HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

19921.

Why DOS was (and is) a thing (2020) [video] (youtube.com)

78 points by zdw on Sep 11, 2021 | 97 comments

19922.

An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany (reuters.com)

78 points by neom on Aug 29, 2021 | 96 comments

19923.

Ask HN: How did Python become the lingua franca of ML/AI?

78 points by heyzk on Nov 10, 2021 | 95 comments

19924.

Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence (tribune242.com)

78 points by colinprince on Dec 30, 2021 | 94 comments

19925.

Tech barons like Jeff Bezos want to colonize space and the oceans (theguardian.com)

78 points by bezout on Feb 6, 2021 | 93 comments

19926.

Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review (anandtech.com)

78 points by scns on Feb 9, 2021 | 93 comments

19927.

The Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court (newyorker.com)

78 points by irtefa on Feb 13, 2021 | 91 comments

19928.

Ask HN: Is it technically possible to evade big-tech censorship?

78 points by sequoia on Jan 11, 2021 | 80 comments

19929.

Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recluses (2018) (nationalgeographic.com)

78 points by altStoner on Apr 18, 2021 | 80 comments

19930.

Microsoft patent: Creating a conversational chat bot of a specific person (patft.uspto.gov)

78 points by deesep on Jan 4, 2021 | 78 comments

19931.

Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020) (feifan.blog)

78 points by hacksilver on Feb 16, 2021 | 78 comments

19932.

Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever (larrysanger.org)

78 points by preordained on Jul 2, 2021 | 77 comments

19933.

A mental model for decentralization (jacobobryant.com)

78 points by jacobobryant on Dec 19, 2021 | 77 comments

19934.

A Grand Anticlimax: The New York Times on Scott Alexander (scottaaronson.com)

78 points by Shank on Feb 14, 2021 | 76 comments

19935.

OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model (oneapi.com)

78 points by wbryce on Mar 1, 2021 | 75 comments

19936.

A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger, Launches 3/9lb sandwich (qsrmagazine.com)

78 points by jedberg on Oct 20, 2021 | 75 comments

19937.

Ask HN: It finally happened to me, how do you deal with burnout?

78 points by astrea on Jun 22, 2021 | 74 comments

19938.

Intel Shows Off Multi-Chiplet Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM (tomshardware.com)

78 points by rbanffy on Oct 16, 2021 | 73 comments

19939.

Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends" (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

78 points by wglb on Feb 25, 2021 | 72 comments

19940.

Not so great experience interviewing at Twitter

78 points by amir734jj on Sep 9, 2021 | 72 comments

19941.

Proprietary Software Is Often Malware (gnu.org)

78 points by crazypython on Feb 2, 2021 | 71 comments

19942.

GraphQL Conf. 2021 (graphqlconf.org)

78 points by pikachuproblem on May 31, 2021 | 71 comments

19943.

What Made Early Humans Smart (nautil.us)

78 points by dnetesn on Jul 3, 2021 | 71 comments

19944.

A Doctor’s Dark Year (newyorker.com)

78 points by wglb on Apr 21, 2021 | 69 comments

19945.

The impossible dream of the nuclear-powered 1958 Ford Nucleon (thedrive.com)

78 points by kjhughes on Jul 6, 2021 | 69 comments

19946.

Launch HN: Typedream (YC W20) – WYSIWYG website builder

78 points by putrikarunia on Nov 2, 2021 | 68 comments

19947.

JavaScript Rising Stars 2020 (risingstars.js.org)

78 points by michaelrambeau on Jan 13, 2021 | 67 comments

19948.

Ask HN: Is there a book that teaches you dark patterns of office politics?

78 points by lifeplusplus on Mar 14, 2021 | 67 comments

19949.

Inflationary Hikes (fedguy.com)

78 points by otoburb on Nov 1, 2021 | 67 comments

19950.

Gap acquires 3D fitting room startup Drapr (retaildive.com)

78 points by vitabenes on Aug 30, 2021 | 66 comments