HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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South Korea justice ministry prepares to ban cryptocurrency trading (reuters.com)

206 points by dlau1 on Jan 11, 2018 | 137 comments

512.

The Great Attention Heist (lareviewofbooks.org)

206 points by prostoalex on Jan 7, 2018 | 86 comments

513.

Minigo: An open-source implementation of the AlphaGo Zero algorithm (github.com)

206 points by brilee on Jan 29, 2018 | 29 comments

514.

Why is only half of Mars magnetized? (planetary.org)

206 points by grey-area on Jan 21, 2018 | 28 comments

515.

California has the highest poverty rate in the USA (latimes.com)

205 points by rhapsodic on Jan 15, 2018 | 119 comments

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Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry (oceana.org)

204 points by okket on Jan 14, 2018 | 181 comments

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Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water (bbc.com)

204 points by tonteldoos on Jan 18, 2018 | 138 comments

518.

SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System (symbos.de)

204 points by Paul_S on Jan 5, 2018 | 98 comments

519.

Donald Knuth turns 80, seeks problem-solvers for The Art of Computer Programming (developers.slashdot.org)

204 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 21, 2018 | 41 comments

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Turning a side project into an open-source project (reaktor.com)

204 points by siruelise on Jan 10, 2018 | 39 comments

521.

The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google (wired.com)

204 points by geofft on Jan 26, 2018 | 0 comments

522.

So Close (hackernoon.com)

203 points by vkdelta on Jan 1, 2018 | 263 comments

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Questions to ask yourself when writing tests (charemza.name)

203 points by michalc on Jan 1, 2018 | 97 comments

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What it’s like to be on the board of a Fortune 500 company (jayshah.me)

203 points by jayshahtx on Jan 9, 2018 | 76 comments

525.

Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown (daemonology.net)

203 points by cperciva on Jan 17, 2018 | 65 comments

526.

Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance (jb-rubinovitz.ghost.io)

203 points by luu on Jan 22, 2018 | 65 comments

527.

Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

202 points by api on Jan 19, 2018 | 187 comments

528.

Ethereum programming for web developers (happyfuncorp.com)

202 points by aaron_p on Jan 18, 2018 | 75 comments

529.

Toapi – Let any web site provide APIs (toapi.org)

202 points by marban on Jan 9, 2018 | 36 comments

530.

Advanced Distributed Systems (courses.engr.illinois.edu)

202 points by ramses on Jan 20, 2018 | 11 comments

531.

Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com)

201 points by okket on Jan 15, 2018 | 242 comments

532.

ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US (theverge.com)

201 points by tonyztan on Jan 28, 2018 | 177 comments

533.

Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

201 points by sjcsjc on Jan 26, 2018 | 92 comments

534.

What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software (alexkudlick.com)

201 points by magoghm on Jan 11, 2018 | 54 comments

535.

Show HN: Eel – a simple Python library for making little HTML GUI applications (github.com)

201 points by ChrisKnott on Jan 6, 2018 | 44 comments

536.

Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy (arstechnica.com)

200 points by smacktoward on Jan 21, 2018 | 210 comments

537.

Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories (nytimes.com)

200 points by uptown on Jan 13, 2018 | 95 comments

538.

On being an Engineering Manager (codeplease.io)

200 points by RPeres on Jan 15, 2018 | 67 comments

539.

The 10,000 Year Clock (longnow.org)

200 points by mkempe on Jan 23, 2018 | 56 comments

540.

AWS Lambda Releases Go Support (github.com)

200 points by cle on Jan 15, 2018 | 51 comments