HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

16921.

A Misleading CDC Number (nytimes.com)

97 points by heshiebee on May 11, 2021 | 126 comments

16922.

Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers into Brutal 'Megacycle' Shifts (vice.com)

97 points by dsr12 on Feb 4, 2021 | 123 comments

16923.

Why Governments Fail (persuasion.community)

97 points by seriousquestion on Apr 26, 2021 | 123 comments

16924.

The Middle East is running out of water, and parts are becoming uninhabitable (lite.cnn.com)

97 points by LinuxBender on Aug 22, 2021 | 122 comments

16925.

Navy failures destroyed the Bonhomme Richard (gcaptain.com)

97 points by smitty1e on Oct 30, 2021 | 120 comments

16926.

Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature (cheapesignature.com)

97 points by trouthousetech on Nov 17, 2021 | 117 comments

16927.

Why do they burn a man at Burning Man? (tedgioia.substack.com)

97 points by jger15 on Sep 4, 2021 | 114 comments

16928.

Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told (theguardian.com)

97 points by eternalreturn on Jan 24, 2021 | 107 comments

16929.

Long Hundred (en.wikipedia.org)

97 points by luu on Feb 8, 2021 | 106 comments

16930.

The future of data storage is still magnetic tape (2018) (spectrum.ieee.org)

97 points by Bluestein on Jun 13, 2021 | 105 comments

16931.

I'm getting tired of modern meme culture (forum.agoraroad.com)

97 points by ermantrout on Dec 17, 2021 | 105 comments

16932.

Ask HN: Will there ever be a vendor agnostic GPU interface?

97 points by slmjkdbtl on Oct 31, 2021 | 100 comments

16933.

Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language (minnie.tuhs.org)

97 points by vitplister on Nov 26, 2021 | 100 comments

16934.

Turning stem cells into human eggs (conception.bio)

97 points by apsec112 on Oct 29, 2021 | 97 comments

16935.

Walgreens closing 5 San Francisco stores due to 'organized retail crime' (sfgate.com)

97 points by andyxor on Oct 13, 2021 | 96 comments

16936.

New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd) (lkml.iu.edu)

97 points by marcodiego on Aug 30, 2021 | 91 comments

16937.

Defending human civilization from supervolcanic eruptions (2015) [pdf] (scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov)

97 points by rbanffy on Sep 20, 2021 | 88 comments

16938.

National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean (nationalgeographic.com)

97 points by giuliomagnifico on Jun 9, 2021 | 87 comments

16939.

SwiftGraphQL – A GraphQL client that lets you forget about GraphQL (github.com)

97 points by maticzav on Feb 22, 2021 | 86 comments

16940.

SpaceX launches Starlink sats in record 10th liftoff, landing of reused rocket (space.com)

97 points by _Microft on May 9, 2021 | 85 comments

16941.

New features coming in Julia 1.7 (lwn.net)

97 points by leephillips on Oct 4, 2021 | 85 comments

16942.

The whitest paint could eliminate the need for air conditioning (news.yahoo.com)

97 points by graderjs on Sep 18, 2021 | 84 comments

16943.

India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims (bbc.com)

97 points by manexploitsman on May 20, 2021 | 80 comments

16944.

Jury awards Optis $300M in second patent trial against Apple (reuters.com)

97 points by keleftheriou on Aug 14, 2021 | 80 comments

16945.

The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead (atlasobscura.com)

97 points by kwhitefoot on Aug 19, 2021 | 76 comments

16946.

CSS Container Queries in Web Components (mxb.dev)

97 points by mxbck on May 16, 2021 | 75 comments

16947.

There is no bottom when it comes to Section 230 reform proposals (blog.ericgoldman.org)

97 points by amadeuspagel on Oct 27, 2021 | 75 comments

16948.

Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019) (zdnet.com)

97 points by partingshots on Mar 12, 2021 | 74 comments

16949.

Autonomous boats seem more solvable than autonomous cars (spectrum.ieee.org)

97 points by DrNuke on Oct 28, 2021 | 74 comments

16950.

Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America (poetryfoundation.org)

97 points by lermontov on Apr 20, 2021 | 73 comments