HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3691.

Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism (vox.com)

10 points by davidw on Jan 3, 2019 | 0 comments

3692.

TODO_BEFORE(): A Clean Codebase for 2019 (fluentcpp.com)

10 points by osopanda on Jan 3, 2019 | 0 comments

3693.

Fixing a flaw in photosynthesis could massively boost food production (newscientist.com)

10 points by jandrese on Jan 3, 2019 | 0 comments

3694.

Google shifted $23bn to tax haven Bermuda in 2017, filing shows (theguardian.com)

10 points by nwrk on Jan 4, 2019 | 0 comments

3695.

What is preventing humans from going to Mars in 2019? (quora.com)

10 points by mpweiher on Jan 5, 2019 | 0 comments

3696.

DiyHue – Philips Hue Bridge Open Source Alternative (github.com)

10 points by bjoko on Jan 7, 2019 | 0 comments

3697.

Doctors believed babies felt no pain--never using anesthesia--until the mid '80s (bostonglobe.com)

10 points by wallace_f on Jan 7, 2019 | 0 comments

3698.

Deep Chain Reorganization Detected on Ethereum Classic (ETC) (blog.coinbase.com)

10 points by ealexhudson on Jan 7, 2019 | 0 comments

3699.

Imputing text data using markov random fields (opendoor.com)

10 points by zan2434 on Jan 8, 2019 | 0 comments

3700.

YAAP: SWAGGINZZZ – A Tool Assisted Nethack Speedrun on NAO (pellsson.github.io)

10 points by r3n on Jan 8, 2019 | 0 comments

3701.

Newly Released FOIA Documents on Border Patrol’s Seemingly Limitless Authority (theintercept.com)

10 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 8, 2019 | 0 comments

3702.

Thoughtcrime and Punishment: Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University (quillette.com)

10 points by pseudolus on Jan 8, 2019 | 0 comments

3703.

SIM Swapping Victims Who Lost Millions Pressure Telcos to Protect Customers (motherboard.vice.com)

10 points by pseudolus on Jan 8, 2019 | 0 comments

3704.

The Shutdown Shows Just How Vital Government Scientists Are (wired.com)

10 points by jonbaer on Jan 9, 2019 | 0 comments

3705.

TensorFlow.js – Real-Time Object Detection in 10 Lines of Code (hackernoon.com)

10 points by snow_mac on Jan 9, 2019 | 0 comments

3706.

Iconic Bookstore Owner Pleads with NYC: Don't Landmark My Property (reason.com)

10 points by pseudolus on Jan 9, 2019 | 0 comments

3707.

Hot new trading site leaked oodles of user data, including login tokens (arstechnica.com)

10 points by xoa on Jan 9, 2019 | 0 comments

3708.

Apple Says Patent Troll Case Should Be Dismissed Because [REDACTED] (eff.org)

10 points by rbanffy on Jan 9, 2019 | 0 comments

3709.

Tim Brady on Leadership Challenges in Fast-Growing Companies (torch.io)

10 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 10, 2019 | 0 comments

3710.

How Facebook Could Be Affected by a Billion-Dollar Lawsuit (hollywoodreporter.com)

10 points by Jerry2 on Jan 10, 2019 | 0 comments

3711.

Bananas have died out once before (aeon.co)

10 points by bushido on Jan 10, 2019 | 0 comments

3712.

Facebook-executive swatting sends significant police response to his home (arstechnica.com)

10 points by vatueil on Jan 10, 2019 | 0 comments

3713.

Millions on prescription sleeping pills would sleep through a fire alarm (medicalxpress.com)

10 points by GNU_IS_UNIX on Jan 11, 2019 | 0 comments

3714.

Brexit panic buying: UK police advise shops to hire extra security (edition.cnn.com)

10 points by belltaco on Jan 11, 2019 | 0 comments

3715.

Why is buying Hacker News upvotes so expensive compared to Reddit? (upvotes.club)

10 points by farazzz on Jan 12, 2019 | 0 comments

3716.

A neural network can learn to organize the world it sees into concepts (technologyreview.com)

10 points by eaguyhn on Jan 13, 2019 | 0 comments

3717.

From the Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward to in 2019 (phoronix.com)

10 points by axiomdata316 on Jan 13, 2019 | 0 comments

3718.

AI Index 2018 Report [pdf] (cdn.aiindex.org)

10 points by ghosthamlet on Jan 15, 2019 | 0 comments

3719.

Pai Refuses to Brief Congress About Bounty Hunters Buying Phone Location Data (motherboard.vice.com)

10 points by petethomas on Jan 15, 2019 | 0 comments

3720.

If He's Sexually Aggressive in Bars, It's Not Because He's Drunk (npr.org)

10 points by DanBC on Jan 17, 2019 | 0 comments