HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea (vice.com)

91 points by artfulhippo on Jul 31, 2021 | 56 comments

1502.

MicroLEDs Moving from Lab to Fab (semiengineering.com)

91 points by giuliomagnifico on Jul 23, 2021 | 45 comments

1503.

UK Weather: Flooding in London after heavy rain (bbc.co.uk)

91 points by montalbano on Jul 25, 2021 | 44 comments

1504.

Index machine: an open source pick and place machine (github.com)

91 points by gizdan on Jul 26, 2021 | 35 comments

1505.

Apple gave Uber access to a secret feature that can record iPhone screens (2017) (wccftech.com)

91 points by minikites on Jul 27, 2021 | 23 comments

1506.

Ask HN: Collection of Pitch Decks?

91 points by mrkramer on Jul 9, 2021 | 16 comments

1507.

Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion (scottaaronson.com)

91 points by bdr on Jul 28, 2021 | 13 comments

1508.

How to Build an Exchange (2017) [video] (blog.janestreet.com)

91 points by justinjlynn on Jul 19, 2021 | 12 comments

1509.

The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic) (physics.aps.org)

91 points by AliCollins on Jul 27, 2021 | 11 comments

1510.

Storm Chaser Spots Rare Quadruple Microburst in Texas (mymodernmet.com)

91 points by gmays on Jul 15, 2021 | 8 comments

1511.

Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar (phys.org)

91 points by dnetesn on Jul 21, 2021 | 7 comments

1512.

Tesla second-quarter profits top $1B even as it struggles to handle demand (theguardian.com)

90 points by evo_9 on Jul 27, 2021 | 87 comments

1513.

Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans (2018) (techcrunch.com)

90 points by airstrike on Jul 26, 2021 | 71 comments

1514.

Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet (2019) (theguardian.com)

90 points by science4sail on Jul 3, 2021 | 53 comments

1515.

Documenting our migration to Docker (artifakt.com)

90 points by djelal on Jul 30, 2021 | 53 comments

1516.

Kind Engineering [video] (usenix.org)

90 points by thejokersthief on Jul 2, 2021 | 48 comments

1517.

SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen,then turned up on YouTube (theregister.com)

90 points by ronalbarbaren on Jul 28, 2021 | 47 comments

1518.

Design for Obsolete Devices (anaellebeignon.fr)

90 points by polm23 on Jul 23, 2021 | 32 comments

1519.

The History of Standard ML [audio] (pldi21.org)

90 points by AlexeyBrin on Jul 11, 2021 | 29 comments

1520.

Mathematicians prove symmetry of phase transitions at critical moments (quantamagazine.org)

90 points by pseudolus on Jul 9, 2021 | 18 comments

1521.

Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing (wsj.com)

89 points by erehweb on Jul 7, 2021 | 205 comments

1522.

Google Maps updates 'dangerous' Ben Nevis route (bbc.co.uk)

89 points by rich_sasha on Jul 17, 2021 | 161 comments

1523.

Bezos and Branson not yet astronauts, US says (bbc.com)

89 points by geox on Jul 23, 2021 | 149 comments

1524.

A Twitter addict realizes she needs rehab (theatlantic.com)

89 points by DLay on Jul 5, 2021 | 117 comments

1525.

The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)

89 points by danielam on Jul 17, 2021 | 110 comments

1526.

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic (osf.io)

89 points by jasonhansel on Jul 23, 2021 | 100 comments

1527.

Waxing lyrical: taking ear wax seriously (pmj.bmj.com)

89 points by Hooke on Jul 6, 2021 | 78 comments

1528.

Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say (nytimes.com)

89 points by ent101 on Jul 14, 2021 | 73 comments

1529.

Counterfactuals are not causality (michaelnygard.com)

89 points by grzm on Jul 26, 2021 | 65 comments

1530.

Datalore enterprise – Jupyter environment for data science teams (blog.jetbrains.com)

89 points by Agspeaks on Jul 6, 2021 | 42 comments