HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

10561.

Competitive programming is useless (kislayverma.com)

158 points by pbrw on Aug 23, 2021 | 150 comments

10562.

I still use plain text for everything. (2016) (lifehacker.com)

158 points by behnamoh on Jun 29, 2021 | 149 comments

10563.

Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy (martinfowler.com)

158 points by NicoJuicy on Sep 13, 2021 | 149 comments

10564.

Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data (cam.ac.uk)

158 points by rustoo on Jun 5, 2021 | 144 comments

10565.

The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010) (scatter.wordpress.com)

158 points by ksangeelee on May 30, 2021 | 142 comments

10566.

Launch HN: Hedgehog (YC S21) – Cryptocurrency Portfolio Manager

158 points by cadillion on Jun 18, 2021 | 137 comments

10567.

Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources (reuters.com)

158 points by 43920 on Mar 30, 2021 | 133 comments

10568.

Stamping the joy out of collectors (notalwaysright.com)

158 points by jasonhansel on Apr 17, 2021 | 128 comments

10569.

Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses (itv.com)

158 points by pedro-guimaraes on Jun 22, 2021 | 127 comments

10570.

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (2010) (matt.might.net)

158 points by CaliforniaKarl on Nov 7, 2021 | 121 comments

10571.

Incident: American B38M near Nassau on Mar 29th 2021, pitch trim issue/failure (avherald.com)

158 points by xmichael0 on Mar 31, 2021 | 119 comments

10572.

AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings (anandtech.com)

158 points by neogodless on Apr 27, 2021 | 118 comments

10573.

Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007) (harmful.cat-v.org)

158 points by sbt567 on Dec 8, 2021 | 112 comments

10574.

Metabook (metabook.fyi)

158 points by 0066cc on Nov 4, 2021 | 111 comments

10575.

Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019) (bigmessowires.com)

158 points by WayToDoor on Apr 22, 2021 | 108 comments

10576.

Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011) (ursulakleguin.com)

158 points by lcam84 on Aug 31, 2021 | 108 comments

10577.

Ask HN: How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?

158 points by lsjfd on Dec 20, 2021 | 105 comments

10578.

Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense (interconnected.org)

158 points by tobr on Aug 27, 2021 | 103 comments

10579.

Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app (apps.apple.com)

158 points by lupinglade on Jan 3, 2021 | 101 comments

10580.

Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain (engineering.princeton.edu)

158 points by gmays on Dec 1, 2021 | 99 comments

10581.

Arm AArch64 Adds Memcpy() Instructions (community.arm.com)

158 points by universal_sinc on Sep 21, 2021 | 94 comments

10582.

Simple SSH Security (disknotifier.com)

158 points by haarts on Nov 8, 2021 | 94 comments

10583.

Issues we've encountered while building a Kafka based data processing pipeline (sixfold.medium.com)

158 points by poolik on Oct 18, 2021 | 93 comments

10584.

How to fight back against Google FLoC (plausible.io)

158 points by rajeshrajappan on Apr 16, 2021 | 90 comments

10585.

Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires (torrentfreak.com)

158 points by forlorn on Nov 8, 2021 | 85 comments

10586.

Show HN: Run unknown shell script with a line-by-line confirmation prompt (gist.github.com)

158 points by wlib on Apr 14, 2021 | 82 comments

10587.

Idioms for the D Programming Language (p0nce.github.io)

158 points by crazypython on Feb 11, 2021 | 81 comments

10588.

Monoio – A thread-per-core Rust async runtime with io_uring (github.com)

158 points by losfair on Dec 9, 2021 | 81 comments

10589.

Archiving the Capitol Hill Riots (reddit.com)

158 points by boramalper on Jan 7, 2021 | 80 comments

10590.

Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers (newscientist.com)

158 points by mef51 on May 26, 2021 | 78 comments