HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

26371.

China squandered its chance to build a home-grown semiconductor industry (scmp.com)

40 points by smacktoward on Sep 1, 2019 | 18 comments

26372.

First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)

40 points by scottie_m on Apr 23, 2019 | 17 comments

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A high-performance, zero allocation, dynamic JSON Threat Protection in pure Go (github.com)

40 points by ankuranand on Sep 18, 2019 | 17 comments

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How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster (pingcap.com)

40 points by gesaint on Dec 25, 2019 | 17 comments

26375.

Optimizing for the Speed of Light (bizcoder.com)

40 points by elemeno on Dec 28, 2019 | 17 comments

26376.

SpaceX Layoffs Include Positions at California Headquarters (bloomberg.com)

40 points by pseudolus on Jan 14, 2019 | 16 comments

26377.

Using Bots to Solve Developer Drudgery (kensodev.com)

40 points by avitzurel on Jan 18, 2019 | 16 comments

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Dismantling of a U.S. workplace safety rule (reuters.com)

40 points by SolaceQuantum on Jan 22, 2019 | 16 comments

26379.

Google doesn't hire losers (rpcrpcrpc.com)

40 points by rpcastagna on Feb 9, 2019 | 16 comments

26380.

Sunscreen enters bloodstream after just one day of use (cnn.com)

40 points by plessthanpt05 on May 6, 2019 | 16 comments

26381.

Ask HN: How to freelance with niche programming languages?

40 points by nightkoder on Jul 22, 2019 | 16 comments

26382.

Ask HN: When did HN start using recaptcha?

40 points by hedora on Aug 23, 2019 | 16 comments

26383.

Ask HN: Any good online CS / CE / etc. bachelors that's arent scams?

40 points by non-entity on Sep 2, 2019 | 16 comments

26384.

Don’t Romanticize the Present (thefrailestthing.com)

40 points by imartin2k on Feb 6, 2019 | 15 comments

26385.

‘Fingerprinting’ to Track Us Online Is on the Rise (nytimes.com)

40 points by pseudolus on Jul 6, 2019 | 15 comments

26386.

Ask HN: Is GraphQL still relevant?

40 points by rapphil on Jul 19, 2019 | 15 comments

26387.

Show HN: Building a zero-latency WordPress front-end (github.com)

40 points by chungleong on Feb 12, 2019 | 14 comments

26388.

Psychedelics are a potential cure for everything from depression to addiction (thewalrus.ca)

40 points by pseudolus on Feb 17, 2019 | 14 comments

26389.

Ephemeral Environments for DevOps: Why, What and How? (2017) (enterprisedevops.org)

40 points by royosherove on Mar 2, 2019 | 14 comments

26390.

‘A Partial Freedom’: What Latvia Found in the KGB Archives (nybooks.com)

40 points by signor_bosco on Mar 6, 2019 | 14 comments

26391.

GitHub Nomic Game #3 (jefftk.com)

40 points by luu on Mar 9, 2019 | 14 comments

26392.

Ask HN: What is the best way into a cybersecurity career in 2019?

40 points by horstgrand on Sep 6, 2019 | 14 comments

26393.

Envoy Proxy Performance on Kubernetes (getambassador.io)

40 points by kelseyevans on Oct 3, 2019 | 14 comments

26394.

Perceptions of Randomness: Why Three Heads Are Better Than Four (2009) [pdf] (psych.cf.ac.uk)

40 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Jan 18, 2019 | 13 comments

26395.

Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the US to India, what's your experience?

40 points by MarkMyWordsMan on Mar 27, 2019 | 13 comments

26396.

Earth’s continental plate movement can cause problems for GPS (2016) (news.nationalgeographic.com)

40 points by furcyd on Mar 28, 2019 | 13 comments

26397.

It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought (newscientist.com)

40 points by sahin-boydas on Jun 27, 2019 | 13 comments

26398.

Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption (theregister.co.uk)

40 points by hsnewman on Jul 24, 2019 | 13 comments

26399.

Schrödinger's Cat with 20 Qubits (fz-juelich.de)

40 points by rbanffy on Aug 19, 2019 | 13 comments

26400.

Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” (hcrenewal.blogspot.com)

40 points by taxicabjesus on Dec 7, 2019 | 13 comments