HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4321.

In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016) (medium.com)

244 points by mariuz on Jun 14, 2018 | 160 comments

4322.

Research suggests some potential benefits to being a loner (bbc.com)

244 points by raphar on Mar 7, 2018 | 152 comments

4323.

A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death (thedailybeast.com)

244 points by danso on Jun 29, 2018 | 152 comments

4324.

Tell HN: Sci-Hub's TLS certificate has started failing

244 points by AlbertoGP on Apr 29, 2018 | 145 comments

4325.

Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt (bloomberg.com)

244 points by lawrenceyan on Dec 20, 2018 | 130 comments

4326.

New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances (aws.amazon.com)

244 points by jeffbarr on Nov 6, 2018 | 116 comments

4327.

NHS.UK frontend (github.com)

244 points by DanBC on Dec 20, 2018 | 109 comments

4328.

WhatsApp sends Cease and Desists for apps that use native Android APIs (xda-developers.com)

244 points by mimerme on Jul 5, 2018 | 106 comments

4329.

A remote UK community living off-grid (bbc.co.uk)

244 points by cmsefton on Nov 19, 2018 | 104 comments

4330.

Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep (beyondgrep.com)

244 points by infodroid on Jan 8, 2018 | 100 comments

4331.

The independent researcher (nadiaeghbal.com)

244 points by hardmaru on Jun 30, 2018 | 91 comments

4332.

Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset (hackernoon.com)

244 points by rpkoven on Jan 27, 2018 | 83 comments

4333.

A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013) (beza1e1.tuxen.de)

244 points by chii on Feb 15, 2018 | 63 comments

4334.

Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try (filfre.net)

244 points by nikbackm on Jul 21, 2018 | 59 comments

4335.

Opinion: Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe (theguardian.com)

244 points by slbenfica on Jun 30, 2018 | 57 comments

4336.

Millitext – A subpixel text encoding font (advent.morr.cc)

244 points by jonshariat on Dec 17, 2018 | 56 comments

4337.

Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity (arcan-fe.com)

244 points by buovjaga on Oct 20, 2018 | 49 comments

4338.

A lesson in wireless engineering from the Raspberry Pi (embedded-computing.com)

244 points by sohkamyung on Apr 19, 2018 | 46 comments

4339.

Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust (bluejekyll.github.io)

244 points by bluejekyll on Dec 28, 2018 | 22 comments

4340.

Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier (physicstravelguide.com)

244 points by sohkamyung on Feb 14, 2018 | 21 comments

4341.

TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes (github.com)

244 points by known on Aug 11, 2018 | 21 comments

4342.

K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system (cbc.ca)

243 points by camtarn on Dec 19, 2018 | 339 comments

4343.

Apple Admits to Hardware Quality Problems with iPhone X, MacBook Pro (thurrott.com)

243 points by walterbell on Nov 10, 2018 | 236 comments

4344.

The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (2014) (theguardian.com)

243 points by IntronExon on Mar 4, 2018 | 213 comments

4345.

GitHub and Jira Software Integration (blog.github.com)

243 points by joeyespo on Oct 5, 2018 | 213 comments

4346.

Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview (blog.qt.io)

243 points by fantasticsid on Apr 23, 2018 | 191 comments

4347.

Firefox bullshit removal (gist.github.com)

243 points by tobiasrenger on Jan 12, 2018 | 171 comments

4348.

Ask HN: Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it?

243 points by ccdev on Feb 13, 2018 | 167 comments

4349.

Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job (bloomberg.com)

243 points by dmmalam on Mar 10, 2018 | 163 comments

4350.

An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010) (henrytapper.com)

243 points by hodder on Mar 19, 2018 | 161 comments