HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2791.

WHO's Chief: It Was Premature to Rule Out a Lab Leak as the Pandemic's Origin (npr.org)

32 points by heshiebee on Jul 15, 2021 | 16 comments

2792.

Baltimore City Schools: 41% of high school students earn below 1.0 GPA (foxbaltimore.com)

32 points by koolba on Jul 15, 2021 | 15 comments

2793.

Launch HN: Spark Studio (YC S21) – Live online extracurricular courses for kids

32 points by anushreegoenka on Jul 24, 2021 | 15 comments

2794.

Audacity is now a Possible Spyware, Remove it ASAP (fosspost.org)

32 points by bklaasen on Jul 4, 2021 | 14 comments

2795.

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy (whitehouse.gov)

32 points by pascoej on Jul 9, 2021 | 14 comments

2796.

Advice on the privacy and personal data protection aspects of a digital euro [pdf] (edpb.europa.eu)

32 points by Tomte on Jul 10, 2021 | 14 comments

2797.

Extensible Effects in the van Laarhoven Free Monad (aaronlevin.ca)

32 points by luu on Jul 28, 2021 | 11 comments

2798.

A New Macroeconomics? (jwmason.org)

32 points by Ericson2314 on Jul 6, 2021 | 10 comments

2799.

Instagram influencer charged over duping followers out of $2.5M BTC (cointelegraph.com)

32 points by paulpauper on Jul 10, 2021 | 10 comments

2800.

Mindfulness meditation can increase selfishness and reduce generosity (psypost.org)

32 points by sam345 on Jul 22, 2021 | 10 comments

2801.

Multi-Horizon Forecasting for Limit Order Books (arxiv.org)

32 points by ArtWomb on Jul 2, 2021 | 9 comments

2802.

Biden Moves to Restrict Non-Compete Agreements, Saying They're Bad for Workers (npr.org)

32 points by boulos on Jul 9, 2021 | 9 comments

2803.

Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction (theguardian.com)

32 points by tartoran on Jul 25, 2021 | 9 comments

2804.

Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the first time in the U.S. (popsci.com)

32 points by jdmark on Jul 30, 2021 | 8 comments

2805.

Threema OnPrem: Maximum Security Thanks to Self-Hosting (threema.ch)

32 points by Tomte on Jul 27, 2021 | 7 comments

2806.

Who Authorized America's Wars? (tomdispatch.com)

32 points by georgecmu on Jul 19, 2021 | 6 comments

2807.

NSO Group Will No Longer Talk to the Press About Damning Report (vice.com)

32 points by ssklash on Jul 21, 2021 | 6 comments

2808.

Statins Used to Lower Cholesterol Linked to Doubled Risk of Developing Dementia (scitechdaily.com)

32 points by haltingproblem on Jul 1, 2021 | 5 comments

2809.

Life on the Minimum Wage (vox.com)

32 points by paulpauper on Jul 1, 2021 | 5 comments

2810.

New scorching heat wave building across Western U.S. (washingtonpost.com)

32 points by vegetablepotpie on Jul 9, 2021 | 5 comments

2811.

Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself (technologyreview.com)

32 points by okareaman on Jul 21, 2021 | 5 comments

2812.

Daniel Hale, who leaked information on U.S. drone,sentenced 45 months in prison (washingtonpost.com)

32 points by jimmy2020 on Jul 27, 2021 | 5 comments

2813.

It’s Time for Police to Stop Using ShotSpotter (eff.org)

32 points by glitcher on Jul 29, 2021 | 5 comments

2814.

Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse (vox.com)

32 points by giuliomagnifico on Jul 2, 2021 | 4 comments

2815.

The Fundamental Mechanism of Scaling (brooker.co.za)

32 points by yagizdegirmenci on Jul 17, 2021 | 4 comments

2816.

FloydHub Is Shutting Down (floydhub.com)

32 points by allanbreyes on Jul 21, 2021 | 4 comments

2817.

Steve Wozniak Speaks on Right to Repair (youtube.com)

32 points by xbmcuser on Jul 8, 2021 | 3 comments

2818.

Japan Promotes 4 Day Work Week to Boost Productivity (interestingengineering.com)

32 points by snipped on Jul 6, 2021 | 2 comments

2819.

News outlet uses phone data to out US church official as Grindr user (theguardian.com)

32 points by ekrebs on Jul 21, 2021 | 2 comments

2820.

Our need for true connection is giving rise to phone-free spaces (psyche.co)

32 points by freediver on Jul 22, 2021 | 2 comments