HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

Yamaha DX7 reverse-engineering, part III: Inside the log-sine ROM (righto.com)

142 points by rcarmo on Dec 8, 2021 | 16 comments

1052.

Why Brahmins lead Western firms but rarely Indian ones (economist.com)

141 points by pseudolus on Dec 31, 2021 | 207 comments

1053.

Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

141 points by timdaub on Dec 19, 2021 | 188 comments

1054.

I Lost My Past (2017) (glineq.blogspot.com)

141 points by kome on Dec 25, 2021 | 175 comments

1055.

On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World (lrb.co.uk)

141 points by mitchbob on Dec 3, 2021 | 79 comments

1056.

Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application (openai.com)

141 points by grappler on Dec 14, 2021 | 53 comments

1057.

We need your beginner’s mind (joshcanhelp.com)

141 points by joshcanhelp on Dec 16, 2021 | 45 comments

1058.

Arc Institute – for curiosity-driven biomedical science and technology (arcinstitute.org)

141 points by _Microft on Dec 15, 2021 | 38 comments

1059.

Digging into Linux namespaces – part 1 (blog.quarkslab.com)

141 points by pcw888 on Dec 6, 2021 | 10 comments

1060.

Ask HN: Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?

141 points by skoocda on Dec 7, 2021 | 9 comments

1061.

Tomoya Ikeda – Macintosh Artist (blog.gingerbeardman.com)

141 points by zdw on Dec 17, 2021 | 6 comments

1062.

Blizzard executive asks employees to “consider the consequences” of union card (twitter.com)

140 points by SamoyedFurFluff on Dec 11, 2021 | 148 comments

1063.

The team that powers VLC (2019) (increment.com)

140 points by feross on Dec 4, 2021 | 70 comments

1064.

Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013) (npr.org)

140 points by jgamman on Dec 20, 2021 | 67 comments

1065.

RNA Takes Over (science.org)

140 points by _Microft on Dec 7, 2021 | 39 comments

1066.

Anonymized data is rarely anonymous (flowingdata.com)

140 points by gslin on Dec 30, 2021 | 5 comments

1067.

Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools (medium.com)

139 points by devenvdev on Dec 12, 2021 | 146 comments

1068.

Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings (twitter.com)

139 points by dustinmoris on Dec 3, 2021 | 144 comments

1069.

Railway lines once connected the Middle East (economist.com)

139 points by elemeno on Dec 29, 2021 | 115 comments

1070.

Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional (otffeo.on.ca)

138 points by Melchizedek on Dec 22, 2021 | 342 comments

1071.

Ketamine therapy is going mainstream (newyorker.com)

138 points by elsewhen on Dec 29, 2021 | 168 comments

1072.

California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident (reuters.com)

138 points by Animats on Dec 14, 2021 | 151 comments

1073.

Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013) (thanassis.space)

138 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on Dec 25, 2021 | 93 comments

1074.

Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables (pyinstaller.org)

138 points by privacyonsec on Dec 4, 2021 | 89 comments

1075.

Public Staircases (tinyletter.com)

138 points by pshaw on Dec 17, 2021 | 18 comments

1076.

Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account

137 points by hnthrowaway0315 on Dec 27, 2021 | 198 comments

1077.

Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016) (cntraveler.com)

137 points by svenfaw on Dec 10, 2021 | 155 comments

1078.

Faking a Positive Covid Test (labs.f-secure.com)

137 points by throwaway888abc on Dec 21, 2021 | 147 comments

1079.

100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets (thecryptobasic.com)

137 points by dustintrex on Dec 26, 2021 | 145 comments

1080.

Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests (reuters.com)

137 points by hardmaru on Dec 29, 2021 | 63 comments