HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine (2007) (plasmasturm.org)

209 points by userbinator on Sep 3, 2019 | 77 comments

542.

Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken California privacy law (arstechnica.com)

208 points by close04 on Sep 16, 2019 | 36 comments

543.

Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python (blogs.dropbox.com)

207 points by signa11 on Sep 7, 2019 | 107 comments

544.

Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession (cassandracapital.net)

206 points by joshuafkon on Sep 3, 2019 | 200 comments

545.

Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes (wsj.com)

206 points by xoa on Sep 14, 2019 | 183 comments

546.

Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation (onezero.medium.com)

206 points by milligan on Sep 14, 2019 | 137 comments

547.

Avoiding Intellectual Phase Lock (books.google.com)

206 points by monort on Sep 30, 2019 | 74 comments

548.

Need a USB Cable? Build One (josef-adamcik.cz)

206 points by Gedxx on Sep 3, 2019 | 67 comments

549.

We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone (technologyreview.com)

205 points by laurex on Sep 29, 2019 | 127 comments

550.

A man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard (2016) (vox.com)

205 points by rococode on Sep 16, 2019 | 59 comments

551.

On Sharding (tbray.org)

205 points by Isofarro on Sep 27, 2019 | 40 comments

552.

Metronomes in JavaScript (meowni.ca)

205 points by baylearn on Sep 11, 2019 | 39 comments

553.

Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers (blog.jonlu.ca)

204 points by jonluca on Sep 11, 2019 | 349 comments

554.

Centralised DoH is bad for privacy (blog.powerdns.com)

204 points by ahubert on Sep 25, 2019 | 209 comments

555.

Warning: Implicit Backdoor (flak.tedunangst.com)

204 points by ssklash on Sep 4, 2019 | 98 comments

556.

A Love Letter to Personal Websites (vanschneider.com)

204 points by devbas on Sep 17, 2019 | 95 comments

557.

End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car (washingtonpost.com)

203 points by pseudolus on Sep 22, 2019 | 238 comments

558.

IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer (techcrunch.com)

203 points by Anon84 on Sep 18, 2019 | 166 comments

559.

Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators (decrypt.co)

203 points by elies on Sep 26, 2019 | 146 comments

560.

Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running (bloomberg.com)

203 points by hhs on Sep 1, 2019 | 77 comments

561.

Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions (nytimes.com)

202 points by elorant on Sep 20, 2019 | 315 comments

562.

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control (npr.org)

202 points by Anon84 on Sep 11, 2019 | 120 comments

563.

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006) (norvig.com)

202 points by Pete_D on Sep 4, 2019 | 95 comments

564.

China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx (wsj.com)

201 points by smaili on Sep 19, 2019 | 181 comments

565.

Why industry is going green on the quiet (theguardian.com)

201 points by NeedMoreTea on Sep 8, 2019 | 173 comments

566.

DRM Broke Its Promise (locusmag.com)

201 points by dredmorbius on Sep 4, 2019 | 172 comments

567.

Don't build growth teams (conversionxl.com)

201 points by jasim on Sep 13, 2019 | 97 comments

568.

Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy (cnn.com)

200 points by danso on Sep 27, 2019 | 272 comments

569.

When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone (vogue.com)

200 points by lucasjans on Sep 20, 2019 | 131 comments

570.

iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs (techcrunch.com)

200 points by metaphysics on Sep 16, 2019 | 122 comments