya on Wallstreetbets [audio] (overcast.fm)

181 points by dave_aiello on Jan 27, 2021 | 188 comments

8977.

Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers (aboutamazon.com)

181 points by rustoo on Jun 5, 2021 | 173 comments

8978.

The time Pepsi got sued for a $33M fighter jet (thehustle.co)

181 points by Anon84 on Aug 15, 2021 | 168 comments

8979.

Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole (blog.urth.org)

181 points by zdw on Mar 30, 2021 | 157 comments

8980.

Julia and the Reincarnation of Lisp (2020) (arnuldondata.medium.com)

181 points by behnamoh on Jul 11, 2021 | 149 comments

8981.

80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics (twitter.com)

181 points by eric_khun on Jul 10, 2021 | 143 comments

8982.

How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare? (forbes.com)

181 points by firebaze on Feb 26, 2021 | 141 comments

8983.

Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case (spectrum.ieee.org)

181 points by tmfi on Mar 22, 2021 | 141 comments

8984.

Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday (twitter.com)

181 points by williamsmj on Nov 23, 2021 | 138 comments

8985.

Are We Really Engineers? (hillelwayne.com)

181 points by nathcd on Jan 18, 2021 | 131 comments

8986.

Show HN: I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine (chordata.cc)

181 points by daylankifky on Jan 7, 2021 | 123 comments

8987.

Wezterm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer (github.com)

181 points by yagizdegirmenci on Mar 30, 2021 | 123 comments

8988.

Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations (chrome.google.com)

181 points by tandav on Sep 29, 2021 | 122 comments

8989.

Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest (nytimes.com)

181 points by nobody9999 on Jan 27, 2021 | 119 comments

8990.

Gopher – A 280B parameter language model (deepmind.com)

181 points by kevin_hu on Dec 8, 2021 | 117 comments

8991.

Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before They’re Deleted (vice.com)

181 points by ironyman on Jan 8, 2021 | 116 comments

8992.

Does Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019) (jarv.is)

181 points by jahnu on Sep 11, 2021 | 116 comments

8993.

Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes (huyenchip.com)

181 points by vtuulos on Sep 25, 2021 | 114 comments

8994.

Federal judges or their brokers traded stocks of litigants during cases (wsj.com)

181 points by colinprince on Oct 23, 2021 | 114 comments

8995.

Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves (artificialintelligence-news.com)

181 points by weare138 on Feb 26, 2021 | 112 comments

8996.

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats (backblaze.com)

181 points by Labo333 on Apr 5, 2021 | 108 comments

8997.

Shitty Software Kills People (val.demar.in)

181 points by ingve on Mar 27, 2021 | 107 comments

8998.

Lead exposure from routine consumption of coffee and tea from ceramic mugs (foodcontaminationjournal.biomedcentral.com)

181 points by spekcular on Dec 18, 2021 | 106 comments

8999.

Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway (arstechnica.com)

181 points by samizdis on May 21, 2021 | 102 comments

9000.

Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges” (lore.kernel.org)

181 points by wedesoft on Sep 6, 2021 | 102 comments