HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

The Web3 Fraud (usenix.org)

238 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 17, 2021 | 362 comments

512.

The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse (arstechnica.com)

238 points by dwynings on Dec 21, 2021 | 138 comments

513.

The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S. (nps.gov)

238 points by hairytrog on Dec 26, 2021 | 127 comments

514.

Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python (pola.rs)

238 points by daureg on Dec 16, 2021 | 124 comments

515.

FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police involvement (washingtonpost.com)

237 points by jbegley on Dec 9, 2021 | 198 comments

516.

There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit (twitter.com)

237 points by ir193 on Dec 27, 2021 | 184 comments

517.

Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep (anchor.fm)

237 points by stavros on Dec 3, 2021 | 167 comments

518.

T-Mobile Actively Censoring Certain URLs [video] (youtube.com)

237 points by Acrobatic_Road on Dec 31, 2021 | 155 comments

519.

eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars (isovalent.com)

237 points by tgraf on Dec 9, 2021 | 108 comments

520.

Julia 1.7 Highlights (julialang.org)

237 points by logankilpatrick on Dec 1, 2021 | 95 comments

521.

Valve actively supporting Godot to make the engine work well on the Steam Deck (wccftech.com)

237 points by MarcellusDrum on Dec 17, 2021 | 42 comments

522.

A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website (theguardian.com)

236 points by 4ndrewl on Dec 24, 2021 | 90 comments

523.

Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker (github.com)

236 points by matt_d on Dec 15, 2021 | 65 comments

524.

Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance (roughjs.com)

236 points by thunderbong on Dec 14, 2021 | 23 comments

525.

Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers (axios.com)

235 points by sofixa on Dec 20, 2021 | 288 comments

526.

Why Not Rust? (2020) (matklad.github.io)

235 points by spekcular on Dec 18, 2021 | 269 comments

527.

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) (bbc.com)

235 points by Hooke on Dec 20, 2021 | 165 comments

528.

What does a Principal Software Engineer do? (blog.devgenius.io)

235 points by awesometechguy on Dec 14, 2021 | 164 comments

529.

Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf] (commerce.senate.gov)

235 points by sohkamyung on Dec 15, 2021 | 124 comments

530.

Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence (arxiv.org)

235 points by ColinWright on Dec 7, 2021 | 103 comments

531.

Gigablast Search Engine (gigablast.com)

235 points by SubiculumCode on Dec 2, 2021 | 47 comments

532.

Missouri found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public (news.stlpublicradio.org)

234 points by nojito on Dec 2, 2021 | 339 comments

533.

Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia (stochasticlifestyle.com)

234 points by ChrisRackauckas on Dec 25, 2021 | 73 comments

534.

Web3/Crypto: Why Bother? (continuations.com)

233 points by fandorin on Dec 31, 2021 | 548 comments

535.

Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150M (theblockcrypto.com)

233 points by prostoalex on Dec 5, 2021 | 277 comments

536.

Shrooms: What You Need to Know (tripsafe.org)

233 points by yamrzou on Dec 25, 2021 | 157 comments

537.

No Easter Eggs in Curl (daniel.haxx.se)

233 points by TangerineDream on Dec 6, 2021 | 155 comments

538.

Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird (theguardian.com)

233 points by Petiver on Dec 22, 2021 | 151 comments

539.

Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain (bunniestudios.com)

233 points by picture on Dec 14, 2021 | 69 comments

540.

Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants (mainichi.jp)

232 points by ardel95 on Dec 30, 2021 | 218 comments