HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers anomaly at Cape Canaveral (floridatoday.com)

243 points by jbuzbee on Apr 21, 2019 | 153 comments

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Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57 (fireballs.imo.net)

243 points by mpweiher on Apr 17, 2019 | 119 comments

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Cadence: Uber's Workflow Orchestration Engine (github.com)

243 points by vruiz on Apr 23, 2019 | 85 comments

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Prisma – Database tools for modern application development (prisma.io)

243 points by octosphere on Apr 7, 2019 | 83 comments

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Insulin Pumps, Decapped Chips and Software Defined Radios (blog.usejournal.com)

243 points by colinprince on Apr 27, 2019 | 49 comments

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‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy (bloomberg.com)

243 points by mzs on Apr 17, 2019 | 31 comments

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IPFS Project Roadmap (github.com)

242 points by robto on Apr 12, 2019 | 149 comments

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U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data (nytimes.com)

241 points by bookofjoe on Apr 30, 2019 | 114 comments

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Anatomy of an ELF executable (kishuagarwal.github.io)

241 points by kishu18 on Apr 30, 2019 | 23 comments

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Mathematics and Computation [pdf] (math.ias.edu)

241 points by MAXPOOL on Apr 8, 2019 | 14 comments

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Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended that (nytimes.com)

240 points by tysone on Apr 17, 2019 | 190 comments

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Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts (gizmodo.com)

240 points by alistairSH on Apr 18, 2019 | 2 comments

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The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed (jamesgmartin.center)

239 points by jseliger on Apr 24, 2019 | 222 comments

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What It's Like to View a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch (olivierforget.net)

238 points by teleclimber on Apr 15, 2019 | 65 comments

435.

IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care (spectrum.ieee.org)

237 points by SiempreViernes on Apr 7, 2019 | 121 comments

436.

The Problem with ‘5 Whys’ (2016) (qualitysafety.bmj.com)

237 points by zdw on Apr 10, 2019 | 116 comments

437.

Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?

237 points by chrisherd on Apr 11, 2019 | 68 comments

438.

Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database (blog.yugabyte.com)

237 points by sickeythecat on Apr 26, 2019 | 34 comments

439.

Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind (scientificamerican.com)

236 points by pseudolus on Apr 16, 2019 | 118 comments

440.

Defence Against the Docker Arts (blog.heroku.com)

236 points by codefinger on Apr 3, 2019 | 97 comments

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2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results (stackoverflow.blog)

235 points by joaomoreno on Apr 9, 2019 | 185 comments

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JQuery 3.4.0 Released (blog.jquery.com)

235 points by mkurz on Apr 10, 2019 | 161 comments

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How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals (bsid.io)

235 points by jseliger on Apr 7, 2019 | 155 comments

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Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless in Seattle (seattletimes.com)

235 points by danso on Apr 17, 2019 | 141 comments

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An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy (behindthequest.com)

234 points by zzaner on Apr 8, 2019 | 206 comments

446.

Freelancer.com stole from me and ruined my life (trustpilot.com)

234 points by kiraken on Apr 26, 2019 | 109 comments

447.

Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2018) (github.com)

234 points by r0f1 on Apr 16, 2019 | 12 comments

448.

It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse (johnnygrubb.com)

233 points by Jgrubb on Apr 7, 2019 | 276 comments

449.

Japanese study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful (japantimes.co.jp)

232 points by clouddrover on Apr 11, 2019 | 60 comments

450.

Splitting atoms in XNU (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

232 points by wardn on Apr 1, 2019 | 34 comments