HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

DVD Laser Scanner Microscope (gaudi.ch)

506 points by _Microft on Feb 3, 2021 | 40 comments

122.

12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks (suade.org)

503 points by gilad on Feb 19, 2021 | 237 comments

123.

US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins (reuters.com)

502 points by lazycrazyowl on Feb 13, 2021 | 632 comments

124.

Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down (github.com)

502 points by high_derivative on Feb 12, 2021 | 420 comments

125.

'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens (sciencealert.com)

502 points by samizdis on Feb 16, 2021 | 376 comments

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Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors (nytimes.com)

500 points by vincentmarle on Feb 22, 2021 | 601 comments

127.

Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning (github.com)

499 points by karlzt on Feb 27, 2021 | 338 comments

128.

Building Rich Terminal Dashboards (willmcgugan.com)

499 points by lumpa on Feb 16, 2021 | 120 comments

129.

Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (engineering.skroutz.gr)

497 points by greenonion on Feb 11, 2021 | 41 comments

130.

Visualization of 40M Cell Towers (alpercinar.com)

495 points by alprc on Feb 17, 2021 | 146 comments

131.

Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete (reuters.com)

492 points by elorant on Feb 10, 2021 | 281 comments

132.

Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm (thedrive.com)

490 points by nradov on Feb 23, 2021 | 206 comments

133.

Fry's Electronics is closing all stores (twitter.com)

488 points by synack on Feb 24, 2021 | 308 comments

134.

Go is not an easy language (arp242.net)

487 points by jen20 on Feb 22, 2021 | 431 comments

135.

SpaCy 3.0 (github.com)

484 points by syllogism on Feb 1, 2021 | 81 comments

136.

Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons (economist.com)

480 points by jkuria on Feb 6, 2021 | 600 comments

137.

Native Mac APIs for Go (github.com)

480 points by maydemir on Feb 4, 2021 | 69 comments

138.

Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny (digiday.com)

477 points by Manheim on Feb 3, 2021 | 335 comments

139.

Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine (michaelyingling.com)

477 points by bookofjoe on Feb 12, 2021 | 163 comments

140.

Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools (github.com)

476 points by sbt567 on Feb 22, 2021 | 134 comments

141.

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed (twitter.com)

474 points by tambourine_man on Feb 18, 2021 | 2 comments

142.

Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader (github.com)

473 points by rand_net on Feb 14, 2021 | 173 comments

143.

A solo journey to $100k in sales (draculatheme.com)

473 points by zenorocha on Feb 25, 2021 | 159 comments

144.

SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president (reuters.com)

471 points by andrewinardeer on Feb 15, 2021 | 275 comments

145.

Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine (reuters.com)

469 points by lazycrazyowl on Feb 15, 2021 | 434 comments

146.

17 year old Firefox feature request fixed (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

467 points by abridgett on Feb 24, 2021 | 274 comments

147.

Programming for Cats (programmingforcats.com)

466 points by tigerlilythecat on Feb 6, 2021 | 109 comments

148.

Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp (github.com)

465 points by aidangrimshaw on Feb 15, 2021 | 219 comments

149.

Blender 2.92 (blender.org)

465 points by dragonsh on Feb 26, 2021 | 168 comments

150.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

461 points by whoishiring on Feb 1, 2021 | 1047 comments