HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche (breakermag.com)

138 points by petethomas on Dec 5, 2018 | 68 comments

812.

Writing a book in public (200wordsaday.com)

138 points by basilesamel on Dec 12, 2018 | 65 comments

813.

Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA (wsj.com)

137 points by hodgesrm on Dec 22, 2018 | 207 comments

814.

Huawei Could Divide the World (bloomberg.com)

137 points by howard941 on Dec 21, 2018 | 140 comments

815.

CIA Intercepts Underpin Assessment Saudi Crown Prince Targeted Khashoggi (wsj.com)

137 points by onetimemanytime on Dec 1, 2018 | 123 comments

816.

Open Location Code (github.com)

137 points by FriedPickles on Dec 10, 2018 | 118 comments

817.

Dependent Haskell (serokell.io)

137 points by Serokell on Dec 17, 2018 | 88 comments

818.

Show HN: Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts (strengthnws.com)

137 points by Moistjuggernaut on Dec 12, 2018 | 84 comments

819.

Designing web page layouts for screen readers (benrobertson.io)

137 points by fanf2 on Dec 25, 2018 | 28 comments

820.

Alan Turing and the mathematics of pattern formation in nature (nytimes.com)

137 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Dec 26, 2018 | 10 comments

821.

Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks (2015) (theatlantic.com)

136 points by BlackJack on Dec 8, 2018 | 92 comments

822.

Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries (bbc.co.uk)

136 points by frereubu on Dec 20, 2018 | 57 comments

823.

Envoy Proxy at Reddit (redditblog.com)

136 points by runesoerensen on Dec 18, 2018 | 46 comments

824.

Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones OS (andrewkelley.me)

136 points by andxor on Dec 4, 2018 | 42 comments

825.

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention (fs.blog)

136 points by yarapavan on Dec 18, 2018 | 34 comments

826.

Kanren – Logic Programming in Python (github.com)

136 points by ausjke on Dec 27, 2018 | 24 comments

827.

Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months (bloomberg.com)

135 points by shshhdhs on Dec 18, 2018 | 130 comments

828.

Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust (atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com)

135 points by atilaneves on Dec 31, 2018 | 116 comments

829.

Why Do React Hooks Rely on Call Order? (overreacted.io)

135 points by stablemap on Dec 13, 2018 | 109 comments

830.

500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)

135 points by tosh on Dec 13, 2018 | 32 comments

831.

Keystone – Open-source Secure Hardware Enclave (keystone-enclave.org)

135 points by nickik on Dec 6, 2018 | 29 comments

832.

The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day (theatlantic.com)

134 points by dwighttk on Dec 7, 2018 | 138 comments

833.

New research on the cost of colonization to India (aljazeera.com)

134 points by yarapavan on Dec 14, 2018 | 107 comments

834.

Don’t use JPEG-XR on the Web (calendar.perfplanet.com)

134 points by robin_reala on Dec 31, 2018 | 88 comments

835.

Experiment: Recoil vs. Muzzle Velocity (blog.ammolytics.com)

134 points by wizdumb on Dec 21, 2018 | 61 comments

836.

Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine (spectrum.ieee.org)

134 points by pross356 on Dec 6, 2018 | 45 comments

837.

How Atlanta Is Turning Ex-Cons into Urban Farmers (politico.com)

134 points by rmason on Dec 7, 2018 | 42 comments

838.

A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning (timdettmers.com)

134 points by hunglee2 on Dec 23, 2018 | 28 comments

839.

Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization (code.fb.com)

134 points by jimarcey on Dec 20, 2018 | 26 comments

840.

Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained (michaelfogleman.com)

134 points by fogleman on Dec 18, 2018 | 17 comments