HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

781.

Two-phase commit and beyond (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

143 points by erdaldal on Dec 25, 2018 | 3 comments

782.

Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux? (zdnet.com)

142 points by watchdogtimer on Dec 14, 2018 | 217 comments

783.

The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete (2016) (mwi.usma.edu)

142 points by jspencer508 on Dec 10, 2018 | 85 comments

784.

PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion (latimes.com)

142 points by WalterGR on Dec 15, 2018 | 68 comments

785.

JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid (staltz.com)

142 points by adgasf on Dec 19, 2018 | 50 comments

786.

Offline voice AI within 512 KB of RAM [video] (youtube.com)

142 points by kenarsa on Dec 26, 2018 | 40 comments

787.

Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike? (scientificamerican.com)

141 points by Deinos on Dec 1, 2018 | 136 comments

788.

LXD 3.8 has been released (discuss.linuxcontainers.org)

141 points by mariuz on Dec 13, 2018 | 84 comments

789.

Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies (twitter.com)

141 points by alfiedotwtf on Dec 6, 2018 | 67 comments

790.

But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? [video] (youtube.com)

141 points by espeed on Dec 2, 2018 | 61 comments

791.

Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder (songcraft.io)

141 points by gabergg on Dec 11, 2018 | 54 comments

792.

Facts about smell (2014) (alicebartlett.co.uk)

141 points by Tomte on Dec 20, 2018 | 42 comments

793.

Show HN: Supportify – Support your top Spotify artists by buying on Bandcamp (tomduncalf.github.io)

141 points by tomduncalf on Dec 7, 2018 | 39 comments

794.

What are you waiting for? (science.sciencemag.org)

141 points by lemoncurd on Dec 1, 2018 | 37 comments

795.

A Swiss Dress from the 16th Century (2015) (whiljascorner.wordpress.com)

141 points by pepys on Dec 11, 2018 | 28 comments

796.

Google announces major expansion in New York City (arstechnica.com)

140 points by richardboegli on Dec 17, 2018 | 111 comments

797.

The Ghost in the Machine: An AI Perspective on the Soul [video] (media.ccc.de)

140 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 29, 2018 | 92 comments

798.

A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS (cyber-itl.org)

140 points by walterbell on Dec 15, 2018 | 79 comments

799.

Physics puzzles (lockhaven.edu)

140 points by hardmath123 on Dec 26, 2018 | 7 comments

800.

Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War with China (bloomberg.com)

139 points by alanwong on Dec 7, 2018 | 147 comments

801.

Improving compression at scale with Zstandard (code.fb.com)

139 points by felixhandte on Dec 19, 2018 | 87 comments

802.

Walt Mossberg Quits Facebook (nytimes.com)

139 points by adrianhon on Dec 18, 2018 | 80 comments

803.

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to (arstechnica.com)

139 points by mandliya on Dec 17, 2018 | 69 comments

804.

A New Largest-Known Prime Number (npr.org)

139 points by tshannon on Dec 21, 2018 | 59 comments

805.

TAWS – The Amiga Workbench Simulation (taws.ch)

139 points by doener on Dec 3, 2018 | 58 comments

806.

Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers (hackaday.com)

139 points by blueatlas on Dec 11, 2018 | 50 comments

807.

Abusing Amazon‘s Look Inside feature to leak unreleased content (justmaku.org)