HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1351.

Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads (cbsnews.com)

82 points by prostoalex on Aug 9, 2018 | 122 comments

1352.

San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch (nytimes.com)

82 points by sciurus on Aug 1, 2018 | 119 comments

1353.

What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011) (smithsonianmag.com)

82 points by pera on Aug 1, 2018 | 50 comments

1354.

Geospatial indexing on Hilbert curves (blog.zen.ly)

82 points by poudro on Aug 15, 2018 | 18 comments

1355.

Kitten Programming Language (kittenlang.org)

82 points by sbjs on Aug 3, 2018 | 13 comments

1356.

Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2 (en.wikipedia.org)

82 points by Hooke on Aug 12, 2018 | 13 comments

1357.

Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts (github.com)

82 points by pjf on Aug 20, 2018 | 13 comments

1358.

Methodologies for measuring open source project health (nadiaeghbal.com)

82 points by fagnerbrack on Aug 26, 2018 | 13 comments

1359.

China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods (cnbc.com)

81 points by craigferg501 on Aug 8, 2018 | 141 comments

1360.

Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M (bloomberg.com)

81 points by classichasclass on Aug 3, 2018 | 139 comments

1361.

Google’s Secret China Project Sparks Fury Among Workers (bloomberg.com)

81 points by doppp on Aug 4, 2018 | 85 comments

1362.

Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem (journalistsresource.org)

81 points by pratheekrebala on Aug 20, 2018 | 81 comments

1363.

Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics (popularmechanics.com)

81 points by raleighm on Aug 11, 2018 | 78 comments

1364.

PowerShell and Markdown (ephos.github.io)

81 points by nailer on Aug 2, 2018 | 55 comments

1365.

Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund (a16z.com)

81 points by runesoerensen on Aug 22, 2018 | 40 comments

1366.

Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras (natick.research.microsoft.com)

81 points by kerng on Aug 13, 2018 | 33 comments

1367.

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) (cs.virginia.edu)

81 points by molteanu on Aug 23, 2018 | 30 comments

1368.

Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf] (ftp.cs.ucla.edu)

81 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 9, 2018 | 15 comments

1369.

Microbiologist Carl Woese changed the way we think about evolution (nytimes.com)

81 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 13, 2018 | 15 comments

1370.

How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014) (bigelowandholmes.typepad.com)

81 points by Tomte on Aug 26, 2018 | 11 comments

1371.

DeepTAM: Deep Tracking and Mapping (lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de)

81 points by lainon on Aug 8, 2018 | 7 comments

1372.

The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (2012) (slate.com)

81 points by ohjeez on Aug 19, 2018 | 4 comments

1373.

Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached, report warns (edition.cnn.com)

80 points by helmsdeep on Aug 7, 2018 | 109 comments

1374.

A more realistic route to autonomous driving (economist.com)

80 points by dsr12 on Aug 5, 2018 | 87 comments

1375.

Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better (g3rv4.com)

80 points by g3rv4 on Aug 27, 2018 | 71 comments

1376.

Launch HN: JetLenses (YC S18) – Lowest Prices on Contact Lenses

80 points by dpandya on Aug 6, 2018 | 70 comments

1377.

Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) (2uo.de)

80 points by mindcrime on Aug 17, 2018 | 68 comments

1378.

PowerShell Remoting (sconstantinou.com)

80 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 21, 2018 | 58 comments

1379.

US companies giving in to pressure from China (abacusnews.com)

80 points by maxwell on Aug 7, 2018 | 46 comments

1380.

The Fall of Schlitz: How Milwaukee’s Famous Beer Became Infamous (2010) (beerconnoisseur.com)

80 points by vezycash on Aug 12, 2018 | 44 comments