HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

181.

Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept (onezero.medium.com)

440 points by todsacerdoti on May 31, 2021 | 590 comments

182.

Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom (bloomberg.com)

440 points by longdefeat on May 13, 2021 | 505 comments

183.

More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins (nytimes.com)

440 points by temp8964 on May 14, 2021 | 344 comments

184.

Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website (blog.stunning.co)

439 points by rfelix2121 on May 3, 2021 | 209 comments

185.

Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts (reuters.com)

438 points by tareqak on May 12, 2021 | 218 comments

186.

TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter (reuters.com)

437 points by adventured on May 15, 2021 | 486 comments

187.

Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News (instruments.digital)

437 points by Aaronmacaron on May 22, 2021 | 120 comments

188.

Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse (narrator.ai)

435 points by cedricd on May 10, 2021 | 150 comments

189.

USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops (theverge.com)

428 points by Tomte on May 26, 2021 | 478 comments

190.

We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (butwhatfor.com)

427 points by stanrivers on May 31, 2021 | 238 comments

191.

Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days (github.com)

427 points by _gjrn on May 23, 2021 | 45 comments

192.

How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions (washingtonpost.com)

426 points by kjhughes on May 4, 2021 | 328 comments

193.

WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy (androidpolice.com)

424 points by superhumanuser on May 7, 2021 | 271 comments

194.

Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work (ingrids.space)

423 points by intarga on May 23, 2021 | 296 comments

195.

Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO (reddit.com)

418 points by kasabali on May 26, 2021 | 129 comments

196.

Observable Plot (observablehq.com)

418 points by subbu on May 4, 2021 | 51 comments

197.

The Limits to Blockchain Scalability (vitalik.ca)

417 points by bpierre on May 23, 2021 | 450 comments

198.

World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years (news.un.org)

415 points by infodocket on May 27, 2021 | 693 comments

199.

Benzene detected in many sunscreen products (valisure.com)

414 points by rchiba on May 26, 2021 | 292 comments

200.

Midair Collision over Denver (avherald.com)

413 points by lunchbreak on May 13, 2021 | 231 comments

201.

Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to (arstechnica.com)

413 points by throwawaysea on May 8, 2021 | 212 comments

202.

Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station (sciencealert.com)

413 points by bryan0 on May 31, 2021 | 196 comments

203.

Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5 (macrumors.com)

412 points by Tomte on May 7, 2021 | 353 comments

204.

Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020) (datacenterdynamics.com)

411 points by giuliomagnifico on May 31, 2021 | 159 comments

205.

Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf] (fifty.user-interface.io)

411 points by Akcium on May 19, 2021 | 151 comments

206.

Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) (blog.thermoworks.com)

410 points by carabiner on May 11, 2021 | 301 comments

207.

Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production (reuters.com)

410 points by tareqak on May 11, 2021 | 283 comments

208.

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (arstechnica.com)

410 points by throwaway888abc on May 29, 2021 | 277 comments

209.

Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library (old.reddit.com)

408 points by diplodocusaur on May 14, 2021 | 52 comments

210.

Teardown of a PC Power Supply (righto.com)

407 points by picture on May 23, 2021 | 239 comments