HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4711.

CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them? (newstatesman.com)

280 points by nixass on Apr 26, 2021 | 344 comments

4712.

How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020) (forbes.com)

280 points by ec109685 on Aug 10, 2021 | 331 comments

4713.

Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO (arstechnica.com)

280 points by minimaxir on Mar 2, 2021 | 314 comments

4714.

CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand (twitter.com)

280 points by rmm on Feb 9, 2021 | 243 comments

4715.

Please don't upgrade Docker without asking first (github.com)

280 points by timmytokyo on Mar 22, 2021 | 214 comments

4716.

Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart (statnews.com)

280 points by vanilla-almond on Oct 24, 2021 | 214 comments

4717.

Annie of Annie's Mac and Cheese (sfgate.com)

280 points by andygcook on Mar 26, 2021 | 211 comments

4718.

The big alcohol study that didn't happen (dynomight.net)

280 points by Amorymeltzer on Oct 4, 2021 | 210 comments

4719.

How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers (monzo.com)

280 points by intunderflow on Nov 18, 2021 | 187 comments

4720.

CFTC Orders JPMorgan to Pay Record $920M for Spoofing and Manipulation (2020) (cftc.gov)

280 points by evergrande on Dec 6, 2021 | 185 comments

4721.

The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money (nytimes.com)

280 points by pseudolus on Oct 11, 2021 | 176 comments

4722.

Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses (benjiweber.co.uk)

280 points by benjiweber on Apr 10, 2021 | 160 comments

4723.

FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020) (topikettunen.com)

280 points by kettunen on Dec 22, 2021 | 154 comments

4724.

Advanced Situational Awareness [pdf] (armypubs.army.mil)

280 points by graderjs on May 10, 2021 | 148 comments

4725.

Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt (github.com)

280 points by robenkleene on Aug 30, 2021 | 140 comments

4726.

Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen (bbc.co.uk)

280 points by BlackVanilla on Jun 4, 2021 | 138 comments

4727.

Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco (bleepingcomputer.com)

280 points by shp0ngle on Jun 26, 2021 | 130 comments

4728.

Fish Shell 3.2 (github.com)

280 points by zanchey on Mar 1, 2021 | 128 comments

4729.

I Bought a Business for $0 (every.to)

280 points by catchmeifyoucan on Mar 7, 2021 | 121 comments

4730.

BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) (bbc.com)

280 points by MichaelMoser123 on Mar 31, 2021 | 114 comments

4731.

Architecture of the Playstation (copetti.org)

280 points by biwasa on Jun 21, 2021 | 112 comments

4732.

Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform (budibase.com)

280 points by foxbee on Nov 16, 2021 | 105 comments

4733.

Beg Bounties (troyhunt.com)

280 points by 0xedb on Nov 8, 2021 | 103 comments

4734.

European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance (reclaimyourface.eu)

280 points by hacka22 on Feb 17, 2021 | 99 comments

4735.

How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of) (thomas-godden.medium.com)

280 points by zeristor on May 13, 2021 | 99 comments

4736.

1977: Zork (if50.substack.com)

280 points by fanf2 on Feb 18, 2021 | 91 comments

4737.

Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets (github.com)

280 points by gmac on Apr 28, 2021 | 89 comments

4738.

Writing Programs with Ncurses (invisible-island.net)

280 points by ComradeUlyanov on Aug 30, 2021 | 89 comments

4739.

And you will know us by the company we keep (eugenewei.com)

280 points by jger15 on Oct 11, 2021 | 88 comments

4740.

Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019) (vice.com)

280 points by andyxor on May 9, 2021 | 84 comments