HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014) (gizmodo.com)

532 points by ushakov on Jun 12, 2021 | 238 comments

122.

PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter (eff.org)

532 points by tirz on Jun 2, 2021 | 181 comments

123.

A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018) (github.com)

529 points by tosh on Jun 3, 2021 | 75 comments

124.

Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible (slate.com)

527 points by lxm on Jun 29, 2021 | 710 comments

125.

Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank (propublica.org)

521 points by giuliomagnifico on Jun 24, 2021 | 775 comments

126.

Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

521 points by johndcook on Jun 27, 2021 | 391 comments

127.

Why we should end the data economy (thereboot.com)

519 points by oppodeldoc on Jun 4, 2021 | 386 comments

128.

“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches” (lkml.org)

517 points by belter on Jun 25, 2021 | 258 comments

129.

Stepping Back from Speaking (martinfowler.com)

517 points by alfredbez on Jun 29, 2021 | 127 comments

130.

Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose (nickjanetakis.com)

514 points by nickjj on Jun 1, 2021 | 139 comments

131.

PNG files can be animated via network latency (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

511 points by aleyan on Jun 21, 2021 | 106 comments

132.

Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers (seattletimes.com)

508 points by flowerlad on Jun 21, 2021 | 372 comments

133.

In Praise of Open Source Textbooks

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

134.

Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python (github.com)

502 points by stunt on Jun 17, 2021 | 181 comments

135.

State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10? (ntdotdev.wordpress.com)

501 points by spideymans on Jun 19, 2021 | 327 comments

136.

I Miss the Old Internet (2019) (sffworld.com)

500 points by sanmak on Jun 13, 2021 | 424 comments

137.

Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood (github.com)

498 points by ithkuil on Jun 29, 2021 | 174 comments

138.

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater (mining.com)

496 points by sambeau on Jun 6, 2021 | 290 comments

139.

The 88x31 GIF Collection (cyber.dabamos.de)

496 points by kaeruct on Jun 14, 2021 | 124 comments

140.

SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon (cryptoslate.com)

494 points by awb on Jun 28, 2021 | 548 comments

141.

Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC (digiday.com)

490 points by estas on Jun 15, 2021 | 231 comments

142.

John Carmack on JPEG (twitter.com)

490 points by tosh on Jun 4, 2021 | 214 comments

143.

North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering (ij.org)

489 points by tomohawk on Jun 19, 2021 | 394 comments

144.

The Document Culture of Amazon (justingarrison.com)

488 points by ecliptik on Jun 17, 2021 | 210 comments

145.

Firefox Release 89.0 (mozilla.org)

487 points by looperhacks on Jun 1, 2021 | 474 comments

146.

Cryptanalysis of GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 suggest intentional weakness (eprint.iacr.org)

487 points by anonymfus on Jun 16, 2021 | 107 comments

147.

Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study (actu.epfl.ch)