HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers (nytimes.com)

66 points by acsillag on Aug 3, 2018 | 18 comments

1592.

The origins of opera and the future of programming (the-composition.com)

66 points by fanf2 on Aug 26, 2018 | 18 comments

1593.

Users' Reference to B (1972) (bell-labs.com)

66 points by enthd on Aug 10, 2018 | 16 comments

1594.

Balloon Pirate Radio (2007) (idlewords.com)

66 points by rfreytag on Aug 7, 2018 | 15 comments

1595.

DNS: A look back at a look back (blog.apnic.net)

66 points by okket on Aug 9, 2018 | 15 comments

1596.

I was bored and made a Conway's Game of Life app in Elixir (game-of-life.isaacbfsanders.com)

66 points by isaacsanders on Aug 25, 2018 | 13 comments

1597.

Abelian sandpile model (en.wikipedia.org)

66 points by fanf2 on Aug 31, 2018 | 5 comments

1598.

70’s TV game recreation using an Arduino (searle.hostei.com)

66 points by geocar on Aug 17, 2018 | 1 comments

1599.

What Dropbox dropping Linux support says (techrepublic.com)

65 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 28, 2018 | 149 comments

1600.

Bull Market Hits a Milestone: 3,453 Days – Most Americans Aren’t at the Party (nytimes.com)

65 points by germinalphrase on Aug 22, 2018 | 122 comments

1601.

Do “sin taxes” work? (economist.com)

65 points by hvo on Aug 12, 2018 | 107 comments

1602.

Political advertising on Google (transparencyreport.google.com)

65 points by tareqak on Aug 15, 2018 | 59 comments

1603.

Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders (nytimes.com)

65 points by moonka on Aug 6, 2018 | 52 comments

1604.

OneDrive Leaves a Lot to be Desired (eejournal.com)

65 points by tfmkevin on Aug 24, 2018 | 48 comments

1605.

Ask HN: How to deal with GDPR / cookie notices in the context of a crawler?

65 points by mgliwka on Aug 19, 2018 | 47 comments

1606.

Inside the Business of Dog Cloning (vanityfair.com)

65 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2018 | 32 comments

1607.

The Big 5.0: Transit app gets a makeover (medium.com)

65 points by anguswithgusto on Aug 28, 2018 | 22 comments

1608.

Firms That Bossed Agriculture for a Century Face New Threat: Farmers (wsj.com)

65 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 16, 2018 | 21 comments

1609.

PostgreSQL Accessing MySQL as a Data Source Using mysqsl_fdw (percona.com)

65 points by riyazuddin on Aug 24, 2018 | 21 comments

1610.

Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems (news.brown.edu)

65 points by rbanffy on Aug 10, 2018 | 20 comments

1611.

Tell HN: Braintree is no longer startup-friendly

65 points by jjeaff on Aug 27, 2018 | 14 comments

1612.

Are Cities Making Animals Smarter? (theatlantic.com)

65 points by dsr12 on Aug 18, 2018 | 13 comments

1613.

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) (chem.tufts.edu)

65 points by coffeeandjunk on Aug 22, 2018 | 11 comments

1614.

Why some computer viruses refuse to die (bbc.com)

65 points by goldminer88 on Aug 14, 2018 | 5 comments

1615.

MIT 6.875 – Cryptography and Cryptanalysis [video] (youtube.com)

65 points by charlysl on Aug 25, 2018 | 5 comments

1616.

Apple has removed Infowars podcasts from iTunes (techcrunch.com)

64 points by sahin-boydas on Aug 6, 2018 | 108 comments

1617.

Ask HN: Do you cover the camera/mic on your computer/phone?

64 points by gnicholas on Aug 9, 2018 | 96 comments

1618.

Burying ‘One Child’ Limits, China Pushes Women to Have More Babies (nytimes.com)

64 points by ahmedalsudani on Aug 11, 2018 | 95 comments

1619.

The GDPR Is a Cookie Monster (emarketer.com)

64 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 29, 2018 | 92 comments

1620.

Coroner letters changed habits of doctors whose patients died of overdoses (latimes.com)

64 points by wallflower on Aug 10, 2018 | 81 comments