HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018) (anishathalye.com)

1724 points by soegaard on Aug 6, 2019 | 214 comments

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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com)

1663 points by lordnacho on Aug 8, 2019 | 777 comments

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Introducing nushell (jonathanturner.org)

1477 points by bradleybuda on Aug 23, 2019 | 369 comments

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Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app (medium.com)

1400 points by lladnar on Aug 29, 2019 | 581 comments

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Ebola Is Now Curable (wired.com)

1232 points by jelliclesfarm on Aug 12, 2019 | 154 comments

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All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (medium.com)

1230 points by mbellotti on Aug 5, 2019 | 266 comments

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I Miss Microsoft Encarta (hanselman.com)

1198 points by zdw on Aug 19, 2019 | 406 comments

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Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’ (quora.com)

1181 points by enkiv2 on Aug 9, 2019 | 260 comments

9.

Information operations directed at Hong Kong (blog.twitter.com)

1116 points by whatok on Aug 19, 2019 | 441 comments

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Terminating Service for 8Chan (new.blog.cloudflare.com)

1098 points by sandmansandine on Aug 5, 2019 | 1376 comments

11.

What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time? (twitter.com)

1041 points by ingve on Aug 25, 2019 | 320 comments

12.

How to Build Good Software (csc.gov.sg)

1016 points by jingwen on Aug 19, 2019 | 239 comments

13.

NULL license plate not such a bright idea (knrs.iheart.com)

999 points by dublin on Aug 12, 2019 | 467 comments

14.

What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? (nsaphra.github.io)

986 points by panic on Aug 10, 2019 | 385 comments

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Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (vice.com)

953 points by pulisse on Aug 6, 2019 | 449 comments

16.

Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender (blender.org)

937 points by robin_reala on Aug 16, 2019 | 225 comments

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Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection (freedom-to-tinker.com)

918 points by randomwalker on Aug 23, 2019 | 256 comments

18.

Cloudflare S-1 (sec.gov)

915 points by tpw212 on Aug 15, 2019 | 351 comments

19.

8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service (theverge.com)

910 points by gregmac on Aug 5, 2019 | 1566 comments

20.

Please Add RSS Support to Your Site (kevq.uk)

904 points by kevq on Aug 27, 2019 | 296 comments

21.

No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers (sellercentral.amazon.com)

896 points by nkurz on Aug 27, 2019 | 483 comments

22.

Python Is Eating the World (zdnet.com)

879 points by gilad on Aug 12, 2019 | 957 comments

23.

Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic (wsj.com)

879 points by minimaxir on Aug 12, 2019 | 449 comments

24.

Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% (goodnewsnetwork.org)

865 points by RickJWagner on Aug 16, 2019 | 393 comments

25.

Hy (en.wikipedia.org)

850 points by tosh on Aug 4, 2019 | 141 comments

26.

Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer (neilkakkar.com)

849 points by neilkakkar on Aug 25, 2019 | 294 comments

27.

WeWTF (profgalloway.com)

840 points by braythwayt on Aug 17, 2019 | 278 comments

28.

Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye (linuxjournal.com)

838 points by akulbe on Aug 8, 2019 | 356 comments

29.

AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip (reuters.com)

837 points by jonbaer on Aug 8, 2019 | 255 comments

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US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers (theverge.com)

822 points by Grazester on Aug 11, 2019 | 442 comments