HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

781.

I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017) (huffpost.com)

617 points by ilamont on Apr 29, 2019 | 443 comments

782.

Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby (sorbet.org)

617 points by abhorrence on Jun 20, 2019 | 268 comments

783.

Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (mikkel.hoegh.org)

616 points by mikl on Nov 1, 2019 | 198 comments

784.

The Product-Minded Software Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

616 points by turingbook on Dec 7, 2019 | 142 comments

785.

Sinkholed (susam.in)

616 points by swiftsecurity on Dec 4, 2019 | 130 comments

786.

Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python (victorzhou.com)

616 points by vzhou842 on Mar 6, 2019 | 100 comments

787.

Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark (termshark.io)

616 points by gcla on Apr 23, 2019 | 63 comments

788.

Open source firmware is important for security (blog.jessfraz.com)

615 points by eindiran on May 9, 2019 | 100 comments

789.

Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men (nytimes.com)

614 points by gatsby on Mar 4, 2019 | 592 comments

790.

Redesigning GitHub Repository Page (tonsky.me)

614 points by kirushik on Feb 28, 2019 | 303 comments

791.

Keybase is not softer than TOFU (keybase.io)

614 points by malgorithms on Mar 27, 2019 | 293 comments

792.

SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce (latimes.com)

613 points by berbec on Jan 12, 2019 | 528 comments

793.

Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star (nationalgeographic.com)

612 points by TuringTest on Jun 18, 2019 | 371 comments

794.

Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks (grh.am)

612 points by graystevens on Jul 10, 2019 | 334 comments

795.

Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data (thedailybeast.com)

612 points by NN88 on Mar 30, 2019 | 171 comments

796.

DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps (spreadprivacy.com)

611 points by doener on Jul 16, 2019 | 279 comments

797.

How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger (npr.org)

611 points by n_t on Mar 15, 2019 | 251 comments

798.

How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018) (medium.com)

611 points by rodneyg_ on Jun 4, 2019 | 217 comments

799.

The Fantasy of Opting Out (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

611 points by pshaw on Nov 1, 2019 | 195 comments

800.

YouTube bans comments on all videos of children (bbc.co.uk)

610 points by _wmd on Feb 28, 2019 | 530 comments

801.

Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage (usatoday.com)

610 points by ajiang on Mar 13, 2019 | 331 comments

802.

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

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

803.

Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours (universetoday.com)

610 points by cyanbane on Aug 13, 2019 | 244 comments

804.

Technical Debt (martinfowler.com)

610 points by BerislavLopac on May 21, 2019 | 240 comments

805.

Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing (chaseoptout.com)

610 points by zbruhnke on Jun 11, 2019 | 231 comments

806.

Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video] (pytorch.org)

610 points by vyuh on Oct 13, 2019 | 59 comments

807.

Arabsat-6A mission [video] (spacex.com)

609 points by jacquesm on Apr 11, 2019 | 230 comments

808.

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

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

809.

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

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

810.

TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes (propublica.org)

608 points by justinpropub on Apr 22, 2019 | 274 comments