HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

961.

Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database (blog.timescale.com)

147 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 31, 2019 | 55 comments

962.

Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook (swish.swi-prolog.org)

147 points by xfer on Oct 29, 2019 | 53 comments

963.

Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family (github.com)

147 points by azhenley on Oct 26, 2019 | 34 comments

964.

Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer (pointersgonewild.com)

147 points by dmit on Oct 6, 2019 | 25 comments

965.

An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering (therealmjp.github.io)

147 points by mariuz on Oct 22, 2019 | 4 comments

966.

‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room (nytimes.com)

146 points by pseudolus on Oct 12, 2019 | 275 comments

967.

Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% (bloomberg.com)

146 points by pseudolus on Oct 16, 2019 | 225 comments

968.

Thanks Gitlab (cmpwn.com)

146 points by eitland on Oct 24, 2019 | 83 comments

969.

Scientists create device that cuts desalination costs by 90% (tass.com)

146 points by ohjeez on Oct 18, 2019 | 72 comments

970.

Microsoft announces dual-screen Surface Neo (theverge.com)

146 points by aminecodes on Oct 2, 2019 | 41 comments

971.

Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017) (journals.plos.org)

146 points by KenanSulayman on Oct 28, 2019 | 36 comments

972.

VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback (bloomberg.com)

145 points by johanam on Oct 23, 2019 | 182 comments

973.

Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit (nytimes.com)

145 points by mitchbob on Oct 28, 2019 | 87 comments

974.

What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters (1843magazine.com)

145 points by neonate on Oct 14, 2019 | 78 comments

975.

NixOS 19.09 (nixos.org)

145 points by trulyrandom on Oct 9, 2019 | 25 comments

976.

The myth of the teacher pay gap? (nationalaffairs.com)

144 points by autokill on Oct 1, 2019 | 301 comments

977.

Police blow up innocent man's home. No recompense, court rules (washingtonpost.com)

144 points by wallace_f on Oct 30, 2019 | 208 comments

978.

How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers (newrepublic.com)

144 points by smn1234 on Oct 2, 2019 | 142 comments

979.

Disney Is Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault (vulture.com)

144 points by auxym on Oct 27, 2019 | 124 comments

980.

Telling Whiskey from Whisky (physics.aps.org)

144 points by bookofjoe on Oct 26, 2019 | 112 comments

981.

Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking (ai.google)

144 points by sandGorgon on Oct 28, 2019 | 75 comments

982.

Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations (erikbern.com)

144 points by sigil on Oct 17, 2019 | 54 comments

983.

Photographing Big Waves at Mavericks (cake.co)

144 points by brudgers on Oct 18, 2019 | 13 comments

984.

A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015) (dlopuch.github.io)

144 points by robbya on Oct 25, 2019 | 9 comments

985.

UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system (theguardian.com)

143 points by JulianMorrison on Oct 16, 2019 | 122 comments

986.

The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018) (theatlantic.com)

143 points by agarden on Oct 19, 2019 | 121 comments

987.

Learn ClojureScript: Discovering Sequence Operations (learn-clojurescript.com)

143 points by kendru on Oct 19, 2019 | 52 comments

988.

Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down (dkthehuman.com)

143 points by dkthehuman on Oct 29, 2019 | 45 comments

989.

Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf] (pixelscommander.com)

143 points by trymas on Oct 18, 2019 | 44 comments

990.

Craftsmanship – The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset (2018) (dantawfik.com)

143 points by rpkoven on Oct 19, 2019 | 43 comments