HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms (spectrum.ieee.org)

95 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 22, 2018 | 43 comments

1202.

Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

95 points by draenei on Aug 9, 2018 | 37 comments

1203.

Australian draft law requires tech companies to hand over encrypted messages (homeaffairs.gov.au)

95 points by wp381640 on Aug 14, 2018 | 31 comments

1204.

Kernels, a free hosted Jupyter notebook environment with GPUs (kaggle.com)

95 points by benhamner on Aug 5, 2018 | 12 comments

1205.

Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability (lwn.net)

95 points by ingve on Aug 14, 2018 | 10 comments

1206.

Logic Programming and Compiler Writing (1980) [pdf] (sovietov.com)

95 points by weatherlight on Aug 2, 2018 | 8 comments

1207.

The Great Chinese Art Heist (gq.com)

94 points by prismatic on Aug 17, 2018 | 131 comments

1208.

OpenSSH user enumeration (openwall.com)

94 points by hamstah on Aug 18, 2018 | 87 comments

1209.

Handling of U.S. trade dispute causes rift in Chinese leadership: sources (reuters.com)

94 points by microdrum on Aug 9, 2018 | 79 comments

1210.

The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages (newyorker.com)

94 points by jeffreyrogers on Aug 27, 2018 | 67 comments

1211.

Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression (medium.com)

94 points by janemanos on Aug 6, 2018 | 65 comments

1212.

385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine (wired.com)

94 points by xhrpost on Aug 23, 2018 | 58 comments

1213.

Middle-aged men for rent in Japan (edition.cnn.com)

94 points by johnny313 on Aug 6, 2018 | 53 comments

1214.

With Undefined Behavior, Anything Is Possible (raphlinus.github.io)

94 points by kibwen on Aug 17, 2018 | 28 comments

1215.

Show HN: StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist (styleurl.app)

94 points by firloop on Aug 1, 2018 | 22 comments

1216.

Databot: High-performance Python data-driven programming framework (github.com)

94 points by garygoog on Aug 27, 2018 | 22 comments

1217.

What stable kernel should I use? (kroah.com)

94 points by KindOne on Aug 25, 2018 | 20 comments

1218.

Clover: 4-Bit Quantized Linear Algebra (astojanov.github.io)

94 points by ArtWomb on Aug 18, 2018 | 18 comments

1219.

You could have invented that Bluetooth attack (blog.trailofbits.com)

94 points by octosphere on Aug 12, 2018 | 17 comments

1220.

Show HN: Favioli – Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji (eligrey.com)

94 points by Sephr on Aug 18, 2018 | 17 comments

1221.

GUIs Considered Harmful (1992) (porkmail.org)

93 points by earenndil on Aug 1, 2018 | 146 comments

1222.

War Without End (nytimes.com)

93 points by chaseha on Aug 9, 2018 | 126 comments

1223.

Name and Shame: IBM (old.reddit.com)

93 points by generichuman on Aug 16, 2018 | 88 comments

1224.

The Hacker's Diet (2005) (fourmilab.ch)

93 points by eb0la on Aug 2, 2018 | 77 comments

1225.

Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart (bloomberg.com)

93 points by benryon on Aug 17, 2018 | 67 comments

1226.

Probe Memory Packs 138 Terabytes per Square Inch (spectrum.ieee.org)

93 points by rbanffy on Aug 6, 2018 | 60 comments

1227.

Getting Deep into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage (hackernoon.com)

93 points by rbanffy on Aug 18, 2018 | 4 comments

1228.

An office building in Seattle that doesn't have air conditioning (kuow.org)

92 points by dsr12 on Aug 5, 2018 | 203 comments

1229.

YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's Lead (arstechnica.com)

92 points by anigbrowl on Aug 6, 2018 | 171 comments

1230.

List of Websites not available in the EU because of GDPR (data.verifiedjoseph.com)

92 points by w-m on Aug 8, 2018 | 157 comments