HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4411.

Taliban accumulate massive amounts of U.S.-supplied firepower (axios.com)

12 points by Overton-Window on Aug 17, 2021 | 2 comments

4412.

Government to make emergency measures permanent (news.stv.tv)

12 points by gampleman on Aug 17, 2021 | 2 comments

4413.

The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices (theintercept.com)

12 points by perihelions on Aug 17, 2021 | 2 comments

4414.

Famous Self Portraits (famousselfportraits.tumblr.com)

12 points by giuliomagnifico on Aug 18, 2021 | 2 comments

4415.

Masitinib is a broad coronavirus inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2 (science.sciencemag.org)

12 points by wslh on Aug 20, 2021 | 2 comments

4416.

H.P. Lovecraft Writes Olive Gardens Dinner Menu (mcsweeneys.net)

12 points by Rd6n6 on Aug 21, 2021 | 2 comments

4417.

One Foot Taller Periscope Glasses for Short People (core77.com)

12 points by fortran77 on Aug 28, 2021 | 2 comments

4418.

UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask (redandblack.com)

12 points by Bud on Aug 29, 2021 | 2 comments

4419.

A combination of failures: why 3.6m lb of nuclear waste is buried on a CA beach (theguardian.com)

12 points by ta988 on Aug 30, 2021 | 2 comments

4420.

China mounts wave after wave of cyberattacks on Australia (twitter.com)

12 points by schappim on Aug 31, 2021 | 2 comments

4421.

Over-engineering (the root of all evil) (2016) (c0de517e.blogspot.com)

12 points by gnuvince on Aug 1, 2021 | 1 comments

4422.

The Emerging Wild Card in the Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Theranos Patients (wsj.com)

12 points by jaytaylor on Aug 2, 2021 | 1 comments

4423.

Covid restrictions and screens linked to myopia in children (theguardian.com)

12 points by pseudolus on Aug 3, 2021 | 1 comments

4424.

StackOverflow Developer Survey 2021 Insights (insights.stackoverflow.com)

12 points by sidcool on Aug 3, 2021 | 1 comments

4425.

Rust Love – 51 lines of code to build end-to-end encrypted messaging (github.com)

12 points by mattgreg on Aug 3, 2021 | 1 comments

4426.

Evolution of Search Engines Architecture-Algolia New Search Architecture Part 1 (highscalability.com)

12 points by jlemoine on Aug 3, 2021 | 1 comments

4427.

Uber wants to know the times and dates of your upcoming flights

12 points by xchip on Aug 5, 2021 | 1 comments

4428.

Joining Forces for an Arrow-Native Future (wesmckinney.com)

12 points by minimaxir on Aug 5, 2021 | 1 comments

4429.

Computer Vision at the Olympics: Tracking Sprinter Speeds (strong.io)

12 points by Deadsunrise on Aug 7, 2021 | 1 comments

4430.

Machine Identification Code (en.wikipedia.org)

12 points by greyface- on Aug 9, 2021 | 1 comments

4431.

Charlie Bell Leaving AWS (theinformation.com)

12 points by pjbeam on Aug 10, 2021 | 1 comments

4432.

New “Glowworm attack” recovers audio from devices’ power LEDs (arstechnica.com)

12 points by pabs3 on Aug 10, 2021 | 1 comments

4433.

How the Immune System Works (youtube.com)

12 points by Tomte on Aug 10, 2021 | 1 comments

4434.

The Root Cause of Poly Network Being Hacked (slowmist.medium.com)

12 points by rbanffy on Aug 11, 2021 | 1 comments

4435.

US authorities must drop politically motivated charges against Assange (amnesty.org)

12 points by k1m on Aug 11, 2021 | 1 comments

4436.

A California hydropower plant shuts down due to drought (electrek.co)

12 points by underscore_ku on Aug 12, 2021 | 1 comments

4437.

San Francisco Announces Strict Indoor Vaccine Mandate (nytimes.com)

12 points by koolba on Aug 12, 2021 | 1 comments

4438.

Is Apple keeping its promises over online OCSP certificate checks? (eclecticlight.co)

12 points by Aaronn on Aug 13, 2021 | 1 comments

4439.

Launched my first course, earned over US $500k - AMA (indiehackers.com)

12 points by hidden-spyder on Aug 14, 2021 | 1 comments

4440.

As a SWE, I prefer to plan my tasks using paper (dev.to)

12 points by alessandrasa on Aug 16, 2021 | 1 comments