HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2641.

Switzerland's Gravity-Defying Irrigation Solution (bbc.com)

37 points by samizdis on Jul 22, 2021 | 6 comments

2642.

The Kiss of Death (madned.substack.com)

37 points by mad_ned on Jul 28, 2021 | 5 comments

2643.

Django SQL Dashboard 1.0 (simonwillison.net)

37 points by edward on Jul 6, 2021 | 2 comments

2644.

Kids Using Soft Drinks to Fake Positive Results on Covid-19 Tests (sciencealert.com)

37 points by _joel on Jul 6, 2021 | 2 comments

2645.

Interview with Noam Chomsky: Capitalism and Free Speech (youtube.com)

37 points by EGreg on Jul 30, 2021 | 2 comments

2646.

NASA’s helicopter on Mars just keeps flying and flying (arstechnica.com)

37 points by samizdis on Jul 6, 2021 | 1 comments

2647.

GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship of Republicans instead (arstechnica.com)

36 points by eysquared on Jul 8, 2021 | 63 comments

2648.

No, a supercomputer won’t make your code run faster (2017) (lemire.me)

36 points by optimalsolver on Jul 26, 2021 | 36 comments

2649.

The Brontë archive needs to be secured for public use and made accessible (hyperallergic.com)

36 points by benbreen on Jul 18, 2021 | 33 comments

2650.

Cyber Insurance Incident Response: Market tends towards commoditization (cyber-economics.com)

36 points by EwanToo on Jul 26, 2021 | 30 comments

2651.

Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump (nytimes.com)

36 points by elsewhen on Jul 8, 2021 | 24 comments

2652.

In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time (2018) (theoutline.com)

36 points by hliyan on Jul 4, 2021 | 23 comments

2653.

Fifteen Percent of U.S. Air Force F-35s Don’t Have Working Engines (thedrive.com)

36 points by dlcmh on Jul 15, 2021 | 23 comments

2654.

Billionaires Claiming Climate Leadership Should Not Promote Space Tourism (forbes.com)

36 points by betolink on Jul 19, 2021 | 23 comments

2655.

Oilsands among the most carbon intensive crudes in North America (2017) (pembina.org)

36 points by loopz on Jul 4, 2021 | 21 comments

2656.

How to install Linux instead of Windows 11 (youtube.com)

36 points by underscore_ku on Jul 24, 2021 | 17 comments

2657.

L.A. County will require masks indoors amid alarming rise in coronavirus cases (latimes.com)

36 points by sbuttgereit on Jul 15, 2021 | 13 comments

2658.

Bird of the Day: Using Azure Computer Vision to count birds in my yard (deadcast.blog)

36 points by deadcast on Jul 19, 2021 | 11 comments

2659.

Google will require employees to be vaccinated before returning to offices (theverge.com)

36 points by mvgoogler on Jul 28, 2021 | 11 comments

2660.

What Happened to the 100k Hour LED Bulbs? (hackaday.com)

36 points by indy on Jul 8, 2021 | 10 comments

2661.

Mutating and non-mutating Swift contexts (swiftbysundell.com)

36 points by tempodox on Jul 11, 2021 | 8 comments

2662.

Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro (tomshardware.com)

36 points by MR4D on Jul 19, 2021 | 6 comments

2663.

Computational Social Science (from the point of view of mobile phones) (leoferres.info)

36 points by Anon84 on Jul 10, 2021 | 2 comments

2664.

In Plain Sight: How waste might help us find the mysterious Velella (oceans.nautil.us)

36 points by dnetesn on Jul 19, 2021 | 2 comments

2665.

Tokio-uring: io-uring support for Tokio (tokio.rs)

36 points by talhof8 on Jul 19, 2021 | 2 comments

2666.

Pentagon kills Microsoft’s $10B Jedi cloud contract, says tech is now outdated (arstechnica.com)

36 points by AliCollins on Jul 6, 2021 | 1 comments

2667.

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers [pdf] (eml.berkeley.edu)

35 points by leephillips on Jul 27, 2021 | 88 comments

2668.

China's Ban on Bitcoin Follows a Pattern Frequently Used by Beijing (crypto.writer.io)