HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products (wsj.com)

642 points by juokaz on Sep 16, 2019 | 413 comments

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Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found (thetimes.co.uk)

639 points by laurex on Sep 22, 2019 | 408 comments

63.

Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies (bloomberg.com)

623 points by ph0rque on Sep 19, 2019 | 498 comments

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Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc' (en.wikipedia.org)

620 points by rspivak on Sep 1, 2019 | 126 comments

65.

Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing (wikimediafoundation.org)

610 points by app4soft on Sep 7, 2019 | 294 comments

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Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app (forbes.com)

609 points by rmason on Sep 2, 2019 | 216 comments

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Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill (scmp.com)

608 points by riffraff on Sep 4, 2019 | 323 comments

68.

Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

608 points by signa11 on Sep 18, 2019 | 211 comments

69.

Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet (nationalgeographic.com)

606 points by Leace on Sep 11, 2019 | 384 comments

70.

Bring Back the SE (avc.com)

604 points by abhi3 on Sep 10, 2019 | 331 comments

71.

A patent lawsuit against GNOME (lwn.net)

604 points by globuous on Sep 25, 2019 | 319 comments

72.

Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ (scottaaronson.com)

603 points by xmmrm on Sep 23, 2019 | 208 comments

73.

Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1 (inkscape.org)

603 points by nkoren on Sep 18, 2019 | 164 comments

74.

Modern C, Second Edition (gustedt.wordpress.com)

597 points by matt_d on Sep 18, 2019 | 233 comments

75.

Weld: Accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM (notamonadtutorial.com)

592 points by unbalancedparen on Sep 21, 2019 | 110 comments

76.

Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy (techdirt.com)

574 points by kamiYcombi on Sep 18, 2019 | 541 comments

77.

The Internet Relies on People Working for Free (onezero.medium.com)

569 points by gilad on Sep 17, 2019 | 358 comments

78.

iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max (apple.com)

567 points by Zaheer on Sep 10, 2019 | 1155 comments

79.

Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law (techcrunch.com)

566 points by ssklash on Sep 19, 2019 | 534 comments

80.

Firefox 69.0 Released (mozilla.org)

563 points by sulkie on Sep 3, 2019 | 300 comments

81.

Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket (twitter.com)

553 points by julien_c on Sep 16, 2019 | 225 comments

82.

42 is found to be the sum of three cubes (twitter.com)

552 points by techolic on Sep 6, 2019 | 237 comments

83.

Tired of Stack Overflow (arp242.net)

548 points by mrzool on Sep 2, 2019 | 497 comments

84.

Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking (torrentfreak.com)

546 points by vezycash on Sep 19, 2019 | 360 comments

85.

Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986 (nme.com)

545 points by ValentineC on Sep 8, 2019 | 405 comments

86.

Day Trading for a Living? (papers.ssrn.com)

543 points by ak39 on Sep 11, 2019 | 366 comments

87.

Starship Prototype Unveiled (space.com)

543 points by childintime on Sep 29, 2019 | 330 comments

88.

The cost of parsing JSON (v8.dev)

543 points by s9w on Sep 18, 2019 | 293 comments

89.

Text Rendering Hates You (gankra.github.io)

542 points by robin_reala on Sep 29, 2019 | 169 comments

90.

A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics (github.com)

540 points by feross on Sep 19, 2019 | 147 comments