HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

Estimate the size of your English vocabulary (2014) (vocabulary.ugent.be)

119 points by pushedx on Jun 20, 2019 | 108 comments

1052.

How dried fish is made in Iceland (icelandmonitor.mbl.is)

119 points by bifrost on Jun 13, 2019 | 94 comments

1053.

Hong Kong Leader Backs Down on China Law But More Protests Planned (wsj.com)

119 points by JumpCrisscross on Jun 15, 2019 | 85 comments

1054.

Solving Programming Puzzles Without Using Your Brain (doisinkidney.com)

119 points by lelf on Jun 4, 2019 | 17 comments

1055.

Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare (standingwellback.com)

119 points by monort on Jun 2, 2019 | 12 comments

1056.

Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6T in US student loan debt (m.stamfordadvocate.com)

118 points by spking on Jun 24, 2019 | 313 comments

1057.

Cold-war-style suspicion of Chinese-American and Chinese academics (scmp.com)

118 points by chvid on Jun 30, 2019 | 114 comments

1058.

Ask HN: What do middle-level managers do?

118 points by vagab0nd on Jun 29, 2019 | 85 comments

1059.

Brush your teeth – postpone Alzheimer's (eurekalert.org)

118 points by conse_lad on Jun 4, 2019 | 76 comments

1060.

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers (wsj.com)

117 points by Osiris30 on Jun 14, 2019 | 256 comments

1061.

Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor (evertpot.com)

117 points by treve on Jun 11, 2019 | 173 comments

1062.

A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics (vox.com)

117 points by carlosgg on Jun 12, 2019 | 166 comments

1063.

IT professionals should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015) (planetmainframe.com)

117 points by rbanffy on Jun 27, 2019 | 115 comments

1064.

Remembering Murray Gell-Mann (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

117 points by seagullz on Jun 1, 2019 | 39 comments

1065.

Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement (kubernetes.io)

117 points by jcastro on Jun 19, 2019 | 6 comments

1066.

Lessons learned from rewriting code (huseyinpolatyuruk.com)

116 points by hpolatyuruk on Jun 15, 2019 | 132 comments

1067.

France bans the publication of statistical information about judges’ decisions (artificiallawyer.com)

116 points by megamega on Jun 4, 2019 | 123 comments

1068.

Show HN: Never-Blink: Blink and Lose. An Online Web Game (github.com)

116 points by byronhsu1230 on Jun 13, 2019 | 64 comments

1069.

Smartphones and Dematerialization (wired.com)

116 points by mpweiher on Jun 30, 2019 | 55 comments

1070.

Versioning Your Home Directory (martinovic.blog)

116 points by TopHatCroat on Jun 9, 2019 | 43 comments

1071.

Avoiding Instruction Cache Misses (pdziepak.github.io)

116 points by ingve on Jun 22, 2019 | 40 comments

1072.

The toll climate change is taking on oceans (nationalgeographic.com)

116 points by codermobile on Jun 9, 2019 | 37 comments

1073.

RISC-V formal spec public review (github.com)

116 points by edwintorok on Jun 20, 2019 | 34 comments

1074.

PracticeJS – Coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app (practicejs.com)

116 points by rem_one on Jun 8, 2019 | 19 comments

1075.

The Human Antivenom Project (outsideonline.com)

116 points by mstats on Jun 2, 2019 | 18 comments

1076.

SATNet: Bridging deep learning and logical reasoning with differentiable SAT (arxiv.org)

116 points by pizza on Jun 3, 2019 | 17 comments

1077.

AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring (aws.amazon.com)

116 points by jeffbarr on Jun 25, 2019 | 12 comments

1078.

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client (apple.com)

116 points by rdl on Jun 27, 2019 | 8 comments

1079.

California utility to cut power to 27k customers to reduce wildfire risk (reuters.com)

115 points by onetimemanytime on Jun 9, 2019 | 183 comments

1080.

Sleep trackers can make insomnia worse (nytimes.com)

115 points by bookofjoe on Jun 14, 2019 | 137 comments