HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3541.

V-Shaped Ride-in-the-Wings Jetliner Successfully Took Off (2020) (interestingengineering.com)

20 points by mardiyah on Aug 8, 2021 | 23 comments

3542.

Ask HN: Is it just me or is Twitter pretty good these days?

20 points by abhinav22 on Aug 22, 2021 | 22 comments

3543.

Ask HN: Why do contractors exist if they charge the same as a FAANG FTE?

20 points by zingar on Aug 18, 2021 | 21 comments

3544.

I have trained StyleGAN2 from scratch with a dataset of female portraits (github.com)

20 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 7, 2021 | 20 comments

3545.

SOAP and REST At Odds (2017) (thehistoryoftheweb.com)

20 points by pjmlp on Aug 2, 2021 | 18 comments

3546.

Ask HN: To what extent does “shadow suppression” occur on social media?

20 points by rapnie on Aug 29, 2021 | 18 comments

3547.

Ask HN: Those who work at Facebook, Amazon, Palantir, etc. Do you feel guilt?

20 points by dog_boy on Aug 5, 2021 | 16 comments

3548.

Ask HN: What to do post FI(hypothetically)?

20 points by flamboyant_ride on Aug 7, 2021 | 16 comments

3549.

Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory (arstechnica.com)

20 points by arunbahl on Aug 8, 2021 | 16 comments

3550.

Moderna contamination may impact vaccination drive [Japan] (www3.nhk.or.jp)

20 points by e2e4 on Aug 26, 2021 | 14 comments

3551.

UMG Seems to Think It Copyrighted the Moon (petapixel.com)

20 points by TimTheTinker on Aug 29, 2021 | 14 comments

3552.

Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism (vice.com)

20 points by carabiner on Aug 19, 2021 | 12 comments

3553.

As office returns get postponed, workers say they’d take pay cut to wfh (arstechnica.com)

20 points by pseudolus on Aug 26, 2021 | 11 comments

3554.

Modern-day Robinhoods, the ones that contribute to rising inequality

20 points by Hedgemaster on Aug 1, 2021 | 10 comments

3555.

Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding (techcrunch.com)

20 points by doppp on Aug 12, 2021 | 10 comments

3556.

‘What do you think you’re doing?’: Sydneysiders stung for eating outside (smh.com.au)

20 points by graderjs on Aug 25, 2021 | 10 comments

3557.

Ask HN: Software recommendation to keep multiple calendars in sync as freelancer

20 points by rivert on Aug 2, 2021 | 9 comments

3558.

Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds (theguardian.com)

20 points by Clewza313 on Aug 13, 2021 | 9 comments

3559.

FBI to tech industry: China, Russia are blackmailing your employees into spying (protocol.com)

20 points by nothinggoesaway on Aug 20, 2021 | 9 comments

3560.

More difficult to set default apps in Windows 11 than Win7-10 (thurrott.com)

20 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 3, 2021 | 8 comments

3561.

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19 (thelancet.com)

20 points by daddylonglegs on Aug 4, 2021 | 7 comments

3562.

Charity in Texas Teaches Underprivileged Kids to Hunt Their Next Meal (aeon.co)

20 points by devfromanatolia on Aug 14, 2021 | 7 comments

3563.

Tesla is prepping for giant Supercharger expansion before opening for other EVs (electrek.co)

20 points by CarCooler on Aug 18, 2021 | 6 comments

3564.

On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models (arxiv.org)

20 points by satorii on Aug 23, 2021 | 6 comments

3565.

Samsung Purchasing Customer Info from Data Brokers

20 points by gunapologist99 on Aug 27, 2021 | 6 comments

3566.

Taliban kill squad hunting down Afghans – using US biometric data (nypost.com)

20 points by nanis on Aug 27, 2021 | 6 comments

3567.

Peg Parsing Series Overview (2019) (medium.com)

20 points by jumanjisama on Aug 2, 2021 | 5 comments

3568.

The changing art of the subeditor: ‘You had to read the type upside down’ (theguardian.com)