HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2581.

Musk says Starship orbital stack to be ready for flight in few weeks (reuters.com)

43 points by samizdis on Aug 15, 2021 | 16 comments

2582.

Gall’s Law and how I ignored it (ivanmontilla.com)

43 points by ivanmontillam on Aug 28, 2021 | 14 comments

2583.

Shares slide after China brands online games 'electronic drugs' (bbc.com)

43 points by walterbell on Aug 3, 2021 | 13 comments

2584.

Rescue dogs shot dead by NSW council due to Covid-19 restrictions (smh.com.au)

43 points by nanis on Aug 22, 2021 | 13 comments

2585.

Dasher: Information-efficient text entry (2007) [video] (youtube.com)

43 points by tosh on Aug 13, 2021 | 12 comments

2586.

Guix: A most advanced operating system (ambrevar.xyz)

43 points by podiki on Aug 19, 2021 | 12 comments

2587.

Hit songs rely on increasing “harmonic surprise” to hook listeners, study finds (arstechnica.com)

43 points by anandabits on Aug 10, 2021 | 10 comments

2588.

Mythic Rolls Out M1000-Series Analog AI Accelerators (fuse.wikichip.org)

43 points by rbanffy on Aug 31, 2021 | 10 comments

2589.

Forgotten heroes of the Enigma Story (2018) (nature.com)

43 points by mrtedbear on Aug 3, 2021 | 9 comments

2590.

A new path: vm86-based venix emulator (bsdimp.blogspot.com)

43 points by ecliptik on Aug 29, 2021 | 9 comments

2591.

Windows 10 blocks Potentially Unwanted Apps by default now (ghacks.net)

43 points by pndy on Aug 5, 2021 | 8 comments

2592.

Generate art from any text with deep learning (comet.ml)

43 points by ChefboyOG on Aug 9, 2021 | 6 comments

2593.

Amazon hit with record EU data privacy fine, 746 million euros (reuters.com)

43 points by stiray on Aug 1, 2021 | 5 comments

2594.

Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

43 points by lermontov on Aug 6, 2021 | 5 comments

2595.

China cracks down on celebrity online culture (bbc.com)

43 points by laurex on Aug 7, 2021 | 4 comments

2596.

On Diego Rivera (lrb.co.uk)

43 points by prismatic on Aug 15, 2021 | 4 comments

2597.

A Long, Painful History of Time (1999) (naggum.no)

43 points by noch on Aug 3, 2021 | 3 comments

2598.

Windows 365 exposes Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext (bleepingcomputer.com)

43 points by el_duderino on Aug 13, 2021 | 1 comments

2599.

Planet of Cops (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

43 points by edavis on Aug 26, 2021 | 1 comments

2600.

NY Times Lawyers Accidentally Send Private Strategy Memo to Staff Union (thedailybeast.com)

43 points by kyoob on Aug 12, 2021 | 0 comments

2601.

Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster plans (reuters.com)

42 points by bryan0 on Aug 5, 2021 | 119 comments

2602.

Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague (laphamsquarterly.org)

42 points by the-enemy on Aug 25, 2021 | 109 comments

2603.

SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance (biorxiv.org)

42 points by belter on Aug 13, 2021 | 93 comments

2604.

I Just Lost 1,400 BTC (2020) (github.com)

42 points by optimalsolver on Aug 28, 2021 | 75 comments

2605.

Catalytic converter thefts in California (latimes.com)

42 points by turtlegrids on Aug 2, 2021 | 57 comments

2606.

Ads Don't Work That Way (2014) (meltingasphalt.com)

42 points by rahimiali on Aug 31, 2021 | 48 comments

2607.

Why most programming language performance comparisons are most likely wrong (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

42 points by Sindisil on Aug 8, 2021 | 46 comments

2608.

End of the Line for Uber (marker.medium.com)

42 points by evanb on Aug 16, 2021 | 42 comments

2609.

Xsolla CEO says firing using an algorithm-based solution protect minorities (gameworldobserver.com)

42 points by logronoide on Aug 8, 2021 | 41 comments

2610.

Rivian Files for IPO, Seeking About $80B Valuation (bloomberg.com)

42 points by ystad on Aug 28, 2021 | 39 comments