HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla (smithsonianmag.com)

222 points by Hooke on Jan 6, 2018 | 105 comments

452.

Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby (tenderlovemaking.com)

222 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 23, 2018 | 56 comments

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Go’s hidden pragmas (dave.cheney.net)

221 points by spacey on Jan 8, 2018 | 115 comments

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Sudden savant syndrome, in which exceptional abilities emerge after brain injury (bbc.com)

221 points by clouddrover on Jan 17, 2018 | 102 comments

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Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled (reddit.com)

220 points by nicota on Jan 5, 2018 | 181 comments

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An update on Redis Streams development (antirez.com)

220 points by djanowski on Jan 25, 2018 | 46 comments

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Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home (bloomberg.com)

219 points by thisisit on Jan 11, 2018 | 319 comments

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Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV (nextrends.swissnexsanfrancisco.org)

219 points by msd81257 on Jan 23, 2018 | 193 comments

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The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India (atlasobscura.com)

219 points by kumarski on Jan 15, 2018 | 97 comments

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Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft (2017) (web.stanford.edu)

219 points by panyang on Jan 9, 2018 | 37 comments

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Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time (techandmortals.wordpress.com)

219 points by akashtndn on Jan 27, 2018 | 12 comments

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What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to? (anniecherkaev.com)

218 points by luu on Jan 22, 2018 | 49 comments

463.

Techniques for Factoring Numbers in Your Head (exupero.org)

218 points by exupero on Jan 4, 2018 | 36 comments

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Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status (kroah.com)

217 points by dankohn1 on Jan 19, 2018 | 101 comments

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Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books (edition.cnn.com)

217 points by wowsig on Jan 30, 2018 | 87 comments

466.

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

217 points by ccurrens on Jan 3, 2018 | 1 comments

467.

Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing (github.com)

216 points by styfle on Jan 16, 2018 | 119 comments

468.

Dvxk: A Vulkan-Based D3D11 Implementation for Linux with Wine (github.com)

216 points by spystath on Jan 21, 2018 | 51 comments

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Leaflet – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps (leafletjs.com)

216 points by simon04 on Jan 15, 2018 | 36 comments

470.

Google IT Support Professional Certificate (blog.google)

215 points by peterkshultz on Jan 17, 2018 | 166 comments

471.

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf] (frbsf.org)

215 points by Sandman on Jan 5, 2018 | 151 comments

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British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence, pretending to be head of CIA (telegraph.co.uk)

215 points by rbanffy on Jan 20, 2018 | 78 comments

473.

‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System (popularmechanics.com)

215 points by curtis on Jan 11, 2018 | 67 comments

474.

Data Science at the Command Line (datascienceatthecommandline.com)

215 points by kawera on Jan 27, 2018 | 35 comments

475.

Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017 (techcrunch.com)

214 points by shafyy on Jan 16, 2018 | 426 comments

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The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently (medicalxpress.com)

214 points by dnetesn on Jan 16, 2018 | 168 comments

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The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers (citylab.com)

214 points by jseliger on Jan 29, 2018 | 167 comments

478.

CEO of porn cryptocurrency disappears with investor money (nypost.com)

214 points by prostoalex on Jan 8, 2018 | 148 comments

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Intel has released new CPU microcode for download (downloadcenter.intel.com)

214 points by mrmondo on Jan 10, 2018 | 106 comments

480.

Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance (slack.engineering)

214 points by firloop on Jan 18, 2018 | 47 comments