HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

17911.

Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion (scottaaronson.com)

91 points by bdr on Jul 28, 2021 | 13 comments

17912.

The Secure Open Source Pilot Program (security.googleblog.com)

91 points by theafh on Oct 1, 2021 | 13 comments

17913.

How to Build an Exchange (2017) [video] (blog.janestreet.com)

91 points by justinjlynn on Jul 19, 2021 | 12 comments

17914.

8-bit stack-machine emulated by 200 lines of C (twitter.com)

91 points by tosh on Apr 10, 2021 | 11 comments

17915.

The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic) (physics.aps.org)

91 points by AliCollins on Jul 27, 2021 | 11 comments

17916.

A cryptography game-changer for biomedical research at scale (nature.com)

91 points by geox on Oct 11, 2021 | 11 comments

17917.

Reverse-engineering the Final Fantasy: Theatrhythm track format (gitlab.com)

91 points by mpiroot on Jun 27, 2021 | 10 comments

17918.

Little Big Adventure series source code released (blog.2point21.com)

91 points by xesf on Oct 27, 2021 | 10 comments

17919.

OS X/Hydromac: New Mac adware, leaked from a flashcards app (objective-see.com)

91 points by iscmt on Jun 6, 2021 | 9 comments

17920.

Storm Chaser Spots Rare Quadruple Microburst in Texas (mymodernmet.com)

91 points by gmays on Jul 15, 2021 | 8 comments

17921.

Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar (phys.org)

91 points by dnetesn on Jul 21, 2021 | 7 comments

17922.

Patricia’s Perfect Pull: A Crystal Grower’s Story (computerhistory.org)

91 points by sohkamyung on May 19, 2021 | 5 comments

17923.

Hierarchical transformers are more efficient language models (arxiv.org)

91 points by beefman on Nov 4, 2021 | 5 comments

17924.

Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable zone of α Centauri (nature.com)

91 points by pinewurst on Feb 10, 2021 | 4 comments

17925.

Apple employees asked to return to offices 3 days a week starting in September (macrumors.com)

91 points by tosh on Jun 2, 2021 | 3 comments

17926.

Freenode now forcibly removing channel ownership from users after policy change (pastebin.com)

91 points by techrat on May 26, 2021 | 1 comments

17927.

YouTube will be removed from Roku as of December 9th – existing users unaffected (9to5google.com)

91 points by BitAstronaut on Oct 21, 2021 | 1 comments

17928.

Why is U.S. labor supply so low? (gspublishing.com)

90 points by 42jd on Dec 26, 2021 | 461 comments

17929.

An experiment in giving cash to recently homeless people [video] (bbc.com)

90 points by neom on Feb 12, 2021 | 367 comments

17930.

Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization (snarky.ca)

90 points by genericlemon24 on Nov 15, 2021 | 309 comments

17931.

Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes (pnas.org)

90 points by Lwepz on Dec 14, 2021 | 289 comments

17932.

Alphabet reports Q1 earnings (cnbc.com)

90 points by whitepaint on Apr 27, 2021 | 197 comments

17933.

Many white students lied about their race to improve chances of admission (intelligent.com)

90 points by chuckee on Oct 27, 2021 | 191 comments

17934.

The Plague of the Poor (tabletmag.com)

90 points by thnaks on Oct 10, 2021 | 166 comments

17935.

Sayonara, C++, and Hello to Rust (thecodedmessage.com)

90 points by mooreds on Dec 7, 2021 | 165 comments

17936.

How ayahuasca changed my perspective (pmoncada.medium.com)

90 points by pmoncada on May 3, 2021 | 158 comments

17937.

Alarmed by Tesla’s self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV (latimes.com)

90 points by turtlegrids on Dec 12, 2021 | 156 comments

17938.

Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking (dl.acm.org)

90 points by ingve on May 10, 2021 | 154 comments

17939.

Is Bluetooth holding back Apple's AirPods? We asked the man who made them (whathifi.com)

90 points by davidbarker on Dec 31, 2021 | 152 comments

17940.

Why Bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally (2020) (diem25.org)

90 points by noch on Dec 4, 2021 | 146 comments