HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics? (2004) [pdf] (web.stanford.edu)

88 points by Hooke on Apr 10, 2021 | 108 comments

1502.

Black Girls Code (blackgirlscode.com)

88 points by doener on Apr 13, 2021 | 64 comments

1503.

Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector (vladimir.varank.in)

88 points by varankinv on Apr 26, 2021 | 58 comments

1504.

SPAC Wipeout Is Punishing Followers of Chamath Palihapitiya (bloomberg.com)

88 points by CPLX on Apr 17, 2021 | 55 comments

1505.

Robinhood Files S-1 (blog.robinhood.com)

88 points by nslice on Apr 20, 2021 | 54 comments

1506.

Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists (quantamagazine.org)

88 points by jnord on Apr 22, 2021 | 47 comments

1507.

Limiting Work in Progress (2020) (truemped.github.io)

88 points by xo5vik on Apr 10, 2021 | 43 comments

1508.

William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (2019) (openculture.com)

88 points by DanBC on Apr 24, 2021 | 31 comments

1509.

Deep genetic affinity between coastal Pacific and Amazonian natives (pnas.org)

88 points by Thevet on Apr 7, 2021 | 30 comments

1510.

Hooking keyboard input to play Snake in Notepad.exe (2020) (kylehalladay.com)

88 points by goranmoomin on Apr 8, 2021 | 16 comments

1511.

Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity? (reddit.com)

87 points by optimalsolver on Apr 6, 2021 | 166 comments

1512.

Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmission to the FSF board (vote.debian.org)

87 points by madars on Apr 18, 2021 | 101 comments

1513.

Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It) (launchyourapp.meezeeworkouts.com)

87 points by wheresvic4 on Apr 25, 2021 | 90 comments

1514.

Estate agent's hi-tech house tour exposes personal data (bbc.com)

87 points by salgernon on Apr 13, 2021 | 88 comments

1515.

Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years (bbc.co.uk)

87 points by lifeisstillgood on Apr 22, 2021 | 83 comments

1516.

Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated (nature.com)

87 points by tokai on Apr 21, 2021 | 68 comments

1517.

Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google code? (hollywoodreporter.com)

87 points by DyslexicAtheist on Apr 23, 2021 | 58 comments

1518.

Grids in Rust, Part 2: const generics (blog.adamchalmers.com)

87 points by lukastyrychtr on Apr 2, 2021 | 52 comments

1519.

How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers (traced.app)

87 points by dsr12 on Apr 14, 2021 | 49 comments

1520.

Deprecated Grandparents of America (newsletter.eternityhacks.com)

87 points by forrestbrazeal on Apr 4, 2021 | 43 comments

1521.

A new twist on using ‘personalized’ stem cells for studying dementia (singularityhub.com)

87 points by elorant on Apr 14, 2021 | 43 comments

1522.

Understanding Indirect Time-of-Flight Depth Sensing (devblogs.microsoft.com)

87 points by giuliomagnifico on Apr 20, 2021 | 39 comments

1523.

Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman (theregister.com)

87 points by samizdis on Apr 13, 2021 | 35 comments

1524.

Depends on Every Package in NPM (npmjs.com)

87 points by fctorial on Apr 13, 2021 | 30 comments

1525.

PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI (github.com)

87 points by vran_dev on Apr 11, 2021 | 22 comments

1526.

A strange determinant – Timothy Gowers solves a problem [video] (youtube.com)

87 points by dls2016 on Apr 23, 2021 | 20 comments

1527.

enkiTS: A C and C++ Task Scheduler for creating parallel programs (github.com)

87 points by lehi on Apr 4, 2021 | 16 comments

1528.

Segcache: A memory-efficient and scalable key-value cache for small objects [pdf] (usenix.org)