HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1831.

Improving Lua performance using baked functions (tasvideos.org)

51 points by based2 on Dec 16, 2018 | 8 comments

1832.

Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in (thenextweb.com)

51 points by ccnafr on Dec 9, 2018 | 6 comments

1833.

Evaluating high availability solutions for TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL (blog.timescale.com)

51 points by fanf2 on Dec 19, 2018 | 5 comments

1834.

Apps, Trackers, Privacy, and Regulators: The Mobile Tracking Ecosystem [pdf] (eprints.networks.imdea.org)

51 points by viridiano on Dec 8, 2018 | 4 comments

1835.

Data Science Cheatsheets (github.com)

51 points by faviovaz on Dec 22, 2018 | 0 comments

1836.

Phonautograph (en.wikipedia.org)

51 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 25, 2018 | 0 comments

1837.

Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing a Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com)

50 points by Valmar on Dec 20, 2018 | 47 comments

1838.

Nassim Taleb on why IQ is baloney (twitter.com)

50 points by l33tbro on Dec 25, 2018 | 46 comments

1839.

Minneapolis Moves to Eliminate Mandatory Parking (usa.streetsblog.org)

50 points by tshannon on Dec 14, 2018 | 29 comments

1840.

Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages (pnas.org)

50 points by Osiris30 on Dec 5, 2018 | 22 comments

1841.

How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter (2015) (all-that-is-interesting.com)

50 points by Tomte on Dec 30, 2018 | 20 comments

1842.

Not-o-matic Differentiation (ajknapp.github.io)

50 points by jxub on Dec 30, 2018 | 17 comments

1843.

Pixar History Revisited: A Corrective (2011) (alvyray.com)

50 points by guiambros on Dec 25, 2018 | 15 comments

1844.

The Case of Agatha Christie (lrb.co.uk)

50 points by samclemens on Dec 14, 2018 | 14 comments

1845.

Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health (sciencedirect.com)

50 points by onoj on Dec 23, 2018 | 14 comments

1846.

Partitioned consensus and its impact on Spanner’s latency (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)

50 points by ryanworl on Dec 14, 2018 | 11 comments

1847.

WorkflowCI – IFTTT for developers (workflowci.com)

50 points by exAspArk on Dec 12, 2018 | 10 comments

1848.

Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free (theguardian.com)

50 points by jonbaer on Dec 6, 2018 | 9 comments

1849.

DragonFly BSD, version 5.4, has been released (dragonflybsd.org)

50 points by rudolfwinestock on Dec 3, 2018 | 6 comments

1850.

Johnson and Johnson hid findings of asbestos in Baby Powder for decades (cbsnews.com)

50 points by onetimemanytime on Dec 14, 2018 | 5 comments

1851.

Valve's Proton Improves Further Windows Games' Compatibility on Linux (boilingsteam.com)

50 points by ekianjo on Dec 26, 2018 | 5 comments

1852.

Triton: Cloud management platform with first class support for containers (github.com)

50 points by based2 on Dec 4, 2018 | 4 comments

1853.

Cornell University Ergonomics Web (2016) (ergo.human.cornell.edu)

50 points by bookofjoe on Dec 24, 2018 | 2 comments

1854.

Dr Nancy Grace Roman Has Died (bbc.co.uk)

50 points by cmsefton on Dec 31, 2018 | 1 comments

1855.

More businesses are not accepting cash (wsj.com)

49 points by bookofjoe on Dec 29, 2018 | 79 comments

1856.

Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike (bloomberg.com)

49 points by pgrote on Dec 11, 2018 | 69 comments

1857.

Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

49 points by NinjaX on Dec 26, 2018 | 52 comments

1858.

The GPS wars have begun (techcrunch.com)

49 points by zachguo on Dec 22, 2018 | 48 comments

1859.

Australia Encrypted Messaging Bill to Pass After Labor Strikes Deal with Govt (tendaily.com.au)

49 points by TimTheTinker on Dec 6, 2018 | 29 comments

1860.

The Teddy Bear Effect (harvardmagazine.com)

49 points by helloworld on Dec 26, 2018 | 29 comments