HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2071.

Why does the world harbor so many different voltages, plugs, and sockets? (spectrum.ieee.org)

54 points by notorandit on Jun 25, 2021 | 73 comments

2072.

What if plants were animals like any other? (booksandideas.net)

54 points by whocansay on Jun 18, 2021 | 68 comments

2073.

Scientists are teaching drones to hunt down human screams (washingtonpost.com)

54 points by zdw on Jun 18, 2021 | 67 comments

2074.

Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet (psyche.co)

54 points by benbreen on Jun 24, 2021 | 60 comments

2075.

Developer of aluminum-ion battery claims it charges faster than lithium-ion (motoring.com.au)

54 points by elorant on Jun 3, 2021 | 59 comments

2076.

The Backblaze Rebrand Reveal (backblaze.com)

54 points by TangerineDream on Jun 22, 2021 | 44 comments

2077.

Show HN: A fun way to check Bitcoin’s price (bitcointemp.com)

54 points by braydentw on Jun 29, 2021 | 29 comments

2078.

Blender-OSM Add-on: Current state and ongoing development (community.osarch.org)

54 points by app4soft on Jun 10, 2021 | 23 comments

2079.

We are moving past legacy Freenode to a new fork (irccloud.com)

54 points by pabs3 on Jun 15, 2021 | 14 comments

2080.

Terraform v1.0 Is Out (terraform.io)

54 points by weeha on Jun 8, 2021 | 11 comments

2081.

Germany suspends incoming flights from Russian airlines (dw.com)

54 points by underscore_ku on Jun 2, 2021 | 10 comments

2082.

What it was like to be peer reviewed in the 1860s (2017) (physicstoday.scitation.org)

54 points by azhenley on Jun 21, 2021 | 4 comments

2083.

Yes, We Want Cryptographic Protection for Email (sequoia-pgp.org)

54 points by nwalfield on Jun 29, 2021 | 4 comments

2084.

Naumachia (en.wikipedia.org)

54 points by diodorus on Jun 27, 2021 | 3 comments

2085.

AugLy – A data augmentations library that supports audio, image, text and video (github.com)

54 points by pcaversaccio on Jun 18, 2021 | 2 comments

2086.

Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

53 points by spekcular on Jun 22, 2021 | 50 comments

2087.

Who owns the German DAX? [pdf] (dirk.org)

53 points by doener on Jun 22, 2021 | 50 comments

2088.

Laser pulse travels 300 times faster than light (2002) (optics.org)

53 points by nixass on Jun 6, 2021 | 39 comments

2089.

The art of Front end Engineering (narative.co)

53 points by kintalo on Jun 12, 2021 | 35 comments

2090.

Django Unicorn – A full-stack framework for Django (django-unicorn.com)

53 points by mands on Jun 4, 2021 | 25 comments

2091.

Recovered deleted sequencing data sheds more light on early SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (biorxiv.org)

53 points by bgentry on Jun 22, 2021 | 25 comments

2092.

Liquidity of Skill (thesephist.com)

53 points by thesephist on Jun 16, 2021 | 23 comments

2093.

Implicit Differentiation (tutorial.math.lamar.edu)

53 points by _Microft on Jun 2, 2021 | 17 comments

2094.

How and why to become a PostgreSQL contributor (blog.timescale.com)

53 points by craigkerstiens on Jun 17, 2021 | 17 comments

2095.

Sackler Family Empire Poised to Win Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits (npr.org)

53 points by AndrewBissell on Jun 3, 2021 | 16 comments

2096.

YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags (twitter.com)

53 points by diaphanous on Jun 25, 2021 | 15 comments

2097.

Why Specs Matter (2004) (web.archive.org)

53 points by Tomte on Jun 29, 2021 | 15 comments

2098.

The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion (fs.blog)

53 points by feross on Jun 7, 2021 | 12 comments

2099.

Merkle Tree (en.wikipedia.org)

53 points by tosh on Jun 6, 2021 | 10 comments

2100.

Show HN: Learn a new language while you browse the web (fluent.co)

53 points by araghougassian on Jun 10, 2021 | 9 comments