HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear (rebeccastrong.substack.com)

490 points by tomohawk on Apr 18, 2022 | 252 comments

122.

Those HTML attributes you never use (smashingmagazine.com)

490 points by makaimc on Apr 2, 2022 | 163 comments

123.

Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech (chrisseaton.com)

485 points by chrisseaton on Apr 4, 2022 | 577 comments

124.

The endgames of bad faith communication (consilienceproject.org)

482 points by Thersites on Apr 12, 2022 | 362 comments

125.

The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015) (mjt.me.uk)

482 points by karulont on Apr 21, 2022 | 101 comments

126.

You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off (news.wisc.edu)

478 points by sizzle on Apr 13, 2022 | 343 comments

127.

Insider Trading at Coinbase (twitter.com)

477 points by Shadonototra on Apr 13, 2022 | 333 comments

128.

Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations (journals.plos.org)

475 points by behnamoh on Apr 22, 2022 | 619 comments

129.

I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020) (miguelrochefort.com)

470 points by miguelrochefort on Apr 27, 2022 | 397 comments

130.

“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG (fosstodon.org)

470 points by ikt on Apr 17, 2022 | 216 comments

131.

Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?

469 points by PeledYuval on Apr 11, 2022 | 102 comments

132.

What are you doing, WordPress.com? (rootprivileges.net)

468 points by LordAtlas on Apr 3, 2022 | 335 comments

133.

I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation” (andersource.dev)

468 points by keshet on Apr 21, 2022 | 285 comments

134.

The human genome is, at long last, complete (rockefeller.edu)

468 points by marc__1 on Apr 2, 2022 | 181 comments

135.

BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking (birdnetpi.com)

468 points by superkuh on Apr 18, 2022 | 88 comments

136.

Mental speed is high until age sixty (nature.com)

466 points by qw on Apr 18, 2022 | 283 comments

137.

Super Simple Storage Service (supersimplestorageservice.com)

466 points by jamespwilliams on Apr 9, 2022 | 155 comments

138.

Principles of Engineering Management (acjay.com)

465 points by im_dario on Apr 25, 2022 | 122 comments

139.

Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance (projectionlab.com)

463 points by scubakid on Apr 19, 2022 | 234 comments

140.

Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq (brimdata.io)

462 points by mccanne on Apr 26, 2022 | 223 comments

141.

I stopped working on black hole information loss (backreaction.blogspot.com)

461 points by nsoonhui on Apr 23, 2022 | 356 comments

142.

Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people (npr.org)

460 points by happy-go-lucky on Apr 30, 2022 | 294 comments

143.

Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

452 points by jotaen on Apr 1, 2022 | 164 comments

144.

Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy (sec.gov)

450 points by coloneltcb on Apr 21, 2022 | 990 comments

145.

An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California (scottaaronson.blog)

450 points by Tomte on Apr 26, 2022 | 619 comments

146.

‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania (pahouse.com)

448 points by barlo on Apr 18, 2022 | 248 comments

147.

Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search (redditle.com)

448 points by greentfrapp on Apr 7, 2022 | 198 comments

148.

Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?

444 points by samh748 on Apr 6, 2022 | 314 comments

149.

Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments (blog.tjcx.me)

439 points by tomjcleveland on Apr 27, 2022 | 424 comments

150.

The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity (quantamagazine.org)

439 points by theafh on Apr 6, 2022 | 198 comments