HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

14701.

Python should take a lesson from APL: Walrus operator not needed

102 points by robomartin on Nov 5, 2019 | 106 comments

14702.

Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] (cs.kent.ac.uk)

102 points by palerdot on Nov 8, 2019 | 103 comments

14703.

China’s new ‘social credit system’ (nypost.com)

102 points by doener on May 20, 2019 | 102 comments

14704.

Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like (acoachcalledlife.com)

102 points by swamy_g on Jan 28, 2019 | 99 comments

14705.

Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News (facebook.com)

102 points by atlasunshrugged on Jan 15, 2019 | 96 comments

14706.

Black Blacker Than Vantablack (dezeen.com)

102 points by compilers on Sep 27, 2019 | 94 comments

14707.

Keybase and Stellar Partner on XLM Airdrop Worth $118M (keybase.io)

102 points by jqueryin on Sep 9, 2019 | 92 comments

14708.

Entrepreneurism Is Overrated (greyenlightenment.com)

102 points by paulpauper on Mar 31, 2019 | 88 comments

14709.

Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

102 points by stepbeek on Aug 19, 2019 | 84 comments

14710.

Most Americans see catastrophic weather events worsening (nypost.com)

102 points by elorant on Sep 9, 2019 | 79 comments

14711.

DEA agents conduct surprise searches of Amtrak passengers (theintercept.com)

102 points by eplanit on Aug 31, 2019 | 77 comments

14712.

Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI (skydio.com)

102 points by mtb2718 on Oct 1, 2019 | 77 comments

14713.

Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

102 points by sdedovic on Jan 10, 2019 | 76 comments

14714.

Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration (aboutchromebooks.com)

102 points by jmsflknr on Jan 19, 2019 | 76 comments

14715.

Why we chose Rust (bitbucket.org)

102 points by ingve on Jun 20, 2019 | 76 comments

14716.

Chinese restaurants are closing – many owners are glad (nytimes.com)

102 points by pseudolus on Dec 24, 2019 | 76 comments

14717.

How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts (pcworld.com)

102 points by mancerayder on Jul 22, 2019 | 75 comments

14718.

David E. Shaw and the Ultimate College Hedge (nymag.com)

102 points by wallflower on Sep 28, 2019 | 75 comments

14719.

Heliogen targets 1500°C solar thermal (vox.com)

102 points by nclzz on Nov 28, 2019 | 74 comments

14720.

Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes (wsj.com)

102 points by tompic823 on Dec 11, 2019 | 71 comments

14721.

The MacBook keyboard fiasco is surely worse than Apple thinks (m.signalvnoise.com)

102 points by jlangenauer on Apr 1, 2019 | 68 comments

14722.

Caffeine enhances activity of common antidepressants in forced swim test in mice (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

102 points by hmart on Dec 15, 2019 | 66 comments

14723.

Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers (theguardian.com)

102 points by chaghalibaghali on Aug 6, 2019 | 65 comments

14724.

What are the limits of deep learning? (pnas.org)

102 points by pizza on Jan 23, 2019 | 64 comments

14725.

Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there (economist.com)

102 points by pseudolus on Jul 18, 2019 | 64 comments

14726.

iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers (schneier.com)

102 points by hsnewman on Jun 25, 2019 | 63 comments

14727.

China has started a grand experiment in AI education (technologyreview.com)

102 points by Errorcod3 on Aug 2, 2019 | 62 comments

14728.

Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing' (bbc.co.uk)

102 points by hanoz on Oct 12, 2019 | 62 comments

14729.

When Algorithms Think You Want to Die (wired.com)

102 points by iron0013 on Feb 22, 2019 | 61 comments

14730.

Show HN: PaaS with database and free backups (backery.io)

102 points by vincelt on Apr 6, 2019 | 59 comments