HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1801.

Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines (scientificamerican.com)

52 points by prostoalex on Dec 31, 2018 | 47 comments

1802.

What our science fiction says about us (bbc.com)

52 points by pseudolus on Dec 4, 2018 | 45 comments

1803.

E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco, estimates landmark review (gov.uk)

52 points by troydavis on Dec 19, 2018 | 42 comments

1804.

California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides (reuters.com)

52 points by T-A on Dec 22, 2018 | 26 comments

1805.

MiniRHex: a surprisingly capable six-whegged robot (spectrum.ieee.org)

52 points by Down_n_Out on Dec 14, 2018 | 16 comments

1806.

You don't become a Silicon Valley celebrity by being shy (mitsloan.mit.edu)

52 points by gcatalfamo on Dec 22, 2018 | 14 comments

1807.

Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows (github.com)

52 points by eberkund on Dec 26, 2018 | 13 comments

1808.

The Pseudo-Time Arrow (qualiacomputing.com)

52 points by crunchiebones on Dec 3, 2018 | 7 comments

1809.

QUIC and HTTP/3: Too big to fail? (calendar.perfplanet.com)

52 points by fanf2 on Dec 6, 2018 | 5 comments

1810.

Succincter (2008) [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)

52 points by espeed on Dec 17, 2018 | 5 comments

1811.

Introduction to Distributed Training of Neural Networks (blog.skymind.ai)

52 points by sytelus on Dec 5, 2018 | 4 comments

1812.

Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES (gamehistory.org)

52 points by jonny_eh on Dec 25, 2018 | 3 comments

1813.

Tokyo Wants People to Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator (citylab.com)

51 points by danso on Dec 21, 2018 | 97 comments

1814.

Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online games, bans 9 (resetera.com)

51 points by throwaway2048 on Dec 11, 2018 | 66 comments

1815.

In some Bay Area counties, college grads have higher unemployment (mercurynews.com)

51 points by samfisher83 on Dec 27, 2018 | 63 comments

1816.

Ask HN: Is there a decentralised alternative to Slack?

51 points by febin on Dec 20, 2018 | 54 comments

1817.

“Silent Night” turns 200 (americamagazine.org)

51 points by never-the-bride on Dec 13, 2018 | 48 comments

1818.

The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition (ferdychristant.com)

51 points by zwliew on Dec 9, 2018 | 45 comments

1819.

Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2019?

51 points by volument on Dec 27, 2018 | 33 comments

1820.

NYC sets $17 an hour minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers (cbsnews.com)

51 points by kapkapkap on Dec 4, 2018 | 20 comments

1821.

Type hints cheat sheet (Python 3) (mypy.readthedocs.io)

51 points by sytelus on Dec 12, 2018 | 18 comments

1822.

Yahoo Query Language will be retired on January 3 (developer.yahoo.com)

51 points by niutech on Dec 29, 2018 | 18 comments

1823.

Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. Rand) Can Surprise You (percona.com)

51 points by aleksi on Dec 6, 2018 | 17 comments

1824.

Make a Public Lab Spectrometer (2017) (publiclab.org)

51 points by Tomte on Dec 29, 2018 | 16 comments

1825.

Built to Last: John McPhee's Way of Seeing (bookforum.com)

51 points by samclemens on Dec 4, 2018 | 12 comments

1826.

Activision forced Al Lowe to cancel his Leisure Suit Larry source code auctions (pcgamer.com)

51 points by peterkelly on Dec 15, 2018 | 12 comments

1827.

Tiny cement sculptures hidden across Europe (theguardian.com)

51 points by Tomte on Dec 31, 2018 | 12 comments

1828.

Anti-vax movement blamed for 30% jump in measles cases worldwide (sbs.com.au)

51 points by EndXA on Dec 1, 2018 | 11 comments

1829.

Show HN: Mapping 11M points with Tile38 – Mapbox/Geonames (geonames.tile38.com)

51 points by tidwall on Dec 20, 2018 | 11 comments

1830.

Log on Like It’s 1985: A Fragment of Minitel Returns (spectrum.ieee.org)

51 points by wallflower on Dec 29, 2018 | 9 comments