HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1441.

Why gold and Bitcoin are popular (lynalden.com)

93 points by ca98am79 on Jun 14, 2021 | 182 comments

1442.

BTC Hashrate dropped another 27% down ~62% form peak now at 2019 levels (bitinfocharts.com)

93 points by noxer on Jun 28, 2021 | 159 comments

1443.

Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996) (web.archive.org)

93 points by ecliptik on Jun 13, 2021 | 125 comments

1444.

Tax Planning 101: Buy, Borrow, Die (peoplestaxpage.org)

93 points by yonibot on Jun 26, 2021 | 91 comments

1445.

A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (1974) (nwmangum.com)

93 points by brudgers on Jun 20, 2021 | 66 comments

1446.

Reading Grossman's “Stalingrad” and ”Life and Fate” (adamtooze.substack.com)

93 points by mathgenius on Jun 20, 2021 | 58 comments

1447.

The Base45 Data Encoding (datatracker.ietf.org)

93 points by b5 on Jun 23, 2021 | 47 comments

1448.

Questions to Ask Before Adopting Usage Based Pricing (adilaijaz.medium.com)

93 points by lamflam on Jun 4, 2021 | 38 comments

1449.

Cl-bodge: a cross-platform Common Lisp game and application framework (borodust.org)

93 points by bananaoomarang on Jun 24, 2021 | 35 comments

1450.

NVMe over Fabrics Explained (blog.westerndigital.com)

93 points by nickysielicki on Jun 1, 2021 | 31 comments

1451.

Launch HN: Runway (YC W21) – Easier iOS and Android app releases for teams

93 points by gsavit on Jun 8, 2021 | 30 comments

1452.

Saying Goodbye to Android 2.3 Gingerbread (shatteredpixel.com)

93 points by JoshTriplett on Jun 18, 2021 | 24 comments

1453.

Once Dataset: One Million Scenes for Autonomous Driving (once-for-auto-driving.github.io)

93 points by lnyan on Jun 22, 2021 | 18 comments

1454.

The Electrification of Everything (wsj.com)

92 points by elorant on Jun 12, 2021 | 299 comments

1455.

Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source (michaelweinberg.org)

92 points by zdw on Jun 18, 2021 | 127 comments

1456.

Groundbreaking new bridge design could transform rail crossings across the UK (railadvent.co.uk)

92 points by sefrost on Jun 27, 2021 | 90 comments

1457.

The internet eats up less energy than you might think (nytimes.com)

92 points by ctoth on Jun 24, 2021 | 87 comments

1458.

How ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians’ Saved Disney (smithsonianmag.com)

92 points by pseudolus on Jun 6, 2021 | 62 comments

1459.

The rise and fall of Oxygen OS (androidauthority.com)

92 points by jiri on Jun 22, 2021 | 52 comments

1460.

Tim Cook called Pelosi to warn her against disrupting the iPhone with antitrust (theverge.com)

92 points by crazygringo on Jun 23, 2021 | 49 comments

1461.

Roger Waters refused use of song for Instagram ad [video] (bitchute.com)

92 points by DevKoala on Jun 13, 2021 | 42 comments

1462.

Ancient weights helped create Europe’s first market more than 3k years ago (sciencemag.org)

92 points by pseudolus on Jun 30, 2021 | 36 comments

1463.

So Long Autodesk Shotgun (thejackjam.medium.com)

92 points by aprdm on Jun 20, 2021 | 32 comments

1464.

Computer chips are mercurial: Rare miscalculations frequent at cloud hyperscale (theregister.com)

92 points by pasttense01 on Jun 5, 2021 | 31 comments

1465.

We Don't Know, But Let's Try It (bostonreview.net)

92 points by samclemens on Jun 23, 2021 | 26 comments

1466.

A mystery cube, a secret identity, and a puzzle solved after 15 years (wired.co.uk)

92 points by nhf on Jun 10, 2021 | 21 comments

1467.

WiFi SSIDs in Apple iOS have a format string vulnerability (twitter.com)

92 points by eqvinox on Jun 19, 2021 | 10 comments

1468.

OpenSmalltalk – Cross-platform virtual machine for Squeak, Pharo, Cuis, Newspeak (opensmalltalk.org)

92 points by pabs3 on Jun 27, 2021 | 7 comments

1469.

Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low, in sign of extreme western U.S. drought (reuters.com)

91 points by everybodyknows on Jun 10, 2021 | 106 comments

1470.

Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies (bbc.co.uk)

91 points by kevinbowman on Jun 1, 2021 | 104 comments