HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5821.

Big mistakes I’ve made in my career as a software engineer (thenextweb.com)

5 points by Liriel on May 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5822.

Tether’s First Breakdown of Reserves (amycastor.com)

5 points by rwosync on May 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5823.

“I placed too much faith in underpowered studies:” Nobel Prize winner admits (2017) (retractionwatch.com)

5 points by paulpauper on May 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5824.

Overconfidence is responsible for a lot of mistakes, here’s how to avoid it (theconversation.com)

5 points by andrewstuart on May 13, 2021 | 1 comments

5825.

Colonial Pipeline Shut Down Distribution Because It Couldn’t Bill Customers (mediaite.com)

5 points by DoomHotel on May 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5826.

The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 (lareviewofbooks.org)

5 points by Hooke on May 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5827.

SpaceX posts plan for landing of both Starship stages: booster and orbital stage (apps.fcc.gov)

5 points by knbknb on May 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5828.

Why can't Twitter deal with this spam? (shkspr.mobi)

5 points by edent on May 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5829.

Iceland’s Famed ‘Lunar Landscape’ Is Turning Purple (atlasobscura.com)

5 points by CapitalistCartr on May 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5830.

Rising seas no cause for climate change alarm (asiatimes.com)

5 points by tomohawk on May 14, 2021 | 1 comments

5831.

Maybe We Need Masks Indoors Just a Bit Longer (nytimes.com)

5 points by jbegley on May 15, 2021 | 1 comments

5832.

BT's $700M Job to Rip-and-Replace Huawei 5G Begins Here (bloomberg.com)

5 points by therockhead on May 15, 2021 | 1 comments

5833.

What the opt-in app tracking in iOS 14.5 means to marketers (transmissionagency.com)

5 points by ohjeez on May 15, 2021 | 1 comments

5834.

Key [UX] differences between designing for China and the West (uxdesign.cc)

5 points by cl42 on May 15, 2021 | 1 comments

5835.

DropAuth – An extremely simple PHP authentication system (v0lttech.com)

5 points by connervieira on May 16, 2021 | 1 comments

5836.

Growing up in Electronics – A wonderful hobby, on a shoestring (nzeldes.com)

5 points by _Microft on May 16, 2021 | 1 comments

5837.

Apple Is Holding Back the Creator Economy (every.to)

5 points by laurex on May 17, 2021 | 1 comments

5838.

Lois Lew Mastered IBM's 1940s Chinese Typewriter (fastcompany.com)

5 points by ajdlinux on May 17, 2021 | 1 comments

5839.

Is Slack Destroying American Companies? (taibbi.substack.com)

5 points by garraeth on May 17, 2021 | 1 comments

5840.

I paid $300K to quit a startup (productlessons.xyz)

5 points by enigmatic02 on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5841.

Show HN: I built a site to meet people near you and make friends (neartribe.com)

5 points by piyushkhemka on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5842.

Ask HN: How to approach WiFi roaming in a home network

5 points by alufers on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5843.

Distribution and Demand (stratechery.com)

5 points by sogen on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5844.

Tesla produces first Model Y megacast at Gigafactory Texas (electrek.co)

5 points by hourislate on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5845.

Ford reveals new electric F-150 Lightning pickup during Biden’s visit (cnbc.com)

5 points by camjohnson26 on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5846.

What I told my kids (scottaaronson.com)

5 points by Jun8 on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5847.

Using fear to control behavior in Covid crisis was totalitarian admit scientists (telegraph.co.uk)

5 points by drummer on May 18, 2021 | 1 comments

5848.

Are you better than average? (thanaverage.xyz)

5 points by bigdatagirl on May 19, 2021 | 1 comments

5849.

Show HN: There's (finally) a way to do planning poker in GitHub (zenhub.com)

5 points by stephenmet on May 19, 2021 | 1 comments

5850.

FBI ties and Ponzi games – here’s what SafeMoon doesn’t want you to know (protos.com)

5 points by pkromero on May 20, 2021 | 1 comments