HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

19681.

What companies does Google own? (acquiredby.co)

70 points by naeemnur on Mar 30, 2019 | 21 comments

19682.

The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’ (sixthtone.com)

70 points by cow9 on Dec 12, 2019 | 21 comments

19683.

Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable (syslog.ravelin.com)

70 points by jonomacd on Jan 24, 2019 | 20 comments

19684.

Singapore temporarily suspends Boeing 737 Max into and out of its airports (caas.gov.sg)

70 points by jacksg on Mar 12, 2019 | 20 comments

19685.

Pyramid Tracks: Obscure, retro, and weird royalty free music (pyramidtracks.com)

70 points by Boxfreshpidge on Jun 13, 2019 | 20 comments

19686.

A new business in small satellites orbiting the Earth (economist.com)

70 points by edward on Jun 14, 2019 | 20 comments

19687.

Why Some People Are Impossibly Talented (bbc.com)

70 points by andrewl on Nov 23, 2019 | 20 comments

19688.

Programming in Rust: the good, the bad, the ugly (hackernoon.com)

70 points by letswritecode on Mar 12, 2019 | 19 comments

19689.

Patent Exhaustion and Open Source (lwn.net)

70 points by fanf2 on Feb 21, 2019 | 18 comments

19690.

Minard / Morse / Tufte and Authenticity on the Web (2018) (masswerk.at)

70 points by lifthrasiir on Mar 30, 2019 | 17 comments

19691.

Writing a Procedural Puzzle Generator (snellman.net)

70 points by luu on May 16, 2019 | 17 comments

19692.

Show HN: Quickly generate REST API (for Postgres db)

70 points by _c6yb on Sep 9, 2019 | 17 comments

19693.

In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive (nytimes.com)

70 points by sinak on Dec 4, 2019 | 17 comments

19694.

Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run Facebook? (twitter.com)

70 points by twapi on Feb 6, 2019 | 16 comments

19695.

Hyperspace in the 1970s: Tony Buzan’s early hypertext system for paper (frieze.com)

70 points by justanothersys on Jun 13, 2019 | 16 comments

19696.

China Warns World Leaders: Don't Talk About the Hong Kong Protests (news.vice.com)

70 points by lawrenceyan on Jun 25, 2019 | 16 comments

19697.

A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast (eater.com)

70 points by yawz on Aug 8, 2019 | 16 comments

19698.

Programming with Effects (matfournier.com)

70 points by luu on Nov 22, 2019 | 16 comments

19699.

Simjacker: SIM card flaw lets hackers hijack any phone by sending SMS (simjacker.com)

70 points by ohashi on Sep 13, 2019 | 15 comments

19700.

AWS DeepComposer (aws.amazon.com)

70 points by mychael on Dec 2, 2019 | 15 comments

19701.

Hempcrete – eco-friendly material in Australian homes (abc.net.au)

70 points by clouddrover on Dec 8, 2019 | 15 comments

19702.

Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy (2014) (continentcontinent.cc)

70 points by nkurz on Dec 17, 2019 | 15 comments

19703.

Immune cells may play a role in causing cavities (newatlas.com)

70 points by sahin-boydas on Apr 15, 2019 | 14 comments

19704.

Block Storage Issues Across All Regions: Incident Report for DigitalOcean (status.digitalocean.com)

70 points by juliand on Oct 4, 2019 | 14 comments

19705.

Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (1987) (fourmilab.ch)

70 points by musha68k on Nov 21, 2019 | 14 comments

19706.

Coding Machines (2009) (teamten.com)

70 points by vermilingua on Dec 12, 2019 | 14 comments

19707.

The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach (bloomberg.com)

70 points by danso on Mar 27, 2019 | 13 comments

19708.

How do you compute the midpoint of an interval? (2014) [pdf] (hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)

70 points by tzhenghao on Mar 28, 2019 | 13 comments

19709.

Whatsapp Attributes Hack of 1,400 Users to NSO Group Technology (citizenlab.ca)

70 points by vuln on Nov 5, 2019 | 13 comments

19710.

SQL Performance Explained, the tuning book for developers, is free today (sql-performance-explained.com)

70 points by MarkusWinand on Dec 2, 2019 | 13 comments