HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster (phiresky.github.io)

1812 points by phiresky on May 2, 2021 | 244 comments

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Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge (blog.ethereum.org)

1661 points by vishnu_ks on May 18, 2021 | 1690 comments

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I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time (awesomekling.github.io)

1644 points by there on May 28, 2021 | 249 comments

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A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work (madned.substack.com)

1464 points by mad_ned on May 19, 2021 | 254 comments

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Sublime Text 4 (sublimetext.com)

1436 points by ascom on May 21, 2021 | 631 comments

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Welcome to Libera Chat (libera.chat)

1425 points by smitop on May 19, 2021 | 529 comments

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Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together (blog.google)

1339 points by ra7 on May 18, 2021 | 511 comments

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One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks (columbianewsservice.com)

1331 points by anandaverma18 on May 23, 2021 | 544 comments

9.

The Animal Is Tired (robinhobb.com)

1299 points by montenegrohugo on May 9, 2021 | 426 comments

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Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM (github.com)

1260 points by dekuNukem on May 2, 2021 | 404 comments

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Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020) (turriate.com)

1256 points by EntICOnc on May 15, 2021 | 728 comments

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Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org)

1235 points by HieronymusBosch on May 4, 2021 | 177 comments

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A URL Lengthener (aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com)

1204 points by ykdojo on May 14, 2021 | 294 comments

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Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel (dental.washington.edu)

1189 points by beefman on May 29, 2021 | 347 comments

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Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

1167 points by lewisjoe on May 12, 2021 | 930 comments

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Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C (github.com)

1102 points by epermyakov on May 12, 2021 | 262 comments

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Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer (old.reddit.com)

1086 points by tosh on May 30, 2021 | 494 comments

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M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability (m1racles.com)

1067 points by paulgerhardt on May 26, 2021 | 277 comments

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Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’ (mattstoller.substack.com)

1057 points by yarapavan on May 30, 2021 | 440 comments

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Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says (bbc.co.uk)

1037 points by cjnicholls on May 23, 2021 | 829 comments

21.

LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online (techstartups.com)

1016 points by ro_bit on May 6, 2021 | 676 comments

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Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1 (petapixel.com)

1013 points by luu on May 30, 2021 | 624 comments

23.

Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? (bbc.com)

1008 points by vanusa on May 17, 2021 | 637 comments

24.

Stripe Payment Links (stripe.com)

988 points by joeyespo on May 25, 2021 | 312 comments

25.

Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning (talawah.io)

976 points by talawahtech on May 20, 2021 | 145 comments

26.

It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency (twitter.com)

949 points by cratermoon on May 30, 2021 | 1143 comments

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The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company (blog.thea.codes)

925 points by todsacerdoti on May 18, 2021 | 130 comments

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Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video] (youtube.com)