HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4801.

The little-known genius who helped make Pixar possible (wired.com)

10 points by mxfh on Aug 31, 2021 | 1 comments

4802.

How to walk across a parking lot (2011) (raptitude.com)

10 points by baobaba on Aug 1, 2021 | 0 comments

4803.

Ask HN: Let's talk about empathy towards others

10 points by dabockster on Aug 1, 2021 | 0 comments

4804.

Now, risks of further isolation are worse than Covid (hmbreview.com)

10 points by AndrewBissell on Aug 1, 2021 | 0 comments

4805.

Square Agrees to Acquire Afterpay for $29B in All-Stock Deal (wsj.com)

10 points by ra7 on Aug 1, 2021 | 0 comments

4806.

Journalists receive death threats over reporting on China flooding (newsweek.com)

10 points by kurthr on Aug 2, 2021 | 0 comments

4807.

A Conversation Between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (youtube.com)

10 points by tosh on Aug 2, 2021 | 0 comments

4808.

Hubble Pi (magpi.raspberrypi.org)

10 points by mindcrime on Aug 2, 2021 | 0 comments

4809.

Space station situation with Russian module misfire more serious than stated (space.com)

10 points by turtlegrids on Aug 2, 2021 | 0 comments

4810.

Bay Area counties mandate masks indoors for everyone because of delta variant (sfgate.com)

10 points by google234123 on Aug 3, 2021 | 0 comments

4811.

Spyware features found in Chinese state benefits app (therecord.media)

10 points by hkmaxpro on Aug 4, 2021 | 0 comments

4812.

Shipping costs from China are going through the roof (cnx-software.com)

10 points by baybal2 on Aug 4, 2021 | 0 comments

4813.

Pggen: A Golang ORM Alternative (medium.com)

10 points by ethanpailes on Aug 4, 2021 | 0 comments

4814.

Resist De Blasio’s Vaccine Passport – Reason.com (reason.com)

10 points by mrfusion on Aug 5, 2021 | 0 comments

4815.

Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers (theintercept.com)

10 points by hkmaxpro on Aug 5, 2021 | 0 comments

4816.

Apple promoting scam slime apps (twitter.com)

10 points by dabinat on Aug 5, 2021 | 0 comments

4817.

Adumbrations of Aducanumab (astralcodexten.substack.com)

10 points by forgingahead on Aug 5, 2021 | 0 comments

4818.

Building Google Zanzibar from Scratch (osohq.com)

10 points by samjs on Aug 5, 2021 | 0 comments

4819.

Live: Starship Prototype Ship 20 Being Stacked on Super Heavy [video] (youtube.com)

10 points by _Microft on Aug 6, 2021 | 0 comments

4820.

Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 (youtube.com)

10 points by ksaj on Aug 6, 2021 | 0 comments

4821.

The Big Money Behind the Big Lie (newyorker.com)

10 points by markdoney on Aug 6, 2021 | 0 comments

4822.

The Mypillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy (theatlantic.com)

10 points by throwaway4good on Aug 7, 2021 | 0 comments

4823.

9/11 families to President Biden: Don't come to our memorial events (nbcnews.com)

10 points by mardiyah on Aug 8, 2021 | 0 comments

4824.

'Functionally useless': California privacy law's big reveal falls short (politico.com)

10 points by Tomte on Aug 8, 2021 | 0 comments

4825.

Buridan's Ass (en.wikipedia.org)

10 points by farazzz on Aug 10, 2021 | 0 comments

4826.

A timeline of Elon Musk’s bailout of SolarCity, informed by court transcripts (twitter.com)

10 points by camjohnson26 on Aug 10, 2021 | 0 comments

4827.

Thousands of Patients Implanted with Heart Pumps the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous (propublica.org)

10 points by thereare5lights on Aug 10, 2021 | 0 comments

4828.

Newline Guide to Creating React Libraries from Scratch (newline.co)

10 points by ganderzz on Aug 10, 2021 | 0 comments

4829.

Biden Administration Expands Definition of Intolerable Covid 'Misinformation' (reason.com)

10 points by Bostonian on Aug 11, 2021 | 0 comments

4830.

How the Poly Network hack worked (twitter.com)

10 points by legutierr on Aug 11, 2021 | 0 comments