HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

21271.

I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me (believermag.com)

71 points by gozzoo on Aug 14, 2021 | 108 comments

21272.

Robinhood Raises Another $2.4B from shareholders (wsj.com)

71 points by sarthakjshetty on Feb 1, 2021 | 104 comments

21273.

Proof-of-work should be banned (stopburncoins.medium.com)

71 points by datafl4sh on Mar 29, 2021 | 103 comments

21274.

Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual labourers (bbc.com)

71 points by pepys on Jan 31, 2021 | 100 comments

21275.

Why Working from Home Will Stick (nber.org)

71 points by barry-cotter on May 4, 2021 | 99 comments

21276.

SpaceX loses another Starship prototype as landing sequence fails (arstechnica.com)

71 points by alexrustic on Mar 30, 2021 | 96 comments

21277.

Ask HN: Why do companies ask employees to set goals?

71 points by wonderingdev on Mar 26, 2021 | 94 comments

21278.

Louisville sawmill challenges perception about wages (cdispatch.com)

71 points by MaysonL on Oct 16, 2021 | 94 comments

21279.

Cryptocurrency Bear? (iamunknowing.com)

71 points by carlgreene on Jun 7, 2021 | 93 comments

21280.

YAML and Configuration Files (utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by signa11 on Aug 14, 2021 | 93 comments

21281.

Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinformation network (bylinetimes.com)

71 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 6, 2021 | 91 comments

21282.

The coronavirus is here to stay – here’s what that means (nature.com)

71 points by bryan0 on Feb 19, 2021 | 91 comments

21283.

Garamond is not a good font to use in web copy (2010) (designforhackers.com)

71 points by susam on May 25, 2021 | 89 comments

21284.

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011) (kalzumeus.com)

71 points by Donckele on Aug 19, 2021 | 89 comments

21285.

Fencers Refused to Fight. Then Came the Rule That Changed the Sport (wsj.com)

71 points by CaliforniaKarl on Jul 31, 2021 | 86 comments

21286.

Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012) (ianvisits.co.uk)

71 points by snee on Oct 19, 2021 | 84 comments

21287.

What happened to sidecars? (ontheroadtrends.com)

71 points by edward on Jul 8, 2021 | 82 comments

21288.

Ultraprocessed Foods Now Comprise 2/3 of Calories in Children and Teen Diets (now.tufts.edu)

71 points by prostoalex on Aug 17, 2021 | 82 comments

21289.

In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano’s magma (science.org)

71 points by rbanffy on Sep 19, 2021 | 82 comments

21290.

When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage (joe.cat)

71 points by lnyan on May 9, 2021 | 81 comments

21291.

Helion Energy achieves fusion milestone (eetimes.com)

71 points by danboarder on Jul 22, 2021 | 80 comments

21292.

Please, stop forcing a dark theme on a web-site visitors

71 points by Mikho on Aug 23, 2021 | 79 comments

21293.

“Don Quixote” as a manual for living (octavian.substack.com)

71 points by drjohnson on Sep 13, 2021 | 79 comments

21294.

Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming (bloomberg.com)

71 points by atlasunshrugged on Nov 13, 2021 | 79 comments

21295.

Fulfilling the Promise of CI/CD (stackoverflow.blog)

71 points by kiyanwang on Jan 20, 2021 | 77 comments

21296.

UiPath on track to be the best-ever European seed investment (sifted.eu)

71 points by imartin2k on Feb 15, 2021 | 77 comments

21297.

How I debate (lemire.me)

71 points by signa11 on Sep 29, 2021 | 76 comments

21298.

Everyone and no one belongs to New York (newstatesman.com)

71 points by samclemens on Jun 11, 2021 | 71 comments

21299.

A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)

71 points by miles on Apr 18, 2021 | 69 comments

21300.

A spy who helped to end apartheid (theguardian.com)

71 points by georgecmu on Sep 4, 2021 | 68 comments