HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up (river-runner.samlearner.com)

877 points by prawn on May 27, 2021 | 127 comments

32.

YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane (twitter.com)

876 points by notimetocry on May 25, 2021 | 265 comments

33.

Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022 (oxide.computer)

876 points by ykl on May 26, 2021 | 256 comments

34.

Overkill objects for everyday life (neil.computer)

856 points by mrzool on May 30, 2021 | 706 comments

35.

Learn CSS (web.dev)

842 points by markodenic on May 21, 2021 | 189 comments

36.

Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com)

840 points by forrestbrazeal on May 4, 2021 | 439 comments

37.

How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020) (twitter.com)

832 points by eevilspock on May 27, 2021 | 228 comments

38.

Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

819 points by zffr on May 27, 2021 | 271 comments

39.

ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs (github.com)

803 points by stanislavb on May 5, 2021 | 307 comments

40.

Observing my cellphone switch towers (fabiensanglard.net)

800 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 | 132 comments

41.

“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” (lore.kernel.org)

792 points by pengaru on May 1, 2021 | 501 comments

42.

DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized (krebsonsecurity.com)

787 points by feross on May 14, 2021 | 584 comments

43.

Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B (reuters.com)

780 points by helsinkiandrew on May 26, 2021 | 820 comments

44.

Why I prefer making useless stuff (web.eecs.utk.edu)

772 points by azhenley on May 23, 2021 | 270 comments

45.

Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds (blog.freesound.org)

772 points by diibv on May 21, 2021 | 67 comments

46.

Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop (regulations.gov)

769 points by sincerely on May 2, 2021 | 529 comments

47.

Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist (bbc.com)

766 points by kensai on May 23, 2021 | 4 comments

48.

Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 (blogs.windows.com)

763 points by smukherjee19 on May 19, 2021 | 294 comments

49.

Neovim 0.5 is overpowering (crispgm.com)

753 points by imbnwa on May 26, 2021 | 421 comments

50.

Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

741 points by pmoriarty on May 25, 2021 | 581 comments

51.

It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020) (qntm.org)

733 points by avinassh on May 25, 2021 | 658 comments

52.

2022 Ford F-150 Lightning (ford.com)

727 points by awb on May 21, 2021 | 1396 comments

53.

Poor in Tech (megelison.com)

725 points by tosh on May 19, 2021 | 782 comments

54.

Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class (twitter.com)

722 points by renameme on May 3, 2021 | 214 comments

55.

AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search (plausible.io)

719 points by ColinWright on May 18, 2021 | 172 comments

56.

The Ultimate Guide to Inflation (lynalden.com)

712 points by jger15 on May 9, 2021 | 344 comments

57.

Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns (euronews.com)

709 points by giuliomagnifico on May 11, 2021 | 185 comments

58.

Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research (m-cacm.acm.org)

707 points by djoldman on May 26, 2021 | 395 comments

59.

Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio (apple.com)

702 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2021 | 699 comments

60.

Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals (vice.com)

699 points by jbegley on May 13, 2021 | 247 comments