HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

The Mattel Spinwelder was the coolest Christmas gift of the 1970s (bestride.com)

170 points by herendin on Jul 26, 2022 | 137 comments

812.

The Home Computer Generation (datagubbe.se)

170 points by stargrave on Jul 19, 2022 | 133 comments

813.

My Preferred Smart Home Vendors (chrisx.xyz)

170 points by segfault11 on Jul 5, 2022 | 104 comments

814.

History and effective use of Vim (2019) (begriffs.com)

170 points by iloverss on Jul 28, 2022 | 95 comments

815.

Running an Open Source Home Area Network (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

170 points by bpierre on Jul 10, 2022 | 87 comments

816.

How does a USB keyboard work? (2021) [video] (youtube.com)

170 points by marbu on Jul 2, 2022 | 25 comments

817.

The Harry Potter fallacy (the-tls.co.uk)

169 points by yamrzou on Jul 28, 2022 | 188 comments

818.

In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything (eater.com)

169 points by DoreenMichele on Jul 25, 2022 | 132 comments

819.

Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse (reuters.com)

169 points by pseudolus on Jul 12, 2022 | 126 comments

820.

Entire telecomm infrastructure of Iceland sold to private equity? (ardian.com)

169 points by openfuture on Jul 18, 2022 | 113 comments

821.

Show HN: I made a simple platform to buy/sell side projects

169 points by heyarviind2 on Jul 16, 2022 | 112 comments

822.

Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet (masteringemacs.org)

169 points by seansh on Jul 6, 2022 | 67 comments

823.

Norwegian Meteorological Institute has an excellent free weather API (developer.yr.no)

169 points by notpushkin on Jul 3, 2022 | 36 comments

824.

Visa changes chargeback dispute program (usa.visa.com)

168 points by cwwc on Jul 20, 2022 | 267 comments

825.

Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++ (thenewstack.io)

168 points by isaacfrond on Jul 25, 2022 | 233 comments

826.

The inventor of ibuprofen tested the drug on his own hangover (smithsonianmag.com)

168 points by thrusong on Jul 22, 2022 | 196 comments

827.

Newer, better sunscreens have not been approved by the FDA (theatlantic.com)

168 points by derbOac on Jul 1, 2022 | 191 comments

828.

Uber pays millions resolving DOJ lawsuit for overcharging disabled people (justice.gov)

168 points by vegetablepotpie on Jul 21, 2022 | 111 comments

829.

Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown (talawah.io)

168 points by talawahtech on Jul 4, 2022 | 71 comments

830.

Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf] (library.sciencemadness.org)

168 points by Tomte on Jul 9, 2022 | 47 comments

831.

Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points (federalreserve.gov)

167 points by scrlk on Jul 27, 2022 | 319 comments

832.

Crimes against transhumanity (antipope.org)

167 points by zdw on Jul 18, 2022 | 263 comments

833.

The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability (mdpi.com)

167 points by giuliomagnifico on Jul 23, 2022 | 159 comments

834.

Microsoft Validation OS (docs.microsoft.com)

167 points by maxbaines on Jul 13, 2022 | 133 comments

835.

ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed (twitter.com)

167 points by danso on Jul 2, 2022 | 71 comments

836.

Books That Changed How I Hear Music (tedgioia.substack.com)

167 points by jger15 on Jul 8, 2022 | 36 comments

837.

DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales (twitter.com)

166 points by Ozzie_osman on Jul 17, 2022 | 80 comments

838.

DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system (github.com)

166 points by metadat on Jul 24, 2022 | 64 comments

839.

Pentester's Promiscuous Notebook (ppn.snovvcrash.rocks)

166 points by MiguelHzBz on Jul 12, 2022 | 11 comments

840.

DNS-over-HTTP/3 in Android (security.googleblog.com)

165 points by nixcraft on Jul 20, 2022 | 147 comments