HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

391.

Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half (guix.gnu.org)

284 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 | 76 comments

392.

Don Valentine has died (sequoiacap.com)

284 points by gatsby on Oct 25, 2019 | 26 comments

393.

The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms (technologyreview.com)

283 points by yarapavan on Oct 21, 2019 | 341 comments

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Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request (cpdos.org)

283 points by ldmail on Oct 22, 2019 | 88 comments

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Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at rates well above inflation (arstechnica.com)

282 points by pera on Oct 14, 2019 | 273 comments

396.

An apology to our community, and next steps (meta.stackexchange.com)

282 points by SnarkAsh on Oct 6, 2019 | 236 comments

397.

Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb (simblob.blogspot.com)

282 points by Sindisil on Oct 16, 2019 | 157 comments

398.

Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?

281 points by after_the_exit on Oct 12, 2019 | 153 comments

399.

Ask HN: I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing?

281 points by keithwhor on Oct 28, 2019 | 57 comments

400.

Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts (voxeu.org)

280 points by hhs on Oct 5, 2019 | 165 comments

401.

Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15 (mjtsai.com)

280 points by zdw on Oct 11, 2019 | 128 comments

402.

AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering (spun.io)

278 points by bifrost on Oct 11, 2019 | 150 comments

403.

A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM (thenewstack.io)

278 points by MilnerRoute on Oct 4, 2019 | 90 comments

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Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients? (twitter.com)

278 points by happy-go-lucky on Oct 21, 2019 | 47 comments

405.

A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals (nature.com)

276 points by elorant on Oct 3, 2019 | 261 comments

406.

The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market (pouet.net)

276 points by polemic on Oct 10, 2019 | 47 comments

407.

Messages via JSON (refl.me)

275 points by teko_ji on Oct 23, 2019 | 124 comments

408.

Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off (scottaaronson.com)

275 points by furcyd on Oct 23, 2019 | 56 comments

409.

Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions (pressroom.aboutschwab.com)

274 points by lxm on Oct 2, 2019 | 275 comments

410.

Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018) (nypost.com)

272 points by Alex3917 on Oct 17, 2019 | 78 comments

411.

NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics (newscientist.com)

271 points by elorant on Oct 14, 2019 | 132 comments

412.

The Future of Mathematics? [video] (youtube.com)

271 points by dgellow on Oct 9, 2019 | 99 comments

413.

Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines? (everydayastronaut.com)

271 points by wolfram74 on Oct 18, 2019 | 76 comments

414.

Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015) (dev.stephendiehl.com)

271 points by Cieplak on Oct 16, 2019 | 19 comments

415.

Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised (twitter.com)

271 points by doener on Oct 21, 2019 | 1 comments

416.

In a First, US Doctors Use Crispr Tool to Treat Patient with Genetic Disorder (npr.org)

270 points by mhb on Oct 10, 2019 | 88 comments

417.

FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo (twitter.com)

270 points by danso on Oct 9, 2019 | 84 comments

418.

We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management (chartio.com)

270 points by thingsilearned on Oct 31, 2019 | 47 comments

419.

Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process (npr.org)

269 points by tempsy on Oct 1, 2019 | 589 comments

420.

Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account (twitter.com)

269 points by modinfo on Oct 9, 2019 | 67 comments