HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1531.

Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster (twitter.com)

506 points by tptacek on Dec 30, 2021 | 141 comments

1532.

In Praise of Open Source Textbooks

506 points by lightveil on Jun 6, 2021 | 104 comments

1533.

Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves (chrisbutner.github.io)

506 points by cbutner on Oct 5, 2021 | 89 comments

1534.

PNG Parser Differential (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

506 points by Retr0id on Dec 16, 2021 | 53 comments

1535.

DVD Laser Scanner Microscope (gaudi.ch)

506 points by _Microft on Feb 3, 2021 | 40 comments

1536.

Improving GitHub Code Search (github.blog)

505 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 8, 2021 | 213 comments

1537.

DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future (lunduke.substack.com)

505 points by WoodenChair on Nov 30, 2021 | 183 comments

1538.

Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX (github.com)

505 points by homarp on Aug 18, 2021 | 178 comments

1539.

Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar? (superuser.com)

505 points by personjerry on Mar 14, 2021 | 150 comments

1540.

Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures (scanofthemonth.com)

505 points by bookofjoe on Nov 17, 2021 | 99 comments

1541.

Bitcoin is a Ponzi (ic.unicamp.br)

504 points by amin on Oct 7, 2021 | 650 comments

1542.

About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1 (support.apple.com)

504 points by jiripospisil on Jul 26, 2021 | 348 comments

1543.

'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude (mainichi.jp)

504 points by gmays on Jan 14, 2021 | 224 comments

1544.

Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes (tglyn.ch)

504 points by tomglynch on Apr 28, 2021 | 192 comments

1545.

One week of Libera Chat (libera.chat)

504 points by wut42 on May 26, 2021 | 163 comments

1546.

Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016) (gkbrk.com)

504 points by crecker on Mar 30, 2021 | 86 comments

1547.

Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever (bbc.co.uk)

503 points by kasperni on May 4, 2021 | 655 comments

1548.

Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux (boilingsteam.com)

503 points by ekianjo on Sep 11, 2021 | 332 comments

1549.

An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel (lkml.org)

503 points by steveklabnik on Apr 14, 2021 | 261 comments

1550.

12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks (suade.org)

503 points by gilad on Feb 19, 2021 | 237 comments

1551.

Open secrets about Hacker News (bengtan.com)

503 points by vincent_s on Oct 28, 2021 | 191 comments

1552.

Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone (twitter.com)

503 points by keleftheriou on Aug 16, 2021 | 164 comments

1553.

Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits (kickstarter.com)

503 points by mcp_ on May 20, 2021 | 117 comments

1554.

Apache Guacamole (guacamole.apache.org)

503 points by WallyFunk on Dec 4, 2021 | 116 comments

1555.

US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins (reuters.com)

502 points by lazycrazyowl on Feb 13, 2021 | 632 comments

1556.

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (danlawton.substack.com)

502 points by mudita on Jul 20, 2021 | 568 comments

1557.

Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down (github.com)

502 points by high_derivative on Feb 12, 2021 | 420 comments

1558.

.NET 6 Released (devblogs.microsoft.com)

502 points by tonicbbleking on Nov 8, 2021 | 416 comments

1559.

'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens (sciencealert.com)

502 points by samizdis on Feb 16, 2021 | 376 comments

1560.

History of Techno (beatportal.com)

502 points by unquote on Apr 29, 2021 | 319 comments