HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015 (desmogblog.com)

354 points by howard941 on Aug 21, 2019 | 110 comments

212.

WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera (theverge.com)

352 points by artsandsci on Aug 15, 2019 | 194 comments

213.

How Rust optimizes async/await (tmandry.gitlab.io)

351 points by tmandry on Aug 19, 2019 | 123 comments

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One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm (routefifty.com)

350 points by emrosecoleman on Aug 12, 2019 | 153 comments

215.

Async-std: an async port of the Rust standard library (async.rs)

349 points by JoshTriplett on Aug 16, 2019 | 234 comments

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The Art of Warez [video] (vimeo.com)

349 points by fcambus on Aug 2, 2019 | 95 comments

217.

RegExr (regexr.com)

349 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2019 | 54 comments

218.

Get your work recognized: write a brag document (jvns.ca)

347 points by yesenadam on Aug 10, 2019 | 78 comments

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One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO (madewithlove.be)

346 points by andreascreten on Aug 8, 2019 | 68 comments

220.

Productivity and the Workweek (2000) (groups.csail.mit.edu)

345 points by kamiYcombi on Aug 22, 2019 | 228 comments

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Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects (kottke.org)

343 points by kwindla on Aug 19, 2019 | 54 comments

222.

The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild (japanesecomplete.com)

342 points by sova on Aug 17, 2019 | 208 comments

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Contributing to the Mozilla code base (developer.mozilla.org)

342 points by new_here on Aug 2, 2019 | 150 comments

224.

The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018) (thebroadcastbridge.com)

340 points by Aromasin on Aug 1, 2019 | 153 comments

225.

The Impact of Meditating Every Day (pascalprecht.github.io)

339 points by PascalPrecht on Aug 16, 2019 | 209 comments

226.

Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator (observablehq.com)

339 points by mourner on Aug 15, 2019 | 65 comments

227.

Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything (medium.com)

338 points by undefined1 on Aug 23, 2019 | 289 comments

228.

IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation (eejournal.com)

337 points by larra on Aug 28, 2019 | 136 comments

229.

Google's software mistreats or harms the user (gnu.org)

336 points by eddyg on Aug 20, 2019 | 269 comments

230.

Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why (apps.npr.org)

336 points by kevinrpope on Aug 21, 2019 | 215 comments

231.

IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business (accountingtoday.com)

335 points by mars4rp on Aug 20, 2019 | 302 comments

232.

Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires (arstechnica.com)

335 points by 0xffff2 on Aug 11, 2019 | 262 comments

233.

Calculus Is Deeply Irrational (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

335 points by ColinWright on Aug 19, 2019 | 159 comments

234.

Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com)

333 points by neka on Aug 1, 2019 | 82 comments

235.

The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech (palladiummag.com)

332 points by jseliger on Aug 10, 2019 | 167 comments

236.

AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network (geekwire.com)

332 points by starpilot on Aug 6, 2019 | 151 comments

237.

Rest-client gem is hijacked (github.com)

332 points by PleaseHelpMe on Aug 20, 2019 | 107 comments

238.

Silk (weavesilk.com)

332 points by luu on Aug 4, 2019 | 36 comments

239.

Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’ (theverge.com)

331 points by _bxg1 on Aug 26, 2019 | 507 comments

240.

The We Company S-1 (sec.gov)

330 points by dawhizkid on Aug 14, 2019 | 330 comments