HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

One-Thousand Year-Old Plants (nytimes.com)

74 points by SubiculumCode on Jul 31, 2021 | 20 comments

1772.

Facebook is trying to kill the Chrome extension Unfollow Everything (twitter.com)

74 points by ermagert on Jul 7, 2021 | 3 comments

1773.

Zygalski Sheets (en.wikipedia.org)

74 points by benbreen on Jul 10, 2021 | 1 comments

1774.

Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking (bbc.com)

73 points by shivbhatt on Jul 22, 2021 | 108 comments

1775.

Uber, Lyft drivers strike in Los Angeles (latimes.com)

73 points by okareaman on Jul 21, 2021 | 96 comments

1776.

On the evilness of feature branching (thinkinglabs.io)

73 points by sam345 on Jul 15, 2021 | 82 comments

1777.

In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die (theguardian.com)

73 points by adam on Jul 6, 2021 | 57 comments

1778.

CBL-Mariner – Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances (github.com)

73 points by AtomicOrbital on Jul 20, 2021 | 51 comments

1779.

Hottest Temperature Ever – A Crazy Year of Weather (peratonweather.com)

73 points by chrisco255 on Jul 10, 2021 | 49 comments

1780.

Alan Turing in America (privatdozent.co)

73 points by privatdozent on Jul 12, 2021 | 47 comments

1781.

Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’ (aljazeera.com)

73 points by webmaven on Jul 29, 2021 | 47 comments

1782.

Crossing an entire country in a straight line (magamig.github.io)

73 points by magamig on Jul 25, 2021 | 45 comments

1783.

Life of a Container (2020) (indradhanush.github.io)

73 points by luu on Jul 28, 2021 | 44 comments

1784.

The Failures That Made Ian Fleming (newrepublic.com)

73 points by jseliger on Jul 14, 2021 | 26 comments

1785.

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles (newyorker.com)

73 points by amadeuspagel on Jul 20, 2021 | 26 comments

1786.

Eigengrau (en.wikipedia.org)

73 points by gadilif on Jul 11, 2021 | 23 comments

1787.

Launch HN: Suplias (YC S21) – B2B inventory for mom and pop stores in Africa

73 points by noahanee on Jul 12, 2021 | 22 comments

1788.

Teaching Tech Together (2019) (teachtogether.tech)

73 points by bryanrasmussen on Jul 21, 2021 | 9 comments

1789.

CVE-2020-9771 is not fixed correctly (2020) (theevilbit.github.io)

73 points by adib on Jul 4, 2021 | 4 comments

1790.

150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the 4th of July weekend (cnn.com)

72 points by imartin2k on Jul 6, 2021 | 158 comments

1791.

The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017) (adamierymenko.com)

72 points by dynamic_sausage on Jul 11, 2021 | 157 comments

1792.

Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023 (tweaktown.com)

72 points by billyharris on Jul 6, 2021 | 108 comments

1793.

Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard (npr.org)

72 points by Black101 on Jul 13, 2021 | 99 comments

1794.

Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5M at auction (bbc.com)

72 points by shivbhatt on Jul 12, 2021 | 88 comments

1795.

FAA warns Musk that he is building Super Heavy launch tower without permission (reuters.com)

72 points by surgeryres on Jul 15, 2021 | 76 comments

1796.

uBlock Origin (and uMatrix) DoS with strict-blocking filter and crafted URL (github.com)

72 points by vtriolet on Jul 14, 2021 | 43 comments

1797.

Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?

72 points by toomanyducks on Jul 7, 2021 | 42 comments

1798.

Document Database Transaction Models (fauna.com)

72 points by evanweaver on Jul 28, 2021 | 42 comments

1799.

Battle of B-R5RB (en.wikipedia.org)

72 points by belter on Jul 9, 2021 | 27 comments

1800.

A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI (arxiv.org)

72 points by afrcnc on Jul 29, 2021 | 25 comments