HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (2001) (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)

229 points by panic on Sep 24, 2021 | 73 comments

512.

High Performance Organizations Reading List (github.com)

229 points by bfoks on Sep 13, 2021 | 40 comments

513.

Adam Smith and Inequality (2014) (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

228 points by paulpauper on Sep 12, 2021 | 270 comments

514.

C# for Systems Programming (github.com)

228 points by pjmlp on Sep 1, 2021 | 153 comments

515.

OBS Studio 27.1.1 (github.com)

228 points by bdz on Sep 28, 2021 | 71 comments

516.

Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses (developers.redhat.com)

226 points by BenoitP on Sep 17, 2021 | 294 comments

517.

EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones (theverge.com)

226 points by recvonline on Sep 23, 2021 | 1 comments

518.

UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy (justice.gov)

225 points by anigbrowl on Sep 1, 2021 | 185 comments

519.

Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six years of updates (arstechnica.com)

225 points by iechoz6H on Sep 30, 2021 | 177 comments

520.

California bill passes, giving Amazon workers power to fight speed quotas (npr.org)

225 points by throwawaysea on Sep 9, 2021 | 160 comments

521.

Dutch entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening multiple bank accounts (nltimes.nl)

224 points by belter on Sep 1, 2021 | 497 comments

522.

I don't think Elasticsearch is a good logging system (blog.sinkingpoint.com)

224 points by vimda on Sep 28, 2021 | 111 comments

523.

Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016) (probablydance.com)

223 points by l5870uoo9y on Sep 13, 2021 | 508 comments

524.

Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse (join-lemmy.org)

223 points by Apocalypsenear on Sep 8, 2021 | 213 comments

525.

The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading (tenthousandmeters.com)

223 points by WoodenChair on Sep 29, 2021 | 188 comments

526.

Facebook is other people (kevinmunger.substack.com)

223 points by walterbell on Sep 24, 2021 | 156 comments

527.

New credit card rules in India: recurring card payments to be affected (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

223 points by Brajeshwar on Sep 27, 2021 | 151 comments

528.

Nuitka: An extremely compatible Python compiler (nuitka.net)

223 points by BiteCode_dev on Sep 1, 2021 | 84 comments

529.

Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history (github.com)

223 points by ducktective on Sep 5, 2021 | 51 comments

530.

El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so (nbcnews.com)

222 points by TOMDM on Sep 7, 2021 | 369 comments

531.

Faust: Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing (faust.grame.fr)

222 points by shiryel on Sep 4, 2021 | 27 comments

532.

We still believe in private offices (2015) (stackoverflow.blog)

221 points by dandaan on Sep 10, 2021 | 277 comments

533.

How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you? (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)

221 points by mrlonglong on Sep 8, 2021 | 114 comments

534.

The Linux Distributions of 1992 (lunduke.substack.com)

220 points by WoodenChair on Sep 16, 2021 | 124 comments

535.

OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released (openwrt.org)

220 points by stock_toaster on Sep 5, 2021 | 91 comments

536.

When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years (washingtonpost.com)

219 points by arkadiyt on Sep 25, 2021 | 133 comments

537.

Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable (nature.com)

217 points by 4512124672456 on Sep 22, 2021 | 460 comments

538.

How to fit any dataset with a single parameter (arxiv.org)

217 points by tambourine_man on Sep 29, 2021 | 146 comments

539.

GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas (cbui.dev)

217 points by 147 on Sep 8, 2021 | 130 comments

540.

Useful Spy Books (berthub.eu)

217 points by throwoutway on Sep 16, 2021 | 54 comments