HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

25981.

How Dutch intelligence thwarted a Russian hacking operation (theguardian.com)

36 points by tnolet on Oct 5, 2018 | 1 comments

25982.

My Drawing and Calculating Instruments (2011) (petergh.f2s.com)

36 points by prismatic on Oct 29, 2018 | 1 comments

25983.

Waymo obtains California's first fully driverless car permit (venturebeat.com)

36 points by a5huynh on Oct 30, 2018 | 1 comments

25984.

Readiness protocol problems with Unix dæmons (2015) (jdebp.eu)

36 points by pmoriarty on Nov 9, 2018 | 1 comments

25985.

The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein” (newyorker.com)

36 points by kawera on Feb 9, 2018 | 0 comments

25986.

Sergey Brin, my Father, and our obsession with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs (medium.freecodecamp.org)

36 points by jolsen1249 on Feb 22, 2018 | 0 comments

25987.

Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us (ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org)

36 points by rinze on Feb 25, 2018 | 0 comments

25988.

Kushner’s Business Got Loans from Companies After White House Meetings (nytimes.com)

36 points by aaronbrethorst on Mar 1, 2018 | 0 comments

25989.

Writing an OS in pure Rust (os.phil-opp.com)

36 points by phil-opp on Mar 9, 2018 | 0 comments

25990.

Cambridge Analytica and the Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz (2016) (nytimes.com)

36 points by prostoalex on Mar 21, 2018 | 0 comments

25991.

The Syntax and Semantics of Quantitative Type Theory (bentnib.org)

36 points by gbrown_ on Apr 20, 2018 | 0 comments

25992.

Philip Roth, the Art of Fiction No. 84 (1984) (theparisreview.org)

36 points by benbreen on Jun 11, 2018 | 0 comments

25993.

Instant 3D Photography (visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk)

36 points by DanAndersen on Jun 13, 2018 | 0 comments

25994.

Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps (spectrum.ieee.org)

36 points by rbanffy on Jun 22, 2018 | 0 comments

25995.

The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work (theguardian.com)

36 points by benryon on Jul 7, 2018 | 0 comments

25996.

Stick-on patch can take blood pressure readings from deep inside your body (technologyreview.com)

36 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 6, 2018 | 0 comments

25997.

Death of a bookman: the rise and fall of a publisher (standpointmag.co.uk)

36 points by pepys on Oct 25, 2018 | 0 comments

25998.

The Negro Motorist Green Book (en.wikipedia.org)

36 points by sambeau on Nov 9, 2018 | 0 comments

25999.

Depth-first search and linear graph algorithms (1972) [pdf] (rjlipton.files.wordpress.com)

36 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 23, 2018 | 0 comments

26000.

Easy running totals with windowing functions in PostgreSQL (denisgobo.blogspot.com)

36 points by minkeymaniac on Nov 25, 2018 | 0 comments

26001.

XS-Searching Google’s bug tracker to find out vulnerable source code (medium.com)

36 points by Herrera on Dec 3, 2018 | 0 comments

26002.

The costly journey of returned goods means big business for some (cnbc.com)

36 points by throwaway255 on Dec 26, 2018 | 0 comments

26003.

The carbs-obesity hypothesis (givewell.org)

35 points by js2 on Jul 25, 2018 | 110 comments

26004.

‘Downloadable Gun’ Clears a Legal Obstacle, and Activists Are Alarmed (nytimes.com)

35 points by Anon1096 on Jul 15, 2018 | 87 comments

26005.

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth (theguardian.com)

35 points by lnguyen on May 31, 2018 | 70 comments

26006.

Steven Pinker’s case for optimism (economist.com)

35 points by okket on Jul 28, 2018 | 70 comments

26007.

Are Blockchains the Answer for Secure Elections? Probably Not (scientificamerican.com)

35 points by digital55 on Aug 16, 2018 | 70 comments

26008.

Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?

35 points by ryeguy_24 on Aug 25, 2018 | 67 comments

26009.

Air Force tests two turboprops as potential A-10 “replacements” (arstechnica.com)

35 points by rbanffy on Jun 19, 2018 | 66 comments

26010.

The Bhikkhu Diet (2003) (tricycle.org)

35 points by sridca on Aug 12, 2018 | 66 comments