HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn (nytimes.com)

43 points by mcenedella on Dec 4, 2018 | 67 comments

1982.

Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to Notepad (arstechnica.com)

43 points by ohjeez on Dec 12, 2018 | 42 comments

1983.

Third-wave antiracism makes sense, but it's a dead end (theatlantic.com)

43 points by toufiqbarhamov on Dec 23, 2018 | 39 comments

1984.

User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem (medium.com)

43 points by aarkay on Dec 12, 2018 | 31 comments

1985.

Algol 68: A Retrospective (accu.org)

43 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2018 | 25 comments

1986.

Students are turning to sex work for extra money (independent.co.uk)

43 points by technobabble on Dec 27, 2018 | 25 comments

1987.

All-electric passenger ferry to be built in New Zealand (nzherald.co.nz)

43 points by prostoalex on Dec 23, 2018 | 24 comments

1988.

Open offices can lead to closed minds (economist.com)

43 points by PretzelFisch on Dec 26, 2018 | 23 comments

1989.

Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies (nytimes.com)

43 points by bgarbiak on Dec 17, 2018 | 21 comments

1990.

Ask HN: Are modular neural networks an interesting avenue for further research?

43 points by hsikka on Dec 3, 2018 | 12 comments

1991.

Gogs/gogs: Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service (github.com)

43 points by axiomdata316 on Dec 22, 2018 | 12 comments

1992.

Random SCP (scp-wiki.net)

43 points by slater on Dec 25, 2018 | 11 comments

1993.

Interactive Beginner's Guide to ROP (bordplate.no)

43 points by bordplate on Dec 17, 2018 | 10 comments

1994.

Microsoft open sources Trill, a tool for processing a trillion events per day (onmsft.com)

43 points by openmaze on Dec 18, 2018 | 9 comments

1995.

Scientists Find Red Wolf DNA in a Unique Group of Wild Dogs in Texas (gizmodo.com)

43 points by curtis on Dec 20, 2018 | 8 comments

1996.

WordPress 5.0 “Bebo” (wordpress.org)

43 points by janvdberg on Dec 6, 2018 | 7 comments

1997.

How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

43 points by lisper on Dec 19, 2018 | 6 comments

1998.

Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors (2004) (douglas-self.com)

43 points by spking on Dec 29, 2018 | 4 comments

1999.

Scaling the Universe: How Large GPU Clusters Help Understand of Galaxy Formation (blogs.nvidia.com)

43 points by dpflan on Dec 23, 2018 | 3 comments

2000.

Recurse Center: The return statement (2015) (thewebivore.com)

43 points by luu on Dec 7, 2018 | 0 comments

2001.

Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap (youtube.com)

43 points by chrisswanda on Dec 17, 2018 | 0 comments

2002.

A woman who outruns men, 200 miles at a time (nytimes.com)

42 points by rusbus on Dec 6, 2018 | 45 comments

2003.

Exorcisms Are Gaining Popularity in the U.S. (theatlantic.com)

42 points by prossercj on Dec 4, 2018 | 43 comments

2004.

The godfather of fake news (bbc.co.uk)

42 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 1, 2018 | 29 comments

2005.

For some in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a ghost town is home (freep.com)

42 points by rmason on Dec 24, 2018 | 25 comments

2006.

In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent (cnbc.com)

42 points by SmkyMt on Dec 3, 2018 | 23 comments

2007.

T-Mobile, Sprint see Huawei shun clinching U.S. deal (reuters.com)

42 points by tareqak on Dec 14, 2018 | 21 comments

2008.

The History of Christmas Lights (christmasdesigners.com)

42 points by wallflower on Dec 13, 2018 | 20 comments

2009.

Flutter – The sky’s the limit (edit.theappbusiness.com)

42 points by yannikyeo on Dec 7, 2018 | 19 comments

2010.

Intuition is wrong, unless these conditions are met (thinkadvisor.com)

42 points by prostoalex on Dec 24, 2018 | 17 comments