HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1141.

A Day in the Life of Your Data [pdf] (apple.com)

135 points by abouelatta on Jan 29, 2021 | 80 comments

1142.

Fix Terminals (leonerd.org.uk)

135 points by smartmic on Jan 27, 2021 | 65 comments

1143.

'Sea Prison': Covid-19 has left hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded (npr.org)

135 points by happy-go-lucky on Jan 29, 2021 | 55 comments

1144.

Load testing is hard and the tools are not great (ntietz.com)

135 points by ntietz on Jan 5, 2021 | 52 comments

1145.

SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched (bbc.co.uk)

135 points by edward on Jan 24, 2021 | 51 comments

1146.

The right way to turn off your old APIs (httptoolkit.tech)

135 points by pimterry on Jan 21, 2021 | 31 comments

1147.

Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954) (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)

135 points by prismatic on Jan 29, 2021 | 31 comments

1148.

Donut.c Without a Math Library (a1k0n.net)

135 points by robin_reala on Jan 15, 2021 | 22 comments

1149.

Global real interest rates and the ‘suprasecular’ decline, 1311–2018 (2020) (bankofengland.co.uk)

134 points by panax on Jan 29, 2021 | 172 comments

1150.

Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015) (unix.stackexchange.com)

134 points by polm23 on Jan 23, 2021 | 154 comments

1151.

India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency (thehindu.com)

134 points by m33k44 on Jan 30, 2021 | 147 comments

1152.

Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019) (vicki.substack.com)

134 points by swyx on Jan 31, 2021 | 124 comments

1153.

Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine (startpage.com)

134 points by activatedgeek on Jan 10, 2021 | 84 comments

1154.

Microprocessors Running on Air? (erik-engheim.medium.com)

134 points by nnx on Jan 9, 2021 | 55 comments

1155.

Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web (theguardian.com)

134 points by jameslk on Jan 31, 2021 | 52 comments

1156.

Octave Compass (octavecompass.com)

134 points by leephillips on Jan 24, 2021 | 41 comments

1157.

Raymarching Distance Fields (2008-2020 compilation) (iquilezles.org)

134 points by itronitron on Jan 9, 2021 | 23 comments

1158.

The Amiga 1000 Parceiro (amigalove.com)

134 points by jdkee on Jan 18, 2021 | 22 comments

1159.

Gravity Energy Storage: Alternative to batteries for grid storage (spectrum.ieee.org)

133 points by headalgorithm on Jan 5, 2021 | 167 comments

1160.

Governments spurred the rise of solar power (economist.com)

133 points by jakozaur on Jan 11, 2021 | 162 comments

1161.

What's New in PHP 8.1 (stitcher.io)

133 points by hypomnemata on Jan 29, 2021 | 108 comments

1162.

Gabe Newell on brain-computer interface technology (tvnz.co.nz)

133 points by sp3n on Jan 25, 2021 | 87 comments

1163.

SkiftOS: Simple, handmade operating system for the x86 platform (github.com)

133 points by ingve on Jan 23, 2021 | 63 comments

1164.

New ‘Action Roguelike’ C++ Project on GitHub (tomlooman.com)

133 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 16, 2021 | 50 comments

1165.

Visual Tcl (vtcl.sourceforge.net)

133 points by galfarragem on Jan 27, 2021 | 50 comments

1166.

Robinhood makes most of its money selling customer orders (2020) (fortune.com)

133 points by Khelavaster on Jan 28, 2021 | 1 comments

1167.

Would Rust Secure Curl? (timmmm.github.io)

132 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 16, 2021 | 116 comments

1168.

How religion shaped modern economics (wsj.com)

132 points by Petiver on Jan 19, 2021 | 99 comments

1169.

Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021 (cicadamania.com)

132 points by irthomasthomas on Jan 19, 2021 | 95 comments

1170.

Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations (dd.meddle.mobi)

132 points by simonpure on Jan 22, 2021 | 79 comments