HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States (smithsonianmag.com)

445 points by elorant on Oct 9, 2021 | 184 comments

1982.

Bitcoin Is Time (dergigi.com)

444 points by taylorwc on Mar 2, 2021 | 1144 comments

1983.

Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous (roadandtrack.com)

444 points by mdbug on Mar 19, 2021 | 446 comments

1984.

A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech (wired.com)

444 points by lxm on Jul 22, 2021 | 424 comments

1985.

The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty of justice (tribunemag.co.uk)

444 points by thinkingemote on Jul 25, 2021 | 324 comments

1986.

Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM (github.com)

444 points by dattl on Dec 18, 2021 | 151 comments

1987.

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization (github.com)

444 points by quyleanh on May 13, 2021 | 146 comments

1988.

CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU (techxplore.com)

444 points by gumby on Apr 9, 2021 | 143 comments

1989.

A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong (twitter.com)

443 points by deegles on Aug 20, 2021 | 419 comments

1990.

Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says (arstechnica.com)

443 points by samizdis on Sep 1, 2021 | 264 comments

1991.

Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail (mikko-kenttala.medium.com)

443 points by jviide on Apr 1, 2021 | 257 comments

1992.

Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font (codingfont.com)

443 points by wentin on Oct 27, 2021 | 218 comments

1993.

Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use (open-meteo.com)

443 points by meteo-jeff on Sep 12, 2021 | 147 comments

1994.

Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode (twitter.com)

443 points by BlackLotus89 on Mar 20, 2021 | 134 comments

1995.

Faster JavaScript Calls (v8.dev)

443 points by feross on Feb 15, 2021 | 126 comments

1996.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)

443 points by sohkamyung on May 29, 2021 | 98 comments

1997.

U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees (reuters.com)

442 points by alexrustic on Apr 29, 2021 | 517 comments

1998.

German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice (blog.documentfoundation.org)

442 points by jrepinc on Nov 18, 2021 | 349 comments

1999.

Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

442 points by man-next-door on Nov 27, 2021 | 349 comments

2000.

Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] (diode.zone)

442 points by x14km2d on Sep 19, 2021 | 295 comments

2001.

Can we trust Microsoft with open source? (dusted.codes)

442 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2021 | 280 comments

2002.

Tell HN: GitHub is down again

442 points by pupdogg on Nov 27, 2021 | 272 comments

2003.

US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)

442 points by panarky on Jun 3, 2021 | 260 comments

2004.

Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote (youtube.com)

442 points by brudgers on Nov 28, 2021 | 234 comments

2005.

DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries (duckduckgo.com)

442 points by Aaronmacaron on Jan 14, 2021 | 176 comments

2006.

I hacked an office telephone to play Doom (neilbostian.github.io)

442 points by joshmanders on Aug 27, 2021 | 57 comments

2007.

Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?

441 points by pramodbiligiri on Mar 16, 2021 | 795 comments

2008.

Fierce Nerds (paulgraham.com)

441 points by prtkgpt on May 18, 2021 | 452 comments

2009.

Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust (benhoyt.com)

441 points by benhoyt on Mar 15, 2021 | 303 comments

2010.

Why I no longer contribute to Racket (beautifulracket.com)

441 points by velcrovan on Jun 16, 2021 | 227 comments