HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical applications (cybergibbons.com)

63 points by oftenwrong on May 6, 2021 | 35 comments

1952.

An industrial designer who inspired Steve Jobs (fastcompany.com)

63 points by rbanffy on May 21, 2021 | 29 comments

1953.

Portability Is Reliability (evan.nemerson.com)

63 points by adr_ on May 5, 2021 | 25 comments

1954.

TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment (twitter.com)

63 points by vibhavsinha on May 7, 2021 | 24 comments

1955.

Introducing AWS App Runner (aws.amazon.com)

63 points by debarshri on May 19, 2021 | 24 comments

1956.

The art of reading non-fiction non-linearly (revolutiontalk.substack.com)

63 points by pgrddy on May 27, 2021 | 23 comments

1957.

Ask HN: Best Resources to Learn SEO?

63 points by jinpalmer on May 28, 2021 | 18 comments

1958.

Ask HN: What happened to the guy whose boss was ignoring him?

63 points by readonthegoapp on May 14, 2021 | 16 comments

1959.

Open source computer vision API (openvisionapi.com)

63 points by pythops on May 12, 2021 | 14 comments

1960.

Amazon Warns Employees Not to Trust Their Unionizing Co-Workers (vice.com)

63 points by pmoriarty on May 12, 2021 | 14 comments

1961.

Google Relaxes Work-from-Home Rules to Let More Staff Be Remote (bloomberg.com)

63 points by jader201 on May 5, 2021 | 8 comments

1962.

A primer on code generation in Cranelift (blog.benj.me)

63 points by bzbarsky on May 8, 2021 | 7 comments

1963.

60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation? (phys.org)

62 points by elorant on May 18, 2021 | 141 comments

1964.

Making the hard problem of consciousness easier (science.sciencemag.org)

62 points by hheikinh on May 29, 2021 | 107 comments

1965.

Mediterranean diet may prevent memory loss and dementia, study finds (cnn.com)

62 points by spekcular on May 8, 2021 | 64 comments

1966.

Scarcity tactics can anger customers (tips.ariyh.com)

62 points by tdmckinlay on May 18, 2021 | 55 comments

1967.

The Machinery of Freedom (1989) [pdf] (daviddfriedman.com)

62 points by olalonde on May 11, 2021 | 39 comments

1968.

Show HN: Monito, a browser extension for software testers (getmonito.com)

62 points by bjarocki on May 3, 2021 | 29 comments

1969.

Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data from all the data brokers (privacybot.io)

62 points by halfhalycon on May 13, 2021 | 21 comments

1970.

Zellij – a friendlier tmux or screen in rust (zellij.dev)

62 points by synergy20 on May 28, 2021 | 21 comments

1971.

I Used to Be a Human Being – How we are all becoming information addicts (nymag.com)

62 points by jack-bodine on May 24, 2021 | 19 comments

1972.

Show HN: ThingsTwin – 3D House Plan Based UI for Smart Home (thingstwin.com)

62 points by Can0nC on May 16, 2021 | 18 comments

1973.

The Cicada's Love Affair with Prime Numbers (2013) (newyorker.com)

62 points by optimalsolver on May 21, 2021 | 13 comments

1974.

Galapagos Islands: Erosion fells Darwin’s Arch (bbc.com)

62 points by janpot on May 18, 2021 | 12 comments

1975.

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (lrb.co.uk)

62 points by prismatic on May 27, 2021 | 10 comments

1976.

Improved distributed algorithms for fundamental graph problems (2017) (dspace.mit.edu)

62 points by eternalban on May 12, 2021 | 5 comments

1977.

Making a “MiniKanren” using Z3Py (philipzucker.com)

62 points by philzook on May 22, 2021 | 5 comments

1978.

Thinking for Programmers (2014) [video] (channel9.msdn.com)

62 points by mbrodersen on May 1, 2021 | 4 comments

1979.

The Mammoth Pirates (rferl.org)

62 points by kyle_morris_ on May 29, 2021 | 4 comments

1980.

Contrary to Previous Belief, Strike-Slip Faults Can Generate Large Tsunamis (caltech.edu)

62 points by chmaynard on May 4, 2021 | 2 comments