HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (historyofyesterday.com)

374 points by stanrivers on Jul 3, 2021 | 169 comments

212.

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source (orbiter-forum.com)

373 points by shakow on Jul 28, 2021 | 71 comments

213.

Software engineering research is a train wreck (buttondown.email)

372 points by martincmartin on Jul 20, 2021 | 166 comments

214.

Goodbye, Fleets (blog.twitter.com)

369 points by mattyb on Jul 14, 2021 | 295 comments

215.

Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone (linkedin.com)

369 points by andygmb on Jul 21, 2021 | 234 comments

216.

Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020) (amazon.com)

369 points by nrjames on Jul 1, 2021 | 224 comments

217.

An Intern’s Guide to Trading (nasdaq.com)

369 points by 6502nerdface on Jul 7, 2021 | 80 comments

218.

A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)

369 points by jf on Jul 21, 2021 | 62 comments

219.

Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking (bloomberg.com)

368 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Jul 15, 2021 | 610 comments

220.

New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C (sciencemag.org)

367 points by jnord on Jul 9, 2021 | 206 comments

221.

Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 (blog.archive.org)

365 points by ingve on Jul 22, 2021 | 118 comments

222.

The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs (alinpanaitiu.com)

364 points by 6a74 on Jul 30, 2021 | 181 comments

223.

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot (gist.github.com)

363 points by g_p on Jul 12, 2021 | 230 comments

224.

Curated list of personal blogs (refined.blog)

362 points by valdect on Jul 27, 2021 | 126 comments

225.

Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request (9to5mac.com)

362 points by basisword on Jul 16, 2021 | 113 comments

226.

Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA (ghidra-sre.org)

361 points by NotSwift on Jul 13, 2021 | 142 comments

227.

MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT (microk8s.io)

359 points by punnerud on Jul 22, 2021 | 137 comments

228.

XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76 (cnx-software.com)

358 points by watchdogtimer on Jul 5, 2021 | 76 comments

229.

Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp (hashicorp.com)

357 points by tosh on Jul 22, 2021 | 70 comments

230.

Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan (seattletimes.com)

355 points by xenocyon on Jul 9, 2021 | 282 comments

231.

Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020) (scoop.me)

354 points by mpweiher on Jul 25, 2021 | 346 comments

232.

Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely (businessinsider.com)

354 points by throwawaysea on Jul 8, 2021 | 233 comments

233.

PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires (npr.org)

353 points by boulos on Jul 22, 2021 | 283 comments

234.

To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook (damninteresting.com)

353 points by axiolite on Jul 25, 2021 | 176 comments

235.

Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations (bloomberg.com)

352 points by Reventlov on Jul 30, 2021 | 218 comments

236.

I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) (dewitters.com)

351 points by Starz0r on Jul 19, 2021 | 387 comments

237.

Netcat – All you need to know (blog.ikuamike.io)

351 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 27, 2021 | 45 comments

238.

The Perils of M1 Ownership (eclecticlight.co)

350 points by ingve on Jul 18, 2021 | 263 comments

239.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) (raptitude.com)

350 points by tacon on Jul 31, 2021 | 247 comments

240.

Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (blog.kowalczyk.info)

350 points by archimag0 on Jul 27, 2021 | 133 comments