HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video] (youtube.com)

217 points by themgt on Aug 27, 2019 | 69 comments

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A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017) (elpais.com)

216 points by JetSpiegel on Aug 22, 2019 | 139 comments

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Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest (bbc.com)

216 points by andreiursan on Aug 21, 2019 | 122 comments

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America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young (economist.com)

216 points by CPAhem on Aug 15, 2019 | 101 comments

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Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion (isro.gov.in)

216 points by signa11 on Aug 20, 2019 | 42 comments

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Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer (vice.com)

215 points by kccqzy on Aug 11, 2019 | 150 comments

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Levenshtein Distance (en.wikipedia.org)

215 points by tosh on Aug 22, 2019 | 126 comments

488.

Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns (punpedia.org)

215 points by curtis on Aug 3, 2019 | 54 comments

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Open Startups List (open-startups.xyz)

215 points by ferminrp on Aug 11, 2019 | 35 comments

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The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure (sciencealert.com)

214 points by prostoalex on Aug 17, 2019 | 337 comments

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Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine (bbc.com)

214 points by rbanffy on Aug 30, 2019 | 172 comments

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Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks (techcrunch.com)

214 points by cloud_thrasher on Aug 7, 2019 | 126 comments

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What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space (utcc.utoronto.ca)

214 points by stargrave on Aug 8, 2019 | 88 comments

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Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity (vanityfair.com)

213 points by AndrewBissell on Aug 25, 2019 | 266 comments

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Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work (rachelbythebay.com)

213 points by r4um on Aug 9, 2019 | 119 comments

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Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B (techcrunch.com)

213 points by sgloutnikov on Aug 21, 2019 | 113 comments

497.

Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code (github.com)

213 points by groundlogic on Aug 17, 2019 | 41 comments

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How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be (figma.com)

213 points by twog on Aug 8, 2019 | 37 comments

499.

Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing (sloanreview.mit.edu)

212 points by sarapeyton on Aug 27, 2019 | 257 comments

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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens (taxwatchuk.org)

212 points by danso on Aug 4, 2019 | 204 comments

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WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn (bloomberg.com)

212 points by jpm_sd on Aug 14, 2019 | 168 comments

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Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? (nytimes.com)

212 points by mmq on Aug 9, 2019 | 159 comments

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AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1 (status.aws.amazon.com)

212 points by jacobwg on Aug 31, 2019 | 146 comments

504.

Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students' (bbc.co.uk)

212 points by metaphysics on Aug 2, 2019 | 143 comments

505.

Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video] (youtube.com)

212 points by danielinoa on Aug 3, 2019 | 127 comments

506.

How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness (lesswrong.com)

212 points by astrofinch on Aug 31, 2019 | 114 comments

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Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight (techcrunch.com)

212 points by lil-scamp on Aug 26, 2019 | 108 comments

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Interviews with programming language creators (2010) [pdf] (math.bas.bg)

212 points by MrXOR on Aug 26, 2019 | 44 comments

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Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time (seashells.io)

212 points by pcr910303 on Aug 6, 2019 | 42 comments

510.

Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates (nimh.nih.gov)

211 points by newsreview1 on Aug 30, 2019 | 253 comments