HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

School Contractor in Texas Denied Work Over Pro-Israel Loyalty Oath (theintercept.com)

42 points by deogeo on Dec 17, 2018 | 16 comments

2012.

Encryption toolkit for media makers: A VeraCrypt guide (freedom.press)

42 points by gasull on Dec 15, 2018 | 15 comments

2013.

The battle over new nerve cells in adult brains intensifies (sciencenews.org)

42 points by laurex on Dec 20, 2018 | 12 comments

2014.

A Scramble to Claim the World's Most Coveted Meteorite (wired.com)

42 points by Reedx on Dec 20, 2018 | 12 comments

2015.

The National Park Service Now Owns the Home Where Martin Luther King Jr Was Born (nytimes.com)

42 points by mlthoughts2018 on Dec 15, 2018 | 11 comments

2016.

The mystery of the vanishing gun inventor (2013) (bbc.com)

42 points by smacktoward on Dec 23, 2018 | 11 comments

2017.

Session types in programming languages (2016) (simonjf.com)

42 points by hurricaneSlider on Dec 27, 2018 | 9 comments

2018.

Found: A plane wreck that could solve a 50-year-old mystery (bbc.co.uk)

42 points by ComputerGuru on Dec 31, 2018 | 9 comments

2019.

Amazon Prime is getting worse, and it’s making me question the nature of reality (fastcompany.com)

42 points by ProAm on Dec 19, 2018 | 8 comments

2020.

Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds (2015) (hackaday.com)

42 points by camtarn on Dec 29, 2018 | 2 comments

2021.

An Open Source Tool for Scaling Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (rise.cs.berkeley.edu)

42 points by ekl on Dec 3, 2018 | 1 comments

2022.

Ask HN: How are the graphics on this page created? (16personalities.com)

41 points by arthurcolle on Dec 25, 2018 | 41 comments

2023.

Study: marketers question effectiveness of retargeting ads (marketingdive.com)

41 points by Alupis on Dec 27, 2018 | 32 comments

2024.

Notes on how systemd's job engine is structured and other related bits (bl33pbl0p.github.io)

41 points by JdeBP on Dec 29, 2018 | 30 comments

2025.

Why China's electric car industry is leaving Detroit, Japan, Germany in the dust (technologyreview.com)

41 points by wil_I_am_27 on Dec 17, 2018 | 29 comments

2026.

In Booming Oil Field, Natural Gas Can Be Free (wsj.com)

41 points by prostoalex on Dec 29, 2018 | 17 comments

2027.

Enabling Faster, More Capable Robots with Real-Time Motion Planning (spectrum.ieee.org)

41 points by Varcht on Dec 18, 2018 | 14 comments

2028.

Bill Gates urges U.S. to take the lead in nuclear power (geekwire.com)

41 points by jmsflknr on Dec 30, 2018 | 12 comments

2029.

Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video] (youtube.com)

41 points by espeed on Dec 15, 2018 | 10 comments

2030.

Stop adding cancer-causing chemicals to our bacon, experts tell meat industry (theguardian.com)

41 points by pseudolus on Dec 30, 2018 | 10 comments

2031.

Image scanner built using a Lego Mindstorms EV3 set (github.com)

41 points by javicorper on Dec 29, 2018 | 5 comments

2032.

Free Ways to Get Landing Page Feedback from Real People (blog.loudlist.io)

41 points by alangibson on Dec 30, 2018 | 5 comments

2033.

Arrest Shakes Huawei as Global Skepticism of Its Business Grows (nytimes.com)

41 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 6, 2018 | 0 comments

2034.

Teaching and Learning with Jupyter (jupyter4edu.github.io)

41 points by ArtWomb on Dec 10, 2018 | 0 comments

2035.

China’s Economy to Reap Benefits That Once Flowed to U.S (bloomberg.com)

40 points by kimsk112 on Dec 24, 2018 | 75 comments

2036.

The Worst Measles Outbreak In The European Union (npr.org)

40 points by dsr12 on Dec 2, 2018 | 68 comments

2037.

The Search for the “perfect” Advent Calendar (involves Python and Processing) (blog.jgc.org)

40 points by jgrahamc on Dec 11, 2018 | 31 comments

2038.

Vonnegut’s Asterisk (2013) (axelhow.com)

40 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 12, 2018 | 20 comments

2039.

Reading linear texts on paper versus computer screen (2013) [pdf] (researchgate.net)

40 points by azizsaya on Dec 22, 2018 | 15 comments

2040.

A Tribute to Euler (2008) [video] (youtube.com)

40 points by rfreytag on Dec 27, 2018 | 13 comments