HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

Context switching costs more than we give it credit for (thinkingthrough.substack.com)

590 points by maddynator on Jan 18, 2021 | 352 comments

1082.

Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China (npr.org)

590 points by ilamont on Sep 7, 2021 | 291 comments

1083.

5G: The outsourced elephant in the room (berthub.eu)

590 points by sam_lowry_ on Apr 17, 2021 | 239 comments

1084.

Kubernetes is our generation's Multics (oilshell.org)

589 points by genericlemon24 on Jul 21, 2021 | 538 comments

1085.

Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff (marketwatch.com)

589 points by swatkat on Nov 2, 2021 | 458 comments

1086.

How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

589 points by PretzelFisch on Sep 27, 2021 | 437 comments

1087.

How Doctors Die (2013) (saturdayeveningpost.com)

589 points by DecayingOrganic on Apr 3, 2021 | 319 comments

1088.

American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent (nrc.nl)

589 points by Freak_NL on Nov 11, 2021 | 282 comments

1089.

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands (reuters.com)

589 points by tysone on Oct 13, 2021 | 238 comments

1090.

Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility (github.com)

589 points by quyleanh on May 7, 2021 | 201 comments

1091.

Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it (rachelbythebay.com)

589 points by TangerineDream on Aug 17, 2021 | 137 comments

1092.

Tiny (tinycapital.com)

588 points by omarfarooq on Nov 29, 2021 | 152 comments

1093.

Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees (cnbc.com)

587 points by lxm on Jun 9, 2021 | 468 comments

1094.

Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas (datacenterdynamics.com)

587 points by kungfudoi on Nov 24, 2021 | 428 comments

1095.

Use native context menus on Mac OS (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

587 points by reid on May 25, 2021 | 294 comments

1096.

4-day workweek boosted workers' productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says (npr.org)

587 points by evo_9 on Jun 16, 2021 | 199 comments

1097.

Amazon Sidewalk (amazon.com)

586 points by encryptluks2 on May 11, 2021 | 667 comments

1098.

Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked? (github.com)

586 points by proszkinasenne2 on Oct 31, 2021 | 298 comments

1099.

Aquafaba (aquafaba.com)

586 points by david-given on Jan 14, 2021 | 295 comments

1100.

Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network (paramdeo.com)

586 points by oedmarap on Apr 16, 2021 | 252 comments

1101.

A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls (countthings.com)

586 points by morsanu on May 24, 2021 | 225 comments

1102.

Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C (blog.reverberate.org)

586 points by signa11 on Apr 25, 2021 | 190 comments

1103.

Introducing the PineNote (pine64.org)

586 points by DanAtC on Aug 15, 2021 | 111 comments

1104.

Fluid Paint (david.li)

586 points by pjerem on Jun 21, 2021 | 74 comments

1105.

FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine (fda.gov)

585 points by PaulAnunda on Aug 23, 2021 | 1000 comments

1106.

Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' (bbc.com)

585 points by belter on Aug 13, 2021 | 734 comments

1107.

Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 (uk.help.yahoo.com)

585 points by Gaessaki on Apr 5, 2021 | 367 comments

1108.

Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you (blog.rize.io)