HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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This is the United States’ third biggest housing boom in the modern era (nytimes.com)

155 points by olivermarks on Dec 9, 2018 | 158 comments

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Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door (aclu.org)

155 points by octosphere on Dec 13, 2018 | 120 comments

693.

String tokenization in C (onebyezero.blogspot.com)

155 points by throwaway2419 on Dec 15, 2018 | 114 comments

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Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme (alex-charlton.com)

155 points by bananicorn on Dec 10, 2018 | 22 comments

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Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales (greyaliengames.com)

154 points by doppp on Dec 3, 2018 | 127 comments

696.

An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (1978) (dspace.mit.edu)

154 points by lispm on Dec 5, 2018 | 81 comments

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Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months (blog.dataguru.hk)

154 points by slygent on Dec 24, 2018 | 59 comments

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France might be losing its first big information war (blog.0day.rocks)

153 points by liotier on Dec 6, 2018 | 176 comments

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Chinese hi-tech researchers ‘told not to travel to US unless it’s essential’ (scmp.com)

153 points by smaili on Dec 14, 2018 | 81 comments

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Comma-Separated Tree (observablehq.com)

153 points by mbostock on Dec 18, 2018 | 61 comments

701.

First release of dav1d, the AV1 decoder (jbkempf.com)

153 points by nimbs on Dec 12, 2018 | 27 comments

702.

Topology of Numbers (pi.math.cornell.edu)

153 points by espeed on Dec 20, 2018 | 20 comments

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Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors (wsj.com)

152 points by mudil on Dec 8, 2018 | 135 comments

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Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to distant probe (bbc.com)

152 points by gpvos on Dec 31, 2018 | 72 comments

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Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf] (snap.stanford.edu)

152 points by rayvy on Dec 18, 2018 | 71 comments

706.

British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons (smithsonianmag.com)

152 points by pseudolus on Dec 27, 2018 | 62 comments

707.

Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM [video] (youtube.com)

152 points by StreamBright on Dec 17, 2018 | 30 comments

708.

Elon Musk Unveils Boring Co's First Tunnel (latimes.com)

151 points by gamblor956 on Dec 19, 2018 | 224 comments

709.

How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the real world [video] (youtube.com)

151 points by based2 on Dec 20, 2018 | 111 comments

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Amazon is selling stolen art, fake products and is infringing copyrights (facebook.com)

151 points by sebkomianos on Dec 28, 2018 | 87 comments

711.

Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner Is Out (newsweek.com)

151 points by mpweiher on Dec 15, 2018 | 75 comments

712.

Download all of your GitHub data (blog.github.com)

151 points by TimWolla on Dec 19, 2018 | 38 comments

713.

React Kawaii – Cute React SVG Components (react-kawaii.now.sh)

151 points by mediumdeviation on Dec 25, 2018 | 37 comments

714.

Erlang Scheduler Details (2016) (hamidreza-s.github.io)

151 points by StreamBright on Dec 24, 2018 | 19 comments

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Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline (nymag.com)

150 points by TheAuditor on Dec 8, 2018 | 163 comments

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Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways (techcrunch.com)

150 points by acdanger on Dec 13, 2018 | 154 comments

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In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)