HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

721.

New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests (eff.org)

172 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 16, 2021 | 142 comments

722.

IoTaWatt Open Source WiFi Electric Power Monitor (iotawatt.com)

172 points by mrep on Feb 25, 2021 | 82 comments

723.

Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders (techblog.geekyants.com)

172 points by ObiWanFrijoles on Feb 23, 2021 | 51 comments

724.

Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg (mattj.io)

172 points by Audiolite on Feb 28, 2021 | 51 comments

725.

The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019) (nature.com)

171 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Feb 8, 2021 | 459 comments

726.

The road to electric is filled with tiny cars (restofworld.org)

171 points by jimmy2020 on Feb 23, 2021 | 261 comments

727.

Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 savings for its lifetime (franck-leroy.medium.com)

171 points by FranckLeroy on Feb 17, 2021 | 113 comments

728.

A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system (tum.de)

171 points by gmays on Feb 27, 2021 | 76 comments

729.

How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be? (justine.lol)

171 points by jart on Feb 11, 2021 | 67 comments

730.

A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator (unrealengine.com)

171 points by jsheard on Feb 10, 2021 | 53 comments

731.

Pravetz Computers (en.wikipedia.org)

171 points by incomplete on Feb 11, 2021 | 50 comments

732.

Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect (okayhq.com)

170 points by tomasrb on Feb 2, 2021 | 119 comments

733.

Performance Impact of Ad Blockers (2020) (debugbear.com)

170 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 7, 2021 | 66 comments

734.

Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking (expressvpn.com)

170 points by gilad on Feb 2, 2021 | 64 comments

735.

The Pretty JSON Revolution (ohler.com)

169 points by peterohler on Feb 23, 2021 | 156 comments

736.

You don't really need a virtualenv (frostming.com)

169 points by gilad on Feb 3, 2021 | 147 comments

737.

A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii (npr.org)

169 points by protomyth on Feb 28, 2021 | 64 comments

738.

Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugosi had gone to bed (theguardian.com)

169 points by samizdis on Feb 3, 2021 | 59 comments

739.

Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning? (betterdatascience.com)

168 points by syntaxing on Feb 15, 2021 | 150 comments

740.

New model could explain old cholesterol mystery (sciencenorway.no)

168 points by shadykiller on Feb 12, 2021 | 142 comments

741.

Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo (blog.mozilla.org)

168 points by Fabricio20 on Feb 26, 2021 | 101 comments

742.

Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics (scientificamerican.com)

168 points by pseudolus on Feb 5, 2021 | 23 comments

743.

Clubhouse’s Inevitability (stratechery.com)

167 points by jger15 on Feb 15, 2021 | 225 comments

744.

Powerpaste, a hydrogen technology for small vehicles (fraunhofer.de)

167 points by apsec112 on Feb 4, 2021 | 96 comments

745.

8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number (kroah.com)

167 points by Foxboron on Feb 5, 2021 | 86 comments

746.

A Warning to Users of NurseryCam (cybergibbons.com)

167 points by carwyn on Feb 14, 2021 | 72 comments

747.

PureScript and Haskell (blog.drewolson.org)

167 points by allenleein on Feb 26, 2021 | 60 comments

748.

Petabyte tape cartridges are coming (blocksandfiles.com)

166 points by TangerineDream on Feb 5, 2021 | 151 comments

749.

WhatsApp alternatives that respect privacy (protonmail.com)

166 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 15, 2021 | 100 comments

750.

The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019) (daily.jstor.org)

166 points by nkurz on Feb 12, 2021 | 62 comments